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Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more — - Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers
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Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social, @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social, and @kint.bsky.social
X: @jason_kint, @markgurman, @florian4gamers, @bdsams, @suhail, @ryanbarwick, @rustybrick, @ceaddl, @mishaalrahman, @stevesi, @bdsams, @maxwinebach, @tomwarren, @suhail, @dylanmcd8, @mikeisaac, @loudmouthjulia, @adamscochran, @mishaalrahman, @jason_kint, @adamkovac, @suhail, @stevesi, @jason_kint, @gerritd, @blaw, @ericnewcomer, and @rakeshsfnyc
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Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the Elden Ring game, in the coming weeks; Kadokawa had a ~$2.7B market cap — Sony (6758.T) is in talks to acquire Kadokawa (9468.T), the Japanese media powerhouse behind the “Elden Ring” game …
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X: @tomwarren and @wario64
Forums: r/gaming, r/Games, r/PS5, r/anime, r/boxoffice, r/xbox, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/pcgaming, r/worldnews, and r/gamingnews
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Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage — Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies …
More: German Federal Foreign Office, Bloomberg, DatacenterDynamics, lrt.lt, Financial Times, Silicon Republic, Reuters, Mobile Europe, Cybernews.com, The Maritime Executive, gCaptain, Engadget, The Sun, and Associated Press
Bluesky: @tom and @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social
X: @bastianbrauns, @euan_macdonald, @revishvilig, @elinavaltonen, @alex_kokcharov, @yasminalombaert, and @germanydiplo. LinkedIn: Aaron Bateman, PhD
Forums: Hacker News, r/anime_titties, r/europe, r/technology, r/BalticStates, r/Slovenia, r/europe, r/worldnews, and r/neoliberal
| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too much of a delay between asking a question to the new AI-based Alexa and getting a response or completing a task — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. — Amazon's race to create an AI-based successor to its voice assistant Alexa has hit more snags … | Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
Sources: Trump Media is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65% and BKKT up 162.46% — Truth Social owner is close to an all-share takeover of Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt — Donald Trump's social media company …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program — AI-powered search engine Perplexity is venturing into e-commerce. On Monday, the company debuted a new shopping feature … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for editing, and more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model — Mistral, the French startup that made waves last year with a record-setting seed funding amount for Europe, has launched a slew …
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Bluesky: @sungkim.bsky.social. X: @arthurmensch, @mistralai, @guillaumelample, @arthurmensch, @bfl_ml, @dchaplot, @dchaplot, @mistralai, @rowancheung, @simonw, @jchudnov, @rowancheung, @sophiamyang, @dchaplot, and @pierrevalade. LinkedIn: William El Sayed. Forums: r/singularity
| Bruna Horvath / NBC News: |
Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists — The video was meant to pay homage to a classic 1995 Coca-Cola commercial. — Coca-Cola is facing backlash online … | Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
Bluesky is booming partly because it isn't hindered by bad adtech, AI slop, throttled links, and largely hostile user experiences, unlike some of its big rivals — No bad adtech, no AI, no throttling links. Bluesky is a booming because it's everything big tech is not — Greetings all —
More: 404 Media, Can's blog, Garbage Day, MSPoweruser, Vox, Read Max, Business Insider, Platformer, Forbes, and The Sun
Bluesky: @jay.bsky.team, @caseynewton.bsky.social, @reckless.bsky.social, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, @mscribe.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @rmac.bsky.social, and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. X: @byyourlogic
Forums: Hacker News, r/BlueskySocial, r/TrueReddit, and r/Foodforthought
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A look at emails between Elon Musk and Sam Altman from OpenAI's early days, discussing its Microsoft partnership, fundraising, staff compensation, AGI, and more — Emails in Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup's rocky origins. … As OpenAI was ironing out a new deal with Microsoft in 2016 …
More: LessWrong, Business Today, and Futurism
X: @techemails, @kyliebytes, @johnrushx, @ohabryka, and @techemails
| Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban — - Company increases investment proposal tenfold, sources say — Indonesia banned sales of iPhone 16 over local content rules
More: Gizmochina, Wccftech, Neowin, Patently Apple, PhoneArena, and AppleInsider
X: @newley and @gregbensinger
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad — To compete with the iPad, Google plans to push Android as its unified desktop OS. — • — TL;DR — A source within Google has told Android Authority …
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Forums: r/Android, r/GooglePixel, r/chromeos, and Slashdot
| Rob Pegoraro / PCMag: |
Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers’ to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships — Brendan Carr, currently a senior GOP commissioner, is a longtime opponent of net neutrality regulation …
More: Business Today, New York Post, Bloomberg, Fox News, Washington Times, Newsweek, Nieman Lab, New York Post, Mashable, Mobile Europe, CNN, The Guardian, and Status
Threads: @ngrossman81, @documentingmeta, and @jrbillin
X: @brendancarrfcc, @brendancarrfcc, @pmarca, @pmarca, and @pmarca
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Bluesky: @karlbode.bsky.social, @karlbode.bsky.social, @karlbode.bsky.social, @karlbode.bsky.social, @karlbode.bsky.social, @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social, @pwnallthethings.bsky.social, @donmoyn.bsky.social, @craigsilverman.bsky.social, @nytceciliakang.bsky.social, and @mmasnick.bsky.social
X: @brendancarrfcc, @danpfeiffer, @mattmfm, @ericliptonnyt, @ericliptonnyt, @jimsciutto, @shaunmmaguire, @shortlawyer, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @matthewkeyslive, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @matthewstoller, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @neil_chilson, @elonmusk, and @lindayax. Forums: r/ASTSpaceMobile
| NBC News: |
The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 — The Library of Congress didn't specify who was behind the hack. — The Library of Congress said hackers broke into its communications systems …
More: Associated Press, Nextgov/FCW, Security Affairs, and Bloomberg
X: @chadpergram, @homelandgop, and @chadpergram
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Amazon and SpaceX argued that the NLRB, which found issues at both companies, is unconstitutional; 5th Circuit judges questioned the timeline of the charges — A panel of U.S. judges on Monday seemed likely to rule that Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Elon Musk's SpaceX were too quick to bring …
More: NPR, The Register, Associated Press, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, and The Verge
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Huawei is designing its next two Ascend chips around a 7nm architecture, meaning its marquee chips will be stuck with aging tech until at least 2026 — - The Chinese firm's AI chips will use existing 7nm tech in 2025 — The US has cut off China's access to the best chip equipment
More: Huawei Central
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