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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella hands marketing and operations oversight to Judson Althoff, naming him CEO of Microsoft's commercial business, to focus more on technical work — Microsoft Corp. is giving its longtime sales chief oversight of marketing and operations in a reorganization designed to free …
More: Microsoft, The Verge, The Register, Reuters, CNBC, Thurrott, GeekWire, The Information, MarketWatch, Business Insider, and Benzinga
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK Home Office issued an order to Apple in early September to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only UK users — Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption
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Forums: r/apple, r/unitedkingdom, r/ukpolitics, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Google Assistant on smart speakers, with new voices and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app — Gemini for Home does more than just replace Google Assistant on smart speakers and displays. Featuring a rebuilt Home architecture … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft launches a $19.99/month Microsoft 365 Premium subscription, which bundles Copilot Pro with Microsoft 365 Family for six users and 6TB of cloud storage — Microsoft said Wednesday that it will stop promoting a consumer subscription for artificial intelligence services and introduced …
More: CNET, Windows Central, Reuters, Engadget, Bloomberg, XDA Developers, PCWorld, The Verge, Microsoft 365 Blog, TechRadar, The AI Economy, and MarketWatch
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta says it will use users' AI chatbot conversations to help personalize ads and content, starting on December 16, but not in the UK, South Korea, or the EU — While users won't be able to opt out from the new policy, the content of some conversations will be automatically excluded
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Meta Newsroom, The Verge, PCMag, Gizmodo, Investor's Business Daily, Moneycontrol, RTÉ, Ad Age, 9to5Mac, Sherwood News, Entrepreneur, UPI, The Verge, Financial Times, Capital Brief, WeRSM, and The Peninsula Newspaper
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| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Apple files a motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit, which alleges that Apple's ChatGPT integration stifles competition, saying it plans to integrate other chatbots — Apple Inc. says it did nothing wrong in choosing to partner with OpenAI — rather than Elon Musk's xAI — when it added generative …
More: PCWorld, 9to5Mac, Moneycontrol, The Information, SFist, PCMag, Reuters, iThinkDifferent, Tech in Asia, WinBuzzer, MacRumors, Channel NewsAsia, AppleInsider, and Digit. X: @business
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI signs with Samsung and SK Hynix to supply chips and other gear to Stargate; Samsung and SK Hynix say demand from OpenAI could reach 900K wafers per month — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Co. have forged initial agreements to supply chips and other gear to OpenAI's Stargate project …
More: Samsung Newsroom, OpenAI, Livemint, Tom's Hardware, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Reuters, Taipei Times, The Verge, KED Global, Business Today, Android Headlines, Capital Brief, Korea Joongang Daily, DatacenterDynamics, and TelecomTV. Bluesky: @sungkim
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft raises its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription price from $19.99/month to $29.99/month, rebrands Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard plans, and more — Microsoft is also adding PC games and cloud access to its new Xbox Game Pass Essential and Premium plans.
More: Xbox Wire, Windows Central, Livemint, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, Game Developer, TheGamer, Tom's Guide, Rogue, Pure Xbox, Polygon, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Pocket-lint, PlayStation LifeStyle, NDTV Profit, Eurogamer.net, GameSpot, Bloomberg, CNBC, Variety, Screen Rant, XboxEra, Destructoid, The Game Business, and Kotaku
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Qualcomm has adopted Arm's v9 architecture for its new generation of PC and phone chips, joining rivals like MediaTek and, most analysts believe, Apple — - Qualcomm adopts Arm's v9 architecture, with features for AI performance — Move follows legal battle between Qualcomm and Arm
More: Thurrott, Liliputing, MacDailyNews, Proactive, Barron's Online, The Register, Engadget, PCWorld, and Phone Scoop
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Amazon revamps Luna “from the ground up” with a new UI and AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy and new GameNight original party games, available to Prime subscribers — Amazon is revamping its cloud-gaming service Luna to offer a wide variety of top-tier games, including “Hogwarts Legacy” …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Epic says that Apple's iOS 18.6 “updated” UX for alt app marketplaces increased installations on par to Windows and macOS, cutting drop-offs from 65% to ~25% — But Google still makes them intentionally difficult to install. … Stats shared by the gaming software giant …
More: Epic Games, Thurrott, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Developer Tech News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, PocketGamer.biz, and GamesBeat
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: European prosecutors are investigating Northern Data for allegedly claiming a tax break on approximately €500M worth of GPUs it used for crypto mining — A criminal investigation that led to raids of Northern Data AG's offices last week is focused on whether the company illegally claimed … | Robin Ajello / Bloomberg: |
Amazon unveils Amazon Grocery, a new private-label brand that offers 1,000+ grocery items largely priced below $5, available online and at Amazon Fresh stores — Amazon.com Inc. launched a private-label brand that offers a range of grocery items largely priced below $5 in a bid to attract inflation-stung shoppers.
More: Amazon, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, CNBC, Business Insider, Retail TouchPoints, Proactive, and Cord Cutters News
| Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Marc Andreessen and investor Charlie Songhurst on Silicon Valley's past, present, and future, AI, productivity, Stripe, crypto, Musk, media, and more — Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, sits down for a Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Charlie Songhurst … | Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Axiom Math, which aims to build an “AI mathematician” and has recruited researchers from Meta, raised a $64M seed led by B Capital at a $300M valuation — Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.
More: Implicator.ai, B Capital, and Axiom
| Z.ai: |
Z.ai releases GLM-4.6, an open-weights model with a context window of up to 200K tokens, claiming near parity with Claude Sonnet 4 on coding and reasoning tasks — Today, we are releasing the latest version of our flagship model: GLM-4.6. Compared with GLM-4.5, this generation brings several key improvements:
More: Z.ai on Hugging Face, Z.ai, arXiv, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, South China Morning Post, Z.ai on GitHub, and OpenRouter
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 review: an unobtrusive eye-level camera, improved battery, and lots of frames, but some may feel uncomfortable with a face-mounted camera — The second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses aren't too different from the first. The biggest change is that they have a better battery life …
More: Engadget, Android Central, CNET, and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @jaypeters.net, @shelleybwoke, and @drsmith
| Lex Fridman: |
Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more — - Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Peloton unveils its Cross Training Series, ranging from a $1,695 Bike to a $6,695 Tread Plus, and AI-based Peloton IQ to track workouts on new and old machines — The fitness company is aiming for a comeback with new bikes, treadmills, AI, and higher prices
More: ZDNET, Business Wire, Bloomberg, Peloton Interactive, Inc., CNET, CBS News, Benzinga, PCMag, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Guide, T3, Fast Company, Wired, and Engadget. Bluesky: @vicmsong
| Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg: |
SAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV parody, and says that it opposes replacing performers with “synthetics” — SAG-Aftra, the union of film and TV industry actors, criticized the AI-generated character Tilly Norwood …
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Bluesky: @delafina777, @lawprofblawg, and @hoots
Forums: r/goodnews, r/acting, r/technology, r/movies, and r/entertainment
| Financial Times: |
Yale and Brookings study: generative AI is reshaping US jobs slightly faster than computers and the internet did, with little evidence of job loss so far — Research shows little evidence that cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work
More: The Budget Lab at Yale, The Guardian, CNN, Implicator.ai, The Register, and ITPro
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
AWS and the NBA announce a multi-year partnership to launch new AI-powered features and data insights from games, including an NBA Inside the Game platform — Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, announced a multi-year partnership with the National Basketball Association …
More: SiliconANGLE, The Athletic, About Amazon, SportsPro, Sportico, and Media Play News
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding Project, a vector-based semantic search database with nearly 120M entries, to make data accessible to AI — On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia's wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models.
More: Gizmodo, The Indian Express, Proactive, and The Verge
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Oura unveils colorful ceramic Oura Ring 4 versions for $499+ in four finishes with enhanced durability and a thicker 3.51mm design, and a $99 charging case — The company is also introducing health panels for blood work, a recycling program, and multi-ring device support.
More: TechCrunch, ZDNET, CNET, PhoneArena, MediaPost, T3, 9to5Google, Mashable, BGR, TechRadar, nextpit, Android Authority, Trusted Reviews, Wired, Android Police, Bloomberg, Android Headlines, Fast Company, Android Central, and Engadget. Bluesky: @vicmsong
| Reuters: |
Taiwan's vice premier, who is leading US negotiations, says Taiwan would not agree to a 50-50 split in chip production, adding no such condition was discussed — Taiwan will not agree to a deal with the United States for half of all semiconductor production to take place in the country …
More: The Register, DatacenterDynamics, PC Gamer, Taipei Times, DigiTimes, CNN, Quartz, Tom's Hardware, MarketWatch, Benzinga, Focus Taiwan, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, Times of India, Hürriyet Daily News, and Xinhua
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