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Sources: Sony is in the early stages of developing a portable console for PS5 games, building on the PlayStation Portal, although its debut is likely years away — - Nintendo's Switch has dominated mobile console space for years — Rival Microsoft is also developing portable gaming prototypes
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MicroStrategy bought 55,500 bitcoin for ~$5.4B cash at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to ~386,700 bitcoin — - MicroStrategy has purchased another 55,580 BTC for approximately $5.4 billion at an average price of $97,862 per bitcoin.| Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019 — Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do?
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Sources: Intel, the biggest recipient of CHIPS Act money, could get less than $8B, after its Ohio plant delays; the US announced $8.5B for Intel earlier in 2024 — The Biden administration is reducing its award to the pioneering chip maker to less than $8 billion, from $8.5 billion.
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The EU says Corning offered commitments in a bid to settle an antitrust probe over alleged exclusive Gorilla Glass deals, including waiving exclusive clauses — - EU feared deals for smartphone glass were anti-competitive — US firm could avoid hefty fines if remedies are accepted
More: European Commission, The Verge, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Appcharge, which helps publishers build websites to sell gaming currencies and other virtual goods, raised $26M at a $100M valuation — As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic, a startup called Appcharge …
More: GamesIndustry.biz and Appcharge
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
PlayAI, which uses AI to clone voices for $49 or $99 per month and recently rolled out AI agents, raised a $20M seed co-led by 500 Startups and Kindred Ventures — Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it'd be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles.
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| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
A skeptical look at the new AI scaling “laws”, including post-train duration and “inference time compute”, and why they may fail to predict AI model performance — Scaling laws ain't what they used to be — “If anything we are seeing the emergence of a new scaling law … | Financial Times: |
The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky” — Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk's X is accused of not declaring user numbers| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Nvidia unveils Fugatto, a new AI model for generating music and audio that can modify voices and make novel sounds, trained on open-source data — Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday showed a new artificial intelligence model for generating music and audio that can modify voices and generate novel sounds …
More: Moneycontrol, Engadget, NVIDIA, Digital Trends, and NewsBytes
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Klarna reports ~$1.85B in Q1 to Q3 2024 revenue, up 23% YoY, pretax loss down 99% YoY to ~$180K, and Q3 net income up 57% YoY to ~$19.7M, as its US IPO nears — - Buy now, pay later firm's revenue up 23% in nine-month period — Klarna has filed for an initial public offering in the US
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Italian PE firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video platform Brightcove private in a $233M deal; Brightcove, founded in 2004, makes monetization tools — Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian technology …
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Sources: in the past year, Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to invest as much as $600M in Tether for a ~5% stake; Cantor holds most of Tether's $134B in assets — Before becoming Trump's commerce secretary pick, Lutnick deepened Cantor's ties with a stablecoin firm under investigation
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