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Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests  —  Panel rules Congress has the power to shut down Chinese-backed app in the U.S. because of national security concerns
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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 …
Kelvin Chan / Associated Press:
The EU sends TikTok an urgent request for information on Russia's role in Romanian election turmoil, a day after ordering it to retain all election-related data  —  The European Union said Friday it sent TikTok an urgent request for more information about Romanian intelligence files suggesting …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's in-house modems will debut next spring in the new iPhone SE, with 2nd-gen modems expected in higher-end products like iPhone 18 lineup in 2026  —  - Company plans first modem in 2025 and high-end version in 2026  — Initial chip, in iPhone SE, won't match Qualcomm capabilities
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: with its own modem in the pipeline, Apple is investigating bringing cellular connectivity to the Mac and headsets like Vision Pro for the first time
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost  —  Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B.  —  In a post on X, Ahmad Al-Dahle …
Reuters:
Sources: Ubisoft shareholders are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the game maker without reducing the founding Guillemot family's control  —  Shareholders of Ubisoft Entertainment SA (UBIP.PA) are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the Assassin's Creed video …
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is discussing ditching a clause that cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, so that Microsoft can continue investing  —  Start-up discusses removing provision to protect powerful technology from being misused for commercial purposes
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft ends production of its $4,500+ Surface Studio 2+, after announcing the all-in-one desktop in October 2022, with seemingly no plans to make a successor  —  Surface Studio 2+ is now out of stock in most markets, and there are seemingly no plans to make a new one.
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.
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.
OpenAI:
OpenAI expands its Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program to let developers create expert models in specific domains with very little training data  —  What is Reinforcement Fine-Tuning?  —  This new model customization technique enables developers to customize our models using dozens …
Joel Khalili / Wired:
A US teen faces backlash for making ~$50K via a “soft rug pull” on Pump.Fun, which made $250M+ in less than a year and is struggling to protect users from scams  —  In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a memecoin he'd made on a lark.
Financial Times:
Industry insiders believe Pat Gelsinger's hasty exit could be a prelude to Intel moving away from manufacturing its chips altogether, in a blow to US ambitions  —  The Silicon Valley-based company could scale back its semiconductor manufacturing business in a blow to American ambitions
More: SiliconANGLE and Financial Times
Bluesky: @tankbag and @bradchacos.  Mastodon: @frankiemwon@techhub.social
LinkedIn: Ben Cohen and Julie Burke
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Pat Gelsinger was dealt a bad hand by Intel's board, which gave him just three years to execute a turnaround despite challenging timing and circumstances
More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and CNBC
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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 …

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From Mediagazer

New York Times:
Iran's official TV networks and aligned social media accounts are blending fact and fiction about the war, often using unproven claims and fake AI videos

Wall Street Journal:
CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King signs a new deal, providing some stability at CBS News; a source says King's current deal is worth ~$15M and runs through May

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
ITV reports 2025 revenue up 1% YoY to £3.5B, ITV Studios revenue up 10% YoY to £2.13B, ITVX hit 16.5M MAUs and £540M in ad revenue, and confirms Sky talks

More News

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
Palantir and Anduril announce a partnership to advance AI capabilities for US national security, focusing on data readiness and processing data at scale
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
Sauron, which is touting a waiting list of tech CEOs and VCs for its home security system that incorporates drones and facial recognition, raised a $18M seed
Jennifer McKiernan / BBC:
When asked if Musk is a threat to democracy, Nick Clegg says Musk has the choice of becoming an avid Trump supporter or “a sort of political puppet master”
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

Earlier Picks

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
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