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November 12, 2024, 9:20 PM

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Eric Beech / Reuters:
Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide “guidance from outside of Government”  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy …
Dan Merica / Associated Press:
Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to help elect Trump; Musk says the PAC is gearing up for midterms as well as judicial and DA elections  —  Elon Musk's super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the group's spending …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display that can control appliances, do videoconferencing, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it by March  —  - Product will spotlight the new Siri and Apple Intelligence  — Device will tap into cameras, doorbells and run Apple's apps
Wall Street Journal:
Meta plans to ask Facebook and Instagram users in Europe if they want to get “less personalized ads” and cuts subscription prices by 40%, a concession to the EU  —  Facebook and Instagram owner faces pressure in Europe to ask users before using their data to target ads or train artificial intelligence
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video  —  Amazon is officially shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported video streaming service originally launched under the IMDb brand nearly five years ago.
Alan Ohnsman / Forbes:
Waymo opens robotaxi rides to anyone in LA within an 80-square-mile area running from downtown LA to Santa Monica and says ~300K users had been on the waitlist  —  The Alphabet company said about 300,000 people in the second-largest U.S. city have been waiting to use its robotic ridehail service …
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
Washington Post:
Sources: advisors to Donald Trump expect the president-elect to halt a potential US ban of TikTok, which faces a January 19 deadline to divest  —  The president-elect promised to ‘save’ the social media app, which faces a deadline early next year to find a non-China-based owner.
NBC News:
Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023  —  The former Massachusetts Air National Guard member pleaded guilty in March to leaking highly classified military documents online, including about the war in Ukraine.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
FrontierMath, a new benchmark for evaluating AI model's advanced mathematical reasoning, shows current AI systems solve less than 2% of its challenging problems  —  Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia launches its Nvidia app for Windows, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app, after a beta earlier in 2024  —  Nvidia is officially launching its Nvidia app on PC today, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app.
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to €3.99B, vs. €4.02B est., MAUs up 11% to 640M, and forecasts Q4 profit and MAUs above est.; SPOT jumps 6%+ after hours  —  Audio-streaming giant Spotify (SPOT.N) forecast fourth-quarter profit above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday …

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