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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
Sources: Tim Cook will personally donate $1M to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural committee in the spirit of unity; Apple is not expected to donate — The company is not expected to give. — Cook, with a consistent presence in Washington, has made it clear over the years …
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| Kamya Pandey / MEDIANAMA: |
A look at India's draft DPDP Rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent when obtaining consent to process data of users under 18 — The newly released draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025 say that online platforms must check the age … | Aroon Deep / The Hindu: |
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them — Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll …
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Mastodon: @Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.town and @mikarv@someone.elses.computer
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LinkedIn: Ankit Soni, Michael Bolton, and Ross Stevenson
Forums: r/technology, r/ArtistHate, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Samsung and Google plan to enable Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source 3D audio standard, on some YouTube videos later in 2025 via Samsung's 2025 TVs and soundbars — Samsung and Google are ready to push a new standard, Eclipsa Audio. … Over the years, Samsung notably hasn't supported Dolby Vision HDR … | Max Woolf / Max Woolf's Blog: |
In a test, iteratively asking Claude 3.5 Sonnet to “write better code” improved the code's features and speed, but aggressive prompt engineering introduced bugs — In November 2023, after OpenAI added the ability for ChatGPT to generate images from DALL-E 3 within the ChatGPT web interface …
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X: @scobleizer, @nocheerleader, @xor_a_b, @omarsar0, @simonw, @minimaxir, @karpathy, and @omarsar0
Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, r/nottheonion, r/ClaudeAI, and r/programming
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it is on track to invest ~$80B in FY 2025 to build out datacenters to train AI and deploy AI and cloud apps, with 50%+ of the spending in the US — Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads …
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X: @florian4gamers, @bindureddy, @aravsrinivas, @benbajarin, @nearcyan, @signulll, @signulll, @doughenwood, @levie, @bradsmi, @benbajarin, @satyanadella, and @kylebrussell
LinkedIn: Peter Maquera, Rich Miller, and Pankaj Kedia
Forums: r/aiwars, r/microsoft, r/OpenAI, r/AMD_Stock, and Slashdot
| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling out AI tools without upsetting creators, and more; YouTube has paid $70B to partners in the past three years — Veteran executive seen as a potential Google CEO must tackle threats from Trump to tech rivals| Financial Times: |
Industry insiders hope the success of Black Myth: Wukong, which earned ~$1.1B from nearly 25M copies, will rekindle Chinese gaming investments after a crackdown — As Beijing eases regulations, developers are tooling up to produce big-budget titles with international appeal| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite — Friday, December 27, was supposed to be the start of a relaxing holiday weekend. — But it was chaos for thousands … | Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Religious leaders are experimenting with AI, spurring an industry of faith-based tech companies that offer AI tools to do theological research and write sermons — Rabbi Josh Fixler at Congregation Emanu El in Houston worked with a data scientist to create his experimental “Rabbi Bot.”
More: Althouse and world's okayest catholic
Bluesky: @numerius, @ruthgraham, @phillyfilly, @notjessewalker, @michaelklein.io, and @shelleybwoke
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group over its alleged links to attacks by China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon — The U.S. government has sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company over its alleged links to a China government-backed hacking group, tracked as Flax Typhoon.
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Bluesky: @caezar.io, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @newsguy, and @metacurity.com
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X: @statedeptspox, @ustreasury, @imposecost, and @w7voa
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