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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Google and Apple removed Red Dot, an app for reporting ICE sightings; Google says the app was being used to share the location of a “vulnerable group”  —  Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials, from their respective app stores, 404 Media has found.
Ashley Oliver / Fox Business:
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI's invite-only Sora app becomes the top free app in the US App Store three days after its launch, ahead of Gemini in second and ChatGPT in third  —  OpenAI now has two of the top three free apps in Apple's App Store, and its new video generation app Sora has snagged the coveted No. 1 spot.
New York Times:
Users express surprise, delight, and disgust with viral Sora clips, as some warn of IP theft and that Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Coinbase applies for a national trust company charter, says it “has no intention of becoming a bank” and the charter will allow expansion in areas like payments  —  Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US crypto exchange, is seeking a national trust company charter from the Office …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, a little over a year after filing its IPO prospectus; it announced a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30  —  Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras on Friday filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission withdrawing plans for an initial public offering.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles for free without an Xbox Game Pass subscription  —  Microsoft employees can now access an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming ahead of a public test.
Politico:
CISA 2015, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down on October 1  —  “We are without this critical line of defense,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee …
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
Moonlake AI, which creates tools to “vibe code virtual worlds”, including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed  —  Plus: Hollywood rejects an “AI actress.”  —  Welcome back to The Prompt. … Artificial intelligence is facing an existential crisis.
TechCrunch:
Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web that threatens to release ~1B records allegedly stolen from dozens of companies' Salesforce-hosted databases  —  Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker  —  A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website …
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Rob Williams, Amazon's VP of device software and services and member of the S-team advising CEO Andy Jassy, will retire and leave Amazon by the end of 2025  —  - VP Rob Williams to retire from Amazon, remains advisor through 2025  — Panos Panay announces team consolidation, Tapas Roy promoted
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Sources: former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional  —  Naveen Rao, who was formerly the head of artificial intelligence at Databricks, is in talks to raise a $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation …
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Supabase, an open-source rival to Google's Firebase, raised a $100M Series E led by Accel and Peak XV at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $500M+  —  The vibe coding movement, as Paul Copplestone figures it, started last December—and we're already a few eras in.
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Source: Xbox gave up more than $300M in Call of Duty sales on consoles and PCs last year after its decision to put some of its top titles on Game Pass  —  Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox division surprised many video game enthusiasts this week when the company announced a 50% price hike, to $30 a month …

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Financial Times:
Sources: WBD's board wanted a proposal it could sign immediately, and Netflix was the only bidder whose paperwork was fully executable the night of December 4

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

John Koblin / New York Times:
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition

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Associated Press:
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that gives ride-hailing drivers in California the right to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors
Bloomberg:
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Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
a16z releases a report, citing Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies that startups pay; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents tied to its segments and heatmap features and violating the companies' 2015 Master Cooperation Agreement
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open-source, enterprise-ready LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than conventional LLMs
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google expands its AI coding agent Jules with a command-line interface and a public API, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack
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