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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Dell is rebranding its PC lines as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude — The PC manufacturer's new laptops, desktops, and monitors will have a simplified naming scheme with labels like ‘Pro’ and ‘Max.’
More: Dell, Gizmodo, Thurrott, OSnews, TechCrunch, Dell, ZDNET, PCWorld, Windows Central, T3, XDA Developers, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, PC Gamer, Laptop Mag, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., and Pixel Envy
Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk. Mastodon: @film_girl@mastodon.social, @jalefkowit@vmst.io, and @harrymccracken@mastodon …. X: @counternotions. Forums: r/technology
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit — Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit — Disney announced a deal …
More: Ars Technica, Bloomberg, The Hollywood Reporter, TechCrunch, The Independent, 9to5Google, How-To Geek, Reuters, Business Wire, Associated Press, PCMag, Appleosophy, Pulse 2.0, New York Times, Plain Dealer, Cord Cutters News, Motley Fool, The Desk, Radio & Television …, CNN, The Streamable, Streaming Better, The Hill, Yahoo Finance, SportsPro, Quartz, Awful Announcing, New York Post, Benzinga, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Media Play News, Fortune, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Sports Media Watch, Front Office Sports, The Wrap, TVNewsCheck, The Streamable, Watcher Guru, WORLD SCREEN, Broadband TV News, Cord Cutters News, Latest from Tv Technology, Deadline, New York Daily News, Droid Life, MediaPost, and TVLine
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X: @tvanswerman, @mgsiegler, @matthewkeyslive, @knox_vol865, @allie_canal, @tvgrimreaper, @michellef_davis, @mikestrawmedia, @chrisharihar, @nycmikehenry, @davidclinchnews, @frankthetank111, @jbflint, and @xpangler. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Forums: r/MediaMergers
| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
Fubo is expected to become immediately cash flow positive after its deal with Disney closes in 12 to 18 months; Fubo stock jumped 253.85% on Monday — WATCH NOW — Disney will combine its Hulu+ Live TV service with Fubo, merging together two internet TV bundles, the companies announced Monday.| Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest: |
Microsoft is showing a Bing search result page that mimics Google Search UI when a user searches for “Google” on Bing while not signed into a Microsoft account — Microsoft seems to have rolled out a pretty interesting yet controversial change that spoofs Google.com UI when you try to find Google when using Bing.com.
More: The Register, 9to5Google, GeekWire, The Information, How-To Geek, Android Police, The Verge, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, MediaPost, Neowin, MakeUseOf, PCWorld, Digital Trends, PC Gamer, and XDA Developers
X: @laparisa, @glenngabe, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/assholedesign, r/technology, r/google, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils Ryzen AI Max+, a laptop chip with new integrated memory and 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, claiming 84% faster rendering performance vs. the MacBook M4 Pro — Disruption is a daily thing. — AMD announced its ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas …
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| Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says that OpenAI, which isn't profitable, is losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because “people use it much more than we expected” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is currently losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because people are using it more than expected
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X: @sama, @sama, @yoheinakajima, @mattprd, @hkproj, @rmedranollamas, @cuenca, @nickadobos, @koltregaskes, and @teslatommy1
Forums: r/fusion and r/technology
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta elected three new directors to its board, including UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White — - White has been outspoken ally of US President-elect Trump — Investor Songhurst, Exor CEO Elkann also named as directors … Along with White, the social-media company …
More: Meta, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Deadline, The Wrap, Quartz, B&T, TMZ.com, Daily Mail, Variety, CNBC, Watcher Guru, GiveMeSport, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @charliekirk11, @mikebenzcyber, @danawhite, @luke_metro, and @mikeisaac
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg and Mark Zuckerberg
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
The Connectivity Standards Alliance announces that Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept its Matter certification for their own “Works With” programs — Buying a smart home product today means checking which ecosystems it works with by looking for the little “Works with Apple Home” …
More: CSA-IOT, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, PCMag, PhoneArena, SamMobile, and Mashable. Forums: r/MatterProtocol
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Similarweb: DAUs of Bluesky's mobile app in the US grew 12% MoM in December vs. 284% in November; Bluesky has 26.44M total users, after hitting 20M in November — Social network and X competitor Bluesky's massive growth slowed in December in the U.S., after having surged from 9+ million … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia unveils Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” with a new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and says it can run models up to 200B parameters in size — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” … | Jon Henley / The Guardian: |
Emmanuel Macron joins growing European criticism of Musk, says “the owner of one of the world's largest social networks” is “intervening directly in elections” — French president accuses world's richest man of intervening directly in continent's democratic processes
More: Politico, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Politico, The Times, New York Times, The Mirror, Spectator, Cautious Optimism, Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse, and Fast Company
Bluesky: @adamjschwarz, @jestastrophy, @marypcbuk, and @sturdyalex
X: @elonmusk, @skynews, @chafkin, @lewis_goodall, @elonmusk, @edwardjdavey, @elonmusk, and @elonmusk
Forums: r/europe and r/worldnews
| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
Gemini agrees to pay $5M to end a CFTC claim that it misled the derivatives regulator in a bid to launch the first US-regulated Bitcoin futures contract — The Winklevoss twins' Gemini Trust Co. agreed to pay $5 million to end a Commodity Futures Trading Commission claim that it misled …
More: The Block, Decrypt, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, CoinGape, and Reuters. Bluesky: @cookiebkr
| Financial Times: |
Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders' personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don't pay, throwing China's funding ecosystem into crisis — Pursuit of entrepreneurs threatens start-up ecosystem as investors target personal assets to claw back funding
More: TechCrunch. Bluesky: @ering, @marypcbuk, @kylebrussell, and @michaelpettis
X: @eringriffith and @tomaxwell
| Sam Altman: |
Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it” and that OpenAI is turning its focus to superintelligence — The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning.
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, The Economic Times, PYMNTS.com, Pivot to AI, Forbes, The Independent, TechSpot, Boing Boing, Fortune, Digital Trends, TechRepublic, Reason, Spyglass, BGR, Constellation Research, CCN.com, AI News, Marcus on AI, 9to5Mac, San Francisco Business Times, MakeUseOf, The Decoder, Neowin, Business Insider, Maginative, Quartz, Sherwood News, CryptoSlate, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, TechCrunch, Analytics India Magazine, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @brucebuckman, @quinnypig.com, @domw, @theopriestley.com, @daniloc.xyz, and @marypcbuk. Threads: @mergesort
X: @alliekmiller, @nickadobos, @singularitynet, @jeffjarvis, @skirano, @teortaxestex, @edkrassen, and @kimmonismus. LinkedIn: Mattias Rost
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/slatestarcodex, r/OpenAI, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
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