Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role — Apple Inc., long the model of stability in Silicon Valley, is suddenly undergoing its biggest personnel shake-up in decades …
Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content — Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on “zero-knowledge proofs” — Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues including the deceptive design of its blue checkmarks — Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday …
Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years — TOKYO — Since relocating his Tokyo office in August to accommodate a growing team, veteran construction consultant Takehiko Yuge …
DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir — Alex Karp vows to use his “whole influence” on immigration and defense policy. — Read Later Read Later
Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money” — Wikipedia is working with Big Tech on deals similar to its arrangement with Google, the online encyclopedia's co-founder …
Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips — Cambricon Technologies Corp. plans to more than triple its production of AI chips in 2026, aiming to wrest market share …
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025 — Company's shares plummet as investors cash out at end of lock-up period — Shares in a US cryptocurrency miner backed by Donald Trump Jr …
HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file — But the best one definitely did. … The 4K stream of the classic Lionsgate Television series for AMC Network came to HBO Max on Monday …
Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?”; an “unauthorized” map edit resolved the bet — A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15.
Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contrast with Asia and Europe's relative positivity — Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.
ByteDance launches an AI voice assistant powered by its Doubao LLM, available first on ZTE's Nubia M153 smartphone prototype; Doubao has an estimated 159M MAUs — Chinese tech giant ByteDance said on Monday it is launching an artificial intelligence voice control tool that will debut …
Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately asks phonemakers to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices within 90 days — India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app …
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance — Potential End of the CUDA Moat?, Anthropic's 1GW+ TPU Purchase, The more (TPU) Meta/SSI/xAI/OAI/Anthro buy the more (GPU capex) …
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