Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Emmanuel Macron joins growing European criticism of Musk, says “the owner of one of the world’s largest social networks” is “intervening directly in elections” — French president accuses world’s richest man of intervening directly in continent’s democratic processes
Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders’ personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don’t pay, throwing China’s funding ecosystem into crisis (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders’ personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don’t pay, throwing China’s funding ecosystem into crisis — Pursuit of entrepreneurs threatens start-up ecosystem as investors target personal assets to claw back funding
Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX laptop CPUs; none of the CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft’s Copilot+ (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX laptop CPUs; none of the CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft’s Copilot+ — Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX will all fall short of Copilot+ compatibility. — Intel’s Core Ultra 200 series is currently bifurcated between …
TiVo plans to launch TiVo OS in the US with a new Sharp TV, arriving as soon as February 2025, rivaling Roku, Google TV, and Amazon’s Fire TV (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TiVo plans to launch TiVo OS in the US with a new Sharp TV, arriving as soon as February 2025, rivaling Roku, Google TV, and Amazon’s Fire TV — More than a year after launching its smart TV platform in Europe, TiVo is now bringing it to the US. The company’s putting its TiVo OS platform inside …
Comcast plans to launch Universal Ads in Q1 2025 to simplify ad buying and win over SMB advertisers from Big Tech, and signs deals with NBCUniversal and others (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Comcast plans to launch Universal Ads in Q1 2025 to simplify ad buying and win over SMB advertisers from Big Tech, and signs deals with NBCUniversal and others — Comcast plans to launch a new advertising platform that will make it easier for smaller businesses to buy ad time — and …
Disney and Fubo announce a deal as part of which Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop Venu Sports lawsuit (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney and Fubo announce a deal as part of which Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop Venu Sports lawsuit — Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit — Disney announced a deal …
Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, and OpenAI is turning its focus to superintelligence (Sam Altman)
Sam Altman:
Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, and OpenAI is turning its focus to superintelligence — The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning.
Uber and Lyft are embracing autonomous vehicle operators like Waymo, May Mobility, and others, after abandoning their own self-driving car programs (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)
Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal:
Uber and Lyft are embracing autonomous vehicle operators like Waymo, May Mobility, and others, after abandoning their own self-driving car programs — After ending their own driverless plans, the ride-sharing companies are embracing autonomous-vehicle operators and offering new app features
Avataar releases Velocity, a generative AI tool that creates product videos based on a product link, says HP, Victoria’s Secret, and others are using the tool (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Avataar releases Velocity, a generative AI tool that creates product videos based on a product link, says HP, Victoria’s Secret, and others are using the tool — Generative AI models have reached a baseline capability of producing at least a passable video from a single image or short sentence.
Sources: India plans $2.7B in fresh subsidies and import tariff cuts to boost local manufacturing, especially of smartphones made by companies like Apple (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: India plans $2.7B in fresh subsidies and import tariff cuts to boost local manufacturing, especially of smartphones made by companies like Apple — – Proposed incentives will help smartphone makers like Apple — Final decision to be made by cabinet; details likely in budget
