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Trump picks Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner 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
| 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: Jake Bruce and Alex Rutter
Forums: Hacker News, r/StableDiffusion, r/Games, and r/singularity
| 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.
More: Google DeepMind, Nature, Ars Technica, The Guardian, The Conversation, SiliconANGLE, Nature, Engadget, Maginative, Android Police, TechEBlog, Engadget, and Financial 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: |
First impressions of Amazon Nova LLMs: they 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. The new model family is called Amazon Nova …
More: Amazon Web Services, About Amazon, Digital Trends, GeekWire, VentureBeat, TechRepublic, CRN, and Sherwood News
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Forums: Hacker News and lobste.rs
| 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
More: PCMag, Reuters, Greater Memphis Chamber, WATE-TV, FOX13 Memphis, WATN, The Commercial Appeal, and Bloomberg
| 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 …
More: Lumen Blog, Microsoft Security Blog, CyberScoop, The Hacker News, Dark Reading, and SecurityWeek
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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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| 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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LinkedIn: David Carlisle and Todd H Baker
Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/technology, r/espionage, r/Intelligence, and r/europe
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Some Spotify users were underwhelmed by 2024 Wrapped, complaining about prioritizing an AI podcast over data stories, a lack of detailed statistics, and more — After weeks of anticipation, some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by the streamer's personalized year-in-review feature … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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LinkedIn: Etan Horowitz, Romain Perrier, and Jan-Paul Jeffrey
| 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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @thegibson@hackers.town, @da_667@infosec.exchange, @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @mhoye@mastodon.social, and @JessTheUnstill@infosec …
X: @joebeone, @tarah, and @benjamingoggin
Forums: r/esist, r/UniversalProfile, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, r/crypto, r/signal, r/conspiracy, r/politics, and Slashdot
| 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: TweakTown, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Daily Upside, Mashable, and Ars Technica
X: @openai, @sama, @danprimack, @teddyschleifer, @emilystewartm, @steph_palazzolo, and @shiringhaffary
Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
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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.| 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.| 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.
More: Constellation Research and Amazon Web Services
| 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, 9to5Mac, and TrendForce News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Axiado, which makes chips and apps to secure data centers, 5G base stations, and more from cyberattacks, raised a $60M Series C led by Maverick Silicon — Cyberattacks are on the rise. In Q1 2024, organizations experienced an average of around 1,300 attacks per week. The cost of attacks is climbing, as well.
More: FinSMEs
| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
TikTok says US sales on TikTok Shop tripled to $100M+ on Black Friday and it drew a 165% annual increase in shoppers on the two days leading up to Cyber Monday — Company is betting big on its US e-commerce arm as ban looms — TikTok tripled its US shopping sales to more than $100 million …
More: Social Media Today
| 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 it 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 … and FinSMEs
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Hands-on with Xreal's One Series smart glasses, powered by its custom-made X1 chip; the $499 One ships from December 9 and the $599 One Pro ships in early 2025 — Xreal's CEO says these new glasses are the start of something bigger. After wearing them, I agree.
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X: @bengeskin, @cnet, @xreal_global, @gwanatu, and @chimtx
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A look at European startups building AI-powered weapons, betting governments will increase defense budgets and buy more autonomous drones and AI systems — A crop of defense newcomers wants European militaries to modernize — and dole out contracts — As the war in Ukraine enters …
More: Financial Times
| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
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