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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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