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Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure — FTC chair Lina Khan continues to pursue Big Tech in final days of Biden presidency — The Federal Trade Commission is preparing …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on other online classified ads service providers — Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 — OpenAI's ChatGPT is starting to work with other apps on your computer. — On Thursday, the startup announced the ChatGPT desktop app …
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X: @snazzylabs, @rowancheung, @benhylak, @embirico, @aqueelmiq, @gregmadison, @koltregaskes, @stevenheidel, @openaidevs, @edwinarbus, and @dylanmatt. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers — Previously limited to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, the app opens a ‘companion window’ on your PC, allowing you to easily use the AI chatbot alongside any other Windows programs.
More: Thurrott, Maginative, TechRadar, Neowin, VentureBeat, and The Verge
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live — In the AI chatbot world, ubiquity is everything. Companies have raced to build desktop and mobile apps for their bots …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted — The agency aims to conduct more rigorous direct oversight of the tech firm, a major move that Google has resisted in the final months of the Biden administration.| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai aims to raise $195M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.48B — Pony AI is seeking a valuation of up to $4.48 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, it said on Thursday, as the Chinese self-driving firm moves ahead with its long-sought plan for a New York listing.
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft releases Windows 11 ISOs for Arm64 PCs, letting users clean install Windows via official offline media, including the latest Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs — Windows 11 ISOs for PCs with an Arm64 processor are now officially available, but older Snapdragon laptops will need to jump through additional hoops to get them working.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a company with a friend, but doesn't offer details — François Chollet, a leading figure in the AI world, is leaving Google after close to a decade.
More: Google Developers Blog, Neowin, and The Decoder
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules set to go into effect in October 2025 — Google has announced it will stop showing political ads to users in the European Union next year due to uncertainties around the bloc's new transparency regulations.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon One Medical expands telehealth services with cheap treatment plans and medication delivery for beauty and lifestyle issues like hair loss and skin care — Amazon One Medical is expanding its telehealth services with the launch of upfront and low-cost treatment plans and medication delivery …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Anthropic is working with the US DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure Claude models don't share dangerous information about nuclear energy — - In red-teaming exercises, experts test systems by trying to break them. — NNSA has been testing Anthropic's models … | Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack — - Ilya Lichtenstein tried to launder proceeds of Bitfinex hack — His rapper wife ‘Razzlekahn’ is set to be sentenced on Monday
More: US Department of Justice, BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, Decrypt, CNBC, The Block, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple updates Final Cut Pro for macOS and iPadOS, adding AI closed captions and Vision Pro spatial video editing on macOS, and Logic Pro for macOS and iPadOS — Today, Apple revealed the latest updates to Final Cut Pro for the Mac and iPad, with both offering a variety of new features and simplified workflows.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google updates Maps to help users search for products like home goods, clothing, and electronics and find stores nearby, improve traffic reporting, and more — Google has added some new travel and shopping features to Maps that aim to make it easier to find local products and stay on time during busy periods.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads had “more than 15M signups in November alone” and it is “going on three months with more than a million signups a day” — Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger.
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X: @ericgarland and @ericgarland
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, available to all advertisers and adds the ability to use content from Getty Images with the tool — TikTok will let advertisers pull in content from Getty Images when using the platform's AI ad creation tool.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system — How fake music targets real artists. … I first noticed something weird when a HEALTH album dropped on my Spotify new release radar.| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $17.85B, above est., and net income up 44% YoY to $358.5M, vs. $343.3M est.; IDC: Lenovo's PC shipments grew 3% YoY — - CEO expects global PC shipments to grow double digits in 2025 — Quarterly profit, revenue both increased at double-digit pace
More: Reuters, Reuters, BusinessToday, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and Lenovo
| Dag Spicer / CHM: |
Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12 — 2023 CHM FELLOW — With deep sadness, we say goodbye to computer pioneer Thomas Kurtz. — Thomas Eugene Kurtz (Feb. 22 1928-Nov. 12 … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures — With the advent of flexible workspaces, companies are increasingly adopting smartphone-based authentication to let employees enter and leave.
More: Hartford Business Journal, SwiftConnect, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
NASA partners with Microsoft to create Earth Copilot, an AI chatbot that can answer questions about the Earth using NASA's geospatial information — NASA is teaming up with Microsoft to create an AI chatbot designed to make it easier to access and understand scientific data about the Earth.| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with pseudonymous AI researcher Gwern Branwen on anonymity, the grand theory of intelligence, seeing LLM scaling early, AGI timelines, blogging, and more — Legacy & Anonymity in the Age of AGI — Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming.
More: Don't Worry About the Vase, Dwarkesh Patel on YouTube, and ZeroHedge News
X: @dwarkesh_sp, @emostaque, @pronounced_kyle, @suhail, @dwarkesh_sp, @alber_romgar, @austen, @the_greatabyss, and @aryaman2020. Forums: news.ycombinator.com
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