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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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| 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 … | 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
David Sacks, Trump's AI and crypto czar, lacks deep ties to either industry but is a longtime critic of tech regulation, which investors view as more important — David Sacks, the VC and staunch Trump supporter, hasn't been a key player in either crypto or AI until now.| 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 …
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| Rami Ayyub / Reuters: |
The CFPB issues an order establishing supervisory authority over Google Payment; Google says it's challenging the decision in court — The US watchdog for consumer finance on Friday announced it was ordering federal supervision of Google Payment Corp., the internet giant's (GOOGL.O) …
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| 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 — The companies said they wish to ultimately expand the partnership to other industry partners — Palantir Technologies is partnering …
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| 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
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
MLCommons, a nonprofit that helps companies measure the performance of their AI systems, announces the AILuminate benchmark to measure the safety of LLMs — MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Apple's John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak on the company's work on transformer-based AI models after GPT-3, building Apple Intelligence, more — Apple's leaders claim the company wasn't late to generative AI, but instead following what has become its familiar playbook: try to be the best, not the first.| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
SpaceX got a Pentagon contract in August to expand Ukraine's access to Starshield, an encrypted signal over Starlink that's more difficult to hack into or jam — - Added Pentagon funding brings total terminals to 3,000 — Encrypted Starshield signal is difficult to hack into or jam
More: USA Today
| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and r/CryptoCurrency
| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: trading and investment platform eToro weighs a US IPO as soon as Q2, 2025, seeking a $3.5B+ valuation; it has 38M+ registered users from 75 countries — - EToro is weighing going public as soon as the second quarter — Company had previously attempted to go public via SPAC| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
xAI makes its AI chatbot Grok available to all users of X; non-Premium subscribers can send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours — Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is now available to free users on X. Several users noticed the change on Friday, which gives non-Premium subscribers the ability …
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