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Why this industry needs to avoid a ‘Tesla’ moment ⚠️

Simon Willison's Weblog

OpenAI's postmortem for API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues

The Register

Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped

Astroscale orbital janitor gets within 15 meters of space junk

North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88 million over six years

Techmeme

In a strategy change, Netflix plans to make its Squid Games battle royale game available for free to non-members for a limited time after its December 17 launch (Jennifer Maas/Variety)

Australia-based Fleet Space, whose ExoSphere service helps find minerals in space using AI, sensors, and more, raised a AU$150M Series D at a AU$800M+ valuation (FinSMEs)

YouTube removed the ability to click video titles in YouTube Player for Publishers; outlets give up ad revenue by using the standard player to link to YouTube (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Texas AG Ken Paxton opens investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and 11 others over their privacy and safety practices for minors (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)

Microsoft launches Phi-4, a 14B-parameter language model that it says outperforms comparable and larger models, like Gemini Pro 1.5, in mathematical reasoning (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Meta releases Meta Video Seal, an AI tool that applies imperceptible watermarks to AI-generated videos and a hidden message to later uncover the video's origins (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Meta unveils Meta Motivo, an AI model for controlling the movements of a human-like digital agent, hoping to offer lifelike NPCs and more in the metaverse (Reuters)

Sources: Amazon plans to donate $1M to Trump's inaugural fund and stream the inauguration through Prime Video; a source says "Bezos is donating through Amazon" (Dana Mattioli/Wall Street Journal)

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