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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device  —  After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases.
Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi  —  Apple Inc., following assurances from the Trump administration, is keeping TikTok and other apps from ByteDance Ltd. on its US App Store for at least another 75 days.
Meta:
Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters  —  Takeaways  — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.
More: SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Social Media Today, TipRanks Financial, The Verge, Microsoft Azure, PYMNTS.com, CryptoSlate, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechTalks, Constellation Research, Cautious Optimism, Unite.AI, Cryptopolitan, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Livemint, Digital Trends, About Amazon, Cointelegraph, The Cloudflare Blog, Research & Development World, Hugging Face, iClarified, AIN, VentureBeat, Simon Willison's Weblog, Yahoo Finance, Simon Willison's Weblog, CNBC, Analytics India Magazine, TipRanks Financial, and Android Central
Bluesky: @simonwillison.net, @chirag, @jeremymorrell.dev, @seldo.com, @timkellogg.me, @ericflo, and @taumuyi
Threads: @sung.kim.mw, @jjackyliang, @chriscox, @natolambert, @jjackyliang, @rpn, @ajassy, @satyanadella, @latentchat, @latesttechtalk, @russsalakhutdinov, @nvidiadeveloper, @zuck, @alphasignal.ai, @omarsar0, @natolambert, @arunsasi99, @aaldahle, @natolambert, @1ar.io, @han_fang_, @vthallam, @doreturn.in, @documentingmeta, @zuck, @aaldahle, @zuck, @ericflo, and @yannlecun.  Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
X: @davidsacks47, @dorialexander, @ahmad_al_dahle, @jeremyphoward, @aiatmeta, @levie, @natolambert, @dylan522p, @clementdelangue, @skrishnan47, @burkov, @satyanadella, @bindureddy, @bindureddy, @kalomaze, @yampeleg, @garymarcus, @abacaj, @burkov, @artificialanlys, @willccbb, @lmarena_ai, @tobi, @alexocheema, @sundarpichai, @natolambert, @redhat_ai, @cloudflaredev, @ritakozlov_, @cloudflare, @togethercompute, @groqinc, @basetenco, @openrouterai, @openrouterai, @nearcyan, @bindureddy, @nearcyan, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @levelsio, @emollick, @lmarena_ai, @emollick, @clementdelangue, @drjimfan, @dorialexander, @emollick, @dorialexander, @eliebakouch, @nearcyan, @simonw, @deanwball, @emollick, @maximelabonne, @brbcatonfire, @charliebholtz, @iscienceluvr, @michaelsayman, @abhisk_kadian, @bhutanisanyam1, @dextersjab, @risphereeditor, @clementdelangue, @natalianeverova, @iscienceluvr, @huggingface, @krishnanrohit, @simonw, @dorialexander, @deanwball, @xlr8harder, @jconorgrogan, @sharan0909, @4xiom_, @sharan0909, @ariaurelium, @maximelabonne, @manohar_paluri, @alew3, @maximelabonne, @giffmana, @tomosman, @rsdgpt, @asaddhamani, @the_ai_investor, @middleclassdesi, @andymstone, @btibor91, @_impl, @ashter_haider, @deryatr_, @bradthilton, @burny_tech, @matthewberman, @rsalakhu, @loredanacrisan, @bindureddy, @_arohan_, @jpineau1, @eaccelerate_42, @madiator, @frameworkputer, @astonzhangaz, @naklecha, @cfgeek, @deanwball, and @rishdotblog
LinkedIn: Andrew Feldman and Sean Bell.  Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/ABoringDystopia, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/technology, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, Lobsters, and Slashdot
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month”
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a demo of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model, with limited playability in a browser, as part of the company's Copilot for Gaming push  —  Microsoft's Muse AI model is now available as an AI-generated Quake II tech demo. … Microsoft unveiled its Xbox AI era earlier …
Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek and Tsinghua University researchers detail an approach combining reasoning methods to let LLMs deliver better and faster results to general queries  —  In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences
More: arXiv.org and VentureBeat
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @timkellogg.me.  Mastodon: @yogthos@social.marxist ….  Forums: r/DeepSeek
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg's concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14  —  With a historic antitrust suit looming against Meta, could the company get a reprieve from its new ally in the White House?
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors  —  French accounting software firm Pennylane has doubled its valuation to 2 billion euros ($2.16 billion) in a new 75 million euro funding round.

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From Mediagazer

Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

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

Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

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Krystal Hu / Reuters:
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Makena Kelly / Wired:
Sources: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in Washington DC next week to build a “mega API” for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner
Joseph Bambridge / Politico:
OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to “reserve their rights”
Harry Alston / TheGamer:
Schedule 1, a drug-dealing simulator made by a single developer, tops Steam charts with an estimated 2M+ copies sold after going viral on streams and TikTok
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