Wired:
An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany  —  More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …

Financial Times:
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks  —  Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible  —  “This is not science fiction,” …

Nikkei Asia:
TechInsights: China’s chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply  —  BEIJING — China’s public and private sectors are accelerating efforts to boost domestic production of semiconductors …

Yoshua Bengio / Financial Times:
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI’s o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public  —  Advances in reasoning will lead to substantially improved capabilities in mathematics and science  —  The writer is professor …

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 …