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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.As Jessica writes in her cover story this week, Andy Jassy has enjoyed a relatively smooth transition period as CEO of Amazon. Sure, there have been hiccups and challenges in the two years since Jeff Bezos handed Jassy the reins. He earned some ire from employees after laying off 27,000 workers in 2022. And there was more internal grumbling this year when he enacted a tough return-to-office policy. But on the whole, Jassy appears broadly liked and respected.But heâs clearly feeli
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Mistral AI releases content moderation API powered by its Ministral 8B language model. The âŹ6 billion-valued European AI startup has backing from tech giants Nvidia and Microsoft. The European artificial intelligence powerhouse Mistral AI has announced the release of its new content moderation API, marking a step in its mission to deliver sovereign AI solutions.... Read more » Read more âș
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A little over week after Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's launch, developer GSC Game World is back with the post-apocalyptic shooter's first patch, promising over 650 fixes for Xbox and PC. Read more Read more âș
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Apple today announced that a new stop-motion animation featuring Wallace & Gromit will be projected onto London's Battersea Power Station this holiday season. The festive, six-minute video will be shown every day from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. from today until New Year's Eve. It is free to watch, and reservations are not needed. Apple is promoting the animation as part of its latest "Shot on iPhone" campaign. Aardman, the... Read more âș
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The year ends with fresh releases from Alex Segura, Brandon Sanderson, Ann Leckie, and more. Read more âș
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From 3rd January 2025, Riot Games will ban content creators for bad "off-platform conduct". Read more Read more âș
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Samsung DeX has had a good run, but One UI 7 will mark its end of the Windows app. Read more âș
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Black Friday crowds aren't what they used to be, but shoppers still turned out at brick-and-mortar stores in large numbers this year. Read more âș
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Looking to upgrade your skincare routine with a little LED light? Score these fantastic masks (and other LED gadgets) while they're on sale. Read more âș
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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the recently leaked design of the iPhone 17 "Air" and âiPhone 17â Pro. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos Earlier this week, a report from The Information's Wayne Ma revealed that the âiPhone 17â Air will have a thickness of between 5mm and 6mm, which would make it the thinnest iPhone ever. In comparison, iPhone 16... Read more âș
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Tom King became a counterterrorism officer in the CIA after 9/11. He quit to focus on being a father, using the opportunity to turn his cover into his career. Read more âș
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Taylor Swift's self-published "The Eras Tour Book" was released exclusively at Target on Black Friday. Read more âș
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TSMC founder Morris Chang and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have long-admired each other publicly â but Huang decided to keep his focus on his own company. Read more âș
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Vladimir Putin dismissed the ruble's latest tumble, but analysts say falling oil prices and sanctions spell problems for Russia's economy. Read more âș
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Six weeks after Microsoft yanked its ÂŁ1/$1 Game Pass trial in the run-up to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's release, the deal has now been reinstated as part of the company's Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions - but only for Game Pass PC. Read more Read more âș
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This is an Amazon's best-selling jump starter with a stellar 4.6-star rating from over 100,000 reviewers. Read more âș
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QwQ uses inference-time scaling to solve complex reasoning and planning questions, besting OpenAI's o1 in several benchmarks. Read more âș
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You never forget your first (price drop). The latest Echo Show smart display is down to $360 on Amazon for Black Friday. Read more âș
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Brightcove, which makes software to help companies create and make money from videos, agreed to be taken private by Italian mobile app operator Bending Spoons for $233 million in cash in a deal expected to close early next year, the companies announced on Monday. The purchase price Bending ... Read more âș
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Last year, the board of now-collapsed fintech startup Synapse Financial Technologies discussed whether to remove the companyâs CEO, Sankaet Pathak. At the time, discrepancies in Synapseâs ledgers were piling up, which the board was aware of. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange argued in favor of keeping Pathak in the role based on the belief that founders were best placed to run their companies, according to a person close to... Read more âș
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Gavin Newsom, Californiaâs Democratic governor, announced on Monday that he would reinstate a tax credit for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump Administration removes federal EV tax credits. But the state may not extend the credits to Tesla because of the companyâs large market ... Read more âș
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If Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had its way, the chip manufacturing powerhouse would be a neutral party in the battle between the U.S. and China for technological supremacyâa semiconductor version of Switzerland, one TSMC executive told The Information. Unfortunately, the company may find it increasingly tough to avoid picking a side. Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether TSMC was still producing chips for Chinese tech... Read more âș
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Uber announced a new service on Tuesday to help companies label their data and train artificial intelligence models. Through the new service, Scaled Solutions, Uber will hire data labelers on contract to provide companies with human-written annotations, such as descriptions of images or rankings ... Read more âș
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Appleâs desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers canât overcome a design hurdle with the slim iPhone planned for release next fallâit canât fit a physical SIM card tray, which is required in China. Apple plans to release its slim iPhone next year, alongside new versions of its traditional models, aiming to rejuvenate iPhone sales by providing customers with a compelling reason to... Read more âș
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The judge overseeing Googleâs search antitrust case warned that he doesnât want to delay the upcoming trial of remedies to deal with Googleâs illegal search monopoly, now scheduled for the spring. At a status conference for the case on Tuesday, the judge said the incoming presidential ... Read more âș
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Itâs a bit early to be offering predictions for 2025, but here goes anyway. Chances are very good that sometime next year weâre going to hear a bunch of complaints about newly released Apple iPhones dropping calls more often than previous models did. In other words, weâre in for a repeat of the âAntennagateâ brouhaha of 2010, when similar connectivity issues on the new iPhone 4 became a big story.Assuming... Read more âș
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In Thursdayâs Briefing newsletter, my colleague Cory Weinberg reported that bankers at Goldman Sachsâ private tech gathering this week had asked, âFor big tech, is capex the new M&A?â as part of a slide presentation on the market. We got the answer todayâyes, it isâwhen Amazon announced it was investing $4 billion more into Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup that appears to be OpenAIâs closest rival. (The Informationâs Anissa Gardizy... Read more âș
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Saturday said that the company will balance compliance with technological advancement and customer service under the incoming Trump administration. âThe advancement of AI is global. Open science and open research of AI is global, and nothing can stop this,â Huang told ... Read more âș
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