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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations  —  Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may revive the Jobs-era “design is how it works” ethos in Apple's UI design that faded due to Jony Ive elevating Dye  —  In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company 1), I wrote:
Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck@threads.com:
Mark Zuckerberg announces a creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Senior Director of Apple Design Team Billy Sorrentino
Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo:
DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir  —  Alex Karp vows to use his “whole influence” on immigration and defense policy.  —  Read Later Read Later
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Amazon plans to release its $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and $500 Kindle Scribe on December 10, after announcing them in September, but won't offer preorders  —  The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and upgraded Kindle Scribe will be available to order soon.
Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:
The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in “censorship”, including fact-checking and online safety  —  The Trump administration has ordered increased vetting of applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
DealBook Summit: Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by “YOLO-ing” and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers  —  Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei suggested that some artificial intelligence companies are taking …
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions”, or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat  —  OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models.
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning  —  Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term  —  What are we scaling?
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Nvidia says GB200 Blackwell AI servers, which pack 72 chips in one unit, boost performance 10x over H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Wednesday published new data showing that its latest artificial intelligence server can improve the performance …
Bloomberg:
Jensen Huang says “we don't know” if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips should the US relax export controls on them, after a meeting with President Trump
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other news outlets  —  OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times …
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The European Commission opens a new antitrust investigation into Meta over its rollout of its AI assistant in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA  —  Brussels concerned that US tech group's business terms may prevent competition from third-party AI providers
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg:
Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation  —  Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft Corp.'s billionaire founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, is raising $30 million …
Steven Levy / Wired:
A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip  —  AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product.
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer, providing $6B+ in 2025 revenue, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its US delivery network  —  Amazon has long been the Postal Service's top customer, providing more than $6 billion in annual revenue to the agency in 2025.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
The US DOJ indicts two Virginia twin brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors  —  The Justice Department arrested Virginia-based twin brothers who formerly worked at a federal contractor on Wednesday …
The Hacker News:
React discloses a React Server Components flaw that allows unauthenticated remote code execution; Wiz says 39% of cloud environments have vulnerable instances  —  A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.
The Information:
Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M+ led by Situational Awareness  —  Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google's AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700 million in new financing, according to two people with knowledge of the deal.

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warns broadcasters not to air “fake polls” or “suppression polls”, once again threatening regulatory action for news content

Jem Aswad / Variety:
WMG plans to combine its recorded music and publishing sync divisions into a single unit, to be led by Ron Broitman, who is promoted to President of Global Sync

Owen Lewis / Defector:
Spotify-owned outlet The Ringer moves newsletters by some of its most popular staff to Substack; Spotify declines to explain the strategy behind the move

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AI Alignment Forum:
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Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active
Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multiyear $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake's platform and deploy AI agents for enterprises
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google debuts Workspace Studio, a no-code tool for creating, designing, managing, and sharing AI agents, for users on Business, Education, and Enterprise plans
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