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| 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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Forums: r/politics, r/elonmusk, and r/law
| 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 … | Dan Merica / Associated Press: |
Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to help elect Trump; Musk says the PAC is gearing up for midterms as well as judicial and DA elections — Elon Musk's super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the group's spending …
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Threads: @hughhowey, @crumbler, and @kbode
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Gail Slater, a top aide to JD Vance, and Mark Meador, a former enforcer at the DOJ's antitrust unit and the FTC, are the front-runners to lead the FTC — Contenders for prime slots include a top aide to JD Vance and former Department of Justice lawyers| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Dogecoin spikes ~20% after Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE; Dogecoin is up 153% since Election Day — Dogecoin shot higher on Tuesday night, extending its postelection surge after President-elect Donald Trump formally announced …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display that can control appliances, videoconference, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it by March 2025 — - Product will spotlight the new Siri and Apple Intelligence — Device will tap into cameras, doorbells and run Apple's apps
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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.
More: Qwen, MarkTechPost, Analytics India Magazine, VentureBeat, and The Decoder
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and lobste.rs
| 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.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI after taking a leave from his role as president in August 2024; a memo says he is working with Sam Altman on creating a new role — OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the artificial intelligence startup three months after taking a leave from his role …
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| NBC News: |
The US sentences Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira to 15 years for stealing classified Pentagon information and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023 — The former Massachusetts Air National Guard member pleaded guilty in March to leaking highly classified military documents online, including about the war in Ukraine.
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Forums: r/technology, r/espionage, r/inthenews, r/Military, r/news, and Slashdot
| 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.| TechCrunch: |
Rivian and VW finalize a software development joint venture; VW has invested $1B of its planned up to $5.8B by 2027 in the JV designed to be a 50-50 partnership — Rivian and Volkswagen Group have finalized a multi-billion-dollar joint venture to develop software, paving … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Modern Times Group agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based mobile game maker Plarium for $620M and up to $200M more if Plarium hits financial targets over 2025 to 2028 — Modern Times Group has agreed to buy Plarium, the maker of RPG Raid: Shadow Legends, from Aristocrat Leisure for $620 million.
More: MTG, GamesIndustry.biz, CTech, MarketWatch, iGB, NEXT.io, Yogonet, Reuters, Globes Online, TechRaptor, Game World Observer, PocketGamer.biz, Game Developer, and Notebookcheck
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer in Japan using Nvidia's DGX B200 platform, and a follow-up effort featuring the Grace Blackwell chip — - Japanese investor secures coveted chips ahead of next big bet — Jensen Huang joins Masayoshi Son on stage during Nvidia event| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
FrontierMath, a new benchmark for evaluating AI model's advanced mathematical reasoning, shows current AI systems solve less than 2% of its challenging problems — Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems …
More: Power Overwhelming and Ars Technica
| 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.
More: iFixit on YouTube, AppleInsider, GSMArena.com, iClarified, ZDNET, Notebookcheck, BGR, MobileSyrup, Cult of Mac, iClarified, Neowin, MacRumors, TechEBlog, O'Grady's PowerPage, Macworld, Wccftech, Notebookcheck, 9to5Mac, Notebookcheck, and TechRadar
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
CBRE: tech companies leased 9.9M square feet of US office space in Q3, up from ~8M in Q2 and the highest since Q4 2021, as demand grows from new AI companies — The increase comes as hiring by technology companies has edged higher — Technology companies' leasing of office space jumped … | Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
Aicpb.com: ByteDance's Doubao had 51M MAUs in China, the highest for AI chatbots in China, ahead of 12.5M for Baidu's Wenxiaoyan and 10M for Moonshot AI's Kimi — Its popularity has been enabled by ByteDance's deep pockets, strong product team, and a design philosophy that brings the human touch to AI| 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.
More: City A.M., Financial Times, and RTÉ
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