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Mishaal Rahman / Android Police:
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time  —  Surprise!  Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 today so that app developers can test the new APIs …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games  —  Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming.  When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi.
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary  —  Lutnick, whose Cantor Fitzgerald has been a custodian for Tether since 2021, has been a vocal proponent of bitcoin and USDT for years.
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
After a report that Trump's “Department of Government Efficiency” is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2%  —  The stock prices for H&R Block and Intuit fell after a report Tuesday said Trump's government efficiency team is considering creating a free tax-filing app.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free  —  Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free.
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.
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
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Coinbase plans to delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September 2024  —  - The exchange said it will delist the token in December, though users will still be able to move the wBTC off the exchange.
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google  —  Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.
Reuters:
A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems  —  A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky says it now has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on November 13, and the app has been #1 in the US App Store since November 13, per Appfigures  —  Bluesky, the social network and X competitor has been benefiting from a surge of departures from the Elon Musk-owned app formerly known as Twitter.
Bloomberg:
The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia: Bhutan's bitcoin holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, South Korea's increased trading activity, and more  —  - Bhutan's Bitcoin holdings are now equivalent to 36% of GDP  — South Korean crypto exchanges see a jump in market share
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October  —  Trump Media & Technology Group's revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up.
Bloomberg:
Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out  —  - Nonfiction books will be used for training AI models  — AI companies and publishers have butted heads in lawsuits
Financial Times:
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks  —  Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible  —  “This is not science fiction,” …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to help customers build AI apps, including an SDK, tools for deploying AI agents, and a portal that replaces Azure AI Studio

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Bloomberg:
Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith agrees to buy the entire 26.9% stake in The Economist Group held by Lynn Forester de Rothschild; the terms were not disclosed

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: David Zaslav is set to receive at least $550M in compensation related to the Paramount-WBD deal, including $517.2M in equity in the combined company

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK government unveils the Local News Fund, which will distribute up to £12M to local outlets over two years to support innovation and help fill news deserts

More News

Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user's Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips

Earlier Picks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out a “memory” feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
Robinhood agrees to acquire TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a ~$300M deal set to close in H1 2025
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a large geospatial model, or LGM, that can navigate the physical world and power robots
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Apple has started selling its own ad inventory for Apple News; publishers will get a 70% cut of the ad revenue generated by Apple within their articles
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Smart ring maker Oura raised a $75M Series D from medical device company Dexcom at a $5B+ valuation, up from $2.55B in April 2022
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
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”
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