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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.
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 …
Dave Lee / Bloomberg:
TikTok users shouldn't count on Trump to save the app, as his stance has been inconsistent and the app's existence brings little upside for him post-election  —  One of Trump's first important decisions could be to deprive Gen Z of its favorite app.  —  A federal appeals court ruling …
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
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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) …
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.
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 …
Chris Miller / Financial Times:
A look at the uncertainties for the chip industry under Donald Trump, including tariffs, the CHIPS Act, demand for AI chips, competition with China, and more  —  From tariffs to AI demand, US companies are pondering what comes next  —  What does the return of Donald Trump imply for the global chip war?
Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
How the UK has come to play a key role in the global regulation of AI after Sam Altman played a deepfake of Rishi Sunak on a 2023 call with the then PM  —  LONDON — In February 2023 Sam Altman dialed into a video call with Britain's then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
More: Politico
Caroline Kimeu / The Guardian:
The number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths at a clinic in Malawi has fallen by 82% after starting an AI-supported program for regular fetal observation  —  The only hospital in the country using foetal safety software has seen baby fatalities drop by 82% in three years
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  —  - Apple explores bringing cell service to Macs for first time  — Company is preparing three-year rollout to replace Qualcomm
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
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
A MarketVector index of the bottom half of the largest 100 digital tokens has risen over 2x since Trump's November 5 election win, topping the ~46% Bitcoin jump  —  - A range of relatively unheralded tokens posted big advances  — Some analysts say this may be the start of a wider frenzy

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James Faris / Business Insider:
Sources: Disney is discussing a potential free tier for Disney+; product and tech chief Adam Smith discussed the initiative at a town hall but gave no timeline

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Report: Letterboxd's owners have held early talks with potential buyers, including Netflix, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and PE giant TPG

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
As Hollywood looks for its next Obsession-type hit, 11 studios bid on YouTube series The Mandela Catalogue and sources say WBD paid $1M for rights to Siren Head

More News

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
More: Futurism.  Bluesky: @davidgilbert, @joelkhalili, and @natashabernal.  LinkedIn: Joel Khalili
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and r/CryptoCurrency
CNBC:
Q&A with Trump's pick for FCC chairman Brendan Carr about the Salt Typhoon hack, Section 230, tech companies' “collusion to suppress speech”, Starlink, more
OpenAI:
OpenAI expands its Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program to let developers create expert models in specific domains with very little training data

Earlier Picks

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
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
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 an $18M seed
Reuters:
Sources: Ubisoft shareholders are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the game maker without reducing the founding Guillemot family's control
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
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
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