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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.
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Google starts rolling out ads in AI mode; the ads look similar to the citations in AI answers but with a “sponsored” label  —  Google has started rolling out ads in AI mode, which is the company's “answer engine,” not a search engine.  —  AI mode has been available for a year and is accessible to everyone for free.
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
Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg:
Ubisoft delayed reporting its Q2 results after auditors found it improperly booked sales from a partnership as revenue, forcing it to restate its accounts  —  Ubisoft Entertainment SA said it will use money from a Tencent Holdings Ltd. investment to pay off debt after the video-game publisher breached …
New York Times:
Q&A with Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki on using face scans to verify age, having a chat function on Roblox, AI content moderation at scale, and more  —  This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform.
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 …
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand  —  Google 's AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its compute capacity every six months in order to meet demand for artificial intelligence services.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached  —  American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.
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
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 …
Alex Heath / Sources:
Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year  —  A new trend has quickly emerged for AI startups that want to stand out from the rest: brag about revenue.  —  Take Sierra, Bret Taylor …
More: Sierra blog
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 …
Katherine Davis / Axios:
Sorcero, which makes AI agents for pharmaceutical companies to market new medications, raised a $42.5M Series B, bringing its total funding to $59M  —  Sorcero, an agentic AI platform for the pharmaceutical industry, raised a $42.5 million Series B, CEO Dipanwita Das tells Axios Pro.
More: Pulse 2.0
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

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bari Weiss announces a slate of 18 new contributors, including Derek Thompson and existing Free Press writers like conservative historian Niall Ferguson

The Detroit News:
USA Today Co., which owns the Detroit Free Press, plans to acquire The Detroit News from MediaNews Group and continue to publish it separately

Natalie Korach / Status:
Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely

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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

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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
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
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
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app
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