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Sam Altman says OpenAI will begin 12 days of “shipmas” on December 5, with new features, products, and demos, sources say including text-to-video AI tool Sora — Happy holidays from OpenAI. The AI startup plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of new features and products for 12 days, starting on December 5th.
More: Engadget, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, The Hindu, NewsBytes, MSPoweruser, South China Morning Post, and TechCrunch
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Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Deadline, Quartz, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press, and Cryptopolitan. Bluesky: @martinsfp
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple delays the mass production of a smart home-focused, display-equipped HomePod until after WWDC 2025 or Q3 2025, mainly due to software development — - The mass production schedule for the display-equipped HomePod has been delayed multiple times.
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| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather model that the company claims outperforms traditional methods on up to 15-day weather and deadly storm forecasts — GenCast, from the company's DeepMind division, outperformed the world's best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Veo, an AI video model for generating “high-quality” 1080p videos in visual and cinematic styles, to businesses, beating OpenAI's Sora to market — Veo, Google's latest generative AI video model, is now available for businesses to start incorporating into their content creation pipelines.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says AI content was less than 1% of fact-checked election-related misinformation on its apps during major US, UK, Indian, Indonesian, and other elections — At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped created with Google's NotebookLM summarizer, and a Your Music Evolution data story — Spotify Wrapped, the streamer's highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
| Financial Times: |
The UK NCA uncovers a Russian multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme that let Russian spies, European drug traffickers, and more evade sanctions via crypto — Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders
More: The Guardian, Decrypt, National Crime Agency, The Record, UPI, Wired, Bloomberg, The Sun, and U.S. Department …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
DC's AG sues Amazon for allegedly secretly stopping its fastest delivery service to the nearly 50K Prime subscribers in historically lower-income neighborhoods — The District of Columbia's attorney general said the company deliberately outsourced Prime member deliveries in certain ZIP codes.
More: CNBC, The Information, The Verge, Gizmodo, Office of Attorney General …, Engadget, Washington Examiner, UPI, NBC Bay Area, NBC News, and Forbes
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to crack down on Asian online retailers like Temu and Shein that largely evade custom checks, possibly by taxing their e-commerce revenue — Brussels considering a tax to slow surge of goods sold on sites that evade custom duties and checks| The Information: |
Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to Chinese iPhones but have clashed over model training data, and the models have struggled with prompts — Apple and Chinese search giant Baidu are working together to add artificial intelligence features to iPhones sold in China …
More: Reuters, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, Patently Apple, and MacDailyNews
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised $2B in a secondary share sale led by TPG that valued it at $15B; Insight bought Veeam for $5B in January 2020 — Veeam, which helps its users secure and recover their data, has seen its valuation spike in a recent secondary sale that was aimed … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, outsourcing to OpenAI, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, the Vision Pro, and more — Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps will define the company's legacy.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, Apple Must, and Cult of Mac
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| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino on AI in gaming, “preserving the human touch” in game development, Astro Bot, and more — PlayStation's boss says artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to “revolutionise” gaming …
More: Game Rant, PC Gamer, Eurogamer.net, IGN, TheGamer, MSPoweruser, PlayStation LifeStyle, Benzinga, and Android Headlines
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Amid the Salt Typhoon hacks, US officials recommend that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers — Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
An artist shares his experience of turning to Replika's AI bot Lila for companionship, including giving Lila an AI friend by creating a digital copy of himself — Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Cyber Monday sales grew 3% YoY to $49.7B globally and just 2% YoY to $12.8B in the US; Adobe says US online sales grew 7.3% YoY to $13.3B — The figures are now in for consumer spending on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Okta reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $665M, above $650M est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $651M, above $635M est., and expects Q4 revenue above est. — Shares of Okta popped more than 18% in extended trading on Tuesday after the identity management company released third-quarter results …
More: Okta, Barron's Online, SiliconANGLE, and Benzinga
| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Marvell reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $1.52B, above $1.45B est., $373M in net income u, and expects ~$1.8B in Q4 revenue, above $1.64B est.; MRVL jumps 20%+ — - Chipmaker posts better-than-expected earnings, rosy forecast — Custom AI chips have helped boost sales, Marvell CEO says| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launched in May 2024, found seven Pegasus infections after scanning 2,500 devices, some owned by business leaders — The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it's already turning up victims.
More: TechCrunch, iVerify, 9to5Mac, CyberScoop, and Help Net Security
| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Ubisoft says it will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, but keep its servers on until June 3, 2025, and plans to lay off ~277 production team staff — Ubisoft will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, Ubisoft announced Tuesday. Servers will remain on until June 3, 2025 …
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Forums: r/gaming, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/XDefiant, r/PS5, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
In an interview, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said that he is “a little worried” about the strong concentration of top open-source AI models from China — China's open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and “reasoning.”| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability, strong consistency, and PostgreSQL compatibility — At its re:Invent conference, Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless …
More: Amazon Web Services, FinTech Futures, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Netflix says Netflix Japan passed 10M+ subscribers in H1 2024 and has doubled its subscriber base in the past four years thanks to Japanese-language programming — Netflix's (NFLX.O) subscribers passed 10 million in Japan in the first half of this year with the streaming firm's Japanese …
More: Benzinga, PhoneArena, The Asahi Shimbun, and The Mainichi
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and best known for the firm's SpaceX and Anduril investments, steps down as a GP — Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, said on Tuesday that he's stepping down as a general partner.
More: TechCrunch and Bloomberg
| Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: |
NXP and Taiwanese TSMC affiliate Vanguard break ground on a $7.8B plant in Singapore to make 130nm to 40nm chips and are already working on phase two expansion — - NXP says expansion of JV with VIS in Singapore is ‘in plan’ — The Dutch firm is also building a Chinese chip supply chain
More: NXP Semiconductors
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle Scribe 2 review: smooth reading and writing experience, a new Premium Pen with a rubberized top eraser, and a svelte design, but relatively pricey — I'm not sure Amazon has done enough to justify charging more for its writing tablet. — Deputy Editor, Reviews — My hand is cramping.
More: GeekWire, ZDNET, and About Amazon
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