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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.’
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 …
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.
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 …
Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech:
AMD unveils the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, with clock speeds up to 5.7GHz, 144MB of cache, and up to 64% faster performance than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K
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
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 …
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
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
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.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: Bari Weiss skipped five 60 Minutes CECOT screenings; after her edits were added on Thursday, she asked on Friday to add a Stephen Miller interview

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015

More News

Ian King / Bloomberg:
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X Platform, a chip to bring AI features to PCs starting at $600, with laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and others coming “early 2025”
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Google previews changes coming to Google TV, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, and deeper YouTube integration, rolling out later in 2025
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX laptop CPUs; none of the CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft's Copilot+
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Ring announces a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, launching for $54.97 and $74.97 in April 2025

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Samsung unveils a suite of AI experiences for its TVs, including Click to Search, Live Translate, and a way to recognize food on the screen and provide recipes
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