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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies  —  - Arm sued its longtime partner for breach of contract in 2022  — The company gave Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancellation
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
The US CFPB says Goldman Sachs and Apple will pay $89M following a long-running Apple Card investigation; Goldman must pay $64.8M and Apple must pay $25M  —  - Watchdog cites customer service breakdowns, misrepresentations  — Goldman banned from new credit cards without ‘credible’ plan
Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg:
Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained since February 2024; sources say the case was discontinued due to his ill health  —  How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World
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Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production since early summer, and could stop making the existing version entirely by the end of 2024  —  Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset since the early summer and could stop making …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A mother plans to sue Character.AI after her 14-year-old son became obsessed with a chatbot before his suicide; Character.AI says it plans new safety features  —  The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death.  —  THE SHIFT
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
China says Tim Cook said Apple would “continue to grow its investments in China” in a meeting with its top tech official, during his second visit in 2024  —  How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World … Quicktake
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Amazon-owned Eero unveils the $350 Eero Outdoor 7, a dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 access point that covers up to 15,000 square feet with speeds up to 2.1Gbps  —  Mesh Wi-Fi pioneer Eero is tackling a new frontier: the outdoors.  Today, the Amazon-owned company announced the Eero Outdoor 7.
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta's Oversight Board says it has “serious concerns” about Meta's moderation in “electoral contexts”, after Meta removed a satirical image of Harris and Walz  —  It warned Meta that “overenforcing” its rules could “lead to the excessive removal of political speech.”
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP  —  This article was produced with support from the Capitol Forum.  —  On a computer screen a map shows the movements of smartphones around the globe.
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with Craig Federighi on the launch of Apple Intelligence features like notification summaries in iOS 18.1, Siri, Apple's AI strategy, and more  —  Our columnist reviews the first wave of AI features coming to iPhones with iOS 18.1, and asks Apple's software chief why so much is still missing
Washington Post:
A profile of Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Sergey Brin and a rising MAGA star; sources: Shanahan and Brin's marriage drove a wedge between Brin and Larry Page  —  With a massive divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the former Democrat and RFK Jr. running mate is remaking herself …
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
Claude Sonnet 3.5 hands-on: the AI understood a basic game and its mechanics, had a strategy, was willing to revise it based on learning, but fragilities remain  —  Some quick impressions of an actual agent  —  There seems to be near-universal belief in AI that agents are the next big thing.
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Chemistry, a new VC firm by Index, Bessemer, and a16z alums Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, raised $350M for its debut, Series A-focused fund  —  Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil and Kristina Shen left top jobs at blue chip VC firms to launch Chemistry, a new equal partnership focused on backing Series A startups.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Foursquare plans to sunset its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 to focus on check-in app Swarm, reversing a 2014 decision to split its services into two apps  —  “I would be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
OpenAI hires former White House official Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji as its first chief economist to research how AI will impact economic growth and job creation  —  Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Kuo: Apple has cut iPhone 16 orders by ~10M units for Q4 2024 and H1 2025, mostly non-Pro models, and plans 8.6M iPhone SE 4 units from December 2024 to Q1 2025  —  - iPhone 16 orders were cut by around 10M units for 4Q24-1H25, with most of the cuts affecting non-Pro models.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out enhanced scam detection to Google Messages beta users and previews other safety features, like an option to blur images that may contain nudity  —  The latest round of new features for Google Messages is focused on safety, like “Sensitive Content Warnings” for images that contain nudity.
Six Colors:
Apple releases iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2 developer betas, with features like Genmoji, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, and ChatGPT integration  —  Apple Intelligence just keeps on coming.  —  The first batch of features in Apple's much-hyped entry into the artificial intelligence boom …

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From Mediagazer

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

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Michael C. Horowitz / Foreign Affairs:
How advances in AI and autonomous systems, new tech, and lower costs are shifting global wars towards “precise mass”, or the mass deployment of uncrewed systems
Bloomberg:
India's Supreme Court strikes down a tribunal order that let Byju's settle debts with India's cricket board, pushing the edtech startup firmly toward insolvency

Earlier Picks

Nikkei Asia:
Huawei launches HarmonyOS 5.0 and says 1B+ devices run on HarmonyOS including smartphones, PCs, and cars, and the OS has 15K+ apps, up 10x from earlier in 2024
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
In its first annual report, Walmart's PhonePe reports FY 2024 revenue grew 74% YoY to ~$602M, net losses down 28% YoY to ~$237M, and 200M MAUs as of March 2024
Runway:
Runway rolls out Act-One, a Gen-3 Alpha tool for animating AI-generated characters with realistic facial expressions using video and voice recordings as inputs
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Qualcomm partners with Google to help automakers develop AI voice assistants and unveils two new chips to power dashboards and self-driving features
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Sources: Apple is working on a new App Store-like app dedicated to games that will integrate with the user's Game Center profile
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack
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