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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7c942d1dbc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple interface design chief Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Apple longtime designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a2dce5a4a9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple CEO Tim Cook in a statement: “Design is fundamental to who we are at Apple, and today, we have an extraordinary design team working on the most innovative product lineup in our history,” Cook said in the statement.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f38bda9c93&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple spent a good chunk of the past two years trying to position Alan as their face of design. For good reason! But this move shatters that. For better or worse, there needs to be a “face” associated with Apple design not a bunch of lower level executives who we rarely ever see</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=df31c2a955&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mark Zuckerberg announces a new creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Apple design lead Billy Sorrentino</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5d3dcfe8a5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Alan Dye is one of our industry's great design leaders and I'm so excited he's joining Meta to help build the future of computing at the intersection of AI, wearables and spatial computing. As if that weren't enough we are also going to be joined by top design leader @billysorrentino . Over the last decade at Apple they have defined the design of some of the most iconic products of our times and now at Reality Labs they will help shape what comes next. We're at a historic inflection point where the AI devices we're building are poised to fundamentally reshape the way we interact with technology. Excited to see what this team can do!</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dffe3b13c3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This is incredibly bad for the price of consumer electronics, Samsung and SK Hynix now hold a duopoly on RAM, and both of them are South Korean which increases geopolitical risk as well.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=77f002b766&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft says “aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered”, following a report that some units lowered sales growth targets for AI products</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7074bf97dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO, alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jeff John Roberts / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b0fb3e66ea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">India says it revoked an order to smartphone makers to preload state-run cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new smartphones, after protests from lawmakers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e40e68ef2b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Stripe is paying ~$1B to acquire Metronome, and the deal is expected to be predominantly cash; PitchBook: Metronome was valued at $470M in February</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Konrad / </span><span class="pub_name">Upstarts Media</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4e49bc1175&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Scott Woody / </span><span class="pub_name">Metronome</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cb96f12770&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An analysis of Waymo data covering nearly 100M driverless miles in four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jonathan Slotkin / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3d6524d32a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and getting impatient with pedestrians, as the company seeks to make them “confidently assertive”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katherine Bindley / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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Earnings
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=73f3ba9426&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 8.6% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.27B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; CRM jumps 5%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jordan Novet / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1080ac9ddb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Snowflake reports Q3 product revenue up 29% YoY to $1.16B, and forecasts Q4 adjusted operating income margin below estimates; SNOW drops 7%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Brody Ford / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4e116f964d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">MongoDB's stock jumped 22% on December 2 after Q3 revenue rose 19% YoY to $628M, vs. $592M est.; MongoDB boosts full-year guidance on Atlas growth and AI demand</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samantha Subin / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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Artificial Intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7dee8874d7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI agrees to buy Poland-based Neptune, which makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training; the transaction will be in stock</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dina Bass / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=03160bb681&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google launches Workspace Studio, a no-code tool to create, design, manage, and share AI agents, for users on Business and Enterprise Workspace plans</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Abner Li / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fcb7c1600b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate the internet and complete tasks, like booking flights</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cade Metz / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=57cc717d56&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Milmo / </span><span class="pub_name">The Guardian</span>)</span>
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Data Centers
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a4c59ea527&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok plans to invest $37.7B+ to build a data center near Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its first project in Latin America</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f76ea9f0c5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27 to 33 tons per MW, over 2x what conventional data centers require, per miner Grupo México</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Camilla Hodgson / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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Streaming
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fadd01c8d1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, which adds features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4887a001a8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of the top 50 now offer video content</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Todd Spangler / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3f4d542b51&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube says it will comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16s, after rejecting its inclusion in the crackdown and calling the regulation “rushed”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Angus Whitley / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8aeecf26a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Some YouTube creators are using AI tools to make videos for kids and babies, raising concerns that such AI content may negatively impact early brain development</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alexandra S. Levine / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e4f487e5d3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">After a backlash, Amazon Prime Video removes AI-generated English and Spanish dubs that it had quietly rolled out in beta for several anime films and series</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">James Whitbrook / </span><span class="pub_name">Gizmodo</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c9d90e5013&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon adds an Alexa+ feature to Fire TV that lets Prime Video users skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lucas Manfredi / </span><span class="pub_name">The Wrap</span>)</span>
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Gaming
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8bcc5fb559&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Russia's Roskomnadzor blocks access to Roblox, claiming that it is “rife with inappropriate content” and distributing extremist materials and “LGBT propaganda”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b0b103ea71&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-founders, David Edery and Daniel Cook; the streamer has shrunk its six-studio gaming operation down to three</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stephen Totilo / </span><span class="pub_name">Game File</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b643f5a65a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with Valve executive Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped architect SteamOS and the Steam Deck, on quietly funding open-source tech to play Windows games on ARM</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sean Hollister / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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funding deals
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=70321270eb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Software testing and validation startup Antithesis raised $105M led by Jane Street, as demand grows to vet AI-generated code for bugs and security flaws</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4d0d0cd0c2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">IoT security device maker Verkada hit a $5.8B valuation after new funding, source says totaling $100M, led by CapitalG; it passed $1B in annualized bookings</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jaures Yip / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7e370be835&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">John Reynolds / </span><span class="pub_name">Tech.eu</span>)</span>
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