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| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
Trump plans to nominate former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC chair, keeping with his promise for a crypto-friendly administration — President-elect Donald Trump, keeping with his promise for a crypto-friendly administration, plans to nominate former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins to head the agency …
More: DL News, Unchained, The Information, CNN, Fox Business, The Hill, Quartz, Decrypt, The Block, NPR, Fortune, Washington Examiner, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, Benzinga, Moniify, USA Today, The Straits Times, Reuters, Bitcoin Insider, Financial Times, Coinspeaker, Coinpedia Fintech News, Associated Press, NFTgators, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Watcher Guru, Daily Caller News Foundation, Crypto Briefing, StreetInsider.com, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Proactive, Wall Street Journal, Finance Magnates, Inc.com, Inside Bitcoins, The Coin Republic, Protos, and Fast Company
| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather model that the company claims outperforms traditional methods on up to 15-day weather and deadly storm forecasts — GenCast, from the company's DeepMind division, outperformed the world's best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.
More: Google DeepMind, Ars Technica, Nature, Android Police, Engadget, The Guardian, 9to5Google, Axios, Chrome Unboxed, MIT Technology Review, Engadget, Maginative, New Scientist, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @shakirm, @erictopol, and @danielrothenberg.com
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: Google DeepMind, The Verge, PCWorld, The Decoder, Neowin, Analytics India Magazine, Tom's Guide, and Maginative
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anduril and OpenAI partner to deploy advanced AI systems for national security missions, focusing on “improving the nation's counter-unmanned aircraft systems” — OpenAI and Anduril on Wednesday announced a partnership allowing the defense tech company to deploy advanced artificial …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Information, MIT Technology Review, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Maginative, Axios, and Anduril Industries
X: @haydenfield and @heidykhlaaf
| The Verge: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI will begin 12 days of “shipmas” on December 5, with new features, products, and demos, sources say including text-to-video AI tool Sora — Happy holidays from OpenAI. The AI startup plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of new features and products for 12 days, starting on December 5th.
More: Engadget, Wccftech, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Beebom, Tom's Guide, The Hindu, NewsBytes, and MSPoweruser
X: @openai, @sama, @danprimack, @teddyschleifer, @emilystewartm, @steph_palazzolo, and @shiringhaffary
Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
More: The Verge, New York Times, Decrypt, The Hill, Inc, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Adweek, The Wrap, Deadline, Quartz, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety. Bluesky: @martinsfp
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Veo, an AI video model for generating “high-quality” 1080p videos in visual and cinematic styles, to businesses, beating OpenAI's Sora to market — Veo, Google's latest generative AI video model, is now available for businesses to start incorporating into their content creation pipelines.
More: Android Police, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, Google Cloud Blog, Phandroid, HotHardware, Gizmodo, TechRadar, The Decoder, Wccftech, Verdict, GSMArena.com, and TechEBlog. LinkedIn: Michael Quinlan
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
DC's AG sues Amazon for allegedly secretly stopping its fastest delivery service to the nearly 50K Prime subscribers in historically lower-income neighborhoods — The District of Columbia's attorney general said the company deliberately outsourced Prime member deliveries in certain ZIP codes.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post, but the accounts aren't searchable and their posts won't show in feeds — Threads rolled out fediverse users' likes and replies in a very limited way at first, and it's the same here …
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, and Social Media Today
| Financial Times: |
The UK NCA uncovers a Russian multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme that let Russian spies, European drug traffickers, and more evade sanctions via crypto — Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders
More: The Guardian, National Crime Agency, BleepingComputer, Sky News, Wired, CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Record, U.S. Department …, The Irish Sun, RTÉ, UPI, City A.M., The Sun, Bloomberg, and Elliptic
X: @jburnskoven, @nca_uk, @jessmarindavis, @nca_uk, @jburnskoven, @nca_uk, @irenekenyon4, @nca_uk, @jamiemaccoll, @nca_uk, and @occrp. LinkedIn: Todd H Baker
Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/europe
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped created with Google's NotebookLM summarizer, and a Your Music Evolution data story — Spotify Wrapped, the streamer's highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized …
More: How-To Geek, The Keyword, Spotify, Spotify, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, Android Police, Android Authority, Android Headlines, The Boston Globe, Spotify, INTO, Chrome Unboxed, iDownloadBlog.com, nextpit, Android Central, Publishers Weekly, ZDNET, Forbes, Neowin, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Independent, 9to5Mac, TestingCatalog, Mashable, Fast Company, The Verge, Maginative, Droid Life, SlashGear, Thurrott, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, MakeUseOf, 9to5Google, PCMag, Wired, WXIA-TV, London Evening Standard, TechRadar, Music Ally, CNET, MacRumors, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, Pocket-lint, and USA Today
X: @avischiffmann, @rdassaly, @spotify, @kingbealestreet, @biancajjohnston, @snazzylabs, @zacbowden, @spotistats, @_johnsonator, @julesprkh, @google, @spotifynews, and @fentpressed
LinkedIn: Romain Perrier, Etan Horowitz, and Jan-Paul Jeffrey
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to crack down on Asian online retailers like Temu and Shein that largely evade custom checks, possibly by taxing their e-commerce revenue — Brussels considering a tax to slow surge of goods sold on sites that evade custom duties and checks| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised $2B in a secondary share sale led by TPG that valued it at $15B; Insight bought Veeam for $5B in January 2020 — Veeam, which helps its users secure and recover their data, has seen its valuation spike in a recent secondary sale that was aimed …
More: Veeam Software, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, Tech Funding News, Blocks and Files, SiliconANGLE, and Channel Futures. LinkedIn: Niraj Tolia
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple delays the mass production of a smart home-focused, display-equipped HomePod until after WWDC 2025 or Q3 2025, mainly due to software development — - The mass production schedule for the display-equipped HomePod has been delayed multiple times.
More: MacRumors, Ming-Chi Kuo, Macworld, The Mac Observer, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechPowerUp, PhoneArena, Neowin, CNET, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, Mashable, Android Authority, TechRadar, Android Headlines, AppleInsider, BGR, The Shortcut, Benzinga, and Supercharged
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, outsourcing to OpenAI, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, the Vision Pro, and more — Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps will define the company's legacy.
More: 9to5Mac, TechRadar, BGR, Yahoo Finance, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Android Headlines, Apple Must, Patently Apple, and MusicTech
Bluesky: @katie-drummond, @natashabernal, @wired.com, and @wired.com
Forums: r/technology, r/technews, and MacRumors Forums
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says AI content was less than 1% of fact-checked election-related misinformation on its apps during major US, UK, Indian, Indonesian, and other elections — At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation.
More: Meta, The Verge, The Guardian, Engadget, Reclaim The Net, The Indian Express, Cybernews.com, PCMag, Silicon Republic, PetaPixel, The Hill, The National Pulse, The Hill, Social Media Today, Tech.co, Washington Times, UPI, The Information, Agence France-Presse, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @sigraff, @sigraff, @kint, @karaswisher, and @karaswisher
Threads: @katienotopoulos, @andymstone, @katienotopoulos, and @kevinroose. X: @florian4gamers. Forums: r/technology
| The Information: |
Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to Chinese iPhones but have clashed over model training data, and the models have struggled with prompts — Apple and Chinese search giant Baidu are working together to add artificial intelligence features to iPhones sold in China … | Tom Gerken / BBC: |
An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino on AI in gaming, “preserving the human touch” in game development, Astro Bot, and more — PlayStation's boss says artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to “revolutionise” gaming …
More: TheGamer, Game Rant, MSPoweruser, PlayStation LifeStyle, IGN, Benzinga, and PC Gamer
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launched in May 2024, found seven Pegasus infections after scanning 2,500 devices, some owned by business leaders — The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it's already turning up victims.
More: iVerify, TechCrunch, Dark Reading, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, Help Net Security, and CyberScoop
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Okta reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $665M, above $650M est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $651M, above $635M est., and expects Q4 revenue above est. — Shares of Okta popped more than 18% in extended trading on Tuesday after the identity management company released third-quarter results …
More: Okta, Benzinga, and Barron's Online
| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Marvell reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $1.52B, above $1.45B est., $373M in net income u, and expects ~$1.8B in Q4 revenue, above $1.64B est.; MRVL jumps 20%+ — - Chipmaker posts better-than-expected earnings, rosy forecast — Custom AI chips have helped boost sales, Marvell CEO says| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Cyber Monday sales grew 3% YoY to $49.7B globally and just 2% YoY to $12.8B in the US; Adobe says US online sales grew 7.3% YoY to $13.3B — The figures are now in for consumer spending on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday … | Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
An artist shares his experience of turning to Replika's AI bot Lila for companionship, including giving Lila an AI friend by creating a digital copy of himself — Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen …
Bluesky: @mpshanahan, @michaelrnelson, @caseynewton, @joshdzieza, @emmabaccellieri, @multiplicityct, @robhorning, @hypervisible, and @knguyen
X: @samfbiddle, @ai_bulletin_top, and @ikrietzberg
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Amid the Salt Typhoon hacks, US officials recommend that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers — Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PCMag, CSO, Forbes, ZDNET, Android Authority, CNET, TechCrunch, The Independent, DataBreaches.Net, Daring Fireball, How-To Geek, Entrepreneur, Computerworld, Metacurity, Cybernews.com, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, and Axios
Bluesky: @emilprotalinski, @joshsternberg.com, @jkirk, @socialmedialab.ca, @evacide, @leak, @kevincollier, @tarah.org, @iainthomson, @evangreer, and @samsabin
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @thegibson@hackers.town, @da_667@infosec.exchange, @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @mhoye@mastodon.social, and @JessTheUnstill@infosec …
X: @joebeone, @tarah, and @benjamingoggin
Forums: r/esist, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, r/crypto, r/signal, r/politics, r/conspiracy, and Slashdot
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
In an interview, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said that he is “a little worried” about the strong concentration of top open-source AI models from China — China's open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and “reasoning.”| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Ubisoft says it will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, but keep its servers on until June 3, 2025, and plans to lay off ~277 production team staff — Ubisoft will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, Ubisoft announced Tuesday. Servers will remain on until June 3, 2025 …
More: Ubisoft, Insider Gaming, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Digital Trends, TheGamer, Benzinga, Variety, MSPoweruser, Game World Observer, Screen Rant, VideoGamer, Metro.co.uk, TrueAchievements, KitGuru, Game Developer, GameSpot, PlayStation LifeStyle, TechRaptor, Forbes, Gameranx, Silicon Republic, Pure Xbox, Engadget, Reuters, Video Games Chronicle, and GamesIndustry.biz
X: @playxdefiant, @pixelsofmark, @charlieintel, @varsitygamingtv, @antoniojcintron, @gogoyubari__, @counterscottgo, @prorebornyt, and @stallionstreams
Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/XDefiant, r/gaming, r/PS5, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
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