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Trump picks Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner who is seen as a strong advocate for looser regulation of crypto assets, to succeed Gary Gensler as SEC chair — Mr. Atkins, a pro-business conservative, would likely take a lighter regulatory approach than the current chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Mastodon: @realDonaldTrump …. X: @xethalis, @attorneyjeremy1, @cdixon, @hesterpeirce, @gopmajoritywhip, @iampaulgrewal, @alexandergrieve, @hhorsley, @xethalis, @_danleonardo, @intangiblecoins, @ericldaugh, @wublockchain, @johnreedstark, @patrickmchenry, @cgasparino, @collinrugg, @jacqmelinek, @dlauer, and @eleanorterrett
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump selects Gail Slater, an economic policy adviser to JD Vance and tech policy adviser during Trump's first term, as head of the DOJ's antitrust unit — - Slater has been policy adviser for Vice President-elect Vance — Trump vows to continue to crackdown on giant technology firms
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Mastodon: @realDonaldTrump …. X: @mrddmia, @andyyen, @matthewstoller, @ggreenwald, @mrddmia, @reclaimthenethq, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @musharbash_b, @mholyoakftc, @brendancarrfcc, @mrddmia, @stef_palma, @sentuberville, @simonateba, @jimcramer, @afergusonftc, @sayreevan, @nancyscola, @lauren_feiner, and @danprimack
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can generate 3D worlds from a single prompt image, playable by humans or AI agents using keyboard and mouse inputs — DeepMind, Google's AI research org, has unveiled a model that can generate an “endless” variety of playable 3D worlds.
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LinkedIn: Jake Bruce and Alex Rutter
Forums: Hacker News, r/StableDiffusion, r/Games, and r/singularity
| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather model that the company claims outperforms traditional methods on up to 15-day weather and deadly storm forecasts — GenCast, from the company's DeepMind division, outperformed the world's best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.
More: Google DeepMind, Nature, Ars Technica, The Guardian, SiliconANGLE, Nature, Engadget, Maginative, Android Police, Engadget, and Financial Times
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X: @googledeepmind, @nature, @andrew_elkadi, @reach_vb, @maxwinebach, @neil_chilson, @googledeepmind, @nxthompson, @rjonesy, @kcraheather, @sebkrier, @pushmeet, @newsfromgoogle, @shakir_za, @altryne, @googledeepmind, and @ilanprice
LinkedIn: Gary Denman and Aravind Ravichandran
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anduril and OpenAI partner to deploy advanced AI systems for national security missions, focusing on “improving the nation's counter-unmanned aircraft systems” — OpenAI and Anduril on Wednesday announced a partnership allowing the defense tech company to deploy advanced artificial …
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LinkedIn: Sofia Rose Haft, Joseph Larson, and Christian Brose
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
First impressions of Amazon Nova LLMs: they are competitive with Google Gemini and extremely inexpensive, and may position Amazon as a top tier model provider — Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference. The new model family is called Amazon Nova …
More: Amazon Web Services, About Amazon, Digital Trends, Lifewire, GeekWire, VentureBeat, TechRepublic, CRN, Tech.co, and InfoQ
X: @simonw, @davidzapolsky, @emollick, @letti_liu, @emollick, @jerryjliu0, @simonw, and @amazonscience
Forums: Hacker News and lobste.rs
| Financial Times: |
xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate more than 1M GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its facility in Memphis — Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire's xAI aims to catch up with rivals
More: Reuters, PCMag, Greater Memphis Chamber, WATE-TV, FOX13 Memphis, WATN, The Commercial Appeal, and Bloomberg
| Financial Times: |
The UK NCA uncovers a Russian multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme that let Russian spies, European drug traffickers, and more evade sanctions via crypto — Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders
More: U.S. Department …, The Guardian, National Crime Agency, Wired, Sky News, The Kyiv Independent, Metro.co.uk, DeviceSecurity.io, UPI, ComputerWeekly.com, RTÉ, Chainalysis, City A.M., BleepingComputer, and CoinDesk
Bluesky: @polgreen. X: @jburnskoven, @nca_uk, @jessmarindavis, @nca_uk, @jburnskoven, @nca_uk, @irenekenyon4, @nca_uk, @jamiemaccoll, @nca_uk, and @occrp
LinkedIn: Todd H Baker and David Carlisle
Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/technology, r/espionage, r/Intelligence, and r/europe
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post; users won't see fediverse posts in feeds, but will on account profiles — Threads rolled out fediverse users' likes and replies in a very limited way at first, and it's the same here …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped created with Google's NotebookLM summarizer, and a Your Music Evolution data story — Spotify Wrapped, the streamer's highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized …
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LinkedIn: Jan-Paul Jeffrey, Etan Horowitz, and Romain Perrier
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
DC's AG sues Amazon for allegedly secretly stopping its fastest delivery service to the nearly 50K Prime subscribers in historically lower-income neighborhoods — The District of Columbia's attorney general said the company deliberately outsourced Prime member deliveries in certain ZIP codes.| The Verge: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI will begin 12 days of “shipmas” on December 5, with new features, products, and demos, sources say including text-to-video AI tool Sora — Happy holidays from OpenAI. The AI startup plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of new features and products for 12 days, starting on December 5th.
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Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
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| Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: |
Bitcoin reached $100K for the first time after rallying ~126% since January 2024, driven by Bitcoin ETF demand, April's halving, and Donald Trump's election win — Bitcoin has rallied 126% since January to reach $100,000, driven by Bitcoin ETF demand, April's halving and Donald Trump's US election win.
More: Bitcoin Magazine, Decrypt, Reuters, Quartz, Bloomberg, Business Insider, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Bloomberg, Türkiye Today, and Forexlive
X: @danheld, @0xramonos, @morningbrew, @therealkiyosaki, @apompliano, and @apompliano
| The Information: |
Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to Chinese iPhones but have clashed over model training data, and the models have struggled with prompts — Apple and Chinese search giant Baidu are working together to add artificial intelligence features to iPhones sold in China …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TrendForce News, and Reuters
| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
The White House says the Salt Typhoon hack has impacted eight telecom companies in the US, and also affected dozens of other countries, for as long as two years — A senior administration official said Wednesday the Salt Typhoon hack has impacted dozens of countries in a sweeping espionage campaign| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised $2B in a secondary share sale led by TPG that valued it at $15B; Insight bought Veeam for $5B in January 2020 — Veeam, which helps its users secure and recover their data, has seen its valuation spike in a recent secondary sale that was aimed … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, outsourcing to OpenAI, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, the Vision Pro, and more — Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps will define the company's legacy.
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Bluesky: @natashabernal, @katie-drummond, @wired.com, and @wired.com. Mastodon: @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …. Threads: @parkerortolani
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon is rolling out a Buy with AWS button that software companies can add to their websites as a way for customers with AWS accounts to pay for services — In 2022, Amazon introduced the Buy with Prime button, allowing premium subscribers to make purchases using their Amazon account even when shopping on other websites.
More: Constellation Research and Amazon Web Services
| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino on AI in gaming, “preserving the human touch” in game development, Astro Bot, and more — PlayStation's boss says artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to “revolutionise” gaming … | Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to crack down on Asian online retailers like Temu and Shein that largely evade custom checks, possibly by taxing their e-commerce revenue — Brussels considering a tax to slow surge of goods sold on sites that evade custom duties and checks| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says AI content was less than 1% of fact-checked election-related misinformation on its apps during major US, UK, Indian, Indonesian, and other elections — At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation.
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Bluesky: @sigraff, @sigraff, @kint, @karaswisher, and @karaswisher
Threads: @katienotopoulos, @katienotopoulos, @andymstone, and @kevinroose. X: @florian4gamers. LinkedIn: Nicola Mendelsohn Cbe
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Veo, an AI video model for generating “high-quality” 1080p videos in visual and cinematic styles, to businesses, beating OpenAI's Sora to market — Veo, Google's latest generative AI video model, is now available for businesses to start incorporating into their content creation pipelines.
More: TechRadar, Thurrott, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechEBlog, and Android Police
X: @rowancheung, @googlecloudtech, @googlecloud, @sundarpichai, @newsfromgoogle, and @rseroter. LinkedIn: Michael Quinlan. Forums: r/singularity
| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
TikTok Shop says its US sales tripled to over $100M on Black Friday and it drew a 165% annual increase in shoppers on the two days leading up to Cyber Monday — Company is betting big on its US e-commerce arm as ban looms — TikTok tripled its US shopping sales to more than $100 million on Black Friday …
More: Social Media Today
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launched in May 2024, found seven Pegasus infections after scanning 2,500 devices, some owned by business leaders — The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it's already turning up victims.
More: iVerify, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Dark Reading, and Tom's Guide
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