- Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC sent a cease-and-desist order to Google (Bloomberg)
- Morrisons discount cards not working and Christmas deliveries delayed
- Will we ever trust robots?
- AI platforms are unlikely to become a major source of traffic or ad revenue for media outlets, with content deals offering only a short-term revenue boost (Om Malik/On my Om)
- Google and OpenAI's AI product announcements over the past month have transformed the state of AI and show the breadth and pace of change (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
- Why you shouldn't be afraid of flying, according to a flight expert
- In-orbit servicers get UK funds to help shape new regulations
- xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot
- SpaceX launches 21 Starlink internet satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea (photos)
- A look at new tech-based mental health treatments like the Tetris method and Avatar therapy that are offering promising early results and possibilities (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
- X jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harder
- OpenAI details “deliberative alignment”, a new method it used to make o1 and o3 “think” about its safety policy before responding, to improve overall alignment (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
- FULL EPISODE: One of the World’s Most Remote Places: The Tibetan Plateau | Wild China | BBC Earth
- Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has recently become singularly obsessed with how to build the next Nvidia and wants competitive AI chips ready to ship by 2026 (Bloomberg)
- Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says AI spending frenzy will continue until the decade's end, and downplays an Intel bid, saying he had his “hands very full” in AI chips (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
- Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Sriram Krishnan named Trump’s senior policy advisor for AI
- Palantir and Anduril reportedly building a tech consortium to bid on defense contracts
- A survey of 501 organizations globally estimates organizations contribute $7.7B annually to open source software and 86% of contribution value is employee labor (The Linux Foundation)
- Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around ‘for a little while’
- NASA delays launch of heliophysics missions
- Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January (Financial Times)
- Characters in Disney's 'Moana' use the stars just like real Polynesian explorers. An astronomer explains how
- A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime (Bloomberg)
- OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy
- NASA prepares for Parker Solar Probe to make its closest-ever approach to the sun
- Liechtenstein signs the Artemis Accords
- The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car to Fisker
- What time is the NASA Parker Solar Probe's closest sun flyby ever on Christmas Eve?
- Apple might be working on a smart doorbell
- A look at Amazon's revamped drone delivery program near Phoenix, Arizona, where the company's new MK-30 drones deliver dozens of packages a day to customers (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
- Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own
- Space2Sea Antarctica: William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson and NASA astronauts talk exploration and science from the Drake Passage
- Parker Solar Probe to make closest approach yet to the sun
- Daffy Duck's 'full moon' and Porky Pig fend off alien invasion in 'The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie' (trailer)
- Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- The Top 10 Biomedical Stories of 2024
- The Space Rapid Capabilities Office: unlocking the power of collaboration for national defense
- You can now wear an Apollo Guidance Computer keypad as a wristwatch
- Human versus autonomous car race ends before it begins
- Ars Technica’s top 20 video games of 2024
- Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region (Bloomberg)
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