Meta's Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week
cnbc - The RTO policy only applies to Instagram and not to Meta's other family of apps, like Facebook and WhatsApp.
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Samsung’s Z TriFold is official and it looks like a tablet with a phone attached
Allison Johnson / theverge - Samsung is officially announcing the Z TriFold, its much-anticipated foldable with not one, but two hinges. It’ll launch first in Korea on December 12th, with a US launch planned for the first quarter of 2026. There’s no price just yet, but if a phone wit…
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Apple's AI Chief Is Stepping Down And A Microsoft Executive Is Filling His Place
bgr - Apple announced that the company's AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and being replaced by Microsoft's Amar Subramanya.
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John Giannandrea is Leaving Apple
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Widely blamed for the problems Apple had adding AI to Siri, AI executive John Giannandrea is leaving the company.The post John Giannandrea is Leaving Apple appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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DeepSeek ‘Integrates Thinking’ Into New AI Models
PYMNTS / pymnts - DeepSeek has debuted two new versions of an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) model. “DeepSeek-V3.2 is our first model to integrate thinking directly into tool-use, and also supports tool-use in both thinking and non-thinking modes,” the Chinese s…
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Shopify is down, disrupting Cyber Monday shopping
Kris Holt / engadget - Here’s hoping the retailers offering tasty Cyber Monday deals that caught your eye aren’t having trouble with Shopify. The ecommerce platform is experiencing some issues. According to a support page, some merchants were having trouble logging into the Sho…
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MKBHD’s wallpaper app Panels is shutting down
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - "We knew it was niche... and ultimately, we weren't able to turn it into the vision I had," Marques Brownlee said.
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2025 was filled with rage bait. Why Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year makes total sense
Grace Snelling / fastcompany - Oxford Dictionary just revealed its official word of 2025. It’s “rage bait.”According to an official announcement post, Oxford Dictionary’s team of lexicographers choose a shortlist of potential words each year by analyzing data and trends to “identify ne…
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OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential.
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New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Runway has released Gen-4.5, a new AI video model that has claimed the top spot on independent benchmarks, outperforming Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro.The post New Runway Gen-4.5 AI Video Model Dethrones Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora 2 appeared fi…
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Ahead Of 2026 Launch, Marble Imaging Secures €5.3M for High-Resolution Earth Observation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Bremen-based Marble Imaging has announced the closing of its oversubscribed €5.3 million Seed round, ahead of its first satellite launch scheduled for Q4 2026. The funding will support scaling operations and accelerating product and technology development…
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Nvidia takes USD2b stake in chip software maker Synopsys
Paige McNamee / capitalbrief - Nvidia said on Monday that it has purchasedUSD2 billion ($3.05 billion) of Synopsys’ common stock as part of a strategic engineeringand design partnership.
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Payments Firm Sokin Valued at $300 Million After New Funding
PYMNTS / pymnts - Business payments company Sokin has raised $50 million in a new funding round. The Series B round brings Sokin’s valuation to $300 million, and will help accelerate the company’s expansion, bolster its financial infrastructure and enhance its product capa…
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Netflix Disables Casting From Smartphones to TVs or Streaming Devices
Steve Vegvari / iphoneincanada - In an updated support page, Netflix confirms that users will no longer be able to cast to most TVs and streaming devices.The post Netflix Disables Casting From Smartphones to TVs or Streaming Devices first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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Raspberry Pi launches 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 at $45, raises the price of other models
Wayne Williams / betanews - Raspberry Pi has launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 for low-memory projects and simple electronics, and confirmed price rises across parts of the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 ranges. Eben Upton, Chief Executive Raspberry Pi Trading, said the pricing adjustments follow…
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Adcities Raises Over €3M in Seed Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Adcities, a Madrid, Spain-based adtech startup, raised over €3m in seed funding. The round was led by Adara Ventures with participation from PlusPartners and Bynd, and angels including Albert Nieto (co-founder of Seedtag) and Scott Painter (global mobilit…
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Kakao completes spinoff of No. 2 internet portal Daum after 11 yrs
Kim Boram / co - SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- Kakao Corp. has completed the legal and administrative...
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Linux Kernel 6.18 Released with Potential LTS Status
techpowerup - Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 6.18 bringing new hardware support, virtualization improvements, and file system updates. The biggest change is the removal of the Bcachefs file system. Then, Linux 6.18 adds KVM x86 CET virtualization support, letting…
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Europe’s hottest AI image startup Black Forest Labs bags $300M from a16z, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The AI image generation market grapples with models that falter on complex prompts, produce inconsistent anatomy or text,…
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Microsoft Warns: Windows 11 Agentic Features May Hallucinate
techpowerup - A few days ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 is undergoing an agentic overhaul. The company indirectly warned that security vulnerabilities may be exposed, and today they issued an updated notice. "As these capabilities are introduced, AI models st…
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