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| Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more — He's on the patio. He's on the golf course. Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world's richest man.
More: NBC News, Business Insider, New Jersey Online, The Verge, and Washingtonian
Threads: @pkafka. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social. X: @lawindsor, @silvermanjacob, @silvermanjacob, @dashaburns, @teddyschleifer, and @mattinthemittel. Forums: r/politics
| Eric Beech / Reuters: |
Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide “guidance from outside of Government” — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy …
More: Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, Wired, Barron's Online, Not Boring by Packy McCormick, The Block, The Guardian, Washington Post, CNBC, Redmond Pie, Business Insider, Mashable, Know Your Meme, The Crypto Times, Alternet.org, Futurism, Axios, Forbes, CBS News, crypto.news, CCN.com, Quartz, Le Monde, Silicon Republic, Coinspeaker, Cybernews.com, The Indian Express, Nairametrics, The Independent, Cointelegraph, Blockchain News …, The Floridian, Watcher Guru, Sandra Rose, Blockhead, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, HuffPost, Financial Times, Washington Post, Variety, The Verge, Deadline, Mediaite, Fox News, and Axios
Threads: @ronaldfilipkowski, @karaswisher, @mac_ryan_, @davmicrot, @ronaldfilipkowski, @renee.diresta, @mac_ryan_, and @mac_ryan_
Bluesky: @mmasnick.bsky.social, @nytceciliakang.bsky.social, @donmoyn.bsky.social, @brianfung.me, and @parismarx.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @omarsalolama, @realdonaldtrump, @vivekgramaswamy, @levie, @themaxburns, @vijayvinyl, @sonalibasak, @scottnover, @jason, @lizchar, @im_sorry_wtf, @maxtmcc, @who_shot_jgr, @teddyschleifer, @donie, @aleresnik, @peterhamby, @luke_metro, @sriramk, @jakesherman, @josephpolitano, @samstein, @teddyschleifer, @josephpolitano, @jstein_wapo, @panasonicdx4500, @trillburne, @adamscochran, @jakesherman, @shaunmmaguire, @zebulgar, @tszzl, @pitdesi, @samadlerbell, @benjysarlin, @chrislhayes, @nikitabier, @burgessev, @lib_crusher, @vivekgramaswamy, @dogetoshi, and @arthurdelaneyhp
Forums: r/law, r/elonmusk, and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
Media executives say that some brands are preparing to advertise on X once again, as Elon Musk is likely to gain an influential Trump administration role — Some brands had abandoned the site over moderation concerns — Elon Musk's support for Donald Trump is set to boost X's flagging business …
More: The Hill, The Wrap, Business Today, Politico, and Associated Press
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model is missing internal targets — Three of the leading artificial intelligence companies are seeing diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop newer models.
More: 9to5Mac, The Information, MacRumors, Proactive, TechCrunch, PetaPixel, and WinBuzzer
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @chetanp, @paulroetzer, @basedjensen, @btibor91, @binarybits, @chehendriksen, @rachelmetz, @joshm, @modestproposal1, and @morqon
Forums: r/OpenAI and MacRumors Forums
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who won't rule out any Xbox exclusive coming to PlayStation and Switch, discusses potential M&A, and more — Phil Spencer is planning how to enter and partner in the handheld device and mobile-store markets
More: Video Games Chronicle, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, IGN, PCWorld, Engadget, Forbes, GamesIndustry.biz, PC Gamer, Thurrott, Android Authority, PocketGamer.biz, Kotaku, Neowin, The Sun, KitGuru, TechPowerUp, Push Square, Game Rant, Metro.co.uk, TweakTown, Screen Rant, Polygon, TrueAchievements, Gameranx, GamingBolt, Dexerto, TechRaptor, Pure Xbox, Wccftech, TheGamer, XboxEra, iPhone in Canada Blog, VideoGamer, My Nintendo News, The Shortcut, PlayStation LifeStyle, and Mobilegamer.biz
X: @jasonschreier, @dinabass, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/xbox, r/PS5, r/NintendoSwitch, and r/Games
| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
A US judge rules that Meta must face trial in a US FTC lawsuit seeking its break up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush competitors — Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) must face trial in a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break up over claims …
More: Engadget, The Hill, The Verge, Washington Post, Bloomberg, San Francisco Business Times, Reuters, Semafor, BNN Bloomberg, and WinBuzzer
X: @johnmarknewman and @balancecrafting
| The Information: |
Sources: Meta plans to launch ads on Threads in early 2025; Meta's public statements imply any ad rollout for Threads next year will be slow — Meta Platforms plans to introduce advertisements to its text app, Threads, early next year, hoping to cash in on the app's rapid growth … | Callie Holtermann / New York Times: |
Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 15M+ users in total — With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Spyglass, Telegraph, How-To Geek, Thurrott, PCWorld, ZDNET, HotAir, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Week, and The Guardian
Bluesky: @emilyliu.me, @jaz.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @bsky.app, @sarahjeong.bsky.social, and @nihilscio.bsky.social
X: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @bluesky, @mikeisaac, and @semaforben
Forums: r/AnythingGoesNews, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/AnythingGoesNews
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD says it will lay off approximately 4% of its global staff; the company had 26,000 employees at the end of last year, according to an SEC filing — AMD said on Wednesday that it will lay off 4% of its global staff, as the longtime CPU maker seeks to gain a stronger foothold …
More: Wccftech, CRN, The Register, Reuters, TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, Quartz, PC Gamer, and Invezz
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Haul, a storefront on its app that promises “crazy low prices” on a range of items, to compete with Temu and Shein — Amazon has rolled out a new storefront featuring apparel, home goods, electronics and other items priced below $20, to fend off growing competition …
More: About Amazon, Forbes, CNET, The Information, ZDNET, The Verge, GeekWire, Android Authority, PCMag, Engadget, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Cybernews.com, Benzinga, Semafor, Fortune, CBS News, CNN, Retail Dive, BGR, Quartz, Pocket-lint, Reuters, and Tech Startups. LinkedIn: Dharmesh Mehta
| Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Klarna files for a US IPO; analysts put Klarna's implied valuation at ~$14.6B in October 2024 after shareholder Chrysalis upped the value of its stake to $154M — Swedish payments firm Klarna Group Plc has filed for an initial public offering in the US, ending months of speculation that the company was readying a stock market listing.| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
CoreWeave closed a $650M secondary share sale led by Jane Street, Magnetar, Fidelity Management, and Macquarie Capital, a source says at a $23B valuation — AI cloud startup CoreWeave said on Wednesday it has closed a $650 million minority investment led by Jane Street, Magnetar …
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development — Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance …
More: Google DeepMind on GitHub, Nature, WinBuzzer, CCN.com, Science, The Decoder, The Rundown AI, Wall Street Pit, ExtremeTech, MarkTechPost, Maginative, Analytics India Magazine, and The Researcher Daily
X: @pushmeet, @maxjaderberg, @paulynamagana, @ddelalamo, and @officiallogank. LinkedIn: Juan Castillo
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says it will test removing news articles from EU-based publishers from Search for 1% of users in France, Poland, Greece, Belgium, and other EU countries — As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test … | Bloomberg: |
How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors — The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it — At the headquarters of the United Nations …
More: The Lever. X: @lucas_shaw, @lpolgreen, @_night_brain__, @ezraklein, @otis_reid, @pkafka, @jdorosario, and @thestalwart
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts — YouTube is testing a new feature that will let creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their shorts.| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Super Micro delays another filing as it searches for a new accounting firm, saying it can't file its 10-Q for Q3 2024, after failing to file its annual 10-K — Alexa's New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab … Quicktake| Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: |
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims can match GPT-4o coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM — There's a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba's Qwen research team.
More: Qwen, MarkTechPost, Analytics India Magazine, The Decoder, and VentureBeat
X: @paulgauthier, @simonw, @simonw, and @simonw
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and lobste.rs
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$23.9B and net income up 20% YoY to ~$7.4B, vs. ~$6.2B est., buoyed by Dungeon & Fighter Mobile and Black Myth: Wukong — - Net income for the September quarter beat analyst estimates — Tencent kicks off a busy earnings season for China tech
More: Game World Observer, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Nikkei Asia
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video — Amazon is officially shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported video streaming service originally launched under the IMDb brand nearly five years ago.
More: Deadline, 9to5Google, Thurrott, How-To Geek, CNET, Gizmodo, TechHive, Decider, Adweek, Proactive, IndieWire, IGN, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, AV Club, Digital Trends, Neowin, PCMag, Android Authority, GB News, Streaming Better, The Sun, T3, MakeUseOf, Tom's Guide, The Streamable, Metro.co.uk, Dexerto, Tv Technology, MediaPost, Bloomberg, The Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Vulture, and The Desk
Threads: @crumbler. Bluesky: @vtuss.bsky.social. X: @karstenw, @juwanthewriter, @tvgrimreaper, @deadline, @deadline, @jaketx78, and @aagave. LinkedIn: Devender Sellars
Forums: r/popculturechat, r/entertainment, r/cordcutters, and r/television
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon recently told staff with disabilities that it was adding a more rigorous vetting process to approve working from home, as it moves to five days per week — New ‘multilevel leader review’ can take weeks and has prompted concerns that affected corporate workers will give up and quit.
LinkedIn: Kristen Parisi
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: execs at xAI rivals were alarmed by how fast Elon Musk set up the 100K GPU cluster Colossus; a source says Sam Altman argued with Microsoft over it — On a sunny day last month, a propeller plane made multiple passes in the air over a large industrial building surrounded … | Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: |
Mac mini (2024) teardown: the SSD module is proprietary but replaceable, modular front ports, and the M4 Pro model has a beefier cooling rig than the M4 model — It shouldn't be a big story that a desktop computer has upgradeable internal storage, but with Apple's cute new 2024 Mac mini, that's exactly where we are.
More: iFixit on YouTube, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, O'Grady's PowerPage, ExtremeTech, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, GSMArena.com, iClarified, ZDNET, Notebookcheck, BGR, MobileSyrup, iClarified, Neowin, MacRumors, TechEBlog, O'Grady's PowerPage, Macworld, Wccftech, Notebookcheck, Notebookcheck, and TechRadar
| Sarah Emerson / Forbes: |
A group of 13 former TSMC staff sue the company in California over an alleged “discriminatory scheme” that favors Taiwanese foreign workers at its US plants — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has been accused by a group of its U.S. employees of concocting a … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Docs and sources: Amazon has discontinued a secretive effort to develop an at-home fertility tracker, which was part of its moonshot incubator Grand Challenge — Amazon has discontinued a secretive effort to develop an at-home fertility tracker, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter.| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021 — In April 2022, about four months after Kazakhstan's government violently cracked down on nationwide protests … Sponsor Posts
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