A look at the relationship between Tether and Trump transition co-Chair Howard Lutnick, who boasted of Cantor Fitzgerald handling $10B in redemptions in 2022 (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at the relationship between Tether and Trump transition co-Chair Howard Lutnick, who boasted of Cantor Fitzgerald handling $10B in redemptions in 2022  —  Howard Lutnick has defended the stablecoin company which has been used by gangs and US adversaries

OpenAI rolls out Canvas, its side-by-side digital editing space, to all ChatGPT users and adds new features, including support for Python and more text pasting (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

Emilia David / VentureBeat:
OpenAI rolls out Canvas, its side-by-side digital editing space, to all ChatGPT users and adds new features, including support for Python and more text pasting  —  OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features …

TeamViewer says it plans to buy 1E, which makes automated remediation software, from Carlyle for $720M, closing in early 2025, its biggest ever acquisition (Aaron Kirchfeld/Bloomberg)

Aaron Kirchfeld / Bloomberg:
TeamViewer says it plans to buy 1E, which makes automated remediation software, from Carlyle for $720M, closing in early 2025, its biggest ever acquisition  —  - German remote-working software firm's biggest ever acquisition  — Transaction will help expand company's North America footprint

Microsoft unveils a new data center design that aims to use zero water, down from the 125M litres per year a typical center uses, rolling out since August 2024 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft unveils a new data center design that aims to use zero water, down from the 125M litres per year a typical center uses, rolling out since August 2024  —  New design will use no water to cool the facilities' servers and chips.  —  Microsoft Corp., trying to mitigate the climate impact …

Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia set its IPO price at ~$9.70, the middle of the range, raising ~$800M and valuing it at ~$5.2B, ahead of a December 18 listing (Reuters)

Reuters:
Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia set its IPO price at ~$9.70, the middle of the range, raising ~$800M and valuing it at ~$5.2B, ahead of a December 18 listing  —  Bain Capital-backed chipmaker Kioxia's (285A.T) initial public offering has raised 120 billion yen ($800 million) …

A look at generative AI's impact, its structural issue of concentrated power among a few companies, and utopian questions over an alternative version of AI (Evgeny Morozov/Boston Review)

Evgeny Morozov / Boston Review:
A look at generative AI's impact, its structural issue of concentrated power among a few companies, and utopian questions over an alternative version of AI  —  Critiques of artificial intelligence abound.  Where's the utopian vision for what it could be?  —  With responses from Brian Eno …

Sources: Apple is working with Sony to add support for PlayStation VR2 controllers in visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K units of the Vision Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working with Sony to add support for PlayStation VR2 controllers in visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K units of the Vision Pro  —  Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro.  Also: Apple has a three-year road map …

ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launches a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launches a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials  —  The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM  —  ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …

How the US-China fallout is fueling the rise of boomtowns in Vietnam and Malaysia, as companies and governments rush to develop AI and establish chipmaking hubs (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
How the US-China fallout is fueling the rise of boomtowns in Vietnam and Malaysia, as companies and governments rush to develop AI and establish chipmaking hubs  —  An accelerating influx of tech investment is transforming local economies in Malaysia and Vietnam.

A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant  —  An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future

OpenAI's o1 is a notable departure from older models, representing the industry's shift to reasoning models to overcome the limits of prediction-based AI (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

Matteo Wong / The Atlantic:
OpenAI's o1 is a notable departure from older models, representing the industry's shift to reasoning models to overcome the limits of prediction-based AI  —  This week, openai launched what its chief executive, Sam Altman, called “the smartest model in the world”—a generative-AI program whose capabilities …

Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June  —  Paytm has agreed to sell its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2 million, as the Indian firm sheds …

How the UK has come to play a key role in the global regulation of AI after Sam Altman played a deepfake of Rishi Sunak on a 2023 call with the then PM (Vincent Manancourt/Politico)

Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
How the UK has come to play a key role in the global regulation of AI after Sam Altman played a deepfake of Rishi Sunak on a 2023 call with the then PM  —  LONDON — In February 2023 Sam Altman dialed into a video call with Britain's then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

A look at Uber Shuttle, the shared bus service that has rolled out in over 20 cities and completed ~30M trips globally, as Uber awaits approval in Bengaluru (Anisha Sircar/Rest of World)

Anisha Sircar / Rest of World:
A look at Uber Shuttle, the shared bus service that has rolled out in over 20 cities and completed ~30M trips globally, as Uber awaits approval in Bengaluru  —  Uber Shuttle, a shared bus ride service, is available in two Indian cities.  The company plans to launch in three more cities soon.

An evaluation of six frontier AI models for in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal: only OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming in all the tests (Marius Hobbhahn/Apollo Research)

Marius Hobbhahn / Apollo Research:
An evaluation of six frontier AI models for in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal: only OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming in all the tests  —  Paper: You can find the detailed paper here.  —  Transcripts: We provide a list of cherry-picked transcripts here.