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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting” — Elon Musk is as smart as da Vinci, fitter than LeBron James, and really good at drinking piss.
More: 404 Media, Washington Post, Engadget, Gizmodo, Mashable, Rolling Stone, International Business Times, Livemint, WebProNews, PC Gamer, Newser, Implicator.ai, Moneycontrol, France 24, NextBigWhat, Cointelegraph, Business Insider, PCMag, Know Your Meme, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Decrypt, and Futurism
X: @elonmusk, @silvermanjacob, @grok, @existentialenso, @presidenttoguro, @statisticurban, @jonathanpienews, @pitdesi, @adamscochran, @gayest_tone, @ggooooddddoogg, @fredlambert, @bigmeaninternet, @romanhelmetguy, @sturgeons_law, @__apf__, @stevanzetti, @steinkobbe, @senatorbabet, @jules_su, @purpynfl, @mikeisaac, @anfieidfix, @steinkobbe, @agraybee, @romanhelmetguy, @liv_agar, @joni_askola, @fredlambert, @mikedrucker, @pitdesi, @steinkobbe, @esjesjesj, @thumpasaurus1, @growing_daniel, @wrotator, @wrotator, @jonathanpienews, @esjesjesj, @_alexhirsch, and @naledimashishi
Bluesky: @zunguzungu, @pqpolitics, and @willoremus.com
| The Keyword: |
Google updates Quick Share to work with Apple's AirDrop to make file transfers between iPhones and Android devices easier, starting with the Pixel 10 family — When it comes to sharing moments between family and friends, what device you have shouldn't matter — sharing should just work.
More: Google Online Security Blog, Wired, Ars Technica, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Authority, Google Help Center, ZDNET, Fossbytes, Forbes, Sam Lover, India Today, WebProNews, Android Authority, Digital Information World, The Overspill, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, Gulf News, The Register, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, NDTV Profit, Beebom, Business Today, VICE, Bloomberg, CNET, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Gizchina, Pocketables, The Hindu, Droid Life, WinBuzzer, Chrome Unboxed, TechCrunch, Phandroid, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, PCMag, PhoneArena, and Cult of Mac
X: @android, @chriswelch, @app_settings, @mweinbach, @mishaalrahman, @arvatiberiu, @caro_milanesi, @wongmjane, @rosterloh, @dylanmcd8, @tomwarren, @gaziello, @tomwarren, @wongmjane, @lutherlowe, @lutherlowe, @tgod34748, @timsweeneyepic, @mishaalrahman, @rjeytech, @mishaalrahman, @chriswelch, @iama_burrito, @app_settings, @nicksainato, @ssamat, @zacbowden, @nsnadeemsarwar, @mishaalrahman, @durvidimel, @mkbhd, @stufflistings, @luke_litowitz, and @seangchau. LinkedIn: Thai Duong
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/apple, r/LinusTechTips, r/iphone, r/pixel_phones, r/GooglePixel, Slashdot, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Leo Marchandon / Reuters: |
After a delay, Ubisoft reports Q2 net bookings up 39% YoY to €490.8M, above €450M est., and expects Q3 bookings of €305M; Ubisoft resumed trading on November 21 — - Delay due to accounting change and debt covenant breach — Breach addressed with early loan repayment using proceeds from Tencent investment
More: UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT, GamesBeat, RTÉ, Gameranx, IGN, Dow Jones Newswires, 80 Level, and GameSpot
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions — ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on Thursday.
More: OpenAI, Business Today, MacRumors, BMI, Dataconomy, WebProNews, PYMNTS.com, Moneycontrol, Business Standard, NextBigWhat, Analytics India Magazine, Digit, CNET, WinBuzzer, and Fidji Simo
X: @openai, @nickaturley, @iethics, @lukeharries_, @sulmanrc, @yuchenj_uw, @bentossell, and @fidjissimo. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim “thought images”, and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt — Hot on the heels of Tuesday's Gemini 3 Pro release, today it's Nano Banana Pro, also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image.
More: MediaBrief, Implicator.ai, Tom's Guide, Wired, The Keyword, TechRadar, and TechTalks
X: @hlntnr, @kimmonismus, @deryatr_, and @simonw
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More: Google DeepMind on YouTube, The Keyword, The Verge, Ars Technica, Fast Company, AIN, Trusted Reviews, Dataconomy, Android Authority, NDTV Profit, The Adobe Blog, CNBC, MarketWatch, The Indian Express, Livemint, Social Media Today, GSMArena.com, primetimer.com, Business Today, Analytics India Magazine, Fortune India, The Information, The Hindu, SiliconANGLE, MacRumors, Android Police, Chrome Unboxed, Android Central, ZDNET, PhoneArena, Neowin, The Sun, and The Verge
X: @sundarpichai, @googledeepmind, @sundarpichai, @scaling01, @skirano, @fofrai, @ammaar, @poe_platform, @quinnypig, @geminiapp, @googleaidevs, @jeffdean, @beffjezos, @19kaushiks, @vercel_dev, @rauchg, @antigravity, @googlecloudtech, @nanobanana, @sriramk, @googlecloud, @docmilanfar, @officiallogank, @arena, @thomasortk, @vercel, @fofrai, @figma, @geminiapp, @zephyr_z9, @scaling01, @nickfloats, @googleaistudio, @emollick, @sebjefferies, @minchoi, @newsfromgoogle, @emollick, @google, @fofrai, @fofrai, @koraykv, @scaling01, @rohanpaul_ai, @apples_jimmy, @scaling01, @joshwoodward, @altryne, @scaling01, @demishassabis, @googleai, @scaling01, @apples_jimmy, @deedydas, @dr_cintas, @mreflow, and @linusekenstam
LinkedIn: Toni Leonoff, Vera Breuer, and Clément Farabet
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
More: The Keyword, PetaPixel, Digital Information World, WebProNews, PCMag, The Register, Chrome Unboxed, and CNET
X: @pushmeet, @google, @newsfromgoogle, @demishassabis, @simonw, and @balabuilds. Bluesky: @mattjord
| Renju Jose / Reuters: |
Australia adds Twitch to teen social media ban; Twitch plans to deactivate accounts for 16-and-under users from Jan. 9 and bar new underage users from Dec. 10 — Australia's internet watchdog on Friday said it would include Amazon.com-owned (AMZN.O) live streaming service Twitch …
More: BBC, Neowin, ABC, Tech in Asia, The Independent, 9News, Breitbart, Dexerto, Agence France-Presse, and Mumbrella. Forums: Hacker News
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X — Growing shares of U.S. adults say they are using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit, but YouTube still rises to the top| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Source: Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and CapitalG at a $11B valuation, less than two months after it announced a $300M fundraise at a $5B valuation — Kalshi, a prediction market that allows people to bet on future events, has raised a massive $1 billion round at a $11 billion valuation …
More: Unchained, crypto.news, NFTgators, Tech Funding News, BeInCrypto, Ventureburn, Blockhead, Cryptonews, The Block, and The Information. Bluesky: @dmnd.me
| Heekyong Yang / Reuters: |
Samsung names mobile chief TM Roh as co-CEO and DX division head; Roh was serving as consumer business acting head since April after co-CEO Han Jong-Hee's death — - TM Roh named co-CEO, heads device experience division — Roh previously served as acting head of consumer business since April
More: Samsung Newsroom, Dataconomy, SamMobile, English News, KED Global, Korea Joongang Daily, and BMI
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI partners with Foxconn to design and develop data center server racks to be manufactured in the US; Foxconn will produce cabling, power systems, and more — OpenAI is partnering with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. to design and manufacture hardware for data centers …
More: OpenAI, DatacenterDynamics, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Reuters, Blockonomi, TipRanks Financial, Nikkei Asia, Tech in Asia, WebProNews, Capacity, Verdict, Associated Press, DigiTimes, Proactive, Hindustan Times, Focus Taiwan, NextBigWhat, Tech in Asia, Hürriyet Daily News, Reuters, Fortune, CNBC, and Agence France-Presse. LinkedIn: Chris Lehane
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
IBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances and aim to provide a proof-of-concept by 2030, potentially paving the way for quantum internet — IBM (IBM.N) and Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) on Thursday said they plan to link quantum computers over long distances …
More: New Scientist, MarketWatch, IBM, Silicon Republic, DigiTimes, Verdict, Motley Fool, The Fast Mode, and Network World. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Numerai, which trades stocks using AI-driven ideas from freelance finance quants, raised a $30M Series C led by university endowments at a $500M valuation — A crowdsourcing hedge fund backed by billionaire Paul Tudor Jones has raised fresh capital from university endowments and venture firms …
More: Numerai, DL News, Ventureburn, crypto.news, ZyCrypto, Cointelegraph, and NFTgators
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
X ends its 2023 lawsuit against law firm Wachtell to recover most of the $90M fee the firm received for defeating Musk's bid to exit his $44B Twitter buyout — Elon Musk's social media platform X has ended its lawsuit against elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz that sought to recover …
More: WinBuzzer
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out link sharing to let users invite up to eight people into their Hyperscape virtual rooms via a Quest 3 or 3S headset, or the Horizon mobile app — The company is rolling out the ability to hang out in Hyperscape rooms with your friends.
More: Engadget, International Business Times, Meta, TechEBlog, UploadVR, and Social Media Today
X: @bmfshow, @samcscole, @heaney555, @edwardahn9, and @barrsm
Threads: @gordongram, @atombombbody, @ufc, @jank0, and @zuck
| The Information: |
Internal memo: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees last month that Google's recent progress in AI could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Google's recent progress in artificial intelligence could … | Bloomberg: |
As Kalshi and Polymarket race to scale during a Trump-era regulatory opening, critics warn that expanding gambling in the US could have unintended consequences — The intimate meal, 60 floors above New York's financial district, brought together a pillar of the Wall Street establishment and a young crypto upstart.| Financial Times: |
Taiwan's minister Wu Cheng-wen says the US won't impose “punishing” tariffs on Taiwan, after a “consensus” that Taiwan would support the US chip industry — Tech official says Taipei willing to share lessons from its world-leading industrial model under trade deal
More: Tom's Hardware
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, unveils Olmo 3 models that it says outperform open models like Stanford's Marin and commercial open-weight models like Llama 3.1 — The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new generation of its flagship large language models, designed to compete more squarely with industry and academic heavyweights.
More: Ai2, Hugging Face, MarkTechPost, WinBuzzer, and Decrypt
| Reuters: |
Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B to $3B per year in AI in the next three to five years and is discussing potential investments with Japan — - Foxconn to invest $2-3 billion annually in AI over the next 3-5 years -Liu — China's EV market faces fierce competition, consolidation expected soon -LiuSponsor Posts
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