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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative to help avoid another CrowdStrike-like incident, and a Quick Machine Recovery feature for fixing PCs remotely — Now, Microsoft has some answers in the form of a new Windows Resiliency Initiative that's designed to improve Windows security and reliability.
More: Windows Experience Blog, CRN, BleepingComputer, Thurrott, PCMag, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, and Neowin
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC for its Windows 365 cloud service running a “super hardened version of Windows”, shipping in April 2025 — Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to Meta's Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview, promising only “seconds” to connect — If Windows in mixed reality sounds like your idea of a good time, rejoice.
More: Windows Central, The Verge, XR Today, and Digital Trends
| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
Microsoft debuts an AI interpreter in Teams in limited preview that can simulate speaker voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages — A new AI-powered interpreter is expected to simulate speakers' voices in different languages during Microsoft Teams meetings.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, and TechRadar
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module, its new in-house security chip — Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security …
More: Neowin
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record — Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer …
More: Network World, GeekWire, BetaNews, Maginative, The Quantum Insider, and TechRadar
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more — - Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the Elden Ring game, in the coming weeks; Kadokawa had a ~$2.7B market cap — Sony (6758.T) is in talks to acquire Kadokawa (9468.T), the Japanese media powerhouse behind the “Elden Ring” game …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram says it is testing letting users reset the algorithmic suggestions that power Feed, Reels, and Explore, and the update “will soon roll out globally” — The app will offer users a chance for a “fresh start” with the algorithm. — If your Instagram recommendations …
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| CNN: |
Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns about Russian sabotage — Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies …
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| Bruna Horvath / NBC News: |
Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists — The video was meant to pay homage to a classic 1995 Coca-Cola commercial. — Coca-Cola is facing backlash online … | Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
Bluesky is booming partly because it doesn't have bad ad tech, AI slop, throttled links, and largely hostile user experiences, unlike some of its big rivals — No bad adtech, no AI, no throttling links. Bluesky is a booming because it's everything big tech is not — Greetings all —
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Memo: Amazon employees find there is too much of a delay between asking the new LLM-based Alexa a question and getting a response or seeing it complete a task — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. — Amazon's race to create an AI-based successor to its voice assistant Alexa has hit more snags …
More: WinBuzzer, Notebookcheck, and Benzinga
| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople, raised $50M across seed led by Sequoia and Series A led by General Catalyst — - Rox, an early-stage startup, raised $50 million from investors — Company completed seed and Series A deals while in stealth| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity debuts a shopping feature that offers product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro subscribers in the US, plus a merchant program — AI-powered search engine Perplexity is venturing into e-commerce. On Monday, the company debuted a new shopping feature …
More: Perplexity, PCMag, Financial Express, The Verge, TechRadar, Dataconomy, Maginative, MEDIANAMA, and Silicon UK
| Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: |
Super Micro hires BDO USA as its new independent auditor and files a plan to come into compliance with the Nasdaq's listing requirements; SMCI jumps 20%+ — - The company filed a plan to stay listed on the Nasdaq — Super Micro said it appointed a new auditor in press release
More: Barron's Online, Quartz, Super Micro Computer, Inc., Fast Company, Benzinga, MarketWatch, and Fortune
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for editing, and more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model — Mistral, the French startup that made waves last year with a record-setting seed funding amount for Europe, has launched a slew …
More: Mistral AI, Mistral AI, Tech.co, WinBuzzer, Towards Data Science, MarkTechPost, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Neowin, The Decoder, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Bluesky: @sungkim.bsky.social. X: @arthurmensch, @mistralai, @guillaumelample, @arthurmensch, @bfl_ml, @mistralai, @rowancheung, @simonw, @jchudnov, @rowancheung, @sophiamyang, @dchaplot, @dchaplot, @pierrevalade, and @dchaplot. LinkedIn: William El Sayed. Forums: r/singularity
| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it has the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with 100K+ orgs making or editing AI agents in Copilot Studio and “2x growth in just a quarter” — Microsoft has quietly built the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with over 100,000 organizations creating … | Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
Sources: Trump Media is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65% and BKKT up 162.46% — Truth Social owner is close to an all-share takeover of Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt — Donald Trump's social media company … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Google and Nvidia say Google's Quantum AI division will use Nvidia's Eos supercomputer to speed up the design of quantum components — - Project will use Nvidia's Eos supercomputer to run simulations — Quantum computing remains a long-range bet for tech industry
More: Cybernews.com, Nvidia Newsroom, and The Quantum Insider
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Amazon and SpaceX argued that the NLRB, which found issues at both companies, is unconstitutional; 5th US Circuit judges questioned the speed of their charges — A panel of U.S. judges on Monday seemed likely to rule that Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Elon Musk's SpaceX were too quick to bring …
More: The Register, Associated Press, NPR, Benzinga, and SiliconANGLE
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and Meituan have been expanding their AI teams in Silicon Valley in recent months, despite US efforts to stymie Chinese companies — Alibaba, ByteDance and Meituan seek to poach top talent from US rivals despite Washington's chip curbsSponsor Posts
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