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Google debuts Gemini 2.0 and plans to test the model in search and AI Overviews, saying it enables “agents that can think, remember, plan, and even take action” — Company expects AI assistants will follow its users around the web — Google debuted a new version …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive and its new streaming API is one of those “we live in the future” moments — Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta donates $1M to president-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources: Mark Zuckerberg gifted Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27 — President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says Russia-backed hacking group Secret Blizzard targeted Ukraine's military using other cybercriminals' tools, in order to make attribution harder — A Russian-government backed hacking group targeted Ukraine's military using tools and infrastructure developed by cybercriminals, according to new research.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple launches Apple Intelligence outside of the US for the first time, making it available in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, and South Africa — Apple Intelligence is officially launching outside of the U.S. for the first time today, as a result of the features gaining expanded language support.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM pulling the plug on Cruise's robotaxi experiment in favor of “privately owned” driverless cars is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles — Eight years and $10 billion later, GM has decided to pull the plug on its grand robotaxi experiment.| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive into AI scaling laws, including an outline of the old pre-training trends as well as the new scaling trends for post-training and inference time — In our pursuit of becoming a better full service research firm, we've moved off Substack. For any questions please read https://semianalysis.com/faq/ #substack
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| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Australia plans a new levy on tech companies like Meta with $250M+ in revenue to force them to pay publishers for journalism, after Meta quit the previous deal — Move is designed to close loophole after Meta walked away from existing deal to use media content| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Meta says it is “99% of the way” to resolving a global outage that hit Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, starting at approximately 12:40pm ET — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user's region.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Harvard releases a high-quality dataset of ~1M public-domain books, created with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, to help train LLMs and AI tools — The project's leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Google rolls out two updates to Android's unknown tracker alerts feature, letting users pause location updates from their phone and pinpoint unfamiliar trackers — Google is rolling out two new updates to its unknown tracker alerts feature that should make it easier for Android device owners … | Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Binance and Circle partner to promote USDC; Binance plans to list more crypto trading pairs denominated in USDC and hold USDC for its own corporate treasury — - Circle faces increased challenges in the stablecoin market — Binance will support more USDC usage on its platform| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.61B, vs. $5.54B est., Digital Media revenue up 12%, forecasts FY 2025 revenue below est.; ADBE drops 8%+ — - Fiscal year sales, profit forecasts fall short of estimates — Software maker plans a new higher-priced tier for AI tools
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Telefónica, one of the world's largest carriers, plans to preinstall the Epic Games Store on every new compatible Android phone it sells, including Samsung's — Telefónica, one of the largest carriers in the world serving the UK, Spain, Germany, and Latin America with the O2 …
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| George Winslow / Tv Technology: |
The FCC opens all 1,200 megahertz of the 6GHz band for unlicensed use by very-low-power devices, citing growth in wearables, AR/VR, and other cutting-edge tech — The move, which the agency says will spur innovation, had been opposed by the NAB for its potential impact on newsgathering
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The Information: Apple canceled a high-performance Mac chip this past summer to let some of its engineers in Israel work on its first AI server chip — Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, in a piece today for The Information (paywalled up the wazoo, sadly), “Apple Is Working on AI Chip With Broadcom”:
| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which helps firms secure non-human identities like API keys and service accounts, raised a $45M Series B led by Menlo Ventures — Tel Aviv company building software to secure non-human identities banks a $45 million funding round led by Menlo Ventures.
| Katie Robertson / New York Times: |
The NYT Tech Guild and its 600+ members reach a tentative deal with management on a contract enhancing job security, setting flexible hybrid schedules, and more — The union, which represents some 600 tech workers at the publication, had been negotiating for a contract for more than two years.
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| Marietje Schaake / Financial Times: |
The EU's TikTok scrutiny over the Romanian presidential election will be a litmus test for the DSA and should finally uncover details of algorithmic influence — Investigations should finally shed light on how algorithms win votes and influence peopleSponsor Posts
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