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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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls  —  Malicious hackers have compromised potentially thousands of organizations by exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities found …
Zack Abrams / The Block:
Polymarket blocks users in France from placing trades, as the country's gaming regulator investigates the platform's compliance with local gambling laws  —  - Prediction marketplace Polymarket has restricted users in France from accessing its platform, according to a message shown when trying to access the site from the country.
Pirate Wires:
Sources and screenshots: Kalshi paid influencers to imply that Polymarket and its CEO Shayne Coplan engaged in illegal activity, after FBI's raid on Coplan
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.
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 …
Echo Wang / Reuters:
Sources: CoreWeave is aiming for a valuation of over $35B and is likely to target raising more than $3B in its US IPO that is expected to occur in Q2 2025  —  Artificial intelligence cloud platform CoreWeave, is aiming for a valuation of more than $35 billion in its U.S. initial public offering …
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  —  Zepto has secured $350 million in new funding, its third round of financing in six months, as the Indian quick-commerce startup strengthens …

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump says that he will attend this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, marking the first time he will do so as president

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
David Ellison says Paramount plans to combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into one streamer with 200M+ subscribers, but will let HBO “operate with independence”

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Lachlan Murdoch says Fox News expects CNN under the Ellisons to be a “strong competitor”, but adds that “running news is hard”

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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
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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