This and more in this week's recap of news.
Week 50, Year 2024, Episode 16.
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YouTube “Enhances” Comment Section With AI-Generated Nonsense
https://www.404media.co/youtube-enhances-comment-section-with-ai-generated-nonsense/
YouTube Says Viewers Streamed Over 1 Billion Hours Daily From Their Living Rooms in 2024
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-living-room-viewership-1-billion-hours-daily-tv-2024/
‘Hot Ones’ Studio Sold by BuzzFeed for $82.5 Million to Soros Fund, Sean Evans and Other Investors
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/hot-ones-sold-buzzfeed-soros-fund-sean-evans-first-we-feast-investors-1236246915/
Oscars Ceremony to Stream Live on Hulu for the First Time
https://variety.com/2024/film/awards/oscars-hulu-live-stream-abc-1236245317/
Google Unveils Mixed-Reality Headset With Samsung, Taking on Apple and Meta
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/hands-on-test-of-new-android-headset-from-samsung-and-google
Andreessen Crypto Policy Lead Quintenz in Running for CFTC Chair
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/andreessen-crypto-policy-lead-quintenz-in-running-for-cftc-chair
US asks court to reject TikTok's bid to stave off law that could ban the app
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-asks-court-reject-delay-law-that-would-ban-tiktok-2024-12-12/
Marc Benioff says ‘excessive’ AI spending is a ‘race to the bottom’ and he’d rather Salesforce use other companies’ tech | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2024/12/12/marc-benioff-ai-spending-excessive-race-to-the-bottom/
How Claude uses AI to identify new threats
https://www.platformer.news/how-claude-uses-ai-to-identify-new-threats/?ref=platformer-newsletter
WGA Sends Letter to Studios, Urging Lawsuits Against AI Plagiarism: ‘Inaction has Harmed WGA Members’
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/wga-letter-studios-ai-lawsuits-plagiarism-1236247494/
Circle and Binance Form a Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Global USDC and Crypto Adoption
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/innovation/circle-and-binance-form-a-strategic-partnership-to--accelerate-global-usdc-and-crypto-adoption-8905951797850933210
Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/
Apple reportedly developing AI server chip with Broadcom
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/apple-reportedly-developing-ai-server-chip-with-broadcom/
Trump picks Andrew Ferguson to chair FTC
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-picks-andrew-ferguson-chair-ftc-2024-12-10/
Sora is here
https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/
Debanking: What you need to know
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/debanking-explained/
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