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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators  —  Anthropic, OpenAI's close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
Hayden Field / CNBC:
Amazon will remain a minority investor in Anthropic even as new funding brings its total investment to $8B; Amazon doesn't have a seat on Anthropic's board  —  Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft releases the first beta preview of its Recall AI feature for Copilot+ PCs, including Click to Do, a feature similar to Google's Circle to Search  —  Microsoft is releasing the first preview of its Recall AI feature for Copilot Plus PCs today.  After a series of delays …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street  —  In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target …
Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk, as Trump's efficiency czar, is singling out ordinary federal staffers, including some with climate-related jobs, on X and unleashing his fans on them  —  As Trump efficiency czar, the billionaire is targeting employees by name on X—sparking pushback  —  Unlimited access across all platforms and devices.
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
A UK CMA report finds that Apple's policies hold back innovation in mobile browsers and recommends investigating Apple and Google's mobile ecosystem activities  —  Apple's restrictions on mobile browsers are limiting innovation and holding back new features that could benefit iPhone users …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Threads is testing AI-generated summaries of what users are discussing, in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and Search and Trending Now improvements  —  Meta is promising “long-overdue improvements” to its X competitor, Threads, including more precise search features and expanded trending topics.
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and other executives on the challenges of rapidly infusing Google products with AI while continuing to pursue AGI  —  The computer-science prodigy has dedicated his life to weighty AI research.  Now he's also racing to make everyday Google products smarter.
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
SCOTUS dismisses Meta's appeal of a lower court order reviving a shareholder lawsuit for allegedly misleading investors on the 2015 Cambridge Analytica scandal  —  Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Facebook's appeal of a lower court order reviving a shareholder lawsuit brought …
The Robot Report:
Cambridge, MA-based Pickle Robot, which makes AI-powered robots that autonomously unload trucks, raised a $50M Series B  —  Robotic truck unloading fits the classic definition of dull, dirty, or dangerous jobs worth automating.  Pickle Robot Co. yesterday announced that it has raised $50 million …

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Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raised $350M at the same $5B valuation as its $340M raise in August 2024; Zepto has raised $1.35B since June 2024
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Texas' AG opens a probe into the World Federation of Advertisers to find if it conspired to boycott “certain social media platforms”; X sued the WFA in August
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
The UK plans to draft a regulatory framework to oversee stablecoins and staking services as part of a single overarching regime for cryptoassets in early 2025

Earlier Picks

Emma Roth / The Verge:
SafeRent, an AI screening tool used by landlords, agrees to pay ~$2.3M to settle a discrimination lawsuit and to not show certain tenant scores for five years
James Reddick / The Record:
In its latest security report, Meta says it removed 2M+ accounts this year connected to pig butchering scams conducted from Southeast Asia and the UAE
Brady Dale / Axios:
SEC chair Gary Gensler will step down on January 20; it has been traditional for SEC chairs to resign if the administration changes in the middle of their term
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users' devices
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
The CFPB will supervise tech companies with digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Venmo, with 50M+ annual transactions, treating them more like banks
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