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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 …
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X: @mishaalrahman, @androiddev, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, and @mishaalrahman. Forums: r/Android
| Wired: |
An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the 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 … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony launches PlayStation Portal cloud streaming in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in 30 countries stream select PS5 games in 720p or 1080p — 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.
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| 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 …
X: @nikkeiasia and @nikkeiasia
| 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
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits — Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
More: Quartz, WAtoday, Mashable, and Kiplinger.com
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse” — Google is tightening its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles and pages that often have little … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia — Odoo, a startup taking on SAP in the realm of enterprise software, boosted its valuation to 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) … | 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 for free, to counter Spotify — Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible's catalog for free.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 — The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …
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| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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 RSUs and cover the staff taxes it would owe — Good afternoon from Las Vegas, where I'm writing this newsletter from a hotel room with a Strip view of the Encore …
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| Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker: |
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third parties from using any data in AI models or similar apps, including to show a user's Strava data to other users — Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that's occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
More: The Verge, Strava, MEDIANAMA, TechRadar, and Cybernews.com
Threads: @vicmsong, @torsten_frank, and @pkedrosky
| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M — - PSG Equity, Golub, others inject $800 million in equity, debt — Vista acquired LogicMonitor for $415 million in mid-2018
More: TechCrunch and LogicMonitor
| Bloomberg: |
Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds surveillance drones that act as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised a €70M Series B — Alexa's New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab … Quicktake
More: TechCrunch and Tech Funding News
| 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,” … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch 7 and has similar health features, but has the guts of 2021's Watch 4, poor battery life, and one size only — As an entry-level device, the FE doesn't quite nail the right mix of price, features, and hardware. … Everybody loves a deal.
More: SammyGuru, nextpit, and Notebookcheck
| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations — Businesses will benefit from some much-needed breathing space to figure out how to deliver that all-important return on investment.
More: Mobile World Live, Sharecast, The Mirror, London Evening Standard, and BNN Bloomberg
| 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| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO — Until there is a single market in areas from services to capital markets, more companies will choose American exchangesSponsor Posts
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