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December 6, 2024, 10:15 AM

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Bloomberg:
Trump says David Sacks will be the “White House AI and crypto czar” to “work on a legal framework so the crypto industry has the clarity it has been asking for”  —  - New post will help Trump put imprint on developing industries  — Venture capitalist Sacks helped Trump make inroads with tech
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro, a $200/month plan with unlimited access to o1, GPT-4o, and more, plus an o1 version that uses more compute for better responses  —  OpenAI is creating a new, more expensive tier for its flagship chatbot ChatGPT, and is bringing its “reasoning” model series out of preview with an update.
Marius Hobbhahn / Apollo Research:
An evaluation of six frontier AI models for in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal: only OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming in all the tests  —  Paper: You can find the detailed paper here.  —  Transcripts: We provide a list of cherry-picked transcripts here.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
CNN:
Romania's top court annuls presidential election, after its security council revealed “hybrid Russian attacks”, like cyberattacks and TikTok influence campaigns  —  Romania's constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country's 2024 presidential election process …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung releases One UI 7 beta for Galaxy S24, with a huge visual overhaul, a “Now Bar”, a vertically scrolling app drawer, new security and AI tools, and more  —  Months later than expected, Samsung has officially unveiled its Android 15 update, One UI 7, and the company …
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
FEC filing: Elon Musk poured at least $274M into US political groups in 2024, including $238.5M for his America PAC, making him the biggest US political donor  —  - Musk gave at least $274 million to elect Trump, GOP allies  — Trump has tapped Musk to help reshape federal bureaucracy
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta tests letting Threads users see metrics for their individual posts, including views, likes, and replies, as part of changes to Threads' Insights feature  —  Threads is testing the ability for users to see how well their individual posts performed on the social network.
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Popular NFT project Pudgy Penguins plans to launch Solana-based token PENGU in 2024, with 23.5% of the 88B tokens reserved for holders of its 8,888 NFTs  —  Pudgy Penguins is among the most popular NFT collections, and its comic penguins have a big presence on X, YouTube and Instagram.  —  What to know:
Reuters:
The US FCC proposes rules for carriers to submit an annual certification attesting they have a plan to protect against cyberattacks, after the Salt Typhoon hack  —  U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is proposing that communications service providers …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit  —  It's fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it's real and dangerous  —  I.
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Google releases new Android features, including “expressive” video captions, improvements to the Pixel Screenshots app, a Spotify extension for Gemini, and more  —  If you're a Pixel user, you can look forward to even more enhancements.  —  If you're an Android user …
Jennifer McKiernan / BBC:
When asked if Musk is a threat to democracy, Nick Clegg says Musk can be either an avid Trump supporter or can try to become “a sort of political puppet master”  —  Billionaire and X owner Elon Musk could become a “political puppet master” in the US, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.

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