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Apple says AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down and will retire in spring 2026; ex-Microsoft CVP Amar Subramanya takes over, reporting to Craig Federighi — Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring 2026, Apple announced today.
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| The Information: |
Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a “code red” to shift more resources to improve ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans, like ads — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google, with its structural advantages, is a threat to both OpenAI and Nvidia; OpenAI has a meaningful moat with 800M+ ChatGPT users, but must monetize via ads — OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z TriFold, with a 6.5" outer screen, a 10" inner screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy SoC, and a 3.9mm body at its thinnest point — It's really called the TriFold and it's really coming to the US. … It'll launch first in Korea on December 12th, with a US launch planned for the first quarter of 2026.
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Sources: Apple doesn't plan to comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on iPhones and will raise its concerns with New Delhi — Apple (AAPL.O) does not plan to comply with a mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app and will convey …
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly-built multicloud networking solution and an open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure “later in 2026” — Outages at major web hosts can have huge impacts across society, as we see often such as with the recent Cloudflare outage.
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| Anthropic: |
Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 found and developed exploits collectively worth $4.6M — AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we've written about before. But what is the economic impact of these capabilities?
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires — The fund-raising effort, the company's third this year, values it at $11 billion, and comes amid stiff competition in the increasingly popular industry.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Marques Brownlee plans to shut down wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: Panels had 900K downloads and $95K in user spending since its 2024 launch — Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, or MKBHD, announced on Monday that his phone wallpaper app Panels is shutting down.
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| John Yoon / New York Times: |
South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one person made ~$12K — The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country's effort to stop exploitative recordings.| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the “first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model” — Nvidia announced new infrastructure and AI models on Monday as it works to build the backbone technology for physical AI …
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| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?”; an “unauthorized” map edit resolved the bet — A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could top $5B; Celestial was valued at $2.5B in March 2025 — Marvell is in advanced talks to buy Santa Clara-based chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal worth several billion dollars …
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| Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg: |
Vanguard now allows ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold cryptocurrencies to be traded on its platform, reversing a longstanding position — Vanguard Group, the world's second-largest asset manager, has decided to allow ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold cryptocurrencies … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's healthcare push was “inappropriate”, IBM's quantum bet, and more — Today, I'm talking with Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM. IBM is a fascinating company.| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo science and tech nonprofit conversions since January 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI — The coalition backing the effort has appealed to Elon Musk for help funding the measure — A coalition that tried and failed … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US, ahead of a global rollout next week — The new annual insights feature lets you review your top channels, interests, and other viewing habits.| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production — Kuaishou expects the new model's abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers| Nicholas Kulish / New York Times: |
Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $250 in individual investment accounts for 25M kids, totaling $6.25B, comparing the gift to Dell's direct model — The tech billionaire and his wife hope other philanthropists follow their $6 billion lead in expanding the reach of soon-to-be-created “Trump accounts.”| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Discord now lets users buy, wishlist, and gift in-game cosmetic items directly within its platform, starting with a store within Marvel Rivals' Discord server — Starting with Marvel Rivals, users will be able to buy and gift in-game items without leaving Discord.| Wall Street Journal: |
The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake — XLight to get up to $150 million to develop ultraprecise lasers for squeezing more circuits onto semiconductors
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models — Cursor, which launched one of the fastest-growing AI tools of all time, is at the center of the boom-or-bust debate in Silicon Valley| Financial Times: |
UK pension funds are cutting exposure to US equities over worries about growing concentration in a few tech stocks and a potential bubble in the AI sector — Public and private-sector funds concerned over market's growing concentration in a small number of tech stocks
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