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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more  —  He's on the patio.  He's on the golf course.  Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world's richest man.
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide “guidance from outside of Government”  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy …
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X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @realdonaldtrump, @vivekgramaswamy, @levie, @themaxburns, @vijayvinyl, @sonalibasak, @scottnover, @jason, @lizchar, @im_sorry_wtf, @maxtmcc, @who_shot_jgr, @teddyschleifer, @donie, @aleresnik, @peterhamby, @luke_metro, @sriramk, @jakesherman, @josephpolitano, @samstein, @teddyschleifer, @josephpolitano, @jstein_wapo, @panasonicdx4500, @trillburne, @adamscochran, @jakesherman, @shaunmmaguire, @zebulgar, @tszzl, @pitdesi, @samadlerbell, @benjysarlin, @chrislhayes, @nikitabier, @burgessev, @lib_crusher, @vivekgramaswamy, @dogetoshi, and @arthurdelaneyhp
Forums: r/law, r/elonmusk, and r/politics
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Financial Times:
Media executives say that some brands were preparing to advertise on X once again, as Elon Musk was likely to gain an influential Trump administration role  —  Some brands had abandoned the site over moderation concerns  —  Elon Musk's support for Donald Trump is set to boost X's flagging business …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who says he won't rule out any Xbox exclusive coming to PlayStation, discusses potential M&A, and more  —  Phil Spencer is planning how to enter and partner in the handheld device and mobile-store markets
Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are all seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model misses internal targets  —  Three of the leading artificial intelligence companies are seeing diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop newer models.
Callie Holtermann / New York Times:
Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 15M+ users in total  —  With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development  —  Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts  —  YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their shorts.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display to control appliances, videoconference, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it as early as March 2025  —  - Product will spotlight the new Siri and Apple Intelligence  — Device will tap into cameras, doorbells and run Apple's apps
Charles Daly / Bloomberg:
Klarna files for a US IPO; analysts put Klarna's implied valuation at ~$14.6B in October 2024 after shareholder Chrysalis upped the value of its stake to $154M  —  Swedish payments firm Klarna Group Plc has filed for an initial public offering in the US, ending months of speculation that the company was readying a stock market listing.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video  —  Amazon is officially shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported video streaming service originally launched under the IMDb brand nearly five years ago.
Bloomberg:
How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors  —  The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it  —  At the headquarters of the United Nations …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims can match GPT-4o coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM  —  There's a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba's Qwen research team.
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon recently told staff with disabilities that it was adding a more rigorous vetting process to approve working from home, as it moves to five days per week  —  New ‘multilevel leader review’ can take weeks and has prompted concerns that affected corporate workers will give up and quit.
More: The Verge
Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News:
Mac mini (2024) teardown: the SSD module is proprietary but replaceable, modular front ports, and the M4 Pro model has a beefier cooling rig than the M4 model  —  It shouldn't be a big story that a desktop computer has upgradeable internal storage, but with Apple's cute new 2024 Mac mini, that's exactly where we are.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Just Eat Takeaway says it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a $650M deal expected to close in Q1 2025; Just Eat bought Grubhub for $7.3B in 2020  —  Netherlands-based food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com said on Wednesday that it is selling its U.S. business Grubhub to New York-based Wonder Group …
Lim Hui Jie / CNBC:
Swiggy opened up ~8% on its trading debut after the company raised $1.34B in an Indian IPO, which became the second largest IPO in India in 2024  —  Shares of Indian food delivery giant Swiggy rose nearly 8% on their trading debut Wednesday after its IPO became the country's second largest this year.
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
A US judge rules that Meta must face trial in a US FTC lawsuit seeking its break up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush competitors  —  Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) must face trial in a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break up over claims …
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021  —  In April 2022, about four months after Kazakhstan's government violently cracked down on nationwide protests …
Forums: r/privacy

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