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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.
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| 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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| Alex Wawro / Tom's Guide: |
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY to $5.98B, vs. $6.24B est., gross profit up 19% to $2.25B, Cash App gross profit up 21% to $1.31B; SQ drops 6%+ after hours — WATCH NOW — Block reported third-quarter revenue on Thursday that trailed Wall Street expectations.
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Block says it is investing less in music streaming app Tidal and winding down decentralized “Web5” venture TBD to focus on bitcoin mining and its crypto wallet — The firm is redoubling efforts to supply miners as that industry struggles with profits — and Donald Trump promises help.| 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 …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $3.73B, vs. $3.72B est., and Nights and Experiences Booked up 8% to 122.8M, vs. 121.4M est.; ABNB jumps 5%+ after hours — Airbnb reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday that were shy of analyst estimates, though it squeaked in a small revenue beat.
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| 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.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
AppLovin shares close up 46% after the company reported Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.13B est., and issued guidance well above est.; APP is up 519% YTD — AppLovin shares soared 46% on Thursday after the online gaming and advertising company issued guidance that was well above estimates …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
iVerify founder says the FBI is investigating whether China used its access to Verizon networks to infect the iPhones of staff of a US presidential campaign — The FBI has been notified of evidence of hacking on the iPhones of two senior officials at one of the presidential campaigns.| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $898M, vs. $896M est., MAUs up 11% to a record 537M, but forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 13%+ after hours — Pinterest shares plunged 15% Thursday after the social media company provided soft guidance for its fourth-quarter revenue despite … | 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.
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| 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.
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| 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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses a copyright lawsuit by Raw Story and AlterNet against OpenAI over AI training, for now, saying the outlets couldn't show enough harm — A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles … | 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) …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Yelp agrees to buy RepairPal, a site for car repair estimates, for $80M in cash, with the deal expected to close by the end of 2024; RepairPal had raised $21.3M — Yelp, which made a name for itself giving restaurant recs, just bought an auto services website.| 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.
More: Washington Post
| 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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