Techmeme: An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Apple is delaying the next generation iPhone Air's release date, originally planned for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations — Apple is delaying the release of next year's version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations …

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Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 release alongside the iPhone 18 and 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 …

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Standard, GSMArena.com, Nokiamob, and Notebookcheck

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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Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150 iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, its first fashion collaboration 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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Financial Times:

Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave 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, Hannah Murphy and Stephen Morris in San Francisco

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Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:

Sony reports Q2 revenue up 4.6% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 6.7% to ~$2.02B, 3.9M of PS5 units sold, and raises FY operating profit forecast by 7.5% to ~$9.3B — Sony 6758 5.51%increase; green up pointing triangle Group raised its earnings forecasts after a stronger-than-expected second quarter …

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, above $46.2M est., and net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M in Q3 2024; GEMI drops 5%+ — Gemini Space Station Inc., the crypto exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, reported a steeper loss than analysts anticipated …

More: Gemini, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, The Coin Republic, BeInCrypto, Cryptonews, and Associated Press

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Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts — Intel CEO made Katti the company's chief technology and artificial intelligence officer in April.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of 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.

Bluesky: @reckless. Forums: r/artificial and Slashdot

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.

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Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:

An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 — If completed as envisioned by its backers, the data center is set to cost as much as $35 billion and pack up to 3 gigawatts of power

Wall Street Journal:

How China ramped up its AI development since early 2024 to catch the US, including relaxed regulations, huge government funding, and a focus on domestic chips — America holds a sizable lead, but China is working to tip the scales with a sweeping countrywide push, betting ‘swarms beat the titan’

More: BBC, The American Conservative, and Foreign Affairs

Bloomberg:

Asahi says shipment levels are at just 10% of normal after a cyberattack in early October, and it is processing orders manually, ahead of a busy December period — Japan gears up for its busiest beer-drinking season, the country's largest brewer is struggling to stay on tap …

More: The Cyber Express

Adam Leventhal / The Athletic:

How US-based ACE, led by the MPA, took down illegal sports streamer Streameast, which had 136M global users per month, £4.9M in ad revenue, and £150K in crypto — Online reaction to the news about September's takedown of Streameast, the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform, was instructive.

Bluesky: @adamleventhal

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