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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental “reasoning” model that “explicitly shows its thoughts” and can use them to strengthen its reasoning — Google has released what it's calling a new “reasoning” AI model — but it's in the experimental stages …
More: Ars Technica, Google AI for Developers, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Android Police, Simon Willison's Weblog, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, Tom's Guide, Analytics India Magazine, Neowin, Android Headlines, The Verge, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, WinBuzzer, and VentureBeat
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Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| New York Times: |
In 150+ X posts, Elon Musk led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by sharing misinfo, which may lead to a government shutdown over Christmas — The world's richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by promoting false and misleading claims about it.
More: Politico, The Hill, Australian Financial Review, Politico, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Gizmodo, USA Today, Wired, Scripps News, No More Mister Nice Blog, and The Post Millennial
Bluesky: @rmac and @pineapple-king
X: @elonmusk, @maxwellfrostfl, @vivekgramaswamy, @naval, @elonmusk, @anniekarni, @elonmusk, @sensanders, @elonmusk, @senjeffmerkley, @elonmusk, @repjimmygomez, @emrwilkins, @fred_guttenberg, @edkrassen, @imknottheone, @fscdems, @ahmedbaba_, @brianstelter, @alifarhat79, @scott_4trump, @theliamnissan, @elonmusk, @doctorhenryct, @armanddoma, @ericldaugh, @sadmonsters, @davewiner, @c_s_skeptic, @themaxburns, @mattglassman312, @allenanalysis, @chucktodd, @paulg, @michaelsteele, @aaronblake, @joncoopertweets, @vivekgramaswamy, @arimelber, @benjamingoggin, @daithaigilbert, @hillaryclinton, @voidofroses, @allenanalysis, @jfberke, @repdonbeyer, @ericldaugh, @jamiedupree, @reploritrahan, @karthikfortexas, @fritschner, @daniellamicaela, @repraskin, @ronfilipkowski, @cwebbonline, @billkristol, @pamelabrowncnn, @maddenifico, @leftcoastbabe, @boknowsnews, @acnewsitics, @bigskyisawesome, @davetroy, @farhip, @repjayapal, @jeffjarvis, @youwouldntpost, @steven_pifer, @markpocan, @maddenifico, and @tvietor08. LinkedIn: Brian McLaughlin
Forums: r/politics and r/musked
| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple is in early-stage talks with Tencent and ByteDance about integrating their AI models into iPhones sold in China; ChatGPT is unavailable in China — Apple (AAPL.O) is in talks with Tencent (0700.HK) and TikTok owner ByteDance about integrating their artificial intelligence models …
More: South China Morning Post, MacRumors, Investing.com, Investing.com, ReadWrite, GSMArena.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Investor's Business Daily, Supercharged, AppleInsider, The Information, 9to5Mac, Apple Must, PYMNTS.com, Analytics India Magazine, Wccftech, BGR, Tech Advisor, Business Insider, WinBuzzer, TechNode, PhoneArena, Invezz, news24.com, The Japan Times, and Benzinga
| Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: |
Sony buys ~$320M of shares in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, which owns FromSoftware, taking its stake to ~10% and becoming Kadokawa's top shareholder — Sony Group (6758.T) said on Thursday it will invest about 50 billion yen ($320 million) to acquire new shares of Kadokawa (9468.T) …
More: Sony Group, Wall Street Journal, CNET, The Verge, nippon.com, The Mainichi, GamesIndustry.biz, MobileSyrup, Push Square, PC Gamer, TechRadar, Engadget, Game Rant, The Japan Times, PC Games Insider, Game Developer, Polygon, TechRaptor, Newsweek, Pure Xbox, PlayStation LifeStyle, Metro.co.uk, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TheGamer, IGN, Dexerto, Neowin, GamingBolt, Wccftech, Eurogamer.net, Game World Observer, Windows Central, 80 Level, Gematsu, and PocketGamer.biz
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Forums: r/animecirclejerk, r/PHGamers, r/fromsoftware, and r/PS5
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India — A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as “BREAKING NEWS” or “The president steps down …
More: Google, Cord Cutters News, Financial Express, Digit, Gadgets 360, Tubefilter, Mashable India tech, Neowin, The Indian Express, NewsBytes, and MEDIANAMA
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X: @steved3 and @culturecrave
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta teases an AI editing tool powered by Movie Gen AI in Instagram that can change outfits, backgrounds, and more in videos using a text prompt, coming in 2025 — Instagram is planning to introduce a generative AI editing feature next year that will allow users to “change nearly any aspect of your videos.”
More: SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, The Drum, Engadget, Social Media Today, BGR, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, and Digital Trends
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| 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 …
More: Anthropic, ZDNET, Anthropic, Gadgets 360, Anthropic on YouTube, MarTech, Computerworld, Sherwood News, and Time
Bluesky: @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com, @tobyord, @tedunderwood.me, @eryk, @saxon.me, @moultano, and @sleepinyourhat
X: @anthropicai, @evanhub, @davidsacks, @elonmusk, and @matthewberman. LinkedIn: José Manuel de la Chica. Forums: Hacker News
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Oura raised a $200M Series D with participation from Fidelity and Dexcom at a $5.2B valuation and says sales grew 100%+ in 2024 to ~$500M with 2.5M+ rings sold — Finnish company's growing popularity has led to its sales more than doubling this year — Ōura, the maker …
More: The Information, Inc, MassDevice, Pulse 2.0, Forbes, Oura, Wareable, CNET, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, HIT Consultant, Gadgets & Wearables, Sifted, FinSMEs, and Axios. Bluesky: @vinny.dev
| New York Times: |
Sources: the US' proposed AI chip framework would block adversaries entirely, and give others quotas based on their US alignment, threatening Nvidia's expansion — The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.| Chainalysis: |
In 2024, hackers stole $2.2B in crypto across 303 hacks, up from $1.8B across 282 hacks in 2023; by July 2024, $1.58B had been stolen, but the pace slowed after — The Chainalysis 2025 Crypto Crime Report — Crypto hacking remains a persistent threat, with four years … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Anthropic, whose CEO, Dario Amodei, has vocally opposed Donald Trump, and OpenAI look to hire more people with ties to Trump and the GOP for their policy teams — Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its models' impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping … | Jef Feeley / Bloomberg: |
Arm v. Qualcomm: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon called Arm's Nuvia license cancellation and demand that Qualcomm destroy the IP after acquiring Nuvia “outrageous” — - Tech firms are sparring in weeklong jury trial in Delaware — Closing arguments are expected Thursday in federal court
More: Reuters, Reuters, BeInCrypto, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, Channel NewsAsia, CCN.com, and Wccftech
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Backflip, which is building AI models that can generate 3D designs using text, sketches, or photos as prompts, raised a $30M Series A co-led by NEA and a16z — What if it were as easy to generate a usable 3D design as prompting ChatGPT? That's the mission of Backflip …
More: SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Business Wire, and Andreessen Horowitz
X: @dbenny12 and @tkexpress11
LinkedIn: David Benhaim and Gregory Mark
| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
A coalition of newspapers, writers, movie producers, and others rejects the UK's plans to create a copyright exemption for AI companies to train their models — Exclusive: Coalition of musicians, photographers and newspapers insist existing copyright laws must be respected
More: InPublishing and New Scientist
Bluesky: @fortrenn, @michaelsavage, @hetanshah, @marypcbuk, and @ericgordy
X: @ednewtonrex, @tomkiehl, @ednewtonrex, @dominicyoung, @the_ipo, and @profbillmcguire. Forums: Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
Congress approves $3B in funding for a project to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US phone networks nationwide; Trump's FCC started the initiative in 2020 — Legislative and executive branch actions highlight concerns that phone and internet networks are vulnerable to Beijing-sponsored hackers.
Mastodon: @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Decart, which helps organizations train and run AI models at scale, raised a $32M Series A, sources say at a $500M+ valuation, after a $21M seed in October 2024 — A young startup that emerged from stealth less than two months ago with big-name backers and bigger ambitions is returning to the spotlight.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Frank McCourt's efforts to acquire TikTok and the obstacles he faces, as he lobbies Congress and Trump's team and recruits former TikTok executives — - TikTok hopes Supreme Court will halt ban at final hour — McCourt is pitching his bid to Congress, Trump's team| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Insight Partners, which acquired Dotmatics for ~$629M in March 2021, is exploring options for the R&D software maker, including selling it for $5B+ — - Dotmatics expected to draw interest from strategic suitors — Scientists use the company's software in drug research
| Paul Arnold / Reuters: |
Swiss tech advisory SoftwareOne to buy Norwegian rival Crayon in a cash and stock deal valuing Crayon at ~$1.4B; the combined firm will have ~$1.8B in revenue — Swiss technology firm SoftwareOne Holding (SWON.S) said on Thursday it would acquire Crayon Group Holding (CRAYN.OL) …
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Charlotte, NC-based Aiwyn, which provides automation software for accounting firms, raised $113M led by KKR and Bessemer, bringing its total funding to $127M — Accounting firms are struggling to adopt high-tech solutions. That's according to a survey earlier this year from Rightsworks …
More: Aiwyn, Inc.
| Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg: |
The US FAA publishes 22 temporary flight restrictions for drones over parts of New Jersey, as public hysteria over sightings of possible drone activity persists — The US Federal Aviation Administration prohibited drone flights over several parts of New Jersey as public hysteria over sightings continues to persist.
More: faa.gov, DroneXL.co, Law & Crime, PCMag, New York Times, New Jersey Online, Forbes, The Verge, Gizmodo, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Axios, Associated Press, CNBC, abc7NY, The Gateway Pundit, NewsNation, WNYW-TV, Reuters, Fox News, Gothamist, and Business Insider. Bluesky: @kevinhardiman
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