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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 (Bruna Horvath/NBC News)

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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 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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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 (Mark Wilson/Fast Company)

An interview with Meta's heads of design for weara...

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Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing "transparent" generative AI video tools, raised a $70M seed co-led by General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Bluesky is booming partly because it isn't hindered by bad adtech, AI slop, throttled links, and largely hostile user experiences, unlike some of its big rivals (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)

Bluesky is booming partly because it isn't hindere...

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Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too much of a delay between asking a question to the new AI-based Alexa and getting a response or completing a task (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

Memo: Amazon employees have found there is too muc...

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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 (Faris Mokhtar/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in I...

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The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 (NBC News)

The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed s...

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Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

Internal document: Amazon has held talks with seve...

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In the Fifth Circuit, Amazon and SpaceX argued the NLRB, which recently ruled against them, is unconstitutional; the judges questioned their arbitrary deadlines (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

In the Fifth Circuit, Amazon and SpaceX argued the...

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Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering prod...

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Sources: DOJ antitrust officials have decided to, along with states' AGs, ask a judge to force Google to spin off Chrome and impose data licensing requirements (Bloomberg)

Sources: DOJ antitrust officials have decided to, ...

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Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage (CNN)

Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuan...

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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 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65% (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)

Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group is neari...

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A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the early days of OpenAI, discussing its partnership with Microsoft, fundraising, employee compensation, AGI, more (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the ...

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Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for in-line editing, more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for in-line editing, more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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