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November 21, 2024, 2:05 AM
 

November 21, 2024

2:05 AM  •
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:  Jensen Huang says “foundation model pretraining scaling is intact” and models like OpenAI's o1 could play a larger role in Nvidia's business moving forward
1:10 AM  •
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:  A look at OpenScholar, an LLM for scientific research built by the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington that outperforms GPT-4o on accuracy
12:00 AM  •
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:  Filing: the US DOJ's proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers

November 20, 2024

11:55 PM  •
Brian Fung / CNN:  As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade
11:22 PM  •
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:  Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google's search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices
10:40 PM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology
10:00 PM  •
Rod McGuirk / Associated Press:  Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations
9:20 PM  •
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:  Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical trials of its brain implants and plans to run its first non-US trial with Toronto Western Hospital
7:50 PM  •
Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:  Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors
7:00 PM  •
Sara Fischer / Axios:  Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV operating system, and plans to partner with TV manufacturers for its rollout, expected in H2 2025
6:10 PM  •
Claudia Assis / MarketWatch:  Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $2.14B, vs. $2.12B est., and projects FY 2025 sales in line with estimates; PANW drops ~5% after hours
4:55 PM  •
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:  Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $942.09M, vs. $898.46M est., unveils a deal with Anthropic to bring Claude to Cortex AI; SNOW jumps 18%+ after hours
4:31 PM  •
Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:  Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates
3:30 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: xAI has told investors it raised $5B in a funding round valuing it at $50B and that its revenue has reached $100M on an annualized basis
3:20 PM  •
Hayden Field / CNBC:  Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $13.8B in 2024, up from $2.3B in 2023; OpenAI's marketshare in enterprise AI declined from 50% to 34%
3:00 PM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a “reasoning” AI model that it claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1, and plans to open source it
2:15 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond “For You” and “Following” feeds
1:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Trump's team is talking with the crypto industry over whether to create a White House post dedicated to cryptocurrency policy and is vetting candidates
1:40 PM  •
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:  US prosecutors charge five alleged members of the Scattered Spider hacking group for their role in the hacks of 29+ individuals and theft of $11M+ in crypto
1:30 PM  •
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:  DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary called Yuma to help build decentralized AI services called “subnets” on the Bittensor blockchain network
1:15 PM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta
12:45 PM  •
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:  Meta unveils new Messenger features, including audio and video voicemail, AI backgrounds for video calls, and hands-free calling and messaging via Siri
12:20 PM  •
Tom Warren / The Verge:  Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stream 50 supported games they already own
11:45 AM  •
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:  The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York
11:05 AM  •
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:  Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15
10:43 AM  •
Sarah Wynn / The Block:  A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to “time served”, meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed
10:30 AM  •
Rest of World:  GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2023, from 200M per year from 2015 to 2021
9:45 AM  •
Ryan Gould / Bloomberg:  Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring startup LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M
8:20 AM  •
Ryan Browne / CNBC:  Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia
8:10 AM  •
Victoria Song / The Verge:  Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch 7 and has similar health features, but has the guts of 2021's Watch 4, poor battery life, and one size only
7:10 AM  •
Meytal Vaizberg / Globes Online:  Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024
6:40 AM  •
David Streitfeld / New York Times:  How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits
6:15 AM  •
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:  As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing generative AI training returns, a market hype break may be useful, just as with previous innovations
5:55 AM  •
Mia Sato / The Verge:  Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse”
5:35 AM  •
Bloomberg:  SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push
5:00 AM  •
Richard Milne / Financial Times:  Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the lack of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for their IPOs
4:30 AM  •
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:  ProRata, which plans to debut an AI search engine in December, inks licensing deals with DMG and others; sources: DMG bought a stake valuing ProRata at ~$130M
4:15 AM  •
Wired:  An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany
4:00 AM  •
Financial Times:  How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, visual language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn to move and pick up skills
2:35 AM  •
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:  How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google
2:20 AM  •
Yoshua Bengio / Financial Times:  AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI model regulation to protect the public
2:10 AM  •
Nikkei Asia:  TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply
2:00 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds surveillance drones that act as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised a €70M Series B
1:50 AM  •
Anna Gross / Financial Times:  Mark Parsons, who led the axed £800M UK supercomputer project, warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the top 50, risks falling behind
1:40 AM  •
Bloomberg:  The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia: Bhutan's bitcoin holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, South Korea's increased trading activity, and more
1:05 AM  •
Jonathan Greig / The Record:  A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed
12:10 AM  •
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:  Trump Media now has a $6B+ market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb says site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October 2024

November 19, 2024

11:50 PM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures
11:25 PM  •
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:  Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third parties from using any data in AI models or similar apps, including to show a user's Strava data to other users
11:00 PM  •
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:  Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1
10:20 PM  •
Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg:  Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to offer internet in Brazil in 2026, after launching its first 18 satellites in August and 18 more in September
9:25 PM  •
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:  Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV
8:00 PM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives
7:45 PM  •
Mishaal Rahman / Android Police:  Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time
6:50 PM  •
Cory Weinberg / The Information:  Source: Databricks tells investors it aims to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold RSUs and cover the staff taxes it would owe
6:40 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  Sony launches PlayStation Portal cloud streaming in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in 30 countries stream select PS5 games in 720p or 1080p
6:20 PM  •
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:  Coinbase plans to delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September 2024
6:00 PM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible for free, to counter Spotify
5:30 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips
5:15 PM  •
Reuters:  A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems
4:30 PM  •
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:  Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary
4:25 PM  •
CJ Haddad / CNBC:  After a report that Trump's “Department of Government Efficiency” is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2%
4:05 PM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Google ships first developer preview of Android 16 to speed up feature rollouts
3:25 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out
2:15 PM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Google rolls out a “memory” feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences
1:55 PM  •
Sara Fischer / Axios:  Meta forms a new product group to build AI tools for the 200M businesses that use its apps, led by Clara Shih, who most recently was Salesforce AI's CEO
1:15 PM  •
Sam Sabin / Axios:  CrowdStrike finds another China-linked group breaching telecommunications networks, in SEA and Africa, since at least 2020, to spy on texts and call metadata
1:00 PM  •
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:  Robinhood agrees to acquire TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a ~$300M deal set to close in H1 2025
12:10 PM  •
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:  Kong, which helps customers manage APIs, raised a $175M Series E co-led by Tiger Global and Balderton at a $2B valuation, taking its total raised to $345M
12:06 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Bluesky says it now has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on November 13, and the app has been #1 in the US App Store since November 13, per Appfigures
11:50 AM  •
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:  Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a large geospatial model, or LGM, that can navigate the physical world and power robots
11:20 AM  •
Sara Fischer / Axios:  Sources: Apple has started selling its own ad inventory for Apple News; publishers will get a 70% cut of the ad revenue generated by Apple within their articles
10:30 AM  •
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:  Microsoft says it has the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with 100K+ orgs making or editing AI agents in Copilot Studio and “2x growth in just a quarter”
10:07 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Smart ring maker Oura raised a $75M Series D from medical device company Dexcom at a $5B+ valuation, up from $2.55B in April 2022
9:50 AM  •
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:  Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople, raised $50M across seed led by Sequoia and Series A led by General Catalyst
9:40 AM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip
9:05 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Microsoft unveils the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module, its new in-house security chip
9:00 AM  •
Danielle Abril / Washington Post:  Microsoft debuts an AI interpreter in Teams in limited preview that can simulate speaker voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages
8:58 AM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record
8:54 AM  •
Tom Warren / The Verge:  Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a Black Hat-like hacking event at its Redmond HQ in 2025 that it says will be the largest of its kind, and opens submissions
8:52 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to Meta's Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview, promising only “seconds” to connect
8:50 AM  •
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:  Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to help customers build AI apps, including an SDK, tools for deploying AI agents, and a portal that replaces Azure AI Studio
8:44 AM  •
Tom Warren / The Verge:  Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative to help avoid another CrowdStrike-like incident, and a Quick Machine Recovery feature for fixing PCs remotely
8:43 AM  •
Tom Warren / The Verge:  Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC for its Windows 365 cloud service running a “super hardened version of Windows”, shipping in April 2025
7:35 AM  •
Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:  The UK CMA clears Google's partnership with Anthropic, finding that Google has not gained “material influence” over the AI startup, following a formal probe
7:10 AM  •
Karissa Bell / Engadget:  Instagram says it is testing letting users reset the algorithmic suggestions that power Feed, Reels, and Explore, and the update “will soon roll out globally”
6:35 AM  •
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:  Sources: US officials are racing to deliver billions in CHIPS Act funding to Intel and others before Biden leaves office; nearly $30B is tied up in negotiations
6:15 AM  •
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:  Super Micro hires BDO USA as its new independent auditor and files a plan to come into compliance with the Nasdaq's listing requirements; SMCI jumps 20%+
6:00 AM  •
Peter Eavis / New York Times:  US federal data shows nearly 1.8M human warehouse workers, up 30% since early 2020, despite automation efforts, as robots struggle at crucial, simple tasks
5:35 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Huawei is designing its next two Ascend chips around a 7nm architecture, meaning its marquee chips will be stuck with aging tech until at least 2026
5:25 AM  •
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:  Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and Meituan have been expanding their AI teams in Silicon Valley in recent months, despite US efforts to stymie Chinese companies
5:10 AM  •
Ian King / Bloomberg:  Google and Nvidia say Google's Quantum AI unit will use Nvidia's Eos supercomputer to speed up the design of quantum components by simulating quantum physics
4:55 AM  •
Reuters:  Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the Elden Ring game, in the coming weeks; Kadokawa had a ~$2.7B market cap
4:20 AM  •
Bruna Horvath / NBC News:  Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists
4:05 AM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November
2:05 AM  •
Mark Wilson / Fast Company:  An interview with Meta's heads of design for wearables Joshua To and Michelle Pujals on Orion's design, aiming to make Orion the AirPods of AR, and more
12:40 AM  •
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:  Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing “transparent” generative AI video tools, raised a $70M seed co-led by General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures

November 18, 2024

10:30 PM  •
Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine:  Bluesky is booming partly due to not being hindered by bad ad tech, AI slop, throttled links, or largely hostile user experiences, unlike some of its big rivals
9:10 PM  •
Jason Del Rey / Fortune:  Memo: Amazon employees find there is too much of a delay between asking the new LLM-based Alexa a question and getting a response or seeing it complete a task
8:40 PM  •
Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg:  Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban
7:00 PM  •
NBC News:  The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024
6:35 PM  •
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:  Internal doc: Amazon held talks on handling tasks on the LLM-powered Alexa with Uber, Ticketmaster, Vagaro, OpenTable, Grubhub, Instacart, Fodors, and Thumbtack
6:15 PM  •
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:  Amazon and SpaceX argued that the NLRB, which found issues at both companies, is unconstitutional; 5th US Circuit judges questioned the speed of their charges
5:50 PM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Perplexity debuts a shopping feature that offers product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro subscribers in the US, plus a merchant program
5:31 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more
5:30 PM  •
CNN:  Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns about Russian sabotage
5:15 PM  •
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:  Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions
5:05 PM  •
Philip Stafford / Financial Times:  Sources: Trump Media is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65% and BKKT up 162.46%
5:00 PM  •
Kylie Robison / The Verge:  A look at emails between Elon Musk and Sam Altman from OpenAI's early days, discussing its Microsoft partnership, fundraising, staff compensation, AGI, and more
4:55 PM  •
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:  Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for editing, and more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model
4:35 PM  •
Umar Shakir / The Verge:  Telegram updates “mini-apps” to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a “gift” sending feature, and more
4:25 PM  •
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:  The US sentences Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, to 18 months in prison; her husband got a five-year sentence
3:20 PM  •
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:  Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad
3:10 PM  •
Rob Pegoraro / PCMag:  Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers’ to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships
2:45 PM  •
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:  Trump's new FCC nominee promises to bring Project 2025-style governance to media
1:35 PM  •
Elizabeth Passarella / New York Times:  Musk asked X users to try “submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis” weeks ago; many have, and HIPAA protections may not apply
12:30 PM  •
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:  Goldman Sachs says it is reaching out to potential partners about plans to spin out its digital-assets platform within 12 to 18 months
11:50 AM  •
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:  India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies
10:15 AM  •
Pew Research Center:  News influencers survey: 21% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more
8:30 AM  •
Bloomberg:  MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B+ in bitcoin
7:40 AM  •
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:  PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record
7:10 AM  •
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:  Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts to a child's and banning text chat for under 13s outside games
6:50 AM  •
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:  Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as he worries about AI
6:30 AM  •
New York Times:  How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023
6:10 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, above ~$12.4B est., and a ~$738.5M net income, above ~$653M est., and expects smartphone and EV growth in 2025
5:55 AM  •
Reuters:  Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from job ads
5:35 AM  •
Financial Times:  Samsung unveils a ~$7.2B share buyback plan, its first since 2017, aimed at boosting its stock, which is down 30%+ in 2024 amid concerns over Chair Lee Jae-yong
4:40 AM  •
Oliver Darcy / Status:  Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more
4:10 AM  •
Bloomberg:  How Wall Street is preparing to cash in on AI hysteria; analysis: delivering on AI's promise will require $1T+ for data centers, electricity, and comms networks
2:15 AM  •
Financial Times:  Chinese smartphone makers are ramping up efforts in Europe to grab market share from Apple and Samsung with foldables, advanced cameras, and superfast chargers
12:40 AM  •
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:  Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners aged 13 and up say they use YouTube the most to listen to podcasts, passing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15%

November 17, 2024

9:55 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Trump names FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC chair; Carr floated limiting Section 230 and says the FCC has “an important role to play reining in Big Tech”
8:00 PM  •
John Hendel / Politico:  Trump taps Carr to chair FCC
7:40 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources detail efforts by Alphabet and Meta to sink KOSA, which passed in the Senate almost unanimously, by dividing US House lawmakers using culture war issues
6:30 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Trump's transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a framework to regulate autonomous vehicles
5:55 PM  •
Nextgov/FCW:  Sources: CISA Director Jen Easterly and Deputy Director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated
5:20 PM  •
Tom Carreras / CoinDesk:  An interview with Juan Carlos Reyes, who heads El Salvador's digital asset regulator CNAD, which employs 35, on the agency's crypto regulation approach and more
2:00 PM  •
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:  Q&A with Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark on AGI, how Elon Musk could constructively engage with the Trump administration on AI safety, and more
11:15 AM  •
The Information:  Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems
10:35 AM  •
Reuters:  Sources: Tata Electronics agrees to buy a 60% stake in Pegatron's iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu, India, forming a new joint venture, and run the daily operations
10:15 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more
7:05 AM  •
Daniela Dib / Rest of World:  Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu
2:00 AM  •
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:  Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google's conservatism, ChatGPT's success, biological computers, and more
12:25 AM  •
Federal Trade Commission:  The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency got 1,099,223 complaints about robocalls in FY 2024, down from 1,157,748 in FY 2023 and 3,427,949 in FY 2021

November 16, 2024

8:10 PM  •
GovTech:  US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure, identifying AI-driven attacks, targeted attacks on AI systems, and design flaws as core risks
5:10 PM  •
Bloomberg:  For Netflix, FOMO events like the Paul-Tyson match and NFL games are customer acquisition plays, and it's already built to mitigate the churn of new customers
5:00 PM  •
Ben Quinn / The Guardian:  FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the “reoffending risks” of prisoners
3:10 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Ukraine's drone suppliers are using US-based Auterion's tech to ramp up production of automated attack drones that are cheap and can evade electronic jamming
1:35 PM  •
Gavin Anderegg / anderegg.ca:  Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames
12:15 PM  •
Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:  Some GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits; a Texas researcher claims someone is impersonating him to make the submissions and smear him
11:10 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever
9:45 AM  •
Morgan Meaker / Wired:  A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist turned EU Parliament member, who says the EU's Big Tech regulation went too far, too fast
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