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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, @alexandergrieve, @hhorsley, @xethalis, @_danleonardo, @intangiblecoins, @ericldaugh, @wublockchain, @johnreedstark, @attorneyjeremy1, @patrickmchenry, @cgasparino, @collinrugg, @jacqmelinek, @cdixon, @dlauer, @hesterpeirce, and @eleanorterrett
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump selects Gail Slater, an economic policy adviser to JD Vance and tech policy adviser during Trump's first term, as head of the DOJ's antitrust unit — - Slater has been policy adviser for Vice President-elect Vance — Trump vows to continue to crackdown on giant technology firms
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Mastodon: @realDonaldTrump …. X: @adamkovac, @matthewstoller, @musharbash_b, @mrddmia, @adamkovac, @jimcramer, @afergusonftc, @adamkovac, @ggreenwald, @sayreevan, @mholyoakftc, @nancyscola, @mrddmia, @sentuberville, @mrddmia, @adamkovac, @lauren_feiner, @stef_palma, @simonateba, @reclaimthenethq, @andyyen, @danprimack, and @brendancarrfcc
| 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: @bitcoin, @apompliano, @reuterstech, @brian_armstrong, @danheld, @0xramonos, @morningbrew, @therealkiyosaki, @technology, and @apompliano. Forums: Slashdot
| 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
| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
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LinkedIn: Gary Denman and Aravind Ravichandran
| 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
| 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.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs researchers find Russia-linked Turla hackers are hijacking Pakistan-based hackers' servers to launch their own attacks — The notorious Russian cyber-espionage group Turla is hacking other hackers, hijacking the Pakistani threat actor Storm-0156's infrastructure …
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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| 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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| 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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| 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| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive into Amazon's Trainium2, which shows the company is on a path to eventually provide 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, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, including its lead Raiza Martin, are leaving to launch a startup focused on building “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.
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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
| 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
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Bluesky: @polgreen. X: @jburnskoven, @nca_uk, @jessmarindavis, @nca_uk, @jburnskoven, @nca_uk, @irenekenyon4, @nca_uk, @jamiemaccoll, @nca_uk, and @occrp
LinkedIn: David Carlisle and Todd H Baker
Forums: r/technology, r/Intelligence, r/espionage, r/Buttcoin, and r/europe
| Reuters: |
Four Chinese state-backed industry groups, representing most of China's chip demand, urge members to drop US chips, calling them “no longer safe or reliable” — Chinese companies should be wary of buying U.S. chips as they are “no longer safe” and buy locally instead … | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Intel interim co-CEO David Zinsner maintains Intel's financial forecast and says he 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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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon rolls out a “Buy with AWS” button that software companies can add to their websites to help customers with AWS accounts find, try, and buy services — In 2022, Amazon introduced the Buy with Prime button, allowing premium subscribers to make purchases using their Amazon account even when shopping on other websites.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Cleerly, whose AI-powered imaging tech aims to identify early-stage heart disease, raised a $106M Series C extension, adding to the $223M raised in July 2022 — Although heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, a significant portion of people who experience heart attacks …
More: Personalized Analysis …
| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T's stock is up 35% in 2024 after CEO John Stankey reversed course in 2022 and spun off Warner Bros. and DirecTV, and plans to return $40B+ to shareholders — Investors have welcomed CEO John Stankey's return to boring wireless and broadband services after costly entertainment gambles| 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.
More: Ars Technica, Benzinga, Business Standard, The Daily Upside, TweakTown, Android Headlines, SiliconANGLE, and ZDNET
X: @openai, @sama, @shiringhaffary, @danprimack, @emilystewartm, @teddyschleifer, and @steph_palazzolo
Forums: r/StableDiffusion, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
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