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November 18, 2024, 10:45 PM

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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
CNN:
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 …
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 —
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …

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