Techmeme: A profile of Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who has urged AI companies and other tech startups to boost US competitiveness and national security (George Hammond/Financial Times)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Sources: Apple is working on a foldable device the size of two iPad Pros for 2028, a Magic Mouse revamp, and an AirTag with triple the range of the current one — Apple's new vision for the future of computing is a giant, iPad-like foldable device. Also: The company rethinks the mouse …

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Charles Rollet / TechCrunch:

Telegram says it has removed 15.4M groups and channels with harmful content in 2024, as its moderation page shows more enforcement since Pavel Durov's arrest — Telegram has been under unprecedented pressure to clean up its platform this year, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested …

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New York Times:

While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president's good side, the past week's frenzy of tech leaders to woo Trump stood out from other industries — It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.

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Aimee Ortiz / New York Times:

Officials say hackers likely accessed personal data of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents, with a “high probability” that sensitive info was stolen — An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people …

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Financial Times:

Sources say it makes no sense for Elon Musk to target OpenAI with onerous regulation as co-chair of DOGE, given his remit is to find ways to slash regulation — Tesla chief's influence over Donald Trump encourages ChatGPT-maker into patriotic pitch to incoming administration

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George Hammond / Financial Times:

A profile of Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who has urged AI companies and other tech startups to boost US competitiveness and national security — Silicon Valley investor and podcast host has joined Elon Musk in securing a key role in incoming US administration

John Towfighi / CNN:

How Sony turned itself around by innovating its games business beyond consoles and making acquisitions to expand its IP and focus on original content — The last time Sony was worth this much on the stock market, Bill Clinton was president and the PlayStation 2 was about to debut on American store shelves.

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Andrew Lawrence / The Guardian:

Sports stars promoting crypto coins and exchanges with little knowledge highlight the lack of mechanisms for consumers to distinguish opportunities from scams — Sports stars are rushing to promote coins and exchanges. But they are stepping into a world of which they often have scant knowledge

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Harrison Smith / Washington Post:

Donald Bitzer, plasma screen co-inventor and the father of PLATO computer system, considered a precursor to messaging apps and more, died on December 10 at 90 — He helped shape cyberculture as the father of PLATO, a computer-based educational network that sparked the development of plasma screens and digital messaging.

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Pieter Haeck / Politico:

The EC pledges €750M of the €1.5B planned investment to fund AI-optimized supercomputers across seven sites to help EU startups compete with global rivals — BRUSSELS — The European Union has committed hundreds of millions of euros to help startups catch up in the global artificial intelligence race.

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Eliza Strickland / IEEE Spectrum:

An interview with Fei-Fei Li on her NeurIPS keynote talk about visual intelligence, her startup World Labs, giving machines 3D spatial intelligence, and more — Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li has already earned her place in the history of AI. She played a major role …

Ari Levy / CNBC:

A look at Broadcom's path to $1T in market cap: stock up 760%+ and three deals worth $10B+ after abandoning its $120B bid to acquire Qualcomm in 2018, and more — When Broadcom tried to buy rival Qualcomm for $120 billion in 2018, its efforts were thwarted.

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