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November 25, 2024, 7:10 AM
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Sony is in the early stages of developing a portable console to play PS5 games, building on the PlayStation Portal, although its launch is years away  —  - Nintendo's Switch has dominated mobile console space for years  — Rival Microsoft is also developing portable gaming prototypes
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on Apple TV's history and future; sources: Apple postponed a larger-than-usual number of iOS 19 features to spring 2026, when iOS 19.4 is set to debut  —  Apple doesn't need its own TV set.  But it should make a low-cost TV streaming stick to bring its content, apps and smart home features to more households.
Steven Overly / Politico:
Q&A with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on what happens to the $50B CHIPS program under the Trump administration, the future of AI safety, China, and more
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in the past year, Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to invest as much as $600M in Tether for a ~5% stake; Cantor holds most of Tether's $134B in assets  —  Before becoming Trump's commerce secretary pick, Lutnick deepened Cantor's ties with a stablecoin firm under investigation
Bloomberg:
Sources: Cantor Fitzgerald plans a $2B+ program to lend USD to clients who put up bitcoin as collateral and is talking with Tether about supporting the program
Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
A skeptical look at the new AI scaling “laws”, including post-train duration and “inference time compute”, and why they may fail to predict AI model performance  —  Scaling laws ain't what they used to be  —  “If anything we are seeing the emergence of a new scaling law …
Brendan Greeley / Financial Times:
A bitcoin strategic reserve is a resilience strategy for the “hodlers”, not the US state, as a bet on bitcoin is bullish on permanent institutional collapse  —  It is a resilience strategy for the ‘hodlers’, not the US state  —  In July, Cynthia Lummis, a US senator from Wyoming …
Washington Post:
Sources: Marc Andreessen, Travis Kalanick, and more are involved in the Department of Government Efficiency; Andreessen is acting as a networker for recruitment  —  The Tesla executive and the former presidential candidate are meeting with staff and interviewing experts as they plan for massive federal cuts.
Carolyn Cohn / Reuters:
Insurance broker Howden: cyberattacks have cost UK businesses ~£44B in the past five years and 52% of private sector companies have reported at least one attack  —  Cyberattacks have cost British businesses around 44 billion pounds ($55.08 billion) in lost revenue in the past five years …
Robert Triggs / Android Authority:
A look at the shortcomings of Google's Tensor SoC for Pixel devices, with four generations failing to impress in key performance and power efficiency metrics  —  Would future Pixels be better of returning to Snapdragon?  —  •  —  Thanks to an unprecedented leak from Google's gchips division …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC in a Florida court, alleging it deceptively doctored his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The UK government begins its review of the BBC's charter, set to expire in 2027, as ministers consider licence fee reforms and allowing more commercial revenue

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howard Stern signs a new three-year deal with SiriusXM, after a report earlier this year suggested that his show was about to be canceled

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David Pan / Bloomberg:
A profile of Chris Maurice, the CEO of US stablecoin startup Yellow Card, which operates in 20 African countries and has traded $3B+ worth of crypto in 2024
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Wall Street Journal:
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Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5
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