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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Sources: Trump Media is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange’s crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65%, BKKT up 162.46% (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)
Philip Stafford / Financial Times:
Sources: Trump Media is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange’s crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65%, BKKT up 162.46% — Truth Social owner is close to an all-share takeover of Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt — Donald Trump’s social media company …
Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers’ to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships (Rob Pegoraro/PCMag)
Rob Pegoraro / PCMag:
Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers’ to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships — Brendan Carr, currently a senior GOP commissioner, is a longtime opponent of net neutrality regulation …
Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad — To compete with the iPad, Google plans to push Android as its unified desktop OS. — • — TL;DR — A source within Google has told Android Authority …
Trump’s new FCC nominee promises to bring Project 2025-style governance to media (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Trump’s new FCC nominee promises to bring Project 2025-style governance to media — In September, I went through all the proposals from Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation’s policy blueprint for a second Trump term — that would have a direct impact on the media.
