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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: 2025's Apple Watch Ultra is slated to get satellite connectivity for off-the-grid text messages via Globalstar, and may get blood pressure monitoring  —  - Company also working on blood-pressure tool for future model  — Apple is using MediaTek modems for first time in new watches
Emma Roth / The Verge:
A California District Court judge orders Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with WP Engine's plugins  —  WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic.  On Tuesday, a California District …
David Welch / Bloomberg:
GM says Cruise will exit the robotaxi business, combining Cruise's and GM's technical teams to focus on autonomous and driver safety tech for upcoming GM cars  —  Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined into a single effort focused on developing autonomous technology to offer …
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Embodied, which made an $800 companion robot called Moxie for kids, says it is closing down after a failed funding round and that its robot will soon be bricked  —  Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity government contractor Sichuan Silence and one of its staff over Ragnarok ransomware ties and creating and using zero-days  —  The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Sichuan Silence, a Chinese cybersecurity company, and one of its employees …
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Trump picks FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to chair the FTC; Ferguson has said the FTC should tackle perceived censorship of conservative viewpoints online  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to lead the consumer protection and antitrust agency.
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
A lawsuit against Character.AI alleges its chatbots harmed two young Texas users, including sympathizing with children who kill parents over screen time limits  —  A child in Texas was 9 years old when she first used the chatbot service Character.AI.  It exposed her to “hypersexualized content …
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Source: Google asked the US to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's tech on Azure, after the FTC asked Google about Microsoft's practices  —  Google recently asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram rolls out “trial reels”, which let creators experiment by publishing videos only to users who don't follow them, after testing the feature in May 2024  —  Instagram is officially rolling out “trial reels” to give creators a way to test out new content by publishing videos that don't appear to their followers.
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Amazon launches Amazon Autos, letting US shoppers buy Hyundai cars, and plans to add more dealerships and manufacturers; it was announced in November 2023  —  Amazon's partnership with Hyundai means you can use the e-retailer to purchase a brand-new car online.

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CNN:
Source: UFC CEO Dana White has declined Trump's offer to become press secretary

Washington Post:
Sources: Trump ally Laura Loomer was paid, including via wire transfers worth ~$60K, for political social media posts without publicly disclosing the payments

Julia Alexander / Puck:
NBC News' Kornacki Cam on Election Night and its broad use in others' YouTube and Twitch streams showed how legacy media and creators can build on each other

More News

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Amazon plans to test a 15-minute delivery service for items ranging from grocery to household goods in India this month, starting with some areas in Bengaluru
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
NYC-based Stainless, which offers an AI-powered API-to-SDK generator to clients like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Cloudflare, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Solos debuts the AirGo Vision, a camera-equipped pair of smart glasses featuring visual recognition powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o, available now starting from $299
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg:
AI language learning startup Speak, which focuses on speaking, not gamification, raised $78M led by Accel at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $162M

Earlier Picks

Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
The US Commerce Department finalizes $6.1B+ for memory chipmaker Micron to fund its New York and Idaho factory projects, one of the largest CHIPS Act subsidies
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft unveils a data center design that uses zero water for cooling, down from the 125M+ liters per year a typical center uses, rolling out since August
John Russell / HPCwire:
Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
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