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| Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: |
Bitcoin passes $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.
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X: @brian_armstrong, @apompliano, @danheld, @0xramonos, @therealkiyosaki, @morningbrew, @technology, @apompliano, @bitcoin, and @reuterstech
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
Trump picks former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins, 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, @gopmajoritywhip, @iampaulgrewal, @xethalis, @cdixon, @hesterpeirce, @attorneyjeremy1, @hhorsley, @dlauer, @_danleonardo, @johnreedstark, @intangiblecoins, @wublockchain, @alexandergrieve, @jacqmelinek, @cgasparino, @ericldaugh, @patrickmchenry, @collinrugg, and @eleanorterrett
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
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Mastodon: @realDonaldTrump …. X: @musharbash_b, @mrddmia, @adamkovac, @sayreevan, @nancyscola, @mrddmia, @stef_palma, @simonateba, @danprimack, @brendancarrfcc, @adamkovac, @matthewstoller, @adamkovac, @jimcramer, @ggreenwald, @mholyoakftc, @mrddmia, @sentuberville, @adamkovac, @reclaimthenethq, @andyyen, @afergusonftc, and @lauren_feiner
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA clears the £15B Vodafone-Three deal after a 10-month inquiry, subject to investing £11B in UK digital infrastructure, creating the UK's biggest telco — - CMA approved the merger with Three in UK on Thursday — Europe's telcos have spent years lobbying for consolidation
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X: @cmagovuk, @tomvalletti, @vodafonegroup, and @tomwarren
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs find Russia-linked Turla hackers hijacked Pakistan-based hackers' servers to launch their own attacks since December 2022 — The notorious Russian cyber-espionage group Turla is hacking other hackers, hijacking the Pakistani threat actor Storm-0156's infrastructure …
More: Lumen Blog, Microsoft Security Blog, Cybernews.com, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, Dark Reading, The Hacker News, and SecurityWeek
Bluesky: @lukaszolejnik, @hultquist, and @pylos.co
X: @loumariehsd, @greglesnewich, and @msftsecintel
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Intel interim co-CEO David Zinsner says Intel's financial forecast is unchanged and expects the next CEO to have some capability around both foundry and product — Intel's (INTC.O) next chief executive officer will have manufacturing expertise as well as experience in the product side of the business … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Amazon Nova LLM first impressions: the models 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.
More: Amazon Web Services, About Amazon, and Ben's Bites
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Forums: Hacker News and lobste.rs
| 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
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| Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC is in discussions with Nvidia to make its Blackwell AI chips at TSMC's new Arizona plant starting in early 2025, expanding on production in Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) is in discussions with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) to produce its Blackwell artificial …
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Forums: r/hardware and r/NVDA_Stock
| 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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| Financial Times: |
xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate 1M+ GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its Memphis, Tennessee facility — Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire's xAI aims to catch up with rivals| New York Times: |
At the DealBook Summit, Jeff Bezos said he is “very hopeful” about President-elect Donald Trump, and praised his deregulatory agenda and Elon Musk's leadership — The Amazon founder said he saw signs of a “calmer” Donald J. Trump on the eve of his return to the White House.| SemiAnalysis: |
A deep dive into Amazon's Trainium2, which shows the company is on a path to eventually providing competitive custom AI chips, especially for LLM inference — - Trn2, Trn2-Ultra, Performance, Software, NeuronLinkv3, EFAv3, TCO, 3D Torus, Networking Costs, Supply Chain — AWS Trainium1 / Inferentia2 GenAI Weakness
More: Network World, About Amazon, and Wall Street Journal
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Chainalysis names co-founder Jonathan Levin as CEO, replacing co-founder Michael Gronager, who is departing after taking a leave of absence from October 2024 — Michael Gronager, the co-founder of Chainalysis, has agreed to leave the company permanently, two months after taking a temporary personal leave of absence.
More: Chainalysis, CoinDesk, DL News, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, and Blockhead. Bluesky: @agreenberg
| Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
A look at the fulfillment networks of Amazon, Walmart, and Target for same-day or next-day delivery; Walmart says it now offers same-day to 86% of US households — Retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target have figured out that if they get you your online order today, you will probably spend more tomorrow.
More: Reuters, Ars Technica, SupplyChainBrain, and theJasmineBRAND
| 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.
More: Google DeepMind, Computerworld, Financial Express, Eurogamer.net, Analytics India Magazine, The Rundown AI, Moneycontrol, The Hindu, Silicon Republic, The Decoder, The Verge, PCWorld, Neowin, Tom's Guide, and New York Times
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LinkedIn: Alex Rutter and Jake Bruce
Forums: Hacker News, r/gamedev, r/Games, r/StableDiffusion, and r/singularity
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Sources: AT&T, JPMorgan, and Dunkin' pulled ads from Twitch after a controversial group of livestreamers alleged that Twitch is promoting antisemitic content — - Exiled contributors mount campaign that includes edited clips — Their targets are pro-Palestinian streamer and Twitch staffers| Alice Kantor / Bloomberg: |
US authorities: Dubai has quietly become a leading home for crypto scamming in the past decade, including Ponzi and pyramid schemes that made $3.4B+ since 2017 — Ponzi and pyramid schemes dressed in startup clothes have been running rampant in the UAE, experts and US authorities say.
More: Cryptopolitan
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Three of Google's NotebookLM team members, lead Raiza Martin, a designer, and an engineer, are leaving to launch a startup focused on “a user-first AI product” — Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, including its team lead and designer, have announced they are leaving Google for a new stealth startup.
More: NewsBytes, The Verge, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @raizamrtn, @raizamrtn, @sanderssays, @raizamrtn, @jobergum, @ugo_alves, @petergyang, @ugo_alves, @paul_cal, @officiallogank, @stevenbjohnson, and @raizamrtn. LinkedIn: Raiza Martin
Forums: r/notebooklm and r/LocalLLaMA
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
London-based Lawhive, whose AI-based SaaS tools let small, “Main Street” law firms automate legal tasks, raised a $40M Series A co-led by GV and TQ Ventures — U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive, which allows small, ‘Main Street’ law firms to run their affairs through …
More: Tech.eu, FinSMEs, EU-Startups, Tech Funding News, Sifted, and UKTN
| CNBC: |
Waymo says it will expand its fleet into Miami in 2025 with human safety drivers and plans to open up paid rides to local users via its Waymo One app by 2026 — Waymo is setting its sights on its next location: the Sunshine State. — The Alphabet-owned company announced Thursday that it will be hitting the roads in Miami.
More: Forbes, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Verge, and Associated Press
| The Conversation: |
AI language translation was one of the most beneficial uses of AI during major global elections in 2024, and AI misinformation was not as catastrophic as feared — It's been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls.
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @ericsmalley
| Reuters: |
Meta plans to invest $10B to build an AI data center in Louisiana, in what would be its largest data center in the world, and expects work to start in December — Facebook-parent Meta (META.O) said on Wednesday it plans to invest $10 billion to set up an AI data center in Louisiana …
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