Sources: Amazon plans to donate $1M to Trump's inaugural fund and stream the inauguration through Prime Video; a source says “Bezos is donating through Amazon”
Amazon.com is planning a $1 million donation to president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund …
Musk says the SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or “face charges on numerous counts”
The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing “numerous counts” against Elon Musk …
Google rolls out interactive Audio Overviews in NotebookLM, an “experimental feature” that lets users talk to the AI “hosts” of the overviews
Google's NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews have been a surprise hit this year, and today Google company …
A Texas man gets a two-year sentence for underreporting capital gains from selling $3.7M in bitcoin, the first such prosecution based entirely on cryptocurrency
- An Austin, Texas, man received a two-year prison sentence for falsely underreporting capital gains earned from selling $3.7 million in bitcoin.
A look at Anthropic's Clio, an internal AI tool to identify new threats, disrupt coordinated abuse of the company's systems, and generate Claude usage insights
PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic's chatbot — The company didn't know it yet, but Anthropic had a spam problem.
Broadcom shares jump 20%+ a day after the company reported Q4 results that showed strong AI revenue growth, pushing its market cap beyond $1T for the first time
Shares of Broadcom popped more than 21% Friday, pushing the company's market cap beyond $1 trillion for the first time.
Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 51% YoY to $14.05B vs. $14.09B est., FY 2024 AI revenue up 220%, expects Q1 revenue just above est.; AVGO jumps 10%+ after hours
Broadcom CEO: ALL THREE of his major hyperscaler customers are going to building 1 million AI accelerator clusters across a single fabric by fiscal 2027 — lol X: @economyapp : $AVGO Broadcom Q4 FY24...
Source: Sam Altman plans on making a personal commitment of $1M to Trump's Presidential Inaugural Committee, as opposed to a gift from OpenAI
Any word on Alphabet, Microsoft and Nvidia?
Google Cloud launches Agentspace to let enterprises create and deploy AI agents for marketing, HR, software development, and more
Google Cloud launched Agentspace, which is designed to create and deploy AI agents, and a version of NotebookLM for the enterprise.
Google rolls out NotebookLM Plus, the enterprise version of NotebookLM with added controls for access and data management, as part of Agentspace
In October, Google started piloting a version of NotebookLM, its viral AI note-taking and research app, aimed at businesses.
Sources: Apple will begin producing AirPods in India for the first time around Q1, 2025; a Foxconn unit is already making AirPods on a trial basis in Hyderabad
- Partner Foxconn to begin making the product near Hyderabad — Apple is diversifying its manufacturing network beyond China
Microsoft launches Phi-4, a 14B-parameter language model that it says outperforms comparable and larger models, like Gemini Pro 1.5, in mathematical reasoning
Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence model today that achieves remarkable mathematical reasoning capabilities …
OpenAI says the three hour ChatGPT outage on Wednesday was caused by a telemetry service it deployed to collect Kubernetes metrics
OpenAI is blaming one of the longest outages in its history on a “new telemetry service” gone awry. — On Wednesday, OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot platform …
Liquid AI, which is building AI systems powered by liquid neural networks, raised a $250M Series A led by AMD at a $2.3B valuation, following a $46.6M seed
The funding round values the startup at more than $2 billion. — Liquid AI, a startup designing artificial intelligence systems inspired …
Texas AG Ken Paxton opens investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and 11 others over their privacy and safety practices for minors
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Thursday his office launched investigations into over a dozen technology platforms over their privacy and safety practices for minors.
The EU finds it breached its own privacy rules in a 2023 ad campaign on X that intended to sway opinions for a proposal to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM
The European Union's executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday that a Commission ad campaign …
ServiceTitan's shares closed up 42.25% at $101 in its Nasdaq debut, giving the cloud software provider an ~$8.9B market cap after it raised ~$625M in its IPO
All topics — Top of the Morning — David Bonderman … Financial Times : Live news: ServiceTitan shares pop 42% in debut Bluesky: Chirag Mehta / @chirag : A good signal that the market might welcome ...
An interview with Sundar Pichai about Google joining a “Manhattan Project” for AI under Trump, playing the long game after ChatGPT launch, Gemini 2.0, and more
THE SCOOP — In an exclusive interview, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Semafor he's ready to work on a …
How Anthropic's Claude became the chatbot of choice for AI industry insiders, who say its responses feel more creative and empathetic and less gratingly robotic
A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come? Bluesky: @jaredm.dev and @edzitron.com . X: @kevinroose Bluesky:...
Google unveils Android XR, a mixed reality OS for headsets and smart glasses, with Gemini built in, and plans a 2025 debut with Samsung's Project Moohan headset
I'm way more excited about Android XR in smart glasses Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Data Sheet: We don't judge Rebekah Carter / XR Today : Microsoft XR and Windows Mixed Reality: Could the HoloLens Make a...
In a strategy change, Netflix plans to make its Squid Games battle royale game available for free to non-members for a limited time after its December 17 launch
no Netflix subscription needed! X: @netflixgames_ : Squid Game: Unleashed is coming to Netflix Games December 17th! Available to EVERYONE for a limited time— no paid Netflix membership required. Prepa...
Meta releases Meta Video Seal, an AI tool that applies imperceptible watermarks to AI-generated videos and a hidden message to later uncover the video's origins
Throw a stone and you'll likely hit a deepfake. The commoditization of generative AI has led to an absolute explosion of fake content online …
YouTube removed the ability to click video titles in YouTube Player for Publishers; outlets give up ad revenue by using the standard player to link to YouTube
For about a year, I've gotten notes from readers asking why our YouTube embeds are broken in one very specific way …
Meta unveils Meta Motivo, an AI model for controlling the movements of a human-like digital agent, hoping to offer lifelike NPCs and more in the metaverse
Meta (META.O) said on Thursday it was releasing an artificial intelligence model called Meta Motivo, which could control the movements …
Private-credit firm Sixth Street commits $4B in capital for Affirm to underwrite short-term installment loans of between four and six months
Two trendy areas in finance - fintech and private credit — are coming together in a new multi-billion dollar joint venture.
Sources: Apple plans to debut its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip in Apple TV and HomePod mini refreshes in 2025, in iPhones later in 2025, and iPads and Macs by 2026
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg :
Microsoft's new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the default “sensitive information” filter enabled
it's now possible to try the controversial Copilot feature Christian Guyton / TechRadar : Microsoft Recall offers a ‘sensitive information filter’ to avoid saving your credit card details - but whoops...
OpenAI releases Advanced Voice Mode with vision for ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers, letting them share their screen or videos for ChatGPT to respond to
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 6 Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police : ChatGPT has a Santa voice to ring in the holiday cheer Shaurya Shubham / Moneycontrol : ChatGPT gets screen sharing feature: What is it, ...
Threads is testing collections of profiles to follow, curated by a “handful of Threads community leaders”, built around topics like fashion, food, and books
It's unclear if one day, Threads will allow any account to create starter packs — 1/2 — www.threads.net/@mosseri/pos... … Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : Hahahahahaha wait, you can't even make your ow...
The UK CMA opens a formal probe into BlackRock's acquisition of UK data provider Preqin over concerns that the £2.55B deal could stifle competition in the UK
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal :
Sources detail Anthropic and OpenAI's rivalry: OpenAI boosted ChatGPT's coding skills in response to Claude, Anthropic's safety focus, exec bad blood, and more
Because Google shipped a mildly decent LLM product for the first time only a day ago. [embedded post] X: Stephanie Palazzolo / @steph_palazzolo : Anthropic's accelerating growth in recent months, dri...
Australia-based Fleet Space, whose ExoSphere service helps find minerals in space using AI, sensors, and more, raised a AU$150M Series D at a AU$800M+ valuation
Sources: Yahoo laid off or lost via attrition 40 to 50 people from its 200-strong cybersecurity team in 2024, as it outsources its “red team” under its new CTO
known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned. (Yahoo is TechCrunch's parent company.) — Yahoo confirmed the layoffs, including the elimination of its red team. —
Vapi, which helps businesses deploy AI-powered voice agents, raised a $20M Series A from Bessemer, Y Combinator, and others, a source says at a $130M valuation
Kritika Lamba / Reuters :
Sources: the UK's AI Safety Institute delays plans for its US outpost as it faces Trump's “starkly” different AI regulation approach; the AISI has a £50M budget
Financial Times : Bluesky: @shashj Bluesky: Shashank Joshi / @shashj : “In an effort to maintain its influence, people close to the UK government believe it will increasingly position the AISI [AI Sa...
Sublime Security, which uses AI to scan companies' and political campaigns' emails for phishing, raised a $60M Series B, taking its total funding to $93.8M
I'm proud to be part of a team whose inspiring vision and unwavering leadership … Sara Mathes : Cat's out of the bag already, but excited to share the news of Sublime's Series B!! — I'm truly impres...
China plans to set up a committee of 41 members, including representatives from Baidu and Peking University, to set standards for LLMs and AI risk assessment
How US SMB owners, celebrities, and retailers on TikTok are using livestreaming to boost their sales one year after TikTok Shop's launch in the country
Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times :
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