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November 20, 2024, 6:35 AM

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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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
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
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 exchanges

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