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| New York Times: |
Trump picks Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner who is seen as a strong advocate for looser regulation of crypto assets, to succeed Gary Gensler as SEC chair — Mr. Atkins, a pro-business conservative, would likely take a lighter regulatory approach than the current chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Mastodon: @realDonaldTrump …. X: @attorneyjeremy1, @cdixon, @hesterpeirce, @xethalis, @xethalis, @gopmajoritywhip, @iampaulgrewal, @alexandergrieve, @hhorsley, @_danleonardo, @intangiblecoins, @ericldaugh, @wublockchain, @johnreedstark, @patrickmchenry, @cgasparino, @collinrugg, @jacqmelinek, @dlauer, and @eleanorterrett
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Trump selects Gail Slater, an adviser to JD Vance and tech policy adviser during Trump's first term, as head of the DOJ's antitrust unit — - Slater has been policy adviser for Vice President-elect Vance — Trump vows to continue to crackdown on giant technology firms
More: The Verge, Reuters, Axios, Tech Oversight Project, The Real Deal, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Gizmodo, The Hill, Daily Caller News Foundation, The Information, Quartz, and Barron's Online
Mastodon: @realDonaldTrump …. X: @mrddmia, @andyyen, @matthewstoller, @ggreenwald, @mrddmia, @reclaimthenethq, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @musharbash_b, @mholyoakftc, @brendancarrfcc, @mrddmia, @stef_palma, @sentuberville, @simonateba, @sayreevan, @nancyscola, @jimcramer, @danprimack, @afergusonftc, and @lauren_feiner
| 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, Nature, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, The Guardian, TechEBlog, Business Insider, Nature, Financial Times, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, Engadget, Engadget, Maginative, Android Police, and Axios
Bluesky: @erictopol, @shakirm, and @danielrothenberg.com
X: @reach_vb, @pushmeet, @shakir_za, @maxwinebach, @rjonesy, @neil_chilson, @nxthompson, @altryne, @ilanprice, @andrew_elkadi, @nature, @kcraheather, @sebkrier, @newsfromgoogle, @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, and @googledeepmind
LinkedIn: Gary Denman and Aravind Ravichandran
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can generate 3D worlds from a single prompt image, playable by humans or AI agents using keyboard and mouse inputs — DeepMind, Google's AI research org, has unveiled a model that can generate an “endless” variety of playable 3D worlds.
More: Google DeepMind, Maginative, Tom's Guide, PCWorld, Analytics India Magazine, The Decoder, Neowin, and The Verge
X: @jparkerholder, @albertorosasg, @demishassabis, @bonniesjli, @shaneguml, @shalev_lif, @jeffclune, @ryansullyvan, @bogdan_mazoure, @nickadobos, @rizstanford, @togelius, @omgroth, @ckaplanis1, @j_foerst, @aaronpitters, @yixin_lin_, @elonmusk, @jeffclune, @reach_vb, @googledeepmind, @atabarrok, @andrewcurran_, @altryne, @scobleizer, @jessicayung17, @demishassabis, @ashrewards, @phl43, @elonmusk, @nikshepsvn, @sundarpichai, @yugeten, @michaeld1729, @emostaque, @junglesilicon, @_rockt, @amoufarek, and @rseroter
LinkedIn: Jake Bruce and Alex Rutter
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/StableDiffusion, and r/Games
| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
The White House says the Salt Typhoon hack has impacted eight telecom firms in the US, with dozens of other countries also affected, for as long as two years — A senior administration official said Wednesday the Salt Typhoon hack has impacted dozens of countries in a sweeping espionage campaign| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Fast Company, WebProNews, Entrepreneur, CNET, PCMag, ZDNET, CSO, The Independent, Android Authority, Daring Fireball, and Axios
Bluesky: @rayyu.com, @joshsternberg.com, @emilprotalinski, @jkirk, @socialmedialab.ca, @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/UniversalProfile, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, r/crypto, r/signal, r/politics, r/conspiracy, and Slashdot
| 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: Anduril Industries, Bloomberg, Information Age, The Independent, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Business Insider, Axios, Türkiye Today, TechCrunch, The Verge, Quartz, Engadget, Defense One, Maginative, DroneXL.co, MIT Technology Review, Fox Business, and Reuters
X: @stocksavvyshay, @ericzelikman, @apples_jimmy, @luke_metro, @yacinemtb, @shiringhaffary, @liv_boeree, @npew, @basedbeffjezos, @sigalsamuel, @johncornyn, @gdb, @kalinowski007, @dseetharaman, @bradlightcap, @silvermanjacob, @anduriltech, @timnitgebru, @haydenfield, and @heidykhlaaf
LinkedIn: Sofia Rose Haft, Joseph Larson, and Christian Brose
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
First impressions of Amazon Nova LLMs: they are competitive with Google Gemini, among the cheapest available, and may position Amazon as a top model provider — Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference. The new model family is called Amazon Nova …
More: Amazon Web Services, About Amazon, Digital Trends, Lifewire, GeekWire, VentureBeat, TechRepublic, CRN, and Tech.co
X: @simonw, @davidzapolsky, @emollick, @letti_liu, @emollick, @jerryjliu0, @simonw, and @amazonscience
Forums: Hacker News and lobste.rs
| 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: U.S. Department …, The Guardian, National Crime Agency, Wired, Sky News, Chainalysis, Metro.co.uk, DeviceSecurity.io, UPI, The Irish Sun, ComputerWeekly.com, RTÉ, The Record, City A.M., and BleepingComputer
Bluesky: @polgreen. X: @jburnskoven, @nca_uk, @jessmarindavis, @nca_uk, @jburnskoven, @nca_uk, @irenekenyon4, @nca_uk, @jamiemaccoll, @nca_uk, and @occrp
LinkedIn: Todd H Baker and David Carlisle
Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/europe, r/technology, r/espionage, and r/Intelligence
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post; fediverse posts won't show in feeds, only on the accounts' profiles — Threads rolled out fediverse users' likes and replies in a very limited way at first, and it's the same here …
More: 9to5Mac, We Distribute, Neowin, Fast Company, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, and Engadget
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @Gargron@mastodon.social, @nazgul@infosec.exchange, and @tchambers@indieweb.social
Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @threads, @pcottle, @chris, @jasongraphix, @jasongraphix, @mergesort, @chris, @matthewfacciani, @evanprodromou, and @tomwarrenuk
| 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.| 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: TechRadar, Google Cloud Blog, Gizmodo, Thurrott, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wccftech, Verdict, GSMArena.com, and TechEBlog
X: @rowancheung, @googlecloudtech, @googlecloud, @sundarpichai, @newsfromgoogle, and @rseroter. LinkedIn: Michael Quinlan. Forums: r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate more than 1M GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its facility in Memphis — Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire's xAI aims to catch up with rivals
More: PCMag, Reuters, Greater Memphis Chamber, WATE-TV, FOX13 Memphis, WATN, The Commercial Appeal, and Bloomberg
X: @memphischamber and @repdavidkustoff
| 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: The Daily Upside, SiliconANGLE, Android Headlines, Ars Technica, ZDNET, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Mashable
X: @openai, @sama, @danprimack, @teddyschleifer, @emilystewartm, @steph_palazzolo, and @shiringhaffary
Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
More: New York Times, The Verge, Associated Press, Washington Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Business Insider, Decrypt, TechCrunch, Adweek, and The Hill. Bluesky: @martinsfp
| 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 … | 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, Android Police, PinkNews, SFGATE, The Verge, TechRadar, Tech.co, Spotify, Wired, Business Insider, Observer, KTVU-TV, PYMNTS.com, Android Headlines, Forbes, Android Central, ZDNET, nextpit, Neowin, The Boston Globe, AV Club, Droid Life, SlashGear, Creative Bloq, Music Ally, Business Insider, and 9to5Google
X: @reallygordon, @spotify, @snazzylabs, @zacbowden, @spotistats, @biancajjohnston, @avischiffmann, @_johnsonator, @julesprkh, @rdassaly, @deanweenspeen, @google, @spotifynews, @fentpressed, and @kingbealestreet
LinkedIn: Jan-Paul Jeffrey, Etan Horowitz, and Romain Perrier
| 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, MobileSyrup, Seeking Alpha, Glass Almanac, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Android Headlines, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Entrepreneur, Yahoo Finance, and MusicTech
Bluesky: @katie-drummond, @natashabernal, @wired.com, and @wired.com
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 … | 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 … | 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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon is rolling out a Buy with AWS button that software companies can add to their websites as a way for customers with AWS accounts to pay for services — In 2022, Amazon introduced the Buy with Prime button, allowing premium subscribers to make purchases using their Amazon account even when shopping on other websites.
More: Amazon Web Services. Bluesky: @chirag, @bdsams.com, and @mranthropology. LinkedIn: Matt Yanchyshyn
| 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, Windows Copilot News, Reclaim The Net, 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
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| 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, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, Dark Reading, and Tom's Guide
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Sources: 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: Ming-Chi Kuo, MacRumors, MacRumors, Brian Tong on YouTube, iDrop News, The Mac Observer, Seeking Alpha, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, The Verge, Notebookcheck, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, Macworld, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechPowerUp, Android Headlines, Neowin, Thurrott, and Supercharged
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
TikTok Shop says its US sales tripled to over $100M on Black Friday and it drew a 165% annual increase in shoppers on the two days leading up to Cyber Monday — Company is betting big on its US e-commerce arm as ban looms — TikTok tripled its US shopping sales to more than $100 million on Black Friday …
More: Social Media Today
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