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November 8, 2024, 12:00 AM

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Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Mac mini (2024) review: incredibly fast with the M4 Pro, well-equipped for creative work, and smaller design takes less space, but spec upgrades are overpriced  —  It's a tiny mighty Mac.  —  “That's a computer?!”  My daughter just couldn't believe her eyes when I pulled the new Mac mini out of its box.
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
MacBook Pro (16", 2024) review: best MacBook Pro yet with a bright display, sharp 12MP Center Stage webcam, and long battery life, but not a big leap from M3  —  The M4 Pro, in particular, is astonishingly fast.  —  Apple's excellent MacBook Pros are faster than ever with its new M4 chips.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches Share to TikTok, which lets users directly share music from Apple Music and Spotify in a post to their TikTok Feed or in DMs via TikTok Messages  —  TikTok on Thursday debuted a new feature that will more closely connect its app, which already influences which songs top the charts …
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Source: Amazon is discussing a second multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, but wants Anthropic to use a large number of servers powered by Amazon chips  —  Amazon is discussing making a second multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, according to a person involved in the discussions.
New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and more quietly courted Trump before the election, laying the groundwork for improved Silicon Valley and DC relations  —  The executives of tech's biggest companies largely ignored Donald Trump before the 2016 election.  This time around, they're far more friendly.
New York Times:
Sources: before Trump's win, Elon Musk asked him to hire SpaceX staff as top government officials, including in the DOD, a sign of the benefits Musk may reap  —  The world's richest man gave his money and time in campaigning for the president-elect and now is putting in his requests for a friendlier regulatory environment.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Bloomberg:
An interview with Changpeng Zhao about his four months of incarceration, investing in X, forced separation from Binance, plans for the future, and more  —  - Changpeng Zhao speaks in first post-prison press interview  — Exchange founder's fortune jumps $12 billion after US election
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic partners with Palantir and AWS to let US intel and defense agencies access its Claude models and “operationalize” their use on Palantir using AWS  —  Anthropic on Thursday announced that it's teaming up with Palantir, the data-mining firm, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
David McCabe / New York Times:
A US judge dismisses Ethan Zuckerman's lawsuit against Meta; Zuckerman sought to stop Meta from suing him over a tool to let users unfollow everyone on Facebook  —  A professor sued pre-emptively to release software that would let users automatically unfollow everyone in their Facebook feed.
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Experts say President-elect Donald Trump will likely uphold the CHIPS Act, despite his campaign rhetoric, but may modify some priorities and its fund allocation  —  President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to roll back the Biden administration's CHIPS and Science Act, despite his campaign rhetoric on the bill, experts say.

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