NBC News:
The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 — The Library of Congress didn’t specify who was behind the hack. — The Library of Congress said hackers broke into its communications systems …
Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart — – Amazon discussed partnerships with other companies for an AI-powered Alexa upgrade. — Partners under consideration included Uber …
Sources: DOJ antitrust officials have decided to, along with states’ AGs, ask a judge to force Google to spin off Chrome and impose data licensing requirements (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: DOJ antitrust officials have decided to, along with states’ AGs, ask a judge to force Google to spin off Chrome and impose data licensing requirements — – Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers
Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage (CNN)
CNN:
Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage — Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted, according to local telecommunications companies …
Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program — AI-powered search engine Perplexity is venturing into e-commerce. On Monday, the company debuted a new shopping feature …
Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, is sentenced to 18 months in prison; her husband recently got a 5-year sentence (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, is sentenced to 18 months in prison; her husband recently got a 5-year sentence — In the theft of bitcoin from Bitfinex — worth about $9 billion in today’s prices — Morgan’s 18 months followed …
A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the early days of OpenAI, discussing its partnership with Microsoft, fundraising, employee compensation, AGI, more (Kylie Robison/The Verge)
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
A look at emails between Musk and Altman from the early days of OpenAI, discussing its partnership with Microsoft, fundraising, employee compensation, AGI, more — Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins. … As OpenAI was ironing out a new deal with Microsoft in 2016 …
Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for in-line editing, more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for in-line editing, more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model — Mistral, the French startup that made waves last year with a record-setting seed funding amount for Europe …
Telegram updates “mini-apps” to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a “gift” sending feature, and more (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Telegram updates “mini-apps” to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a “gift” sending feature, and more — Full-screen mini-apps, including games such as Doom, can run in either portrait or landscape orientations inside Telegram …
Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions — Xiaomi will replace its app store with fintech PhonePe’s offering for customers in India starting in January.
