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| Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more — He's on the patio. He's on the golf course. Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world's richest man.
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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 …
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Forums: r/law, r/elonmusk, and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
Media executives say that some brands are preparing to advertise on X once again, as Elon Musk is likely to gain an influential Trump administration role — Some brands had abandoned the site over moderation concerns — Elon Musk's support for Donald Trump is set to boost X's flagging business …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who won't rule out any Xbox exclusive coming to PlayStation and Switch, discusses potential M&A, and more — Phil Spencer is planning how to enter and partner in the handheld device and mobile-store markets
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are all seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model misses internal targets — Three of the leading artificial intelligence companies are seeing diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop newer models.
More: 9to5Mac, The Information, MacRumors, TechCrunch, PetaPixel, and WinBuzzer
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @chetanp, @paulroetzer, @basedjensen, @btibor91, @binarybits, @chehendriksen, @rachelmetz, @joshm, @modestproposal1, and @morqon. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Callie Holtermann / New York Times: |
Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 15M+ users in total — With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD says it will lay off approximately 4% of its global staff; the company had 26,000 employees at the end of last year, according to an SEC filing — AMD said on Wednesday that it will lay off 4% of its global staff, as the longtime CPU maker seeks to gain a stronger foothold …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development — Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says it will test removing news articles from EU-based publishers from Search for 1% of users in France, Poland, Greece, Belgium, and other EU countries — As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test … | Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Klarna files for a US IPO; analysts put Klarna's implied valuation at ~$14.6B in October 2024 after shareholder Chrysalis upped the value of its stake to $154M — Swedish payments firm Klarna Group Plc has filed for an initial public offering in the US, ending months of speculation that the company was readying a stock market listing.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts — YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their shorts.| The Information: |
Sources: Meta plans to launch ads on Threads in early 2025; Meta's public statements imply any ad rollout for Threads next year will be slow — Meta Platforms plans to introduce advertisements to its text app, Threads, early next year, hoping to cash in on the app's rapid growth … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Haul, a storefront on its app that promises “crazy low prices” on a range of items, to compete with Temu and Shein — Amazon has rolled out a new storefront featuring apparel, home goods, electronics and other items priced below $20, to fend off growing competition …
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| Bloomberg: |
How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors — The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it — At the headquarters of the United Nations …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims can match GPT-4o coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM — There's a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba's Qwen research team.
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| 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.
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Threads: @crumbler. Bluesky: @vtuss.bsky.social. X: @karstenw, @juwanthewriter, @tvgrimreaper, @deadline, @deadline, @jaketx78, and @aagave
Forums: r/popculturechat, r/entertainment, r/cordcutters, and r/television
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon recently told staff with disabilities that it was adding a more rigorous vetting process to approve working from home, as it moves to five days per week — New ‘multilevel leader review’ can take weeks and has prompted concerns that affected corporate workers will give up and quit.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display to control appliances, videoconference, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it as early as March 2025 — - Product will spotlight the new Siri and Apple Intelligence — Device will tap into cameras, doorbells and run Apple's apps
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Threads: @automated_house. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @stroughtonsmith …, and @viticci@mastodon …
Bluesky: @dwightsilverman.com and @cachiporra.bsky.social
X: @markgurman, @neilcybart, @andrew_osu, @bzamayo, @anxiousholly, @tomwarren, @apollozac, @apollozac, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, r/wallstreetbets, and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Emerson / Forbes: |
A group of 13 former TSMC staff sue the company in California over an alleged “discriminatory scheme” that favors Taiwanese foreign workers at its US plants — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has been accused by a group of its U.S. employees of concocting a … | Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: |
Mac mini (2024) teardown: the SSD module is proprietary but replaceable, modular front ports, and the M4 Pro model has a beefier cooling rig than the M4 model — It shouldn't be a big story that a desktop computer has upgradeable internal storage, but with Apple's cute new 2024 Mac mini, that's exactly where we are.| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021 — In April 2022, about four months after Kazakhstan's government violently cracked down on nationwide protests … | Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: execs at xAI rivals were alarmed by how fast Elon Musk set up the 100K GPU cluster Colossus; a source says Sam Altman argued with Microsoft over it — On a sunny day last month, a propeller plane made multiple passes in the air over a large industrial building surrounded … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Just Eat Takeaway says it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a $650M deal expected to close in Q1 2025; Just Eat bought Grubhub for $7.3B in 2020 — Netherlands-based food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com said on Wednesday that it is selling its U.S. business Grubhub to New York-based Wonder Group …
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| Cynthia Kim / Reuters: |
South Korea arrests 215 people on suspicion of stealing $228M in crypto, the country's biggest crypto investment scam with 28 types of tokens sold to 15K people — South Korean police have arrested 215 people on suspicion of stealing 320 billion won ($228.4 million) in the biggest cryptocurrency investment scam in the country.
More: Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Coinspeaker, and The Crypto Times
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
CoreWeave closed a $650M secondary share sale led by Jane Street, Magnetar, Fidelity Management, and Macquarie Capital, a source says at a $23B valuation — AI cloud startup CoreWeave said on Wednesday it has closed a $650 million minority investment led by Jane Street, Magnetar …
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
In a policy blueprint, OpenAI says the US and its neighbors should form a “North American Compact for AI” to compete with China in talent, financing, and more — - The startup called for a ‘North American Compact on AI’ — OpenAI said US must backstop, streamline AI infrastructureSponsor Posts
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