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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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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.
Financial Times:
Media executives say that some brands were preparing to advertise on X once again, as Elon Musk was 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 …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who says he won't rule out any Xbox exclusive coming to PlayStation, discusses potential M&A, and more  —  Phil Spencer is planning how to enter and partner in the handheld device and mobile-store markets
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 14.7M 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.
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  —  - Product will spotlight the new Siri and Apple Intelligence  — Device will tap into cameras, doorbells and run Apple's apps
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:
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are all seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model misses internal targets  —  Three of the leading artificial intelligence companies are seeing diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop newer models.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google says it will test removing news articles from EU-based publishers from Search for 1% of users in France, Poland, Greece, Belgium, and other EU countries  —  As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test …
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.
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.
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon recently told staff with disabilities that it was adding a more rigorous vetting process to approve working from home, as it moves to five days per week  —  New ‘multilevel leader review’ can take weeks and has prompted concerns that affected corporate workers will give up and quit.
More: The Verge
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.
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg:
In a policy blueprint, OpenAI says the US and its neighbors should form a “North American Compact for AI” to compete with China in talent, financing, and more  —  - The startup called for a ‘North American Compact on AI’  — OpenAI said US must backstop, streamline AI infrastructure
More: CNBC
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.
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.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Just Eat Takeaway says it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a $650M deal expected to close in Q1 2025; Just Eat bought Grubhub for $7.3B in 2020  —  Netherlands-based food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com said on Wednesday that it is selling its U.S. business Grubhub to New York-based Wonder Group …
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  —  The former Massachusetts Air National Guard member pleaded guilty in March to leaking highly classified military documents online, including about the war in Ukraine.
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  —  Shares of Indian food delivery giant Swiggy rose nearly 8% on their trading debut Wednesday after its IPO became the country's second largest this year.
Bloomberg:
How Roger Ver, known as “Bitcoin Jesus”, is fighting the IRS, which says he owes $48M+ after selling $240M in tokens, from Mallorca after his April 2024 arrest  —  - Roger Ver charged with underreporting value of token holdings  — Longtime crypto investor renounced US citizenship in 2014

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