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December 13, 2024, 3:25 PM

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Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Google Cloud launches Agentspace to let enterprises create and deploy AI agents for marketing, HR, software development, and more  —  Google Cloud launched Agentspace, which is designed to create and deploy AI agents, and a version of NotebookLM for the enterprise.
Ina Fried / Axios:
In a blog post, OpenAI says “You can't sue your way to AGI”, and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for-profit  —  Musk is also the founder of xAI, an OpenAI rival.  — The current suit, filed in August, is the successor …
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at Anthropic's Clio, an internal AI tool to identify new threats, disrupt coordinated abuse of the company's systems, and generate Claude usage insights  —  PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic's chatbot  —  The company didn't know it yet, but Anthropic had a spam problem.
Adam James / The Block:
A Texas man gets a two-year sentence for underreporting capital gains from selling $3.7M in bitcoin, the first such prosecution based entirely on cryptocurrency  —  - An Austin, Texas, man received a two-year prison sentence for falsely underreporting capital gains earned from selling $3.7 million in bitcoin.
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
An interview with Sundar Pichai about Google joining a “Manhattan Project” for AI under Trump, playing the long game after ChatGPT launch, Gemini 2.0, and more  —  THE SCOOP  —  In an exclusive interview, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Semafor he's ready to work on a …
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Bloomberg:
Liquid, which is building “liquid foundation models” inspired by the architecture of worm brains, raised a $250M Series A led by AMD at a $2.3B valuation  —  The funding round values the startup at more than $2 billion.  —  Liquid AI, a startup designing artificial intelligence systems inspired …
Kristen Altus / Fox Business:
Source: Sam Altman plans on making a personal commitment of $1M to Trump's Presidential Inaugural Committee, as opposed to a gift from OpenAI  —  The tech titan says he's ‘eager to support’ Trump's efforts to lead US into ‘the age of AI’  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is joining the list …
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will begin producing AirPods in India for the first time around Q1, 2025; a Foxconn unit is already making AirPods on a trial basis in Hyderabad  —  - Partner Foxconn to begin making the product near Hyderabad  — Apple is diversifying its manufacturing network beyond China
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple will stop selling iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series at the year's end in the EU, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect  —  As reported by iGeneration, Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and the iPhone 14 series at the end of the year …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Broadcom shares jump 20%+ a day after the company reported Q4 results that showed strong AI revenue growth, pushing its market cap beyond $1T for the first time  —  Shares of Broadcom popped more than 21% Friday, pushing the company's market cap beyond $1 trillion for the first time.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:

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