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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on rival websites, the first such fine for Meta — Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google releases a new free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions and chat via text, voice, or camera, as well as use conversational Gemini Live — In the AI chatbot world, ubiquity is everything. Companies have raced to build desktop and mobile apps for their bots …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted — The agency aims to conduct more rigorous direct oversight of the tech firm, a major move that Google has resisted in the final months of the Biden administration.
More: TechCrunch, The Information, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Engadget, Reuters, Proactive, Cybernews.com, and ZeroHedge News
| Bloomberg: |
Polymarket says the FBI seized CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and electronics; source: the DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly accepting bets from US users — - Polymarket says FBI agents seized CEO's phone, electronics — Platform has taken recent measures to weed out US traders
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple releases updates to Final Cut Pro, adding AI-generated closed captions and Vision Pro spatial video editing, and Logic Pro for macOS and iPadOS — Today, Apple revealed the latest updates to Final Cut Pro for the Mac and iPad, with both offering a variety of new features and simplified workflows.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a new company, but doesn't reveal many details — François Chollet, a leading figure in the AI world, is leaving Google after close to a decade.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS can now read code in some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, and Terminal — OpenAI's ChatGPT is starting to work with other apps on your computer. — On Thursday, the startup announced the ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS … | Eric Geller / Wired: |
Experts expect Trump to relax business cybersecurity rules, drop human rights concerns on spyware, and take an aggressive stance on US adversaries' cyber armies — Experts expect Donald Trump's next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says real-time protections against scam calls and malicious apps are rolling out on Pixel 6 or newer devices and coming soon to more Android phones — After demoing at I/O 2024 in May, Google is rolling out real-time Scam Detection for phone calls on Pixel devices.
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Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/Android, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the FTC plans to probe allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure — FTC chair Lina Khan continues to pursue Big Tech in final days of Biden presidency — The Federal Trade Commission is preparing … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon One Medical expands telehealth services with low-cost treatment plans and medication delivery for beauty and lifestyle issues like hair loss, skin care — Amazon One Medical is expanding its telehealth services with the launch of upfront and low-cost treatment plans and medication delivery …
More: About Amazon, Quartz, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, and FierceHealthcare
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with pseudonymous AI researcher Gwern Branwen on anonymity, the grand theory of intelligence, seeing LLM scaling early, AGI timelines, blogging, and more — Legacy & Anonymity in the Age of AGI — Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming.
More: Dwarkesh Patel on YouTube, Don't Worry About the Vase, and ZeroHedge News
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Forums: Hacker News and news.ycombinator.com
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads had “more than 15M signups in November alone” and it is “going on three months with more than a million signups a day” — Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger.
More: iPhone in Canada Blog and 9to5Mac
Threads: @mosseri, @wongmjane, @bluesky_social, and @theericajoy
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google updates Maps to help users search for products like home goods, clothing, and electronics and find stores nearby, improve traffic reporting, and more — Google has added some new travel and shopping features to Maps that aim to make it easier to find local products and stay on time during busy periods.| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Echoing TikTok's gifting, YouTube is rolling out “jewels” that users can buy to support creators during livestreams, for those in the YouTube Partner Program — YouTube is taking a page out of the TikTok playbook by adding “jewels” you buy to exchange for gifts for your favorite creators during livestreams.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules coming into effect in October 2025 — Google has announced it will stop showing political ads to users in the European Union next year due to uncertainties around the bloc's new transparency regulations.| Wall Street Journal: |
X names Mahmoud Reza Banki as CFO; Banki, who Trump pardoned for making false statements in January 2021, was Tubi CFO and, a source says, joined X in November — Mahmoud Reza Banki, former Tubi finance chief, joins platform amid financial challenges — Elon Musk's X Corp. named Mahmoud … | Morgan Chalfant / Semafor: |
BSA, representing OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, urges Trump to review rules that are “unnecessarily impeding AI adoption” but to keep some of Biden's moves — The Scoop — A lobbying group representing the tech industry is urging the incoming Trump administration …
More: Washington Post
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Anthropic is working with the US DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure Claude models don't share dangerous information about nuclear energy — - In red-teaming exercises, experts test systems by trying to break them. — NNSA has been testing Anthropic's models … | New York Times: |
A look at “blind box livestreaming”, an e-commerce trend in China that has become an entertaining and, some users and experts said, addictive pastime — How many plastic trinkets would you end up with? The game keeps many addicted, buyers and spectators alike.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim against Apple, seeking £3B in compensation, alleging that Apple locked ~40M UK users into iCloud services — U.K. consumer rights group ‘Which?’ is filing a legal claim against Apple under competition law on behalf of some 40 million users …
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| Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge: |
Snap unveils new Snapchat location and privacy tools, including letting parents request their teen's location and view their location-sharing settings — Once known only for its self-destructing pics, Snapchat has steadily evolved its location-oriented social media features.
More: Neowin, Pocket-lint, BGR, Mashable, Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, and The Indian Express
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft releases Windows 11 ISOs for Arm64 PCs, letting users clean install Windows via official offline media, including the latest Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs — Windows 11 ISOs for PCs with an Arm64 processor are now officially available, but older Snapdragon laptops will need to jump through additional hoops to get them working.
More: The Register, Ars Technica, How-To Geek, PCWorld, ZDNET, ExtremeTech, Thurrott, Microsoft Learn, Neowin, Gizchina.com, Pureinfotech, Tom's Hardware, Computerworld, TechPowerUp, XDA Developers, and VideoCardz.com. Bluesky: @jasontenpenny.com
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU publishes its first draft of a Code of Practice under the AI Act for general-purpose AI models, including provisions for copyright and systemic risk — A first draft of a Code of Practice that will apply to providers of general-purpose AI models under the European Union's AI Act has been published …
More: Euractiv, European Commission, and MediaPost
X: @manderljung, @vmanancourt, @bertuzluca, and @jonasschuett
| Michelle Anindya / Rest of World: |
How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap — The super-app uses its own drivers and cameras to create hyperlocal maps in eight countries. — • JAKARTA, INDONESIA| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on AI-generated music, NotebookLM podcasts, AI recommendations, improving discoverability, and more — Spotify's Gustav Söderström talks about AI music, Notebook LM podcasts, and the nuance of building better discovery using LLMs.Sponsor Posts
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