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Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds — Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push — Melissa Heikkilä in London …
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AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average more than 35% and AI data center revenue growth will average 80% over the next three to five years — Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Nvidia Corp.'s nearest rival in AI chips, predicted accelerating sales growth over the next five years … | David Keohane / Financial Times: |
SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est. — Net profit doubles to $16bn on gains from OpenAI and PayPay holdings — Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group has sold its entire stake …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a “secure, fortified space” to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute — Google says Private AI Compute maintains privacy while tapping cloud resources.
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| Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET: |
Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a “help me edit” feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts — ZDNET's key takeaways — Photos has added several new AI-powered editing and search tools.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages — Google announced its November software update for Pixel phones, called Pixel Drop — a quarterly feature release that brings new capabilities …
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Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 — Sony is launching a cut-price model of its flagship PlayStation 5 to be sold only in Japan, in an inflation-busting move to boost sales …
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SoFi launches SoFi Crypto, saying it's the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer crypto trading to consumers — - SoFi has launched SoFi Crypto to offer crypto trading for consumers, the first directly integrated crypto offering under its national bank charter.
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China says the December 2020 theft of 127,272 BTC, now worth ~$13B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian is likely a “state-level hacker operation” led by the US — China's cybersecurity agency accused the American government of orchestrating the theft about $13 billion worth of Bitcoin …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
CoreWeave closed down 16% after its CEO admitted delays at a data center developer that Jim Cramer implied may be Core Scientific; CORZ closed down 10% — CoreWeave shares closed down 16% on Tuesday after CEO Mike Intrator addressed delays at a third-party data center developer … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators — Threads, Meta's competitor to X, will now begin targeting a specific type of creator: podcasters. The company said on Tuesday that Threads will focus … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK; reports previously put the acquisition price around $2B — Brian Armstrong, cofounder and CEO of Coinbase. — One of the largest deals ever for a stablecoin startup has fallen through.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
ElevenLabs launches Iconic Voice Marketplace for licensing AI versions of famous voices, including Michael Caine's; Matthew McConaughey invests in the company — McConaughey also invests in audio research and product company — Actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed …
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| Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
A UK judge sentences a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a $5.6B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K BTC — A Chinese woman described as a “super villain” who orchestrated a multibillion dollar investment fraud to buy Bitcoin was sentenced … | Catarina Demony / Reuters: |
The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations — Britain plans to strengthen its public services' defences against cyberattacks, requiring companies that provide services … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation — “Pivot from crypto to AI” became a refrain in Silicon Valley after ChatGPT launched in 2022. Opportunistic founders looked to jump …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages — Vision AI Companion will let you ask questions about what's on screen in real time.
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Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e, to address user complaints — Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers …
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A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal — A German court on Tuesday sided with the country's music rights society GEMA in a closely watched copyright case against U.S.-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Brave CBO Brian Brown says the company passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1 and its browser had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 — Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google's Chrome.| Wall Street Journal: |
How China ramped up its AI development from spring 2024 to catch the US, including via relaxed regulations, huge government funding, and a domestic chip focus — America holds a sizable lead, but China is working to tip the scales with a sweeping countrywide push, betting ‘swarms beat the titan’| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels — Amazon says advertising on Prime Video now reaches 315 monthly viewers, up from 200 million in April 2024. — The step-up was announced Tuesday at unBoxed … Sponsor Posts
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