Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google — Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.
The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia as Bhutan’s BTC holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, increased trading activity in South Korea, and more (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia as Bhutan’s BTC holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, increased trading activity in South Korea, and more — – Bhutan’s Bitcoin holdings are now equivalent to 36% of GDP — South Korean crypto exchanges see a jump in market share
Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveillance drones that can serve as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised €70M (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveillance drones that can serve as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised €70M — – Round led by Baillie Gifford and Nato Innovation Fund — Tekever’s drones have searched for small boats in Channel
The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer project warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the global top 50, risks falling behind rivals (Anna Gross/Financial Times)
Anna Gross / Financial Times:
The head of the axed £800M UK supercomputer project warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the global top 50, risks falling behind rivals — Mark Parsons, who led exascale venture in Edinburgh, says it would be a ‘disaster’ if funding is not restarted
Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Trump Media has a ~$7B market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb: Truth Social site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October — Trump Media & Technology Group’s revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up.
A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed — Efforts by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to address cybersecurity issues faced significant criticism this week …
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user’s Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third-party apps from showing a user’s Strava data to other users or using the data in AI models or similar apps — Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that’s occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures — High-quality data may be the key to high-quality AI. With studies finding that dataset curation, rather than size, is what really affects …
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, retrieves “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 — The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …
Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to provide internet in Brazil in 2026; SpaceSail launched its first 36 satellites in August and September (Daniel Carvalho/Bloomberg)
Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg:
Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to provide internet in Brazil in 2026; SpaceSail launched its first 36 satellites in August and September — Elon Musk’s Chinese rival in the satellite internet business plans to start operations in Brazil in 2026, the head of the Shanghai-based company told Bloomberg News Tuesday.
