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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Apple's future growth may come from several new Watch- or iPad-level businesses; visionOS 2.2's ultrawide Mac display mode is the Vision Pro's first killer app — Apple may never find another product with as much revenue potential as the iPhone, but it can still thrive with several new Apple Watch- or iPad-level businesses.

More: Yanko Design, PCMag, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, and MacRumors

X: @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman. Forums: r/apple

Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac:

Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may arrive between the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026 and could feature an M5 around when the first Macs get it — In the latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reported that the 2nd generation of Apple Vision Pro is expected …

More: PhoneArena, Wccftech, AppleInsider, Neowin, and The Mac Observer. X: @spatialreport

The Information:

Sources: Orion, OpenAI's upcoming flagship model currently in development, shows a smaller increase in quality from GPT-4 than GPT-4 had over GPT-3 at launch — The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring. The rate of improvement …

More: TechCrunch, Cryptopolitan, WinBuzzer, and The Decoder

Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @hyhieu226, @danshipper, @yampeleg, @noahpinion, @amir, @amir, @garymarcus, @chatgpt21, @bindureddy, @yampeleg, @0xkarmatic, @modestproposal1, and @amir

Forums: r/mlscaling, r/OpenAI, r/Futurology, and r/singularity

Reuters:

Source: the US ordered TSMC to halt shipments of 7nm or more advanced chips that power AI accelerator and GPUs to Chinese customers starting on November 11 — The U.S. ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers …

Zak Killian / HotHardware:

Intel's Robert Hallock admits “our wounds with Arrow Lake not hitting the performance we projected were self-inflicted” and promises fixes for performance gains — Speaking plainly, Intel's recently-launched Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs, code-named “Arrow Lake” …

More: HotHardware on YouTube, Tom's Hardware, KitGuru, XDA Developers, XDA Developers, Wccftech, VideoCardz.com, HotHardware, OC3D, TechPowerUp, HotHardware, PCWorld, The Verge, Notebookcheck, and heise online

Threads: @tomwarrenuk. Forums: r/hardware

Zachary Small / New York Times:

A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M — The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.

More: BBC, Decrypt, ARTnews, Sotheby's, The Guardian, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, TechEBlog, Euronews, IFLScience, Artnet News, Artsy, designboom, Ai-Da, The Art Newspaper, Suggest, Windows Central, The Verge, The Sun, New York Post, Cryptopolitan, VICE, PCMag, The Indian Express, and Al Jazeera

Threads: @kellycrowwsj. X: @reuters, @nytimes, @reuters, @morningbrew, @charkrol, and @morningbrew

Forums: r/aiwars and r/ArtistHate

Washington Post:

Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters — This was the year that artificial intelligence was expected to wreak havoc on elections. For two years, experts from D.C …

Source: ISD. More: Wall Street Journal and NBC News

Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @campuscodi@mastodon.social, and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

X: @alexandrosm, @jaredlholt, and @john_sipher. LinkedIn: ISD

Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:

Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights the shift toward a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum — Over the past several days, Meta's Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies.

Threads: @taylorlorenz, @robbiekirshner, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @groguspeaknyc2, @taylorlorenz, and @stuartathompsonnyt

X: @taylorlorenz and @taylorlorenz

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:

Chegg has lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools — Chegg's stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT — Most companies are starting …

More: Gizmodo. Bluesky: @joshphillips.bsky.social. X: @josourcing, @jasonlk, and @scottlincicome

LinkedIn: Philip Koopman, Bart Epstein, and Mike Grandinetti

Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox's 20th birthday, growth due to the EU's DMA, privacy, the Google search deal, AI, and more — Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy …

Mastodon: @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social. LinkedIn: Frederic Lardinois. Forums: r/firefox, r/browsers, and r/pcmasterrace

Newcomer:

San Francisco's next mayor, Dan Lurie, a Levi's heir with no political experience, wasn't tech leaders' top choice but is a moderate who aims to work with them — San Francisco venture capitalists didn't get all the results they'd hoped for in this week's local elections.

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:

Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies have created their own internal benchmarks for AI as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on public tests — Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language models

More: MarkTechPost. X: @spirosmargaris

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Michael Gold / New York Times:

President-elect Donald Trump announces he has chosen Karoline Leavitt, who served as his campaign's press secretary, to be his White House press secretary

John Koblin / New York Times:

NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:

On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

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James Zou / Nature:

A study of ~50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7% to 17% of sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs

More: PMLR and Crooked Timber

X: @james_y_zou, @germhuntermd, and @moorejh

Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:

A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé who heads the Chinese intelligence agency accused of likely steering the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks on the US

X: @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, and @jchengwsj. Forums: r/espionage

Bloomberg:

FTX sues Anthony Scaramucci, Crypto.com, Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.US, and others to recoup SBF's “investments” during his “campaign of influence-buying” in 2022

More: PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Bitcoin Insider, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, CoinGape, and crypto.news

X: @zerohedge and @sunil_trades

Nikkei Asia:

Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association: Taiwan's chip production is on track to increase 22% YoY to a record ~$165B in 2024, driven by generative AI demand

Bluesky: @helloyorick.bsky.social

Ben Holland / Bloomberg:

Analysis: US private data center construction spending grew to nearly $30B/year, over 2x the amount in late 2022; global spending is on track to hit $250B/year

More: U.S. Census Bureau. X: @rhjameson

MK Manoylov / The Block:

Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M on November 5 to $184.16M by November 8, highlighting the platform's reliance on political betting

More: Cryptonews and The Block. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency

Earlier Picks

Zeke Faux / Bloomberg:

The 2024 US election cycle showed how crypto has turned out to be a practically perfect special interest group for an era of unlimited corporate spending

More: Decrypt, Forbes, Blockchain News …, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, Bitcoinist.com, The Capital, CryptoSlate, and Reuters

Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @jameswester, @prosmoon, @nonfungibletak, @thetiniestvoice, @jamestsetsekas, @lukewgoldstein, @bcmerchant, @silvermanjacob, @business, @chainlinkgod, and @silvermanjacob

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk:

Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury as of October 31, down 39% from March 31, 2022; ~80% of holdings are in ETH, whose price has slid 22%

More: Ethereum Foundation, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, and Cryptonews. Forums: r/ethtrader

Nikkei Asia:

Tencent partners with Visa to launch a palm biometric authentication payment service in Singapore, the technology's first expansion outside China

More: Finextra, Tencent, Tech in Asia, and PYMNTS.com

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:

Source: AI coding assistant startup Anysphere has received unsolicited offers valuing it at as much as $2.5B, from Benchmark, Index, a16z, Thrive, and others

More: The Information

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:

In a May 2024 email, the US NHTSA warned Tesla that its online posts falsely suggested its cars are autonomous, potentially misleading and endangering drivers

More: TESLARATI, The Guardian, Benzinga, EV, InsideEVs, Neowin, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and Reuters

Threads: @lorakolodny. Bluesky: @tylerking.bsky.social. Forums: r/technology