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David Welch / Bloomberg:
GM says Cruise will exit the robotaxi business, combining Cruise's and GM's technical teams to focus on autonomous and driver safety tech for upcoming GM cars  —  Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined into a single effort focused on developing autonomous technology to offer …
TechCrunch:
Sources: several Cruise employees say they were “surprised” and “blindsided” by GM's decision to end Cruise's robotaxi program and that they expect job cuts  —  The news came by Slack message.  —  Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
A California District Court judge orders Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with WP Engine's plugins  —  WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic.  On Tuesday, a California District …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: 2025's Apple Watch Ultra is slated to get satellite connectivity for off-the-grid text messages via Globalstar, and may get blood pressure monitoring  —  - Company also working on blood-pressure tool for future model  — Apple is using MediaTek modems for first time in new watches
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Source: Google asked the US to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's tech on Azure, after the FTC asked Google about Microsoft's practices  —  Google recently asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers …
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Embodied, which made Moxie, an $800 companion robot for kids aged 5 to 10, says it is shutting down after a failed funding round and Moxie will soon be bricked  —  Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked.
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
TikTok is offering users hundreds of dollars in Shop credits to spend time in the app, invite friends to join, and purchase products, ahead of a possible US ban  —  - App offers hundreds to users for spending time, adding friends  — TikTok ramping up growth push despite January US ban pending
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity government contractor Sichuan Silence and one of its staff over Ragnarok ransomware ties and creating and using zero-days  —  The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Sichuan Silence, a Chinese cybersecurity company, and one of its employees …
Canadian Press:
TikTok files a legal challenge against Canada's order to stop operations in the country, claiming the “unreasonable” decision was “driven by improper purposes”  —  OTTAWA — TikTok is challenging the federal government's order to shut down its operations in Canada.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which has grown to 11 people and is overseen by Logan Graham to assess catastrophic risks in Anthropic's AI models  —  It's largely up to companies to determine whether their AI is capable of superhuman harm.  At Anthropic, the Frontier Red Team looks for the danger zone.
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Trump picks FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to chair the FTC; Ferguson has said the FTC should tackle perceived censorship of conservative viewpoints online  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to lead the consumer protection and antitrust agency.
Emilia David / VentureBeat:
OpenAI rolls out Canvas, its side-by-side digital editing space, to all ChatGPT users and adds new features, including support for Python and more text pasting  —  OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features …

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC in a Florida court, alleging it deceptively doctored his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The UK government begins its review of the BBC's charter, set to expire in 2027, as ministers consider licence fee reforms and allowing more commercial revenue

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howard Stern signs a new three-year deal with SiriusXM, after a report earlier this year suggested that his show was about to be canceled

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