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GM says Cruise will exit the robotaxi business, combining Cruise's and GM's technical teams to focus on autonomous and driver safety tech for upcoming GM cars — Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined into a single effort focused on developing autonomous technology to offer …
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Sources: several Cruise employees say they were “surprised” and “blindsided” by GM's decision to end Cruise's robotaxi program and that they expect job cuts — The news came by Slack message. — Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A California District Court judge orders Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with WP Engine's plugins — WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic. On Tuesday, a California District …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: 2025's Apple Watch Ultra is slated to get satellite connectivity for off-the-grid text messages via Globalstar, and may get blood pressure monitoring — - Company also working on blood-pressure tool for future model — Apple is using MediaTek modems for first time in new watches
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
An interview with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on Donald Trump being the “president of this AI generation”, Elon Musk's public threats, ChatGPT user growth, and more — OpenAI's Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar played down on Tuesday public threats to the ChatGPT maker from Elon Musk …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: Google asked the US to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's tech on Azure, after the FTC asked Google about Microsoft's practices — Google recently asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers … | Venkat / Windows Report: |
Mozilla is removing the “Do Not Track” feature from Firefox in version 135, the first major browser to do so, saying few websites honor the preference — Will Chrome, Edge, and Other Privacy-Focused Browsers follow this move? — Mozilla is removing the Do Not Track (DNT) setting from the Firefox browser.| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Embodied, which made an $800 companion robot called Moxie for kids, says it is closing down after a failed funding round and that its robot will soon be bricked — Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked.
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out its auto-dubbing feature, which generates translated audio tracks, to hundreds of thousands of channels focused on knowledge and information — YouTube announced on Tuesday that its auto-dubbing feature, which allows creators to generate translated audio tracks for their videos … | Raphael Boyd / The Guardian: |
Similarweb: X's US DAUs dropped by 8.4% from 32.3M to 29.6M between early October 2024 and now, while Bluesky's US DAUs rose 1,064% from 254,500 to ~2.7M — Musk's platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million
Bluesky: @phannam and @chrislepkowski
| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
TikTok is offering users hundreds of dollars in Shop credits to spend time in the app, invite friends to join, and purchase products, ahead of a possible US ban — - App offers hundreds to users for spending time, adding friends — TikTok ramping up growth push despite January US ban pending| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity government contractor Sichuan Silence and one of its staff over Ragnarok ransomware ties and creating and using zero-days — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Sichuan Silence, a Chinese cybersecurity company, and one of its employees …
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Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz. Mastodon: @chetwisniewski …. X: @ustreasury, @ustreasury, @jburnskoven, and @ustreasury. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Financial Times: |
A look at the relationship between Tether and Trump transition co-Chair Howard Lutnick, who boasted of Cantor Fitzgerald handling $10B in redemptions in 2022 — Howard Lutnick has defended the stablecoin company which has been used by gangs and US adversaries| Canadian Press: |
TikTok files a legal challenge against Canada's order to stop operations in the country, claiming the “unreasonable” decision was “driven by improper purposes” — OTTAWA — TikTok is challenging the federal government's order to shut down its operations in Canada.| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is building a new London-based team focused on health by poaching staff from a similar unit he once led at Google DeepMind — Rival companies are racing to create lucrative applications from cutting-edge technology — Microsoft's artificial intelligence …
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| Washington Post: |
An investigation into the suicide of a Minnesota man details how an online terrorist network called 764 has used Discord to find and torment vulnerable people — The death of a Minnesota man offers a case study into how a sadistic online group has used the messaging app Discord to find and torment vulnerable people.| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which has grown to 11 people and is overseen by Logan Graham to assess catastrophic risks in Anthropic's AI models — It's largely up to companies to determine whether their AI is capable of superhuman harm. At Anthropic, the Frontier Red Team looks for the danger zone.| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Trump picks FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to chair the FTC; Ferguson has said the FTC should tackle perceived censorship of conservative viewpoints online — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to lead the consumer protection and antitrust agency.| Rebecca F. Elliott / New York Times: |
Exxon says it is in the early stages of developing a natural gas plant to supply data centers, the first time it built a plant that didn't supply its operations — The country's largest oil company is designing a natural gas power plant outfitted with carbon capture technology to meet …
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI rolls out Canvas, its side-by-side digital editing space, to all ChatGPT users and adds new features, including support for Python and more text pasting — OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features … | The Markup: |
The American Sunlight Project finds 35K+ mentions of nonconsensual intimate imagery on deepfake sites depicting 25 female Congress members and one male member — A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Swedish startup Mynt, which offers smart expense cards for SMEs, raised €22M led by Vor Capital, a source says at a ~€200M valuation, and claims 12K SME clients — Small and medium businesses are getting more love in the world of fintech these days, and one example of that is the growth of a startup out of Sweden.
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