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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more  —  He's on the patio.  He's on the golf course.  Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world's richest man.
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide “guidance from outside of Government”  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy …
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Forums: r/law, r/elonmusk, and r/politics
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Financial Times:
Media executives say that some brands are preparing to advertise on X once again, as Elon Musk is likely to gain an influential Trump administration role  —  Some brands had abandoned the site over moderation concerns  —  Elon Musk's support for Donald Trump is set to boost X's flagging business …
Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model is missing internal targets  —  Three of the leading artificial intelligence companies are seeing diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop newer models.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who won't rule out any Xbox exclusive coming to PlayStation and Switch, discusses potential M&A, and more  —  Phil Spencer is planning how to enter and partner in the handheld device and mobile-store markets
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
A US judge rules that Meta must face trial in a US FTC lawsuit seeking its break up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush competitors  —  Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) must face trial in a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break up over claims …
Callie Holtermann / New York Times:
Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 15M+ users in total  —  With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon launches Amazon Haul, a storefront on its app that promises “crazy low prices” on a range of items, to compete with Temu and Shein  —  Amazon has rolled out a new storefront featuring apparel, home goods, electronics and other items priced below $20, to fend off growing competition …
Charles Daly / Bloomberg:
Klarna files for a US IPO; analysts put Klarna's implied valuation at ~$14.6B in October 2024 after shareholder Chrysalis upped the value of its stake to $154M  —  Swedish payments firm Klarna Group Plc has filed for an initial public offering in the US, ending months of speculation that the company was readying a stock market listing.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development  —  Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance …
Bloomberg:
How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors  —  The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it  —  At the headquarters of the United Nations …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts  —  YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their shorts.
Lim Hui Jie / CNBC:
Swiggy opened up ~8% on its trading debut after the company raised $1.34B in an Indian IPO, which became the second largest IPO in India in 2024
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims can match GPT-4o coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM  —  There's a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba's Qwen research team.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video  —  Amazon is officially shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported video streaming service originally launched under the IMDb brand nearly five years ago.
Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News:
Mac mini (2024) teardown: the SSD module is proprietary but replaceable, modular front ports, and the M4 Pro model has a beefier cooling rig than the M4 model  —  It shouldn't be a big story that a desktop computer has upgradeable internal storage, but with Apple's cute new 2024 Mac mini, that's exactly where we are.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Docs and sources: Amazon has discontinued a secretive effort to develop an at-home fertility tracker, which was part of its moonshot incubator Grand Challenge  —  Amazon has discontinued a secretive effort to develop an at-home fertility tracker, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Modern Times Group agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based mobile game maker Plarium for $620M and up to $200M more if Plarium hits financial targets over 2025 to 2028
Bloomberg:
SoftBank's telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer in Japan using Nvidia's DGX B200 platform, and a follow-up effort featuring the Grace Blackwell chip
NBC News:
The US sentences Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira to 15 years for stealing classified Pentagon information and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display to control appliances, videoconference, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it as early as March 2025
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