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November 14, 2024, 4:20 PM

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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 other online classified ads service providers  —  Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says
David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live  —  In the AI chatbot world, ubiquity is everything.  Companies have raced to build desktop and mobile apps for their bots …
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.
John Voorhees / MacStories:
Apple updates Final Cut Pro for macOS and iPadOS, adding AI closed captions and Vision Pro spatial video editing on macOS, 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.
Bloomberg:
Polymarket says the FBI seized CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and electronics; source: the DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly taking US-based users' bets  —  - Polymarket says FBI agents seized CEO's phone, electronics  — Platform has taken recent measures to weed out US traders
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 …
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai aims to raise $195M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.48B  —  Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony AI said on Thursday it was targeting a valuation of up to $4.48 billion in its initial public offering in the United States.
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.
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.
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 …

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