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Sources: EA is in talks to go private in a deal valuing it at ~$50B; investors include Jared Kushner's PE firm and Saudi Arabia's PIF; EA closes up 14.87% — Investors including Silver Lake eyeing deal that would likely be the largest leveraged buyout ever
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| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a “menace to US National Security” — President Trump late Friday demanded Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her work in the Biden administration.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has developed an internal ChatGPT-like iPhone app, code-named Veritas, to help test and prepare for a major Siri overhaul next year — Apple Inc. has developed a ChatGPT-like iPhone app to help test and prepare for a long-anticipated overhaul of Siri coming next year, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance may get ~50% of TikTok US' overall profit, including a licensing fee of 20% of revenue, despite selling majority ownership to US investors — TikTok's Chinese parent company will likely get about half of the profit from the platform's US operation even after it sells majority ownership … | Bloomberg: |
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Sources: the US Commerce Department is considering imposing tariffs on foreign electronic devices based on the number of chips they contain — - Trump seeks to drive companies to shift manufacturing to the US — “America cannot be reliant on foreign imports” of chips, White House says| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Leaked letter: NLRB drops claims against Tim Cook, including that he violated workers' rights with a 2021 email threatening staffers who leak confidential info — The US labor board has abandoned its allegations that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook violated federal labor law …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kraken is in advanced talks to raise $200M to $300M from a strategic investor at a valuation of ~$20B, after recently raising $500M at a $15B valuation — Kraken is in advanced talks to raise new funding that could value the crypto exchange at about $20 billion …
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android — Meta Platforms Inc. will soon offer paid versions of Facebook and Instagram in the UK that will remove advertising from both platforms.
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| Kate Whannel / BBC: |
The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones — Digital ID will be mandatory in order to work in the UK, as part of plans to tackle illegal migration.
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| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with reinforcement learning pioneer Richard Sutton on why LLMs are not the path to achieving human intelligence, world models, continual learning, and more — Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, and author of The Bitter Lesson.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A US court rules that the DOD can classify DJI as a “Chinese Military Company”, finds that there is enough evidence that DJI is supported by Chinese government — DJI loses its lawsuit against the US government. … Last October, dronemaker DJI sued the US Department of Defense …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube is testing AI hosts, who will share stories and trivia about the music users are listening to, in the YouTube Music app through its new Labs program — The hosts will share stories and trivia about the music you're listening to. … YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes … | Alex Heath / Sources: |
Andrew Bosworth says Meta is working on humanoid robots, internally called “Metabot”, as its next “AR size bet”, envisions licensing software to robot makers — During a recent trip to Meta HQ, I took the opportunity to ask one of the company's top execs about its new robotics effort.| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Anthropic plans to triple its global workforce and expand its applied AI team 5x in 2025, after growing its business clients from ~1K to 300K+ in two years — Anthropic is stepping up its global enterprise ambitions. — The $183 billion artificial intelligence startup has grown …
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