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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
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Mashable, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, MarketWatch, Hindustan Times, The Times, RTÉ, Benzinga, 80 Level, Verdict, Daring Fireball, Proactive, WinBuzzer, Livemint, Anadolu Ajansı …, Invezz, Neowin, Android Authority, Android Police, OSnews, The Indian Express, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, Geek News Central Podcast, The Wrap, Reclaim The Net, Lowyat.NET, ExchangeWire.com, Tech Xplore, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Pit, Forexlive, The Information, theJasmineBRAND, Forbes, MediaPost, Business Insider, Thurrott, Fox Business, Reuters, and Capital Brief
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 …
More: Game World Observer, Windows Central, Bloomberg, Forbes, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Nikkei Asia, Video Games Chronicle, XboxEra, The Verge, Push Square, My Nintendo News, Wccftech, TheGamer, PlayStation LifeStyle, IGN, and 80 Level
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, DatacenterDynamics, Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, lrt.lt, Reuters, Mobile Europe, Cybernews.com, The Maritime Executive, gCaptain, Engadget, Financial Times, 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 …
More: Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, CCN.com, Bloomberg, The Capital, Wccftech, The Wrap, Cryptonews, Axios, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Blockhead, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Crypto Times, Investor's Business Daily, The Information, Fortune, PYMNTS.com, CoinGape, Quartz, crypto.news, NBC News, Yahoo Finance, NewsBTC, Watcher Guru, Crypto Briefing, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, and CNBC. Forums: r/Shortsqueeze
| 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 …
More: Perplexity, The Verge, Fortune, Mashable, Reuters, TestingCatalog, The Decoder, Search Engine Land, NewsBytes, and Adweek
| 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 …
More: Mistral AI, Mistral AI, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, MarkTechPost, TestingCatalog, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Neowin, The Decoder, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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
| 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, The Sun, and CNET
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
| 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 …
More: PetaPixel and Tech in Asia
| 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: Business Today, LessWrong, 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, Neowin, Wccftech, Patently Apple, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, and NewsBytes
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 …
More: ZDNET, OSnews, 9to5Google, Dataconomy, MySmartPrice, Neowin, Android Headlines, SamMobile, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Phandroid, Trusted Reviews, Thurrott, PhoneArena, Android Police, Android Central, Liliputing, The Verge, Chrome Unboxed, TechRadar, and GSMArena.com
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, Nieman Lab, Newsweek, New York Post, Mashable, Newsbusters, 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
| 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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