Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia’s APT28, which remotely breached a target’s Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia’s APT28, which remotely breached a target’s Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street  —  In a first, Russia’s APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target …

Amazon will remain a minority investor in Anthropic even as new funding brings its total investment to $8B; Amazon doesn’t have a seat on Anthropic’s board (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Hayden Field / CNBC:
Amazon will remain a minority investor in Anthropic even as new funding brings its total investment to $8B; Amazon doesn’t have a seat on Anthropic’s board  —  Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives.

Threads is testing AI-powered summaries of what users are discussing in the app’s Trending Now section in the US, and improvements to Search and Trending Now (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Threads is testing AI-powered summaries of what users are discussing in the app’s Trending Now section in the US, and improvements to Search and Trending Now  —  Meta is promising “long-overdue improvements” to its X competitor, Threads, including more precise search features and expanded trending topics.

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $350M at the same $5B valuation as its $340M raise in August; it has raised $1.35B since June 2024 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raises $350M at the same $5B valuation as its $340M raise in August; it has raised $1.35B since June 2024  —  Zepto has secured $350 million in new funding, its third round of financing in six months, as the Indian quick-commerce startup strengthens …

Anthropic raised an additional $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary cloud partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised an additional $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary cloud partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators  —  Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services …

Three Nvidia customers spent a collective $12.6B in Q3, when it had a total revenue of $35.1B; each of them spent $10B+ in the nine months to October (Christiaan Hetzner/Fortune)

Christiaan Hetzner / Fortune:
Three Nvidia customers spent a collective $12.6B in Q3, when it had a total revenue of $35.1B; each of them spent $10B+ in the nine months to October  —  Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t have any real competition in the market for AI training chips.  —  MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN—RITZAU SCANPIX/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

The EU closes a four-year long investigation into Apple’s rules for e-book and audiobook app developers after the complainant withdrew its complaint (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU closes a four-year long investigation into Apple’s rules for e-book and audiobook app developers after the complainant withdrew its complaint  —  EU antitrust regulators on Friday closed a four-year long investigation into Apple’s (AAPL.O) rules for competing e-book and audiobook apps developers …

Microsoft President Brad Smith calls on Donald Trump to “push harder” against cyberattacks from Russia, China, and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls on Donald Trump to “push harder” against cyberattacks from Russia, China, and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks  —  Big Tech group’s president calls on new US administration to take tougher approach on state-sponsored cyber attacks