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Enterpret, which lets companies automatically extract insights from customer feedback, raised a $20.8M Series A led by Canaan, bringing its total raised to $25M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Enterpret, which lets companies automatically extr...

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At the DealBook Summit, Jeff Bezos said he is "very hopeful" about President-elect Donald Trump and praised his deregulatory agenda, and Elon Musk's leadership (New York Times)

At the DealBook Summit, Jeff Bezos said he is "ver...

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Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, including its lead Raiza Martin, are leaving to launch a startup focused on building "a user-first AI product" (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)

Three members of Google's NotebookLM team, includi...

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A look at European startups building AI-powered weapons, betting governments will increase defense budgets and buy more autonomous drones and AI systems (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

A look at European startups building AI-powered we...

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Cleerly, whose AI-powered imaging tech aims to identify early-stage heart disease, raised a $106M Series C extension, adding to the $223M it raised in July 2022 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Cleerly, whose AI-powered imaging tech aims to ide...

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Microsoft and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs researchers find Russia-linked Turla hackers are hijacking Pakistan-based hackers' servers to launch their own attacks (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Microsoft and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs researchers...

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Axiado, which makes chips and apps to secure data centers, 5G base stations, and more from cyberattacks, raised a $60M Series C led by Maverick Silicon (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Axiado, which makes chips and apps to secure data ...

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Hands-on with Xreal's One Series smart glasses, powered by its custom-made X1 chip, shipping December 9 for the $499 One and early 2025 for the $599 One Pro (Scott Stein/CNET)

Hands-on with Xreal's One Series smart glasses, po...

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Some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by 2024's Spotify Wrapped, complaining about the inclusion of an AI podcast, a lack of detailed statistics, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by 2024's...

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Bitcoin reached $100K for the first time after rallying ~126% since January 2024, driven by Bitcoin ETF demand, April's halving, and Donald Trump's election win (Helen Partz/Cointelegraph)

Bitcoin reached $100K for the first time after ral...

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TikTok Shop says its US sales tripled to over $100M on Black Friday and it drew a 165% annual increase in shoppers on the two days leading up to Cyber Monday (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)

TikTok Shop says its US sales tripled to over $100...

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The White House says the Salt Typhoon hack has impacted eight telecom firms in the US, with dozens of other countries also affected, for as long as two years (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

The White House says the Salt Typhoon hack has imp...

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Trump picks Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner who is seen as a strong advocate for looser regulation of crypto assets, to succeed Gary Gensler as SEC chair (New York Times)

Trump picks Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner...

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Amazon is rolling out a Buy with AWS button that software companies can add to their websites as a way for customers with AWS accounts to pay for services (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Amazon is rolling out a Buy with AWS button that s...

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First impressions of Amazon Nova LLMs: they are competitive with Google Gemini, among the cheapest available, and may position Amazon as a top model provider (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

First impressions of Amazon Nova LLMs: they are co...

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xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate more than 1M GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its facility in Memphis (Financial Times)

xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer ten...

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Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can generate 3D worlds from a single prompt image, playable by humans or AI agents using keyboard and mouse inputs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can ...

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Anduril and OpenAI partner to deploy advanced AI systems for national security missions, focusing on "improving the nation's counter-unmanned aircraft systems" (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Anduril and OpenAI partner to deploy advanced AI s...

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Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post, but the accounts aren't searchable and their posts won't show in feeds (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts th...

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Mazda CEO Says U.S. Deserves A Two-Rotor Rotary Engine Because The MX-30's Single Rotor Is Too Weak

Mazda CEO Says U.S. Deserves A Two-Rotor Rotary En...

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Trump selects Gail Slater, an adviser to JD Vance and tech policy adviser during Trump's first term, as head of the DOJ's antitrust unit (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)

Trump selects Gail Slater, an adviser to JD Vance ...

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Customer Tells Dealer They Are Underwater $29,000 On Car Loan And Willing To Accept A $2,500 Monthly Payment On A New Mercedes-Benz

Customer Tells Dealer They Are Underwater $29,000 ...

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Trump plans to nominate former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC chair, keeping with his promise for a crypto-friendly administration (Jeff Cox/CNBC)

Trump plans to nominate former SEC Commissioner Pa...

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Leaded Gasoline May Have Caused Boom In Anxiety, Depression, and ADHD

Leaded Gasoline May Have Caused Boom In Anxiety, D...

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2025 Genesis GV80 Doesn't Mess With A Winning Formula

2025 Genesis GV80 Doesn't Mess With A Winning Form...

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DealBook Summit: Sam Altman says "it would be profoundly un-American to use political power to hurt your competitors" and "I don't think Elon would do it" (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

DealBook Summit: Sam Altman says "it would be prof...

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Hyundai Employees To Strike Unless South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Steps Down

Hyundai Employees To Strike Unless South Korean Pr...

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Rogue Tesla Hits Other Cars Before Driving Off Rooftop With 2 Passengers Inside

Rogue Tesla Hits Other Cars Before Driving Off Roo...

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Miata EV Swap Gives You 160 HP, 150 Miles Of Range And Only Adds 220 Pounds

Miata EV Swap Gives You 160 HP, 150 Miles Of Range...

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The World's Best Car Photographer Packs Around $40,000 Worth Of Gear Into His Carry-On

The World's Best Car Photographer Packs Around $40...

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Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather model that outperforms traditional methods on forecasts up to 15 days and is better at foreseeing extreme events (William J. Broad/New York Times)

Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather mod...

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The UK NCA uncovers a Russian multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme that let Russian spies, European drug traffickers, and more evade sanctions via crypto (Financial Times)

The UK NCA uncovers a Russian multibillion-dollar ...

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New York City's $83 Million AI Bus Cameras Issued Nearly 3,800 Unwarranted Citations

New York City's $83 Million AI Bus Cameras Issued ...

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What's The Best Car-Related App On Your Phone?

What's The Best Car-Related App On Your Phone?

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Would You Trade 40 Minutes Of Daylight To Prevent 300 Car Crashes? Musk's DOGE Proposes Axing Daylight Saving Time

Would You Trade 40 Minutes Of Daylight To Prevent ...

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Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to kick off a "shipmas" period of features and products for 12 days on December 5, sources say including text-to-video AI tool Sora (The Verge)

Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to kick off a "shipma...

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Tesla Tells Cybertruck Workers To Stay Home

Tesla Tells Cybertruck Workers To Stay Home

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An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino on AI in gaming, "preserving the human touch" in game development, Astro Bot, and more (Tom Gerken/BBC)

An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst...

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District of Columbia AG sues Amazon over allegedly violating consumer laws by making slower deliveries to Prime users in historically lower-income neighborhoods (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

District of Columbia AG sues Amazon over allegedly...

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These Are Your Worst Driving Experiences In Foreign Countries

These Are Your Worst Driving Experiences In Foreig...

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Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to Chinese iPhones but have clashed over model training data, and the models have struggled with prompts (The Information)

Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI fea...

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iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launched in May, found seven Pegasus infections after scanning 2,500 devices, including targeting business leaders (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launc...

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Nuclear Hearts Of NASA’s Voyager Probes Are Dying Taking The Crafts With Them

Nuclear Hearts Of NASA’s Voyager Probes Are Dying ...

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Amazon Kindle Scribe 2 review: smooth reading and writing experience, updated Premium Pen with a rubberized eraser, and a svelte design, but relatively pricey (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)

Amazon Kindle Scribe 2 review: smooth reading and ...

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Americans Can’t Get Enough Of Hybrid Cars

Americans Can’t Get Enough Of Hybrid Cars

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Netflix says Netflix Japan passed 10M+ subscribers in H1 2024 and has doubled its user base in the past four years thanks to Japanese-language programming (Sam Nussey/Reuters)

Netflix says Netflix Japan passed 10M+ subscribers...

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Traffic Jams: Loose Tapestries - ‘Can’t Wait For Christmas’

Traffic Jams: Loose Tapestries - ‘Can’t Wait For C...

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Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised $2B via a secondary share sale led by TPG that valued it at $15B; Insight bought Veeam for $5B in early 2020 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised...

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Spotify says Joe Rogan was its top US podcast in 2024 for the fourth year running, followed by Call Her Daddy, and 33%+ of the top 50 podcasts were video (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Spotify says Joe Rogan was its top US podcast in 2...

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Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped via Google's AI summarization tool NotebookLM, and a Your Music Evolution feature (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI pod...

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