Bloomberg:
How Wall Street is preparing to cash on AI hysteria; analysis say delivering on AI’s promise will require $1T+ for data centers, electricity, and more — Finance’s marquee names are ready to gatecrash the artificial-intelligence party. — At a dinner hosted by some of Morgan Stanley’s top bankers …
Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on upcoming FCC chair Brendan Carr, the alliance between Trump and Musk and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status)
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on upcoming FCC chair Brendan Carr, the alliance between Trump and Musk and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more — “All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”
Chinese smartphone manufacturers are ramping up their efforts in Europe to grab marketshare from Apple and Samsung with tech such as foldable devices (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Chinese smartphone manufacturers are ramping up their efforts in Europe to grab marketshare from Apple and Samsung with tech such as foldable devices — Realme, Oppo and Honor are looking to challenge Samsung and Apple on the continent with fancier handsets
Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners say YouTube is their most used platform to listen to podcasts, surpassing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15% (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners say YouTube is their most used platform to listen to podcasts, surpassing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15% — One of the most powerful companies in entertainment has become the king of podcasts because we don’t just listen to people talking into microphones for hours.
Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the FCC; Carr has suggested limiting Section 230 of the Communications Act to curb Big Tech content moderation (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the FCC; Carr has suggested limiting Section 230 of the Communications Act to curb Big Tech content moderation — – Senior Republican on panel seeks to rein in tech, backs Musk — Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025 on the FCC’s priorities
Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission (John Hendel/Politico)
John Hendel / Politico:
Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission — Carr can assume control of the agency once Trump takes office in January. — President-elect Donald Trump …
Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink KOSA, which passed in the Senate almost unanimously, by dividing US House lawmakers with culture war issues (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink KOSA, which passed in the Senate almost unanimously, by dividing US House lawmakers with culture war issues — Tech giants and their allies lean on culture-war issues to splinter bipartisan support for the bill
Sources: Trump’s transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a federal framework for autonomous vehicles (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump’s transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a federal framework for autonomous vehicles — – Policy leaders are being pursued for key Musk priority — Tesla CEO, named to efficiency role, plans push on robotaxis
An interview with El Salvador’s top crypto regulator Juan Carlos Reyes on taking a tech-minded approach to crypto regulation, how his agency works, and more (Tom Carreras/CoinDesk)
Tom Carreras / CoinDesk:
An interview with El Salvador’s top crypto regulator Juan Carlos Reyes on taking a tech-minded approach to crypto regulation, how his agency works, and more — The National Commission of Digital Assets is the agency in charge of regulating crypto in El Salvador, the first nation to accept Bitcoin as legal tender.
Sources: CISA’s director Jen Easterly and deputy director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, the day Trump will be inaugurated (Nextgov/FCW)
Nextgov/FCW:
Sources: CISA’s director Jen Easterly and deputy director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, the day Trump will be inaugurated — Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly speaks during Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2024 on February 7, 2024.
