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| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
Trump plans to nominate former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC chair, keeping with his promise for a crypto-friendly administration — President-elect Donald Trump, keeping with his promise for a crypto-friendly administration, plans to nominate former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins to head the agency …
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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.
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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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.| 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, National Crime Agency, BleepingComputer, Wired, U.S. Department …, Sky News, Metro.co.uk, CoinDesk, ComputerWeekly.com, Decrypt, RTÉ, City A.M., UPI, The Irish Sun, and The Record
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/europe
| The Verge: |
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.
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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
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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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| 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 … | 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 …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post; fediverse posts won't show in feeds, only on the accounts' profiles — Threads rolled out fediverse users' likes and replies in a very limited way at first, and it's the same here …
More: Engadget, Fast Company, TechCrunch, and Social Media Today
Bluesky: @mergesort.me. Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @threads, @pcottle, @evanprodromou, @chris, and @tomwarrenuk
| 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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Threads: @katienotopoulos, @andymstone, @katienotopoulos, and @kevinroose. X: @florian4gamers. Forums: r/technology
| 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.
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Bluesky: @katie-drummond, @natashabernal, @wired.com, and @wired.com
Forums: r/technology, r/technews, and MacRumors Forums
| 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: HotHardware, Destructoid, Game Rant, MSPoweruser, PlayStation LifeStyle, and IGN
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/PS5, and r/Games
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Sources: 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.
More: Ming-Chi Kuo, MacRumors, Seeking Alpha, The Mac Observer, Macworld, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, Mashable, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, TechPowerUp, Android Headlines, AppleInsider, BGR, The Shortcut, Neowin, and Supercharged
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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: iVerify, TechCrunch, Dark Reading, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, and 9to5Mac
| 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 … | Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Marvell reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $1.52B, above $1.45B est., $373M in net income, 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| Financial Times: |
xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate more than 1M GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its facility in Memphis — Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire's xAI aims to catch up with rivals| 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 … | 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 … | 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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