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Wall Street Journal:
Letter: Meta urges California's AG to stop OpenAI's for-profit transition, says Musk is “qualified” to “represent the interests of Californians in this matter”  —  Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit Mark Zuckerberg's company …
Ina Fried / Axios:
In a blog post, OpenAI says “You can't sue your way to AGI”, and publishes emails from Elon Musk showing he wanted to own OpenAI and run it as a for-profit  —  Musk is also the founder of xAI, an OpenAI rival.  — The current suit, filed in August, is the successor …
Jakob Rodgers / Mercury News:
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher who accused the company of copyright violations in October, was found dead by suicide on November 26 in San Francisco  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A former OpenAI researcher known for whistleblowing the blockbuster artificial intelligence company facing …
Devan Cole / CNN:
A US appeals court declines to temporarily block a ban on TikTok; TikTok had indicated it would ask SCOTUS to step in on an emergency basis to block the law  —  A federal appeals court on Friday declined to temporarily block a ban on TikTok, teeing up a showdown at the Supreme Court over whether …
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
During his NeurIPS talk, Ilya Sutskever says “Pre-training as we know it will end”, as “we've achieved peak data and there'll be no more”  —  OpenAI's cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left start …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
MicroStrategy, Palantir, and Axon will join the Nasdaq 100 index, effective before the market open on December 23; Super Micro will be removed from the index  —  MicroStrategy, the preferred high beta play on the price of bitcoin, will join the Nasdaq 100 index, a move that could further increase demand …
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
The US DOJ indicts 14 North Korean nationals for allegedly making $88M+ via fraud by working as remote IT workers for US companies from April 2017 to March 2023  —  Fourteen North Korean nationals have been indicted for their role in a long-running scam where they stole the identities …
Graham Fraser / BBC:
The BBC complains to Apple after Apple Intelligence's notification summary falsely suggested the BBC had published an article saying Luigi Mangione shot himself  —  The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant's new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United States.
Eric Hal Schwartz / TechRadar:
OpenAI launches Projects, a ChatGPT feature to organize files and chats into folders, now available to Plus, Pro, and Team users and “soon” to free users  —  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. … - This new ChatGPT feature helps organize interactions with the AI chatbot.
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Sources: ServiceTitan's IPO brought big windfalls for early investors, including returns of $1B+ for Iconiq Growth and $800M+ for Bessemer Venture Partners  —  - Venture firms are celebrating reprieve from IPO drought  — Bessemer also said to reap over $800 million on the bet
Erin Griffith / New York Times:
A look at opposing VC models of Benchmark, which maintains its traditional small-scale approach, and Andreessen Horowitz, which pursues aggressive expansion  —  Three decades ago, five men formed a venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley with a simple pitch: Small is beautiful.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Dell's evolution under Michael Dell, who has transitioned the company from a nostalgic mid-90s PC maker into a leading AI infrastructure provider  —  The man who founded Dell in a Texas dorm room has transformed his company.  It's not just about PCs anymore.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google rolls out interactive Audio Overviews in NotebookLM, an “experimental feature” that lets users talk to the AI “hosts” of the podcast-like overviews  —  Google's NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews have been a surprise hit this year …
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Google Cloud launches Agentspace to let enterprises create and deploy AI agents for sales, marketing, HR, software development, and more
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out NotebookLM Plus, the enterprise version of NotebookLM with higher limits and added access and data management controls, as part of Agentspace
Louise Matsakis / Wired:
Ex-ByteDance intern Keyu Tian, who was allegedly dismissed for “serious misconduct”, is a co-author of one of two papers chosen for the NeurIPS Best Paper Award  —  Keyu Tian and his coauthors won the Best Paper Award at the annual NeurIPS machine learning conference for their work on a new technique for generating images.
Yuji Nitta / Nikkei Asia:
Vietnam and Indonesia are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries  —  HANOI — Southeast Asian nations are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Cantor Fitzgerald settles US SEC charges for $6.75M over disclosures before its SPACs merged with smart glass maker View and geospatial data company Satellogic  —  WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald …

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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Five more states join the lawsuit filed last month by eight states seeking to block Nexstar's Tegna acquisition, which Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of TV consumers sue in federal court in California to block Paramount's acquisition of WBD on antitrust grounds; Paramount says the suit lacks merit

Reporters Without Borders:
RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories; Norway holds the top spot

More News

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series at 2024's end in the EU, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect
Bloomberg:
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says Klarna's investment in AI let it stop hiring a year ago and its headcount fell 22% to 3,500, mostly due to attrition
More: RetailWire.  Bluesky: @ohiohawkeye.  Threads: @carnage4life, @parkert, and @pkedrosky.  X: @chris_ciaccia
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
Bloomberg:
Liquid, which is building “liquid foundation models” inspired by the architecture of worm brains, raised a $250M Series A led by AMD at a $2.3B valuation
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
How Anthropic's Claude became the chatbot of choice for AI industry insiders, who say its responses feel more creative and empathetic and less gratingly robotic

Earlier Picks

Adam James / The Block:
A Texas man gets a two-year sentence for underreporting capital gains from selling $3.7M in bitcoin, the first such prosecution based entirely on cryptocurrency
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Broadcom's stock closes up 24.43%+ a day after the company reported Q4 results with strong AI revenue growth, pushing its market cap over $1T for the first time
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
An interview with Sundar Pichai about Google joining a “Manhattan Project” for AI under Trump, playing the long game after ChatGPT's debut, Gemini 2.0, and more
More: Leadership News, MediaPost, The Hill, and Newcomer
Bluesky: @nyxa5 and @wavesblog.  X: @ericnewcomer.  LinkedIn: Jacinda Mein
Kristen Altus / Fox Business:
OpenAI confirms that Sam Altman plans to personally donate $1M to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, as opposed to having OpenAI send the gift
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Elon Musk says the US SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after its Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or face numerous charges
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Google unveils Android XR, a mixed reality OS for headsets and smart glasses, with Gemini built in, and plans a 2025 debut with Samsung's Project Moohan headset
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