Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg:
Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack — – Ilya Lichtenstein tried to launder proceeds of Bitfinex hack — His rapper wife ‘Razzlekahn’ is set to be sentenced on Monday
Sources: the US House Select Committee on China summoned Amazon staffers in September to discuss concerns about Amazon’s shopping partnership with TikTok (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US House Select Committee on China summoned Amazon staffers in September to discuss concerns about Amazon’s shopping partnership with TikTok — Retail giant was summoned to Washington in September to speak to House Committee on China … The meeting has not been previously reported.
Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai aims to raise $195M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.48B (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai aims to raise $195M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.48B — Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony AI said on Thursday it was targeting a valuation of up to $4.48 billion in its initial public offering in the United States.
Anthropic is working with the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure Claude models don’t share dangerous information about nuclear energy (Sam Sabin/Axios)
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Anthropic is working with the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure Claude models don’t share dangerous information about nuclear energy — – In red-teaming exercises, experts test systems by trying to break them. — NNSA has been testing Anthropic’s models …
François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a new company, but doesn’t reveal many details (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a new company, but doesn’t reveal many details — François Chollet, a leading figure in the AI world, is leaving Google after close to a decade.
Sources: the FTC plans to probe allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: the FTC plans to probe allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure — FTC chair Lina Khan continues to pursue Big Tech in final days of Biden presidency — The Federal Trade Commission is preparing …
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS can now read code in some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, and Terminal (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS can now read code in some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, and Terminal — OpenAI’s ChatGPT is starting to work with other apps on your computer. — On Thursday, the startup announced the ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS …
BSA, representing OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, urges Trump to review rules that are “unnecessarily impeding AI adoption” but to keep some of Biden’s moves (Morgan Chalfant/Semafor)
Morgan Chalfant / Semafor:
BSA, representing OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, urges Trump to review rules that are “unnecessarily impeding AI adoption” but to keep some of Biden’s moves — The Scoop — A lobbying group representing the tech industry is urging the incoming Trump administration …
Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules coming into effect in October 2025 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules coming into effect in October 2025 — Google has announced it will stop showing political ads to users in the European Union next year due to uncertainties around the bloc’s new transparency regulations.
Adam Mosseri says Threads had “more than 15M signups in November alone” and it is “going on three months with more than a million signups a day” (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adam Mosseri says Threads had “more than 15M signups in November alone” and it is “going on three months with more than a million signups a day” — Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger.
