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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
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.
The Information:
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 …
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  —  OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
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.
Heekyong Yang / Reuters:
Samsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale in South Korea on December 12 for ~$2,440, in China later in 2025, and in the US as early as Q1 2026
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.
Reuters:
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 …
Anthropic:
Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 found and developed exploits collectively worth $4.6M  —  AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we've written about before.  But what is the economic impact of these capabilities?
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.
Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?”; an “unauthorized” map edit resolved the bet  —  A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15.
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 …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo science and tech nonprofit conversions since January 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI  —  The coalition backing the effort has appealed to Elon Musk for help funding the measure  —  A coalition that tried and failed …
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.
Bloomberg:
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark and Eurazeo, after launching in September  —  A Paris-based artificial intelligence voice startup called Gradium has spun out of a nonprofit research lab and raised $70 million in funding …
More: Sifted and TechCrunch
Bloomberg:
Taiwanese prosecutors charge Tokyo Electron for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing TSMC trade secrets, indicting the company on several counts  —  Taiwanese prosecutors charged Tokyo Electron Ltd. for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing Taiwan Semiconductor …
More: Reuters
Alex Heath / Sources:
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.
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models  —  Cursor, which launched one of the fastest-growing AI tools of all time, is at the center of the boom-or-bust debate in Silicon Valley

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The Hollywood Reporter:
Nexstar says it has closed its Tegna acquisition after the DOJ and FCC approved it; CEO Perry Sook says Nexstar is grateful to Trump and the FCC's Brendan Carr

Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
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Dan Primack / Axios:
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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
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