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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Apple says Meta has made 15 interoperability requests under the EU's DMA, more than any other company, and that these could affect users' privacy and security — Apple (AAPL.O) on Wednesday hit out at Meta Platforms (META.O), saying its numerous requests to access the iPhone maker's software tools …
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| Bloomberg: |
The European Commission has pressed Apple to rework iOS so that it's more compatible with smartwatches, earbuds, headsets, and other devices from competitors — - Apple cites concerns that Meta access may undermine privacy — EU watchdog has pressed company to rework iOS operating system
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| Melissa Quinn / CBS News: |
SCOTUS says it will hear a challenge from TikTok, ByteDance, and TikTok users on January 10 to the law that could lead to the US banning the app on January 19 — Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will take up a challenge to a new law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI debuts a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging the number via WhatsApp globally — OpenAI on Wednesday rolled out a new way to talk to its viral chatbot: 1-800-CHATGPT. — By dialing the U.S. number …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub offers Copilot in VS Code for free with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023 — Microsoft-owned GitHub today announced a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool …
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Two Tencent-appointed Epic board directors resigned after the DOJ expressed antitrust concerns; Tencent also gave up its right to appoint future Epic directors — Two board members of Epic Games have resigned amid Justice Department concerns over antitrust concerns.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has halted work on a project to build an iPhone hardware subscription service, which had been in development since 2022 and set to launch then — - Much-delayed program had been in development since around 2022 — Company also shut down Pay Later offering earlier this year
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| Will Judd / Eurogamer.net: |
Sony details the PS5 Pro's specs, including an AMD RDNA 2-based GPU with 16.7TF of performance and ray tracing improvements, and announces an AMD partnership — Plus: what this all means for future PlayStation hardware. — When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro, it did so in a very different manner …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel announces the first updates to address Arrow Lake's gaming performance issues, fixing four of the five root causes, and plans a final update for January — Time to test. — Intel announced that its first wave of updates to address the gaming performance issues plaguing the Arrow Lake processors is now available.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic demonstrates “alignment faking” in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more aligned than it may actually be — AI models can deceive, new research from Anthropic shows. They can pretend to have different views during training …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: Perplexity raised $500M led by Institutional Venture Partners at a $9B valuation earlier in December, up from a $3B valuation in June 2024 — The company's valuation has tripled since June. … The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners and completed earlier this month … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk has tapped Steve Davis, who oversaw Twitter's cost-cutting, former US CTO Michael Kratsios, and others to interview potential DOGE candidates — - Executive from Boring, ex-Trump aide help in hiring push — Musk's DOGE initiative seeks to cut government spending, size| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Micron reports Q1 revenue up 84% YoY to $8.71B, in line with est., Q2 revenue forecast below est. due to sluggish phone and PC demand; MU drops 15%+ after hours — - Strong AI growth isn't offsetting a slowdown elsewhere — Micron CEO cites weakness in consumer-oriented markets| Bloomberg: |
Sources: neobank Chime confidentially files for a US IPO, aiming to go public in 2025; Chime had a $25B valuation in August 2021 — - Company was last valued at $25 billion in 2021 tech boom — Chime aims to disrupt banking with digital fee-free offering| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US is investigating Chinese router maker TP-Link, which has a ~65% US market share in homes and SMBs, and could ban the sale of its routers in 2025 — TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks — U.S. authorities are investigating whether …
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Bluesky: @shiraovide, @shiraovide, @sambiddle.com, @sambiddle.com, and @metacurity.com. Mastodon: @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Threads: @dsilverman and @pkedrosky
X: @jsrailton, @rgb_lights, @ericgeller, @kate_okeeffe, @kate_okeeffe, @matrosov, @tomcottonar, @dnvolz, @verambergen, @laraseligman, @laughing_mantis, @jsrailton, @joellthayer, @thomasgermain, @dnvolz, and @jsrailton. LinkedIn: Jason Livingood
Forums: Hacker News, r/homelab, r/privacy, r/TpLink, r/TPLink_Omada, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa — AI is all about data. Reams and reams of data are needed to train algorithms to do what we want, and what goes into the AI models determines what comes out.
More: Data Provenance Initiative and The Information
Bluesky: @jathansadowski.com, @hypervisible, @technologyreview.com, @niallfirth, and @melissahei
| IDC: |
Global shipments of wrist-worn wearables hit 139M units in the first nine months of 2024, down 1% YoY; China was the largest market with 45.8M units, up 20% YoY — , the global wrist-worn device market shipped 139.0 million units in the first three quarters of 2024, a year-over-year decline of 1.0% … Sponsor Posts
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