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| Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: |
Bitcoin passes $100K for the first time after rallying 126%+ since January 2024, driven by Bitcoin ETF demand, April's halving, and Donald Trump's election win — Bitcoin has rallied 126% since January to reach $100,000, driven by Bitcoin ETF demand, April's halving and Donald Trump's US election win.
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X: @brian_armstrong, @apompliano, @danheld, @0xramonos, @morningbrew, @therealkiyosaki, @technology, @apompliano, @bitcoin, and @reuterstech
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
Trump picks former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins, who is seen as a strong advocate for looser regulation of crypto assets, to succeed Gary Gensler as SEC Chair — Mr. Atkins, a pro-business conservative, would likely take a lighter regulatory approach than the current chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Mastodon: @realDonaldTrump …. X: @xethalis, @gopmajoritywhip, @iampaulgrewal, @xethalis, @attorneyjeremy1, @cdixon, @hesterpeirce, @hhorsley, @dlauer, @_danleonardo, @johnreedstark, @intangiblecoins, @wublockchain, @alexandergrieve, @jacqmelinek, @ericldaugh, @patrickmchenry, @cgasparino, @collinrugg, and @eleanorterrett
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
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Mastodon: @realDonaldTrump …. X: @adamkovac, @matthewstoller, @musharbash_b, @mrddmia, @adamkovac, @jimcramer, @afergusonftc, @adamkovac, @ggreenwald, @sayreevan, @mholyoakftc, @nancyscola, @mrddmia, @sentuberville, @mrddmia, @adamkovac, @stef_palma, @simonateba, @reclaimthenethq, @andyyen, @danprimack, @brendancarrfcc, and @lauren_feiner
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs find Russia-linked Turla hackers hijacked Pakistan-based hackers' servers to launch their own attacks since December 2022 — The notorious Russian cyber-espionage group Turla is hacking other hackers, hijacking the Pakistani threat actor Storm-0156's infrastructure …
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Bluesky: @lukaszolejnik, @hultquist, and @pylos.co
X: @msftsecintel, @loumariehsd, and @greglesnewich
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA clears the £15B Vodafone-Three deal after a 10-month inquiry, subject to investing £11B in UK digital infrastructure, creating the UK's biggest telco — - CMA approved the merger with Three in UK on Thursday — Europe's telcos have spent years lobbying for consolidation
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X: @tomvalletti, @vodafonegroup, @cmagovuk, and @tomwarren
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anduril and OpenAI partner to deploy advanced AI systems for national security missions, focusing on “improving the nation's counter-unmanned aircraft systems” — OpenAI and Anduril on Wednesday announced a partnership allowing the defense tech company to deploy advanced artificial …
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LinkedIn: Sofia Rose Haft, Joseph Larson, and Christian Brose
| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
The White House says the Salt Typhoon hack has impacted eight telecom companies in the US, and also affected dozens of other countries, for as long as two years — A senior administration official said Wednesday the Salt Typhoon hack has impacted dozens of countries in a sweeping espionage campaign
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Amazon Nova LLM first impressions: the models are competitive with Google Gemini and extremely inexpensive, and may position Amazon as a top tier model provider — Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference.
More: Amazon Web Services and About Amazon
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| Financial Times: |
xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate 1M+ GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its Memphis, Tennessee facility — Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire's xAI aims to catch up with rivals| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Intel interim co-CEO David Zinsner says Intel's financial forecast is unchanged and expects the next CEO to have some capability around both foundry and product — Intel's (INTC.O) next chief executive officer will have manufacturing expertise as well as experience in the product side of the business …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC is in discussions with Nvidia to make its Blackwell AI chips at TSMC's new Arizona plant starting in early 2025, expanding on production in Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) is in discussions with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) to produce its Blackwell artificial …
More: PCMag, Fierce Electronics, Benzinga, The Crypto Times, Investopedia, Yahoo Finance, Notebookcheck, Wccftech, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/hardware
| New York Times: |
At the DealBook Summit, Jeff Bezos said he is “very hopeful” about President-elect Donald Trump, and praised his deregulatory agenda and Elon Musk's leadership — The Amazon founder said he saw signs of a “calmer” Donald J. Trump on the eve of his return to the White House.
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive into Amazon's Trainium2, which shows the company is on a path to eventually providing competitive custom AI chips, especially for LLM inference — - Trn2, Trn2-Ultra, Performance, Software, NeuronLinkv3, EFAv3, TCO, 3D Torus, Networking Costs, Supply Chain — AWS Trainium1 / Inferentia2 GenAI Weakness
More: Network World, About Amazon, and Wall Street Journal
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can generate 3D worlds from a single prompt image, playable by humans or AI agents using keyboard and mouse inputs — DeepMind, Google's AI research org, has unveiled a model that can generate an “endless” variety of playable 3D worlds.
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LinkedIn: Alex Rutter and Jake Bruce
Forums: Hacker News, r/gamedev, r/Games, r/StableDiffusion, and r/singularity
| Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
A look at the fulfillment networks of Amazon, Walmart, and Target for same-day or next-day delivery; Walmart says it now offers same-day to 86% of US households — Retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target have figured out that if they get you your online order today, you will probably spend more tomorrow.
More: Reuters, Ars Technica, SupplyChainBrain, and theJasmineBRAND
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Sources: AT&T, JPMorgan, and Dunkin' pulled ads from Twitch after a controversial group of livestreamers alleged that Twitch is promoting antisemitic content — - Exiled contributors mount campaign that includes edited clips — Their targets are pro-Palestinian streamer and Twitch staffers| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Three of Google's NotebookLM team members, lead Raiza Martin, a designer, and an engineer, are leaving to launch a startup focused on “a user-first AI product” — Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, including its team lead and designer, have announced they are leaving Google for a new stealth startup.
More: NewsBytes, The Verge, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @raizamrtn, @ugo_alves, @raizamrtn, @paul_cal, @sanderssays, @raizamrtn, @officiallogank, @stevenbjohnson, @jobergum, @ugo_alves, @petergyang, and @raizamrtn. LinkedIn: Raiza Martin
Forums: r/notebooklm and r/LocalLLaMA
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post; users won't see fediverse posts in feeds, but will on account profiles — Threads rolled out fediverse users' likes and replies in a very limited way at first, and it's the same here …
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| The Conversation: |
AI language translation was one of the most beneficial uses of AI during major global elections in 2024, and AI misinformation was not as catastrophic as feared — It's been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls.
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @ericsmalley
| Alice Kantor / Bloomberg: |
US authorities: Dubai has quietly become a leading home for crypto scamming in the past decade, including Ponzi and pyramid schemes that made $3.4B+ since 2017 — Ponzi and pyramid schemes dressed in startup clothes have been running rampant in the UAE, experts and US authorities say.| Reuters: |
Meta plans to invest $10B to build an AI data center in Louisiana, in what would be its largest data center in the world, and expects work to start in December — Facebook-parent Meta (META.O) said on Wednesday it plans to invest $10 billion to set up an AI data center in Louisiana …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
London-based Lawhive, whose AI-based SaaS tools let small, “Main Street” law firms automate legal tasks, raised a $40M Series A co-led by GV and TQ Ventures — U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive, which allows small, ‘Main Street’ law firms to run their affairs through …
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