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December 8, 2024, 1:45 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:
The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps  —  I'm addicted to Apple's Vision Pro.  It's a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television.  Sure, I would like it to be lighter.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images, to Grok; Aurora disappeared for some users after going live for a few hours  —  X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant.
Andrew Williams / Wired:
A look at the opportunities India provides for smartphone companies, including its growing market for premium phones and as a manufacturing hub outside of China  —  A quarter of all iPhones could be made outside China by 2025, most likely in India—a rapidly growing market with hundreds of millions of potential customers.
More: The Diplomat
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launched a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials  —  The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM  —  ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …
Ryotaro Yamada / Nikkei Asia:
Dell'Oro Group expects global investment in data centers to rise ~30% YoY to $463.7B in 2025, with about half coming from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta  —  LAS VEGAS — Global investment in data centers is expected to outpace the cost of sending humans to the moon by about 50% next year …
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant  —  An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future
The Guardian:
An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M  —  FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Brian Krebs, who over the past 20 years has investigated and outed some of the worst cybercriminals, including the alleged Snowflake client hackers  —  In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge

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