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Sources: Apple plans to exit its Goldman Sachs contract in 12 to 15 months, ending their consumer partnership, including for credit card and savings accounts — Tech giant proposed exiting contract in about 12-to-15 months — Apple is pulling the plug on its credit-card partnership with Goldman Sachs …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon launches Amazon Q, a workplace-focused AI assistant that starts at $20/user/month and competes with ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft's Copilot, and others — Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence.
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AWS unveils Graviton4, with 50% more cores, 75% more memory bandwidth, and up to 30% more performance than Graviton3, and Trainium2 for up to 4x faster training — AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Apple Music Replay, letting users review their 2023 history like top songs and artists, but the feature is still no match for Spotify Wrapped — Apple's year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it's still no match for Spotify's personalized look back at your year in music.
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A look at Foxconn's struggles to manufacture the iPhone 15 in India, contending with language barriers, labor disputes, regulatory hurdles, and more — Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders. — • SUNGUVARCHATRAM, INDIA
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| Graham Starr / Bloomberg: |
Okta tells customers that hackers who breached its network stole information on all users of its customer support system, greater than the 1% claimed previously — - Okta had earlier said breach affected about 1% of customers — Company said some Okta employee information was also stolen| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover six attacks that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions, impacting the Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 through the latest 5.4 spec — Researchers at Eurecom have developed six new attacks collectively named ‘BLUFFS’ that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions … | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
In a now-deleted November 28 post and on November 20, Elon Musk boosted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy that led a man to fire an AR-15 in a DC eatery in 2016 — The far-right theory motivated a gunman to fire multiple rounds inside the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in 2016.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Adalytics: Google ads appear on many compromising sites that make up its Search Partners network; Google attacks Adalytics but plans to review its findings — Adtech report exposes brand safety and ad fraud risks lurking in the Google Search Partners network...
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's revamped board does not plan to offer a seat to Microsoft and other outside investors, a sign of prioritizing safety ahead of financial returns — OpenAI's revamped board of directors doesn't plan to include representatives from outside investors, according to a person familiar with the situation.
More: Reuters, Livemint, and Tech in Asia
| Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic: |
Substack and Telegram searches reveal scores of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters on Substack; over 16 displayed overt Nazi symbols — The newsletter platform's lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea announces new smart home sensors: Parasoll, for doors and windows, Vallhorn, for motion, and Badring, for water leakages, on sale in H1 2024 for under $10 — Ikea's push to democratize the smart home continues with the introduction of three new Zigbee sensors that won't break the bank.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami on Wix's embrace of AI, how the business models of the web can survive AI, Israel-Hamas war content moderation, and more — The co-founder of website builder Wix is embracing generative AI, and he's not too worried that it might destroy the business models of the web.| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Investigation: Palestinians are excluded from or face barriers when trying to monetize via Google services, bringing the region's digital divide under scrutiny — YouTube's revenue sharing for creators and other Google services are shut off or hard to access for people in Palestinian territories.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Pika, which builds AI tools for generating and editing videos, raised $55M, including a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed, after emerging from stealth in May 2023 — The generative AI hype hasn't died down yet. — Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit … | Bloomberg: |
Meta tells US officials that the company plans to block new political ads on Facebook and Instagram one week before the 2024 election, similar to past elections — - Facebook owner to block political ads one week before US vote — First US election with broad generative AI will test democracy
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber plans to start listing London's famed black cabs in early 2024, despite objections from the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association trade group — Uber notched another win in its effort to win over the beleaguered taxi industry, announcing a plan to start listing London's famed black cabbies in its app.
More: South China Morning Post, Financial Times, TechCrunch, CNBC, and CNN
| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
AMD unveils its largest global design center, housing ~3,000 engineers, in Bengaluru as part of the company's planned $400M investment over five years in India — AMD's new Bengaluru facility is part of the $400 million India investment announced by the chip design firm at Semicon 2023.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jack Ma praised PDD Holdings while urging Alibaba to change and “correct its course”, in a rare reply to a staff post on Alibaba's internal forum — - The billionaire replied to an employee on an internal forum — Ma congratulated archrival for pushing the boundaries
More: Financial Times, South China Morning Post, TechNode, Nikkei Asia, and Bloomberg
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