Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin using Llama AI (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Intel outlines plan to break free from TSMC manufacturing, including making a majority of Nova Lake CPUs, due in 2026, internally (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players (Gene Park/Washington Post) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Q&A with Precision Neuroscience executives about the uses of brain-computer interfaces, human trials, brain implants becoming consumer devices, and more (Wall Street Journal) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

An interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his background and the founding of Salesforce, his vision for AI, Agentforce, data and disruption, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) Reviewed by studypoint on 01:09 Rating: 5

Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules; US Treasury is considering sanctions (Wall Street Journal) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads (Bluesky) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Sources: Apple nears production of MacBook Airs with M4 for release in early 2025, slightly delays M4 Mac Studio, and plans new entry-level iPads for the spring (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:10 Rating: 5

TollBit, which recently launched a content monetization marketplace for publishers and AI companies, raised a $24M Series A led by Lightspeed Ventures (Sara Fischer/Axios) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Stripe announces it has finalized a deal to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter a day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says "law enforcement could take a look at" the plan (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Six months after bitcoin halving, some miners are keeping the Bitcoin they produce while an increasing number of companies are spending more on AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Netherlands unveils new rules requiring an export permit to sell quantum computers, quantum measurement equipment and chipmaking tech, and more outside the EU (Patrick Van Oosterom/Bloomberg) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands as World, unveils a new Orb powered by Nvidia's Jetson chipset, plans to integrate its ID verification into other software, more (Ina Fried/Axios) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Filings: Trump's campaign hasn't bought an ad on Snapchat this election cycle; Trump's personal Snap account, banned after January 6, 2021, remains banned (New York Times) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Sources: Tether talked to several commodities trading firms about lending to them, as it hopes to face fewer regulatory restrictions than traditional lenders (Bloomberg) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Analysis: US regulators have secured $19B+ in eight settlements from crypto firms so far in 2024, including FTX's $12.7B, and ~$32B since January 1, 2019 (Lim Yu Qian/CoinGecko) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Apple adds an option in iOS 18.1 to let users set a "Primary" email address in Settings, letting users change the email associated with their Apple Account (Juli Clover/MacRumors) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

The US NLRB issues a complaint accusing Apple of interfering with workers' rights to organize by restricting their use of social media and Slack (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5