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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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| 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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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Sony says PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since launch, including 3.9M units sold in Q2, up from 3.8M a year ago — The company boosted both console and software sales compared to Q2 2024. — It's been just over a year since Sony launched the updated PS5 Slim and PS5 Pro consoles …
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| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
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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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| 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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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average 35%+ a year over the next three to five years and the total AI chip market will reach $1T by 2030 — Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Nvidia Corp.'s nearest rival in AI chips, predicted accelerating sales growth over the next five years … | The Information: |
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 …
| 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.| 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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| 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 — Vladimir Novakovski, founder and CEO of Lighter. — COURTESY OF LIGHTER — “Pivot from crypto to AI” became a refrain in Silicon Valley after ChatGPT launched in 2022.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more — Today, I'm talking with a very special guest: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim is a legend in the history of the internet.
More: Search Engine Land. LinkedIn: Juan Francisco Diez. Bluesky: @glynmoody and @reckless
Forums: r/artificial and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: The Crown Prosecution Service, The Block, UPI, OCCRP, and Crypto Briefing. LinkedIn: Adrian Foster
| 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’
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Bluesky: @jessefelder and @metacurity.com
| 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.
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| Reuters: |
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.| Vogue: |
Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150+ iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, in Apple's first fashion deal since Hermès' in 2015 — It's no secret that Steve Jobs's favorite fashion designer was Issey Miyake. The former Apple CEO adopted …
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Forums: r/nottheonion, r/craftsnark, r/knitting, r/technology, r/applesucks, r/Anticonsumption, r/nottheonion, r/iPhone13Mini, and r/apple
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine partner with ElevenLabs to create AI versions of their voices for its Iconic Voice Marketplace; McConaughey also invests — McConaughey also invests in audio research and product company — Actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed …
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| 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 … | 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 …
More: TheDesk.net, Sherwood News, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Media Play News, MediaPost, Advanced Television, and Adweek. Forums: r/television
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker — A Danish court has handed down a historic verdict, convicting a Reddit moderator in the country's first-ever criminal case for violating copyright's “right of respect”.| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards — Meta Platforms Inc.'s messaging service WhatsApp will face stricter rules under the European Union's content moderation rulebook …
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