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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple says its AI chief, John Giannandrea, is stepping down; former Microsoft executive Amar Subramanya will lead AI, reporting to Craig Federighi  —  Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring, 2026, Apple announced today.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
OpenAI takes a stake in Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings and says it will embed agents in its companies, which already include an accounting and an IT business  —  The move by the parent company of ChatGPT is meant to help imbue Thrive Holdings' accounting and I.T. services companies with artificial intelligence tools.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Nvidia buys $2B of Synopsys' common stock and unveils a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including with CUDA libraries  —  Nvidia on Monday announced it has purchased $2 billion of Synopsys' common stock as part of a strategic partnership …
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, which it calls “reasoning-first models built for agents”, after releasing V3.2-Exp in September  —  China's DeepSeek unveiled two new versions of an experimental artificial-intelligence model it released weeks ago …
Reuters:
Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately gives smartphone makers 90 days to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices  —  India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Shopify suffers an outage, leaving some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems, and says it has fixed an issue and is seeing signs of recovery  —  Shopify was hit with an outage on Cyber Monday, leaving some businesses unable to manage transactions during one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Runway debuts the Gen-4.5 AI video generation model, highlighting its physical accuracy; it holds the top spot on Artificial Analysis' Video Arena leaderboard  —  Artificial intelligence startup Runway on Monday announced Gen 4.5, a new video model that outperforms similar models from Google and OpenAI in an independent benchmark.
Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops  —  Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company also added to its bitcoin holdings last week, bringing its total stack to 650,000 BTC.
Ludwig Burger / Reuters:
Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities  —  A group of Swiss and German law enforcement agencies said on Monday they shut down cryptomixer.io, one of the largest platforms …
Financial Times:
Sources: consultancies like McKinsey froze graduate pay offers for 2026, the third consecutive year, as AI reshapes the industry and threatens its pyramid model  —  Productivity gains from technology are spurring debate about reliance on large numbers of junior advisers
More: Fortune and The Decoder
LinkedIn: Gennaro Cuofano, Elaine Parr, and Samuel Temperton.  Bluesky: @jjaron
Forums: r/consulting and Slashdot
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecasts, regardless of subscription tier  —  Netflix will no longer support casting from your mobile to most TVs and streaming devices, regardless of the plan you're on.  —  •

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Committee to Protect Journalists:
After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid “trouble making”, and arrested a commentator

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Academy reports fiscal 2025 revenues of $269.2M, up from $263.1M in 2024, after cutting expenses from $220.1M to $208.1M; Oscars revenue grew to $150.5M

Matt Donnelly / Variety:
A look at the auction for the Oscars' TV rights, as sources say Netflix is out, NBCUniversal gains ground, and YouTube and ABC remain active bidders

More News

Simon Hunt / City A.M.:
Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023
Dan Primack / Axios:
The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes
Financial Times:
Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image generation models, raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in 2024

Earlier Picks

Reuters:
China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules
Tim Balk / New York Times:
New York becomes the first US state to require that retailers disclose using algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills
NBC News:
US startups are increasingly adopting open-weight Chinese AI models, which are cheaper, more customizable, and sufficiently capable compared to frontier US ones
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “decay” at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more
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