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 …
Sony details the PS5 Pro's specs, including an AMD RDNA 2 GPU and ray tracing improvements, and announces a long-term machine learning partnership with AMD
Plus: what this all means for future PlayStation hardware. — When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro, it did so in a very different manner …
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) …
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% …
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 …
Adam Mosseri teases an AI editing tool in Instagram powered by Meta's Movie Gen AI model to change outfits, backgrounds, and more in videos with a text prompt
Instagram is planning to introduce a generative AI editing feature next year that will allow users to “change nearly any aspect of your videos.”
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.
A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase all kinds of media; a Pew study says 38% of webpages accessible in 2013 are now gone
The internet is forever. But also, it isn't. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?
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 …
Document: the EU Commission pressed Apple to rework iOS so that the OS is more compatible with competitors' smartwatches, earbuds, headsets, and other devices
- Apple cites concerns that Meta access may undermine privacy — EU watchdog has pressed company to rework iOS operating system
A coalition of newspapers, writers, movie producers, and others rejects 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
In 2024, hackers stole $2.2B in crypto across 303 hacks, up from $1.8B across 282 hacks in 2023; in H1 2024, $1.58B had been stolen, but the pace slowed in H2
The Chainalysis 2025 Crypto Crime Report — Crypto hacking remains a persistent threat, with four years in the past decade individually seeing …
Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B
The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending.
The US FAA prohibits drone flights over several parts of New Jersey, as public hysteria over sightings of possible drone activity continues to persist
The US Federal Aviation Administration prohibited drone flights over several parts of New Jersey as public hysteria over sightings continues to persist.
Arm v. Qualcomm: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon described Arm's Nuvia license cancellation and demand for Qualcomm to destroy IP after buying Nuvia as “outrageous”
- Tech firms are sparring in weeklong jury trial in Delaware — Closing arguments are expected Thursday in federal court
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
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 10 Kylie Robison / The Verge : You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT … For the 10th day of “ship-mas,” OpenAI rolled … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landlin...
Sources: Elon Musk taps 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
El Salvador plans to scale back its bitcoin efforts under an IMF deal for a $1.4B loan; bitcoin acceptance will no longer be mandatory for the private sector
Vince Dioquino / Decrypt :
A look at BirdVoxDetect, an ML-powered open-source software that ornithologists can use and adapt to detect flight calls from songbirds in audio recordings
A small songbird soars above Ithaca, New York, on a September night. He is one of 4 billion birds, a great annual river of feathered migration across North America. Bluesky: @christianelliott.me Blue...
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
over 150 million developers can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o Chris McKay / Maginative : GitHub Copilot Now Comes with VS Code for Free Tim Anderson / DEVCLASS : GitHub debuts limited Copilot...
A look at Truth Terminal, an AI bot on X that was created to spark debate about AI alignment, as its crypto wallet swells to ~$40M after boosting memecoins
Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to invite discussion about the applications and potential dangers of autonomous AI agents.
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
Smart ring maker Ōura raised a $200M Series D from Fidelity and Dexcom at a $5.2B valuation and says sales doubled in 2024 to ~$500M with 2.5M+ total rings sold
and hits $5.2bn valuation Fred Pennic / HIT Consultant : ŌURA Secures $200M to Fuel Growth and Innovation in Health Wearables Oura : ŌURA Secures $200 Million in Series D Funding Bluesky: Vinny Carpen...
Intel unveils the first updates to address Arrow Lake's gaming performance issues, fixing four of the five root causes, and plans a final update in January 2025
another update coming next month
Sources: Apple halts work on a project to build an iPhone hardware subscription service, which had been in development since 2022 and was set to launch then
what we know James Rogerson / TechRadar : Apple's long-rumored iPhone subscription service has reportedly been scrapped Jon Mundy / Trusted Reviews : Anyone waiting on an iPhone subscription service s...
Congress approves $3B in funding for a project to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US 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.
Micron reports Q1 revenue up 84% YoY to $8.71B, in line with est., and a Q2 revenue forecast below est. due to sluggish phone and PC demand; MU drops 15%+
Ian King / Bloomberg :
Decart, which helps organizations train 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.
Lens, a high-performance layer-2 blockchain developed by Avara for consumer apps, raised $31M led by Lightspeed Faction, and plans to launch Lens v3 in Q1 2025
The high-performance network with embedded powerful modular Social Features. Derek Andersen / Cointelegraph : Avara's Lens secures $31M for SocialFi-focused L2 blockchain Lens : Lens Closes $31 Millio...
Sources: Insight Partners, which bought Dotmatics for around $629M in 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
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
that's reshaping the infrastructures of our world in ways that reflect the interests of those big corporations.” Niall Firth / @niallfirth : New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating...
Tracxn: Indian startup funding rounds fell 32% YoY to 1,448 in 2024, but overall funding rose 6% YoY to $11.3B; 40+ startups completed IPOs, up 80% YoY
Indian startups raised 32% fewer funding rounds in 2024 compared to last year, per new numbers from data intelligence platform Tracxn …
How Bengaluru, the “Silicon Valley of India”, is under pressure as rapid growth tests local infrastructure; its population jumped from 8M in 2010 to ~14M now
Business Insider :
The US finalizes a $458M grant for SK Hynix under the CHIPS Act and $500M in loans to build a $3.87B chip packaging facility in Indiana
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg :
Chinese self-driving trucking company TuSimple rebrands to CreateAI, in a pivot to generative AI for video games and animation, and debuts its first model, Ruyi
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC :
Q&A with Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing President Yoshihiro Yamaguchi on shipping 20B+ image sensors, a new manufacturing plant in Kumamoto, Japan, and more
Nikkei Asia :
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
Paul Arnold / Reuters :
Alejandro Mayorkas, the US DHS' outgoing secretary, says Europe's “adversarial” relationship with tech companies is hampering a global approach to AI regulation
Financial Times :
Analysis: Alphabet's shares have jumped about 30% from a September 2024 low, with a chunk of those gains coming after Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg :
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