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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams — Apple's general counsel, Kate Adams, and its vice president for environment, policy, and social initiatives, Lisa Jackson …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January — Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta says it is shifting some of its investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables, and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that” — Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy — New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people's political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content — Riddle-like poems tricked chatbots into spewing hate speech and helping design nuclear weapons and nerve agents.
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| A.J. Vicens / Reuters: |
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities — Chinese-linked hackers used sophisticated malware to penetrate and maintain long-term access to unnamed government … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, after saying in November it needed “extra time for safety evaluations” — After previewing last month with the launch of Gemini 3 Pro, the new Deep Think mode is now available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.
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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
HPE reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.68B, vs. $9.94B est., Server revenue down 5% to $4.5B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below est.; HPE drops 8%+ after hours — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.N) forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Thursday, signaling cautious enterprise spending.
More: The Register, Bloomberg, HPE, Benzinga, Proactive, and Constellation Research
| Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: |
A Polymarket trader netted $1M+ in 24 hours, mostly by placing suspiciously accurate bets on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings — Boaz Sobrado is a fintech leader and entrepreneur. — A Polymarket trader known as AlphaRaccoon has ignited controversy after allegedly netting over $1 million …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build “Trump Industrial Parks” in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal — SoftBank billionaire seeks to build ‘Trump Industrial Parks’ on federal land, using hundreds of billions of capital from the Japan trade deal
Bluesky: @newmethos and @carlquintanilla
| CNBC: |
Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers — - Google Cloud is locking in a multi-year partnership with AI coding startup Replit — Google is betting on Replit as a breakout platform …
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| Reuters: |
Russia's Roskomnadzor says it has blocked FaceTime in Russia, claiming the service is being used to organize and “carry out terrorist attacks in the country” — Russia has blocked Apple's (AAPL.O) video-calling app FaceTime, the state communications watchdog said on Thursday …
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| Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve: |
Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 — I think I've published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an [image]
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation — Ali Ansari's decision to turn micro1's AI recruitment assistant into a data labeling business spiked the company's valuation … | Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads raised ~$1.13B in the year's second-largest onshore IPO, valuing it at ~$7.6B, with the retail portion oversubscribed 2,750x — Moore Threads Technology Co., a leading Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker, surged in its Shanghai trading debut … | Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks — New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.| Google Research: |
Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M+ context window — Ali Behrouz, Student Researcher, Meisam Razaviyayn, Staff Researcher, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI — Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company's efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.
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Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A — Pine, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of an AI agent for consumers' digital chores, closed a $25m Series A funding round.
More: Pulse 2.0 and Business Wire
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October — A U.S. agency said on Thursday it has asked Waymo to answer more questions after Texas officials said the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) … | Sam Becker / Fast Company: |
TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC — The stock exchange's latest media partnership extends its push into new formats while giving TBPN a high-profile East Coast home base. — ADD ON GOOGLE| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon plans to release its $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and $500 Kindle Scribe on December 10, after announcing them in September, but won't offer preorders — The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and upgraded Kindle Scribe will be available to order soon.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations — Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year.
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| Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg: |
Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6%+ after hours — DocuSign Inc.'s AI-powered IAM platform helped the electronic-signature platform provider's third-quarter results beat estimates …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft will increase prices for commercial Office subscriptions on July 1, 2026, including a 33% jump for front-line worker plans like Microsoft 365 F1 — Microsoft said Thursday that it will increase the prices of Office productivity software subscriptions for commercial and government clients on July 1.
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Lumia, which uses AI to analyze interactions between autonomous agents and humans, raised an $18M seed led by Team8 — Lumia, which lets companies see AI usage, raised an $18 million seed round led by Team8, co-founders Omri Iluz and Bobi Gilburd tell Axios Pro.
More: SiliconANGLE, Lumia, FinSMEs, Ynetnews, and Tech Funding News
| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation — Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft Corp.'s billionaire founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, is raising $30 million …
More: New York Post
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, in its iOS and Android apps — Meta is launching a new centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram users, the company announced on Thursday …
More: Meta Newsroom, CNET, Social Media Today, Engadget, and iPhone in Canada
| Peter S. Goodman / New York Times: |
A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings skilled workers from Taiwan who struggle with adapting to a sprawling suburbia and summer temperatures — Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.| Peter S. Goodman / New York Times: |
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