Reuters:
Foreign smartphone shipments, including iPhones, to China fell 47.4% YoY in November, following a 44.25% YoY drop in October, marking four months of decline — Shipments to China of foreign-branded smartphones, including Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone, fell by 47.4% in November from a year earlier …
Tass: a Russian court ordered Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of a Russian oil refinery from search results due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones (Alexander Marrow/Reuters)
Alexander Marrow / Reuters:
Tass: a Russian court ordered Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of a Russian oil refinery from search results due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones — A Russian court has ordered internet company Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of one of Russia’s largest oil refineries due …
A look at the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act, which was formally introduced in Texas legislature and has very broad negligence liability for developers (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional:
A look at the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act, which was formally introduced in Texas legislature and has very broad negligence liability for developers — Texas’ onerous AI regulation is formally introduced — Happy new year, everyone. — Introduction
China plans to extend its national consumer subsidies to smartphone, tablet, and smartwatch purchases to boost domestic spending as external headwinds pick up (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
China plans to extend its national consumer subsidies to smartphone, tablet, and smartwatch purchases to boost domestic spending as external headwinds pick up — – Expanded trade-in program to cover also tablets, smartwatches — Beijing last month made boosting domestic demand top priority
Sources: Apple and Google removed over six VPN apps, including Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1, from their Indian app stores after the government issued removal orders (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Sources: Apple and Google removed over six VPN apps, including Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1, from their Indian app stores after the government issued removal orders — More than half-a-dozen VPN apps, including Cloudflare’s widely-used 1.1.1.1, have been pulled from India’s Apple App Store …
Google’s Nest Hub and Audio have stopped responding to basic commands, including to questions on the weather and time, for many users over the past few days (Rita El Khoury/Android Authority)
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority:
Google’s Nest Hub and Audio have stopped responding to basic commands, including to questions on the weather and time, for many users over the past few days — “What’s the weather?” and “What time is it?” are stumping Google’s speakers. — TL;DR — Google’s Nest Hub and Audio …
Car rental app Turo, which uses a risk algorithm to screen drivers, was used to book trucks in both fatal New Year’s Day incidents in Las Vegas and New Orleans (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Car rental app Turo, which uses a risk algorithm to screen drivers, was used to book trucks in both fatal New Year’s Day incidents in Las Vegas and New Orleans — – Startup uses risk algorithm to determine price of each rental — Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas, used Turo vehicles
Anthropic agrees with publishers to stop Claude from providing lyrics to their songs or new lyrics based on copyrighted content, with a court ruling pending (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Anthropic agrees with publishers to stop Claude from providing lyrics to their songs or new lyrics based on copyrighted content, with a court ruling pending — While the case is proceeding, Anthropic’s Claude will no longer provide lyrics to songs owned by the music publishers or new lyrics based on copyrighted material.
Paris is vying with London as Europe’s top AI hotspot, with 34 of the 40 best-performing startups at the Station F incubator in 2024 focused on AI (John Thornhill/Financial Times)
John Thornhill / Financial Times:
Paris is vying with London as Europe’s top AI hotspot, with 34 of the 40 best-performing startups at the Station F incubator in 2024 focused on AI — Momentum has been slowing but the country boasts enviable technical skills and a burgeoning entrepreurial culture
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleads not guilty before a US federal judge in New York to nine counts, including wire fraud, over the $40B TerraUSD collapse (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleads not guilty before a US federal judge in New York to nine counts, including wire fraud, over the $40B TerraUSD collapse — – Kwon was extradited from Montenegro earlier this week — He is also facing fraud prosecution in his native South Korea
