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Apple says AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down and will retire in 2026; ex-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.
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Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a “code red” to shift more resources into improving ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans like ads — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google, with its structural advantages, is a threat for both OpenAI and Nvidia; OpenAI has a real moat with 800M+ ChatGPT users, but needs an advertising model — A common explanation as to why Star Wars was such a hit, and continues to resonate nearly half a century on from its release …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z TriFold, with a 6.5" outer screen, a 10" inner screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy SoC, and a 3.9mm body at its thinnest point — It's really called the TriFold and it's really coming to the US. … It'll launch first in Korea on December 12th, with a US launch planned for the first quarter of 2026.
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly built multicloud networking solution and a new open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure later in 2026 — Outages at major web hosts can have huge impacts across society, as we see often such as with the recent Cloudflare outage.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Marques Brownlee plans to shut down wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: Panels had 900K downloads and $95K in user spending since its 2024 launch — Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, or MKBHD, announced on Monday that his phone wallpaper app Panels is shutting down.
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the “first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model” — Nvidia announced new infrastructure and AI models on Monday as it works to build the backbone technology for physical AI …
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| Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg: |
Vanguard now allows ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold cryptocurrencies to be traded on its platform, reversing a longstanding position — Vanguard Group, the world's second-largest asset manager, has decided to allow ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold cryptocurrencies … | Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk: |
Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B “US dollar reserve” funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and bitcoin yield targets due to 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake — XLight to get up to $150 million to develop ultraprecise lasers for squeezing more circuits onto semiconductors
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Sources: Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could top $5B; Celestial was valued at $2.5B in March 2025 — Marvell is in advanced talks to buy Santa Clara-based chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal worth multiple billions of dollars …
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Memo: Adam Mosseri asks Instagram US staff to return to office five days per week from February 2026; sources: it is the first such mandate for a big Meta unit — Read Adam Mosseri's internal memo announcing a full return to the office five days a week, fewer meetings, and fewer decks.
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Sources: Apple doesn't plan to comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on iPhones and will raise its concerns with New Delhi — Apple (AAPL.O) does not plan to comply with a mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app and will convey … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's healthcare push was “inappropriate”, IBM's quantum bet, and more — Today, I'm talking with Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM. IBM is a fascinating company.
Bluesky: @reckless
| Financial Times: |
UK pension funds are cutting exposure to US equities over worries about growing concentration in a few tech stocks and a potential bubble in the AI sector — Public and private-sector funds concerned over market's growing concentration in a small number of tech stocks
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| Reuters: |
South Korean trade data: South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5% YoY to a record $17.26B in November, driven by strong data center demand and higher memory prices — South Korea's exports rose in November for a sixth consecutive month, beating market expectations, as chip sales hit a record … | Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: |
Shopify says it fixed an issue in its login authentication flow, resolving a December 1 outage that left some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems — Shopify (SHOP.TO), said it had fixed certain issues related to logging in to the online shopping platform that impacted thousands … Sponsor Posts
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