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Sources: Elon Musk's xAI plans to debut a consumer app as soon as December; the startup built its Colossus data center, which uses 100K Nvidia GPUs, in 122 days — The Tesla CEO is racing to make xAI, which launched after its competitors, the world's most advanced AI company
More: Business Insider, The Verge, PCMag, PC Gamer, Seeking Alpha, The Economist, TechCrunch, Watcher Guru, Cryptopolitan, Quartz, The Information, Tech Startups, CNET, WinBuzzer, Mashable, and Crypto Briefing
X: @elonmusk, @evandolgow, @tobyphln, @tunguz, @marvid_ai, @pgelsinger, and @patrickmoorhead. Forums: r/teslainvestorsclub
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk has given investors who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation — Investors hit by losses following billionaire's takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up
More: New York Post, Spyglass, Forbes, Cautious Optimism, The Information, Insider Gaming, and Benzinga
X: @xdaily, @mattturck, @danprimack, @faizsays, @trungtphan, @danprimack, @tanarrowz, and @wendysiegelman
| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile's CSO says “suspicious behavior, discovery-type commands” on the company's network devices tipped it off to the suspected Salt Typhoon-linked breach — - Carrier says the unauthorized activity resembled Salt Typhoon — Companies trying to work together to avert further hacks
More: T-Mobile, BleepingComputer, PYMNTS.com, The Register, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Authority, Axios, CRN, PCMag, GovInfoSecurity.com, PhoneArena, and Tampa Free Press. X: @tmobilenews
| Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: investigators suspect Chinese ship Yi Peng 3 dragged its anchor for 100+ miles to sever two Baltic internet cables, possibly at the behest of Russia — NATO warships surround Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier at the center of an international probe into suspected sabotage
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, and The Verge
Bluesky: @martinsfp.bsky.social. X: @thorstenbenner, @ajitpai, @airassets, @mandarkagade, @brianhioe, and @auonsson. Forums: r/europe
| Reuters: |
Samsung names Jun Young-hyun as its co-CEO as well as head of its memory chip business and appoints Han Jin-man as president and head of its foundry business — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Wednesday announced new heads of its memory and foundry chip units, as it scrambles to catch up with SK Hynix …
More: Samsung Newsroom, The Korea Times, The Korea Times, The Korea Times, Seeking Alpha, KED Global, Businesskorea, Businesskorea, Businesskorea, Tom's Hardware, SamMobile, DigiTimes, KED Global, NBC Los Angeles, Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, DatacenterDynamics, Financial Times, Neowin, Bloomberg, SammyGuru, Tech in Asia, The Investor, The Korea Herald, Sammy Fans, TrendForce News, and Reuters
X: @thegalox_, @dnystedt, and @samsung
| CNBC: |
Sources: OpenAI is letting current and former staff sell ~$1.5B worth of RSUs until December 24 in a tender offer to SoftBank, a deal spurred by Masayoshi Son — OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned.| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Chinese self-driving company Pony.AI raised $413.4M in its US IPO, after pricing shares at $13, which rose 19% at open, giving it a nearly $5.4B market cap — - IPO priced at top of marketed range raised $260 million — Firm also agreed private placements worth $153.4 million| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta appears to be developing a Threads feature inspired by Bluesky's “starter packs”, with profiles “handpicked by people on Threads” for users to follow — Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta's Threads …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, The Tech Basic, MediaPost, Business Insider, NewsBytes, Futurism, The Information, Tubefilter, Associated Press, Social Media Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, One Man & His Blog, and Axios
Threads: @mosseri, @bluesky_social, @chris, @mayfield_ross, @wongmjane, @tomwarrenuk, @eshumarneedi, @cotyrosenblath, and @vishesh92
Bluesky: @cameronwilson.bsky.social, @aisupremacy.bsky.social, and @dannygroner.bsky.social. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed mobile OS that reportedly doesn't use open-source Android code — Huawei on Tuesday launched the Mate 70 series of smartphones that can run on the company's latest self-developed operating system …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, T3, Android Headlines, Moneycontrol, nextpit, Tabletmonkeys, TechNode, KrASIA, The Indian Express, 9to5Google, DigiTimes, and New York Times
| Paul Triolo / American Affairs Journal: |
More: Wall Street Journal, GSMArena.com, Huawei Central, TrendForce News, and Gizchina.com
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Italy, Europol, and others say they dismantled a pirate streaming service that redistributed IPTV, Sky, DAZN, and more to 22M+ users, making €250M+ per month — An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide … | Alex Stedman / IGN: |
Sony says it has sold 160M+ PlayStation 2 units globally since its 2000 launch, the highest-selling console of all time, followed by the Nintendo DS and Switch — It's the highest-selling console of all time. — In honor of the PlayStation's 30th anniversary, Sony has launched …
More: Sony, Game Developer, TheGamer, Thurrott, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, HotHardware, Destructoid, Gameranx, Pure Xbox, KitGuru, Eurogamer.net, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Rant, TweakTown, GamingBolt, Push Square, Digital Trends, Insider Gaming, and Video Games Chronicle
Bluesky: @emilprotalinski.bsky.social and @kylebrussell.bsky.social
X: @stealth40k, @zhugeex, @zhugeex, and @zhugeex
| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 review: the new $45+ module is a compact Pi 5 with more power than a CM4, but whose cooling fan doesn't work with a passive cooler — The Raspberry Pi 5 now in a Compute Module 4 sized package — Tom's Hardware Verdict| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Bluesky says it's up to outside organizations to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee posted a 1M-post dataset from Bluesky's API for ML research — Update: Following the publication of this article on Tuesday evening, van Strien removed the dataset.
More: Werd I/O, TechCrunch, Pivot to AI, Neowin, Balloon Juice, and Mashable
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The US FTC is investigating Uber after customers complained the company signed them up for Uber One without their consent and made it difficult to cancel — - Agency opened investigation earlier this year amid complaints — Uber's lawyers complained to FTC about rushed settlement| IDC: |
IDC expects global smartphone shipments to grow 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, due to Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY — Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 6.2% year-over-year in 2024 to 1.24 billion units, according …
More: Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, 24/7 Wall St., MacRumors, Wall Street Pit, 9to5Mac, ZeroHedge News, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, Quartz, AppleInsider, iClarified, Bloomberg, and MacDailyNews
Forums: r/Android and MacRumors Forums
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets” — A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora. They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.
More: Hugging Face, The Verge, The Independent, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, TechRadar, Ars Technica, AV Club, Mashable, TestingCatalog, The Wrap, Variety, Entrepreneur, Quartz, PetaPixel, Futurism, Reclaim The Net, Android Headlines, Tom's Guide, MSPoweruser, The Indian Express, Silicon Republic, Deadline, PCMag, Cybernews.com, The Crypto Times, Tech in Asia, Notebookcheck, Forbes, Fortune, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, Financial Times, Gizmodo, The Decoder, and TechCrunch
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @justinhendrix.bsky.social. X: @tsimonite. Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
TikTok plans to block under-18s from using beauty filters, amid mental health concerns, and says it is tightening its systems to block under-13s from the app — Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up
More: TikTok, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, CNET, Punch Newspapers, Engadget, The Tech Basic, The Hill, Fast Company, Daily Mail, Dexerto, BreakingNews.ie, Tubefilter, Neowin, LBC, The Verge, AzerNews, Dazed, Digital Trends, and The Independent
Bluesky: @mollyroseorg.bsky.social and @andyburrows.bsky.social
X: @tiktokpolicyeur and @tiktokcomms
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Anthropic updates Claude to add custom writing styles for tone and length, aiming to personalize its replies, following similar ChatGPT and Gemini features — Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks.
More: Anthropic, TechRadar, How-To Geek, Neowin, Tom's Guide, WinBuzzer, Analytics India Magazine, and VentureBeat. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US FTC has opened an antitrust investigation of Microsoft, focusing on its cloud and software licensing business and its cybersecurity and AI products — - FTC has sent detailed information demand to Microsoft — Questions focus on software licensing, cybersecurity and AI| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
Amsterdam-based Just Eat plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange on December 27, due to its shares' low liquidity, shifting to just an Amsterdam listing — The Amsterdam-headquartered meal delivery firm intends to cancel its secondary listing from the London Stock Exchange to reduce the associated … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare says it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug on November 14; Cloudflare sends ~4.5T logs to customers daily — Internet security giant Cloudflare announced that it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug …
More: TechRadar, The Cloudflare Blog, and The Register
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