Joel Khalili / Wired:
Q&A with Houseparty co-founder Ben Rubin on his new group messaging platform Towns, using the River Protocol, moderation, raising a $25M Series A, and more — Ben Rubin, cocreator of hit pandemic chat app Houseparty, has launched a new group messaging platform that aims to solve …
Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and more quietly courted Trump before the election, laying the groundwork for improved Silicon Valley and DC relations (New York Times)
New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and more quietly courted Trump before the election, laying the groundwork for improved Silicon Valley and DC relations — The executives of tech’s biggest companies largely ignored Donald Trump before the 2016 election. This time around, they’re far more friendly.
Anthropic partners with Palantir and AWS to provide US intelligence and defense agencies access to its Claude models and “operationalize” their use (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic partners with Palantir and AWS to provide US intelligence and defense agencies access to its Claude models and “operationalize” their use — Anthropic today announced that it’s teaming up with Palantir, the data-mining company, and Amazon Web Services to provide U.S. intelligence …
France’s gambling regulator says it is “aware” of Polymarket and is “currently examining its operation and compliance”, after user Fredi9999 made a $48M profit (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
France’s gambling regulator says it is “aware” of Polymarket and is “currently examining its operation and compliance”, after user Fredi9999 made a $48M profit — – Inquiry follows publicity around French trader’s huge bets — Online gambling and betting is tightly regulated in France
TSMC SVP Cliff Hou says Taiwan must improve its chip tech to maintain its global leadership; in October, Trump said that Taiwan “stole 95% of our business” (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC SVP Cliff Hou says Taiwan must improve its chip tech to maintain its global leadership; in October, Trump said that Taiwan “stole 95% of our business” — – Taiwan’s chip industry association chair speaks in Hsinchu — Island plays indispensable role in AI hardware supply chain
Sources: before Trump’s win, Elon Musk asked him to hire SpaceX staff as top government officials, including in the DOD, a sign of the benefits Musk may reap (New York Times)
New York Times:
Sources: before Trump’s win, Elon Musk asked him to hire SpaceX staff as top government officials, including in the DOD, a sign of the benefits Musk may reap — The world’s richest man gave his money and time in campaigning for the president-elect and now is putting in his requests for a friendlier regulatory environment.
Nintendo says it has sold 146M Switch consoles in 7.5 years, the user community has grown to 127M annual players, and Pokémon sales on Switch have reached 99M (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nintendo says it has sold 146M Switch consoles in 7.5 years, the user community has grown to 127M annual players, and Pokémon sales on Switch have reached 99M — Nintendo’s executives gave a slide show that told the state of the Nintendo Switch game console.
How doctors are pioneering the use of AI to improve outcomes for patients, including faster diagnostics, more targeted treatment, and better communication (Sarah Neville/Financial Times)
Sarah Neville / Financial Times:
How doctors are pioneering the use of AI to improve outcomes for patients, including faster diagnostics, more targeted treatment, and better communication — Faster diagnostics, more targeted treatment and better communication are among areas of healthcare already benefiting from artificial intelligence
Microsoft starts rolling out AI-powered text editing feature Rewrite in Notepad, and Generative Fill and Generative Erase features in Paint to Windows Insiders (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Microsoft starts rolling out AI-powered text editing feature Rewrite in Notepad, and Generative Fill and Generative Erase features in Paint to Windows Insiders — Microsoft is adding AI-powered text editing to Notepad, the stripped-down text editor originally introduced in 1983.
Adyen reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to €498.3M, vs. €503.3M est., and processed volume growth slowed to 32% from 45% in H1 2024; ADYEN falls 9%+ in Amsterdam (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg:
Adyen reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to €498.3M, vs. €503.3M est., and processed volume growth slowed to 32% from 45% in H1 2024; ADYEN falls 9%+ in Amsterdam — The Amsterdam-based company’s processed volume expansion missed estimates in the period, slowing to 32% in the period from 45% in the first half.
