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| Kent Walker / The Keyword: |
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership — President, Global Affairs & Chief Legal Officer, Google & Alphabet — As part of its lawsuit over how we distribute Search …
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| Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: |
Filing: the US DOJ asks a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google Search, and ban default search deals on iOS and other Oses — U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through …
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| Bloomberg: |
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers — - Antitrust officials propose options in historic lawsuit — Google says government pushing ‘radical agenda’ beyond case
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Forcing Google to sell Chrome sounds good on paper but the reality of it happening is fairly small as it will be extremely messy, if not impossible to execute — The idea that Google would be broken up as a result of their loss in the antitrust trial against their Search monopoly was never going to happen.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
The CFPB will supervise tech companies with digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Venmo, with 50M+ annual transactions, treating them more like banks — The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will now treat those companies more like banks as long as they handle … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources say the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M — Wiz, one of the most talked-about names in the world of cybersecurity, is making a significant acquisition to expand its product reach …
More: Silicon Republic, Globes Online, Wiz Blog, and SecurityWeek
| Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance: |
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% YoY to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — Nvidia (NVDA) reported its Q3 earnings after the bell on Wednesday, beating analysts' expectations on the top and bottom lines …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How Satya Nadella put Microsoft back on top, including by cleaning up its toxic culture, embracing open source, and crafting the OpenAI deal, as it nears 50 — When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.
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| Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired: |
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response — A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads is rebalancing ranking to prioritize content from people that users follow, warns that creators' “unconnected” reach may go down — As Bluesky's user numbers continue to rise, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says Threads will change its For You page to show fewer posts from accounts you don't follow.
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| Michelle Conlin / Reuters: |
Nick Pickles, who left X as VP of Global Affairs in September, joins Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity, which is building World Network, as chief policy officer — Nick Pickles, the former head of global affairs at Elon Musk's social media platform X, is joining forces with one of Musk's rivals, his fellow OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman.
More: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Benzinga
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
A profile of Thrive Capital, whose biggest portfolio companies include OpenAI and Stripe, as rivals dismiss the VC firm's approach as closer to asset management — As OpenAI raced to raise almost $7bn last month, one investor was always on hand. Thrive Capital stayed close …
X: @sjhmorris
| Catherine McGrath / Fortune: |
Las Vegas-based Monkey Tilt, which combines online gambling with a chat function and content made by influencers, raised a $30M Series A led by Pantera — Monkey Tilt launched just eight months ago and has amassed $200 million of monthly betting volume. — Online gambling used … | Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
The Trump administration's promises of mass deportations may lead to increased use of spyware like Graphite; ICE has a $2M contract with Graphite maker Paragon — Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups.| Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: |
Google Quantum AI and DeepMind researchers debut ML decoder AlphaQubit, which surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors — - Google researchers introduced AlphaQubit, an AI-powered decoder that improves quantum error correction, reducing errors …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
SpyCloud researchers say Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting insiders working for government surveillance agencies to sell their access online — Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data … | Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: |
Streamlabs: Twitch accounted for 82.3% of Q3 total hours streamed, followed by YouTube Gaming at 5.6% and Steam at 4.6%; Kick grew ~204% from Q2 2023 to Q3 2024 — For years, the Logitech-owned creator dashboard Streamlabs and its data partner Stream Hatchet have compiled quarterly progress reports for the streaming industry.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users' devices — WhatsApp announced on Thursday it's rolling out voice message transcripts. The Meta-owned company says the new feature will come …
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| Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
Several media and tech executives say UK VC Matt Clifford, who has advised successive Tory and Labour governments, has an outsized influence over AI policy — British venture capitalist has advised successive Tory and Labour governments — Last year, as thousands of customers withdrew … | Washington Post: |
Sources: two congressional Republicans prepare an age verification bill that puts the onus for age verification on app store operators, boosting Meta's campaign — The Washington Post's essential guide to tech policy news — Happy Thursday! Today's edition comes to you from newsletter anchors past and present.| Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: |
Ad software company Mediaocean acquires Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20 — The privately held company will merge Innovid with Flashtalking, which it bought in 2021 — Advertising software …
More: The Desk and Advanced Television
| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced AI chip, the Ascend 910C, in Q1 2025, even as it struggles to make enough chips due to US curbs — China's Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2025 …
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