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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
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, TechCrunch, Fox Business, Agence France-Presse, Android Police, Capital Brief, Android Authority, OSnews, Thurrott, Benzinga, The Information, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Tom's Guide, Forbes, Reclaim The Net, Reuters, Forexlive, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Wrap, Business Insider, Wall Street Pit, and theJasmineBRAND
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Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage — Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies …
More: BBC, Bloomberg, lrt.lt, German Federal Foreign Office, The Maritime Executive, gCaptain, The Sun, DatacenterDynamics, Financial Times, Engadget, Politico, and Associated Press
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| Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
Bluesky is booming partly because it isn't hindered by bad adtech, 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/BlueskySocial, r/TrueReddit, and r/Foodforthought
| Rob Pegoraro / PCMag: |
Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers’ to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships — Brendan Carr, currently a senior GOP commissioner, is a longtime opponent of net neutrality regulation …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad — To compete with the iPad, Google plans to push Android as its unified desktop OS. — • — TL;DR — A source within Google has told Android Authority …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for in-line editing, 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 …
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Bluesky: @sungkim.bsky.social. X: @arthurmensch, @mistralai, @guillaumelample, @arthurmensch, @bfl_ml, @dchaplot, @dchaplot, @mistralai, @rowancheung, @simonw, @jchudnov, @rowancheung, @sophiamyang, @dchaplot, and @pierrevalade. LinkedIn: William El Sayed
Forums: r/singularity and r/singularity
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program — AI-powered search engine Perplexity is venturing into e-commerce. On Monday, the company debuted a new shopping feature …
More: PYMNTS.com, perplexity.ai, Reuters, The Verge, Fortune, Mashable, Adweek, The Decoder, ZDNET, Search Engine Land, and TestingCatalog. LinkedIn: Joshua Heller
| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too much of a delay between asking a question to the new AI-based Alexa and getting a response or completing a task — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. — Amazon's race to create an AI-based successor to its voice assistant Alexa has hit more snags … | Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Amazon and SpaceX argued the NLRB, which recently found issues at the companies, is unconstitutional; 5th Circuit judges questioned the timeline of the 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: NPR, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Associated Press, and The Verge
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the early days of OpenAI, discussing its partnership with Microsoft, fundraising, employee compensation, AGI, more — Emails in Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup's rocky origins. … As OpenAI was ironing out a new deal with Microsoft in 2016 …
More: TechCrunch, Futurism, Analytics India Magazine, The Rundown AI, CCN.com, and Android Headlines
| 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%, 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 …
More: Bloomberg, The Information, Cointelegraph, The Wrap, PYMNTS.com, Wccftech, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Axios, Fortune, Crypto Briefing, Watcher Guru, Quartz, Reuters, NewsBTC, ZeroHedge News, CoinGape, Yahoo Finance, NBC News, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, and CNBC. Forums: r/Shortsqueeze
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions — Xiaomi will replace its app store with fintech PhonePe's offering for customers in India starting in January.| Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban — - Company increases investment proposal tenfold, sources say — Indonesia banned sales of iPhone 16 over local content rulesSponsor Posts
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