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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Police: |
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time — Surprise! Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 today so that app developers can test the new APIs …
More: Android Developers Blog, Android Authority, The Hindu, Business Standard, TalkAndroid.com, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, CommonsWare, Gizchina.com, SammyGuru, Sam Lover, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Android Central, Business Insider, Neowin, The Register, RM Update News, CNX Software, MobileSyrup, Neowin, MySmartPrice, Liliputing, Wccftech, Trusted Reviews, Digital Trends, Android Central, ZDNET, TechRadar, SiliconANGLE, Droid Life, Thurrott, Tom's Guide, PCMag, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, and GSMArena.com
X: @mishaalrahman, @androiddev, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, and @mishaalrahman. Forums: r/Android
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games — Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi.
More: PlayStation.Blog, CNET, Video Games Chronicle, Comic Book, The Shortcut, Push Square, TheGamer, Android Headlines, GamingBolt, Kotaku, Dexerto, Press Start, IGN, Neowin, Eurogamer.net, Liliputing, and Engadget
X: @playstation, @danielhowley, and @speady99
Forums: r/Games, r/playstation, and Slashdot
| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary — Lutnick, whose Cantor Fitzgerald has been a custodian for Tether since 2021, has been a vocal proponent of bitcoin and USDT for years.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free — Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free.
More: About Amazon, AFTVnews, Consequence, 9to5Mac, Digital Music News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, Publishers Weekly, and MakeUseOf
Threads: @ashleycarman and @ashleycarman
X: @rakeshsfnyc and @amazonmusic
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Source: Databricks tells investors it aims to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold restricted stock units — Good afternoon from Las Vegas, where I'm writing this newsletter from a hotel room with a Strip view of the Encore, the hotel where bankers …
X: @bryce, @alex, @josephjacks_, and @eastdakota
| Wired: |
An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany — More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta forms a new product group to build AI tools for the 200M businesses that use its apps, led by Clara Shih, who most recently was Salesforce AI's CEO — - Shih will be responsible for developing and monetizing tools within Meta's AI portfolio that are catered specifically to businesses.
More: TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, San Francisco Business Times, The Information, and Tech in Asia
X: @clarashih, @edzitron, and @solydzajs
| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Coinbase plans to delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September 2024 — - The exchange said it will delist the token in December, though users will still be able to move the wBTC off the exchange.| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google — Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.| Yoshua Bengio / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public — Advances in reasoning will lead to substantially improved capabilities in mathematics and science — The writer is professor …
X: @wolflovesmelon and @yoshua_bengio
| Reuters: |
A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems — A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart …
More: The Hill, Cointelegraph, SpaceNews, and Foreign Policy
X: @deanwball, @mattvogel0311, @hamandcheese, and @charlesxjyang
Forums: r/artificial, r/singularity, and r/neoliberal
| Nikkei Asia: |
TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply — BEIJING — China's public and private sectors are accelerating efforts to boost domestic production of semiconductors … | Bloomberg: |
The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia: Bhutan's bitcoin holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, South Korea's increased trading activity, and more — - Bhutan's Bitcoin holdings are now equivalent to 36% of GDP — South Korean crypto exchanges see a jump in market share
X: @suvajourno
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed — Efforts by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to address cybersecurity issues faced significant criticism this week … | CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
After a report that Trump's “Department of Government Efficiency” is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2% — The stock prices for H&R Block and Intuit fell after a report Tuesday said Trump's government efficiency team is considering creating a free tax-filing app.
More: Washington Post, Fox Business, PYMNTS.com, CBS News, Fast Company, Quartz, Benzinga, and Investor's Business Daily
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out — - Nonfiction books will be used for training AI models — AI companies and publishers have butted heads in lawsuits
More: The Verge, WinBuzzer, MEDIANAMA, The Guardian, The Information, The Bookseller, PCMag, Publishers Weekly, and Tech in Asia
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| Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
Mark Parsons, who led the axed £800M UK supercomputer project, warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the top 50, risks falling behind — Mark Parsons, who led exascale venture in Edinburgh, says it would be a ‘disaster’ if funding is not restarted| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says it now has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on November 13, and the app has been #1 in the US App Store since November 13, per Appfigures — Bluesky, the social network and X competitor has been benefiting from a surge of departures from the Elon Musk-owned app formerly known as Twitter.
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Bluesky: @oremus.bsky.social, @jim-prosser.com, @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social, @henrymance.bsky.social, @kurtwagner.bsky.social, @oremus.bsky.social, @davidfcarr.bsky.social, @oremus.bsky.social, @johnspurlock.com, @conorsen.bsky.social, @oremus.bsky.social, @jay.bsky.team, @katienotopoulos.bsky.social, @pfrazee.com, @oremus.bsky.social, @paleofuture.bsky.social, @edavis.dev, @hankgreen.bsky.social, @davidimel.com, @davidfcarr.bsky.social, @rose.bsky.team, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social, @jay.bsky.team, and @reckless.bsky.social
X: @firstadopter and @mediaevan
Forums: r/BlueskySocial and r/technology
| Financial Times: |
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks — Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible — “This is not science fiction,” …
X: @samjoiner, @leokelion, and @alisonkilling
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Trump Media now has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb says site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October 2024 — Trump Media & Technology Group's revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up.
More: Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
X: @meyer_hm, @coffeephilosoph, @washingtonpost, @drewharwell, @drewharwell, @drewharwell, and @drewharwell
Forums: r/politics and r/LeopardsAteMyFace
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine next month, inks licensing deals with DMG Media and more; sources say DMG bought a stake that values it at $130M — Groups including Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Mail agree licensing deals to ensure payment for content| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC for its Windows 365 cloud service running a “super hardened version of Windows”, shipping in April 2025 — Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year.
More: Microsoft Tech Community, Microsoft on YouTube, Windows Experience Blog, acecomments.mu.nu, TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, Engadget, TweakTown, TechSpot, Moneycontrol, Lifewire, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Tom's Guide, Windows Central, Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, Ghacks, SlashGear, VideoCardz.com, WinBuzzer, CNET, XDA Developers, and Washington Post
Bluesky: @jamesaltonsanders.com. X: @dwizzzlemsft, @satyanadella, @zacbowden, @microsoft, @markhachman, @tomwarren, @gregorymcfadden, @patrickmoorhead, @craiu, @getfitwithjared, @zacbowden, and @laurentgiret
LinkedIn: Tyler Shields and Pavan Davuluri
Forums: r/Surface, r/hardware, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: Game Rant, TweakTown, Tom's Guide, Forbes, Windows Central, and The Verge
X: @bmfshow, @benbajarin, and @greengart
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to help customers build AI apps, including an SDK, tools for deploying AI agents, and a portal that replaces Azure AI Studio — The software maker also previewed new chips and Office AI features. … Azure AI Foundry will make it easier to switch between … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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