Jonathan Greig / The Record:
An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+ — The operator of the cryptocurrency mixing service Helix was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday.
Sources: T-Mobile’s network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: T-Mobile’s network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised — Carrier joins growing list of known victims, including AT&T and Verizon, of the major Chinese spying operation
Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm’s AR1 chipset and use Google’s Gemini to handle AI tasks (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm’s AR1 chipset and use Google’s Gemini to handle AI tasks — According to a new report, Samsung’s upcoming XR glasses that are being developed in collaboration with Google won’t arrive until …
New emails released as part of Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI show Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever had serious concerns about Sam Altman as early as 2017 (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
New emails released as part of Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI show Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever had serious concerns about Sam Altman as early as 2017 — Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever had questions about Sam Altman’s intentions as early as 2017 — New emails released as part …
One year after Sam Altman was dramatically ousted and reinstated, OpenAI remains dominant as it continues to push ahead on impressive new products (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
One year after Sam Altman was dramatically ousted and reinstated, OpenAI remains dominant as it continues to push ahead on impressive new products — The ChatGPT maker is still the company to beat in AI despite going through a turbulent period. — One year after Sam Altman’s dramatic …
Palantir stock jumps 9% after announcing a move from the NYSE to the Nasdaq; its stock is up 50%+ since reporting better-than-expected earnings on November 4 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Palantir stock jumps 9% after announcing a move from the NYSE to the Nasdaq; its stock is up 50%+ since reporting better-than-expected earnings on November 4 — Palantir shares continued their torrid run on Friday, soaring as much as 9% to a record, after the developer of software …
Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content — ‘We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.’
A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devote fewer resources to policing crypto crimes after securing several major convictions, including that of SBF (Luc Cohen/Reuters)
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
A senior SDNY prosecutor says the office will devote fewer resources to policing crypto crimes after securing several major convictions, including that of SBF — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan will devote fewer resources to policing cryptocurrency crimes after securing several major convictions …
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads’ version seems easier to use than Bluesky’s custom feeds (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads’ version seems easier to use than Bluesky’s custom feeds — Threads is testing a way to create custom feeds for certain profiles or topics, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday.
Apple removes RFE/RL’s Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Apple removes RFE/RL’s Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others — U.S. technology giant Apple has notified RFE/RL that it has removed several of its apps following a request from Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor.
