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Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Nick Clegg says Mark Zuckerberg is keen to play “an active role” in Trump admin tech policy debates and Meta “overdid it a bit” when moderating pandemic content  —  Policy chief Nick Clegg says social media company ‘overdid it’ on content moderation, as it seeks to placate president-elect
Milana Vinn / Reuters:
Sources: Intel starts shortlisting a handful of CEO candidates, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan, who left in August 2024 after clashing with Gelsinger  —  Intel (INTC.O) has started shortlisting a handful of candidates, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan …
Bloomberg:
Pat Gelsinger's retirement opens the door for Intel to consider fresh deal options, including splitting factory and product-design divisions and selling Altera  —  - Former leader had spurned scenarios such as breakup of company  — Qualcomm and Apollo have previously contemplated Intel deals
Financial Times:
China bans shipments to the US of several “dual-use” minerals and metals used in chipmaking and military applications, in a retaliation to new US chips curbs  —  Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries  —  China has banned shipments to the US of several …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
An email and documents reveal Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't subject to Google's general ToS, but an “adjusted” ToS drafted by Google and Israel  —  When questioned about its controversial cloud computing contract with the Israeli government …
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The CFPB proposes limiting data brokers' ability to sell Americans' personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach discovered in April 2024  —  In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches by “After date,” “Before date,” and “From profile”  —  Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches …
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
ChatGPT refuses to state some names, possibly due to digital privacy requests or a post-prompt handling bug; OpenAI may have fixed the viral “David Mayer” issue  —  Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend …
Margaux MacColl / TechCrunch:
Generative AI startup Yurts, which has contracts with the US Army, Air Force, and others, raised a $40M Series B led by XYZ, taking its total raised to $58.35M  —  Had Yurts founder Ben Van Roo's eyes been better, he might've followed in his family's footsteps and joined the Air Force.
Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times:
German defense tech startup Helsing unveils its first AI attack drone, which can fly up to 100km and re-identify and engage targets without a data connection  —  Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems
John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times:
The NCSC says the UK faces a “widening gap” in its ability to fight cyber threats, and “severe” incidents handled by the agency tripled to 12 in the past year  —  Number of incidents at top end of scale of severity tripled last year, including attack that took down London hospitals

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Washington Post:
Jacqueline Smith, the Stars and Stripes ombudsman who was fired in April, sues the Pentagon, claiming the government violated her First Amendment rights

Wall Street Journal:
Brendan Carr says ABC is running a “campaign of misinformation” about the FCC inquiry into The View and the agency isn't trying to control the show's guests

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Acast shows that have opted into Apple video podcasts have seen a ~25% jump in Apple consumption; only 10 shows in the top 200 US chart currently offer video

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Bloomberg:
Sources and docs: troubled IT firm Atos is largely responsible for issues delaying the rollout of the EU's automated biometric Entry/Exit border system to 2025
Associated Press:
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Earlier Picks

Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin shuts down and plans to move accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March 2025, after a $300M+ hack in May 2024
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS details updates to its data centers, including liquid cooling for AI servers, more simplified electrical and mechanical designs for server racks, and more
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in nearly $50M in earnings
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Twitch creator Kai Cenat completed a “subathon”, streaming 24 hours per day for 30 days, breaking Twitch's record with ~727,700 subscribers in November 2024
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
How generative AI may bridge current computing paradigms to future innovations, especially in wearables, which will benefit from context-aware user interfaces
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, gives an “early preview” of its first project, an AI system that can generate game-like, 3D scenes from an image
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