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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
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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Bluesky: @timlatimer, @mtsw, @davidzipper, @selviano, and @davidzipper. Mastodon: @bnys@lasersword.club. Threads: @drewpusateri
X: @kvogt, @ericnewcomer, @alojoh, @pitdesi, @nabeel, @mikeisaac, @realgeorgehotz, @realgeorgehotz, @realgeorgehotz, @garyblack00, @svhughes, @davidshepardson, @terronk, @munster_gene, and @benwbear
LinkedIn: Chris Anderson, Kevin Zhang, Gabrielle Coppola, and Philip Koopman
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars, r/technews, r/teslainvestorsclub, r/sanfrancisco, r/RealTesla, r/cars, and r/technology
| TechCrunch: |
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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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Apple rolls out iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2, adding major AI updates, including Image Playground on iPhone 15 Pro, 16, and 16 Pro, Genmoji, and ChatGPT integration — ChatGPT integration is also included with this update. — Apple has begun rolling iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 to iPhones and iPads.
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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 … | 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 … | 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 … | Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Embodied, which made Moxie, an $800 companion robot for kids aged 5 to 10, says it is shutting down after a failed funding round and Moxie 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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X: @zerostatereflex, @appleinsider, @rt_com, and @papapishu
Forums: r/gadgets and Ars OpenForum
| Venkat / Windows Report: |
Mozilla is removing Do Not Track from Firefox in version 135, the first major browser to add and now remove it, saying few websites honor the privacy 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.| Raphael Boyd / The Guardian: |
Similarweb: X's US DAUs dropped by 8.4% from 32.3M to 29.6M between early October 2024 and December 3, 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
| Financial Times: |
A look at the relationship between Tether and Trump transition co-Chair Howard Lutnick, who boasted about Cantor Fitzgerald handling $10B in redemptions in 2022 — Howard Lutnick has defended the stablecoin company which has been used by gangs and US adversaries| 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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is building a London-based team focused on consumer health by poaching staff from a similar Google DeepMind unit he once led — Rival companies are racing to create lucrative applications from cutting-edge technology — Microsoft's artificial intelligence …
More: Windows Central and The Verge
| 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.
More: Platformer, Reuters, Silicon Republic, TikTok, Associated Press, iPhone in Canada Blog, Canadian Press, Global News, and theprovince
X: @tiktokcanada and @privacylawyer
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which has grown to 11 people overseen by Rhodes scholar Logan Graham to evaluate catastrophic risks in its 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.| Washington Post: |
An investigation into the suicide of a Minnesota man details how US domestic terror organization 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.| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI expands Canvas, its side-by-side digital editing space, to all ChatGPT users and adds support for Python, more text pasting, and launching in custom GPTs — OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features … | 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.| 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 …
More: U.S. Department …, US Department of Justice, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, TechRadar, Infosecurity, SecurityWeek, CSO, The Register, Cyber Daily, Axios, PCMag, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Al Jazeera, Tech Xplore, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Record, CyberScoop, iTnews, and UPI
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz. Mastodon: @chetwisniewski …. X: @ustreasury, @ustreasury, @jburnskoven, and @ustreasury. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Rebecca F. Elliott / New York Times: |
Exxon says it is in the early stages of designing a natural gas plant for data centers, the first time it would build a plant not supplying its own operations — The country's largest oil company is designing a natural gas power plant outfitted with carbon capture technology to meet the voracious power demand of technology companies.| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Google's top lobbyist Mark Isakowitz departs to become GOP Senator-elect Dave McCormick's chief of staff, leaving a power vacuum in the company's lobbying team — - Mark Isakowitz is leaving the company for a job in the Senate — Trump has said he is planning to crack down on ‘Big Tech’
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