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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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Telegram updates "mini-apps" to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a "gift" sending feature, and more (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

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Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, is sentenced to 18 months in prison; her husband recently got a 5-year sentence (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

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Brendan Carr claims Big Tech "worked with marketing, ad, & 'fact checkers' to punish free speech outlets" and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships (Rob Pegoraro/PCMag)

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Brendan Carr says Big Tech "worked with marketing, ad, & 'fact checkers' to punish free speech outlets" and asks tech leaders for NewsGuard partnership details (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)

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Musk asked X users to try "submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis" weeks ago; many have, and HIPAA protections may not apply (Elizabeth Passarella/New York Times)

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Goldman Sachs says it is reaching out to potential partners about plans to spin out its digital-assets platform within 12 to 18 months (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)

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India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules,...

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News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more (Pew Research Center)

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MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B in bitcoin (Dave Liedtka/Bloomberg)

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PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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Roblox rolls out parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts with a child and banning text chat for under 13s outside games (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

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Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt begins an early trial of its digital wallet in Belgium to help deliver social services to 7M citizens, as he worries over AI's rise (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

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How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023 (New York Times)

How Substack is betting on politics content and re...

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Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, above ~$12.4B est., and a ~$738.5M net income, above ~$653M est., buoyed by growing smartphone and EV sales (Bloomberg)

Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, a...

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Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from ads (Reuters)

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Samsung unveils a $7.2B share buyback plan, its first since 2017, aimed at boosting its stock, which has fallen 30%+ in 2024 on concerns over Chair Lee Jae-yong (Financial Times)

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