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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's plans for 2025, a year likely to be seen as a stepping stone toward more revolutionary products, rather than one of remarkable innovation — Apple plans a loaded 2025, with plans for an overhauled iPhone line, new AI features, a smart home push and updates to products it hasn't refreshed in a while.
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X: @chaitanyaontech, @markgurman, and @tom_krikorian
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Renée DiResta: |
Meta's changes to its content policies will appease vocal political critics only for the short term, and they signal a retreat from responsibility to users — Hello! Happy new year! It was a busy week in tech policy land. Yesterday was the SCOTUS hearing on TikTok (interesting legal takes).
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
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Threads: @oliverdarcy and @mollyjongfast
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LinkedIn: Foster Coulson, Rachel Wasserman, and Sharon O'Dea
| Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone shipments grew 4% YoY in 2024 after a decade-low in 2023; top two brands, Samsung and Apple, were mostly flat, while Xiaomi grew 12% YoY — - Global smartphone sell-through grew 4% YoY in 2024, following the weakest year in a decade in 2023.| Keir Starmer / Financial Times: |
The UK PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute by over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI — Going our own way will unleash national renewal — Artificial intelligence is the defining opportunity of our generation.
More: Politico, TechCrunch, The Guardian, Reuters, BBC, CNBC, ComputerWeekly.com, Proactive, GOV.UK, Agence France-Presse, Sky News, The Independent, Cointelegraph, Al Jazeera, and UKAI
X: @shakeelhashim, @s8mb, @haydnbelfield, and @donaldclark
Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/ukpolitics
| Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer: |
Tim Sweeney says Big Tech leaders, who used to pretend to be Democrats, are now pretending to be Republicans to skirt antitrust laws and “crush competitors” — The Trump administration is expected to be softer on antitrust cases, which as we know are one of Sweeney's major pursuits.
More: TechSpot and Business Today
Forums: r/SocialistGaming, r/americanoligarchy, and r/AnythingGoesNews
| David Allen Green / Financial Times: |
More: TheJournal.ie. Bluesky: @danielagabor, @jwsidders, @henrymance, and @ianfraser. Mastodon: @davidallengreen …. Threads: @joanwestenberg
LinkedIn: Lauri Rechardt, Stuart Lambert, and Lindsay Pentelow
Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/technology
| Michael Savage / The Guardian: |
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Forums: r/unitedkingdom, r/technology, and r/ukpolitics
| Rest of World: |
Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds — In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP. — Starlink, launched in 2019 by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has become the leading satellite internet provider in the world.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Microsoft notifies customers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand of upcoming ~30% to ~45% price hikes for Microsoft 365 plans — Won't say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react - so far with anger
Bluesky: @bdsams.com and @mals
| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
As researchers talk about the arrival of supersmart AI, far fewer voices are trying to envision and articulate what a world awash in AI might actually look like — What to make of the statements of the AI labs? — Recently, something shifted in the AI industry.
More: Vox, Analytics India Magazine, Maginative, and Robotics News
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @iblis-bane.co.za, and @mergesort.me
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Indian investment app Groww plans to file for an IPO within 10-12 months, seeking a $6B-$8B valuation; Groww was last valued at $3B in October 2021 — Groww, India's largest retail stockbroker, is positioning itself to file for an IPO in 10-12 months and is seeking …
More: Entrackr, The Economic Times, DealStreetAsia, Moneycontrol, Inc42 Media, and Tech in Asia
| John Micklethwait / Bloomberg: |
Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait predicts AI's impact on journalism: jobs will change, not vanish, reporting and breaking news will remain valuable, and more — The news business is facing its next enormous challenge. Here are eight reasons to be both optimistic and paranoid.| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
A report on CES 2025: tech giants were mostly absent, Nvidia's keynote was a big event, AI experimentation, supply chains adapting to geopolitics, and more — CES proved a transition year with many established product lines showing incremental improvements or focusing on B2B areas …
X: @iancutress
| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
A case study of the amount and kinds of ads in 12 shows on the ad-supported tiers of Netflix, Peacock, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Hulu — We watched 12 shows on six platforms to find out how much of your life you give up to save a few bucks each month. — It's getting harder to avoid ads on streaming video.
More: The Overspill and CNBC
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