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| 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, Forbes, Windows Central, Eurogamer.net, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Dexerto, TheGamer, Pure Xbox, Bloomberg, Destructoid, XboxEra, Screen Rant, Variety, CNBC, IGN, and Kotaku
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| 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: Engadget, TechCrunch, Meta Newsroom, Investor's Business Daily, Moneycontrol, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, The Verge, Financial Times, UPI, Capital Brief, The Peninsula Newspaper, and Shacknews
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella hands off some of his duties to Judson Althoff, who will become CEO of Microsoft's commercial business, so that he can focus on technical work — Microsoft Corp. is giving its longtime sales chief oversight of marketing and operations in a reorganization designed to free …
More: Microsoft, GeekWire, The Verge, The Information, Business Insider, and Benzinga
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| 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 … | 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
More: AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacRumors, BBC, and 9to5Mac
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Forums: r/ukpolitics, r/unitedkingdom, and MacRumors Forums
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Epic says Apple's iOS 18.6 “updated user experience” for alt app marketplaces increased installations “for the first time”, cutting drop-offs from 65% to ~25% — But Google still makes them intentionally difficult to install.
More: Epic Games, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, PocketGamer.biz, and MacRumors
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman signs a letter of intent with Samsung and SK Hynix to supply Stargate; Samsung and SK Hynix say demand from OpenAI could hit 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 … | Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg: |
SAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV show parody, saying it opposes replacing performers with “synthetics” — SAG-Aftra, the union of film and TV industry actors, criticized the AI-generated character Tilly Norwood …
More: Deadline, Fortune, Music Ally, Variety, and Associated Press
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Bluesky: @delafina777, @lawprofblawg, and @hoots
Forums: r/goodnews, r/acting, r/technology, r/movies, and r/entertainment
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Amazon unveils updates to Luna, including adding 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” and Xbox's …
More: Amazon Games, GeekWire, Video Games Chronicle, The Verge, Android Police, T3, Engadget, GamesBeat, TalkAndroid.com, Stevivor, TechRaptor, Eurogamer.net, and Polygon
| 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: 9to5Mac, Moneycontrol, The Information, PCMag, Digit, Channel NewsAsia, Reuters, iThinkDifferent, Tech in Asia, WinBuzzer, MacRumors, and AppleInsider. X: @business
| Reuters: |
Sources: Qualcomm adopts Arm's latest v9 architecture for its new generation of PC and phone chips, joining rivals like MediaTek and, analysts believe, Apple — - Qualcomm adopts Arm's v9 architecture, with features for AI performance — Move follows legal battle between Qualcomm and Arm
More: Engadget, PCWorld, Proactive, and The Register
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Peloton unveils its Cross Training Series, including a $1,695 Bike and $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 — Peloton has been angling …
More: CNET, Benzinga, CBS News, PCMag, Engadget, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada, Fast Company, T3, Wired, Tom's Guide, and Peloton Interactive, Inc.. Bluesky: @vicmsong
| 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 … | 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, Implicator.ai, arXiv, Z.ai on GitHub, The Decoder, South China Morning Post, and OpenRouter
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| 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, TechCrunch, CNBC, Proactive, and Cord Cutters News
| 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, ITPro, The Register, and Implicator.ai
| 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
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| 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.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI releases an invitation-only Sora app on iOS, powered by Sora 2, that lets people create and share AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends — An Android version will follow eventually, OpenAI told Axios. — The social app is powered by Sora 2, a new version of OpenAI's video model, which also launched Tuesday.
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| OpenAI: |
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
More: PC Gamer, Axios, Implicator.ai, Futurism, OpenAI, Digit, The Indian Express, and NDTV Profit
| 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: 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, 9to5Google, Android Police, Engadget, Bloomberg, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, MediaPost, T3, Android Authority, Android Central, Wired, TechRadar, Fast Company, Mashable, BGR, Wareable, nextpit, and Trusted Reviews. Bluesky: @vicmsong
| Politico: |
The White House withdraws Brian Quintenz's nomination to lead the CFTC; the Winklevoss twins pressured Trump in July to reconsider his nomination — The White House withdrew Brian Quintenz's nomination to be a board member and chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission late Tuesday … | Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Swedish AI startups Lovable, Legora, and Sana, which is set to be acquired by Workday, highlight a dilemma in European tech: sell out or bet on getting big — Swedish start-ups show dilemma over choosing between selling up or betting on becoming huge — Anton Osika's AI start … | Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to distribute its new USAT token on Rumble to capture US market share; Tether holds a 48% stake in Rumble — Tether Holdings SA will lean on conservative video streaming platform Rumble Inc. to help distribute tokens as it seeks to conquer an increasingly competitive US crypto market.
More: Blockonomi, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, and The Block
| Andrew Higgins / New York Times: |
China's Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou showcased robots, EVs, and a self-driving yacht, but questions remain over the US-China trade dispute and profits — The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China's technology.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify and Amazon Ads announce a global partnership to give advertisers using Amazon DSP programmatic access to Spotify's streaming audio and video inventory — Spotify competes directly with Amazon Music for subscribers and ad dollars — but now Spotify is teaming up with a different division … Sponsor Posts
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