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Google debuts Gemini 2.0 and plans to test the model in search and AI Overviews, saying it enables “agents that can think, remember, plan, and even take action” — Company expects AI assistants will follow its users around the web — Google debuted a new version …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive, and its new streaming API is one of those “we live in the future” moments — Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era.
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Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27 — President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says Russia-backed hacking group Secret Blizzard targeted Ukraine's military using other cybercriminals' tools, “to make attribution more difficult” — A Russian-government backed hacking group targeted Ukraine's military using tools and infrastructure developed by cybercriminals, according to new research.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM pulling the plug on Cruise's robotaxi experiment in favor of “privately owned” driverless cars is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles — Eight years and $10 billion later, GM has decided to pull the plug on its grand robotaxi experiment.| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
visionOS 2.2's ultrawide Mac display option is probably the closest thing to a killer app and makes the Vision Pro's $3,499 price feel a little closer to right — Since its release, I've mostly used Apple's Vision Pro like a movie theater. … Today, that's finally starting to change.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Telefónica, one of the world's largest carriers, plans to preinstall the Epic Games Store on every new compatible Android phone it sells, including Samsung's — Telefónica, one of the largest carriers in the world serving the UK, Spain, Germany, and Latin America with the O2 …
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| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Australia plans a levy on tech companies like Meta with $250M+ in local revenue to force them to pay publishers for journalism, after Meta quit the prior deal — Move is designed to close loophole after Meta walked away from existing deal to use media content| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Harvard releases a high-quality dataset of nearly 1M public-domain books, created with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, that anyone can use to train AI tools — The project's leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Meta says it is “99% of the way” to resolving a global outage that hit Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, starting at approximately 12:40pm ET — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user's region.
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Google rolls out two updates to Android's unknown tracker alerts feature, letting users pause location updates from their phone and pinpoint unfamiliar trackers — Google is rolling out two new updates to its unknown tracker alerts feature that should make it easier for Android device owners … | Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Binance and Circle partner to promote USDC; Binance plans to list more crypto trading pairs denominated in USDC and hold USDC for its own corporate treasury — - Circle faces increased challenges in the stablecoin market — Binance will support more USDC usage on its platform| George Winslow / Tv Technology: |
The FCC opens all 1,200 megahertz of the 6GHz band for unlicensed use by very-low-power devices, citing growth in wearables, AR/VR, and other cutting-edge tech — The move, which the agency says will spur innovation, had been opposed by the NAB for its potential impact on newsgathering
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.61B, vs. $5.54B est., Digital Media revenue up 12% YoY, and forecasts FY 2025 earnings below est.; ADBE drops 8%+ — - Fiscal year sales, profit forecasts fall short of estimates — Software maker plans a new higher-priced tier for AI tools
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| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Current and former Netflix staff say the company has walked back its parental-leave benefits, after shifting its focus from subscriber growth to profitability — Employees worry the pullback and other new restrictions mean the entertainment giant is losing the identity that fueled its success| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
The crypto industry's impact on the 2024 US elections shows that crypto is a perfect anti-establishment technology for the turbulence and distrust of the 2020s — An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age — For years, crypto skeptics have asked, What is this for?| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The Information: Apple this past summer canceled the development of a high-performance Mac chip to let some engineers in Israel work on its first AI server chip — Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, in a piece today for The Information (paywalled up the wazoo, sadly), “Apple Is Working on AI Chip With Broadcom”:
| Julia Jacobs / New York Times: |
The NLRB issues a complaint against Netflix's Love Is Blind and classifies its contestants as employees, a case that could have ripple effects across reality TV — The National Labor Relations Board's case against the Netflix hit could have ripple effects across the reality TV industry.| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which helps firms secure access to API keys, service accounts, secrets, and more, raised a $45M Series B led by Menlo Ventures — Tel Aviv company building software to secure non-human identities banks a $45 million funding round led by Menlo Ventures.
| Reuters: |
Filing: Samsung accuses India's competition watchdog of unlawfully detaining its employees and seizing data in a 2022 antitrust raid tied to Amazon and Flipkart — Samsung has accused India's competition watchdog of unlawfully detaining its employees and seizing data in a raid carried …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Stigg, which helps companies modernize their payment and billing infrastructure, raised a $17.5M Series A led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $24M — Unified monetization platform startup Stigg Inc. says it's ready to help businesses implement more dynamic and flexible pricing strategies … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Zürich-based robotics startup Anybotics raised a $60M Series B extension, taking the round, announced in May 2023, to $110M and its total funding to $130M — Swiss robotics company Anybotics has raised an extra $60 million to close its Series B round off at $110 million …
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