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Amazon files a motion to dismiss FTC’s lawsuit, arguing the agency relies on anecdotal evidence and fails to prove that Amazon’s practices hurt consumers (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon files a motion to dismiss FTC’s lawsuit, arguing the agency relies on anecdotal evidence and fails to prove that Amazon’s practices hurt consumers — The US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against Amazon.com Inc. relies on anecdotal evidence from a handful of online merchants …

Nvidia’s stock has beaten every other stock in the S&P 500 this year and is on pace for the best annual performance of any major stock in the past decade (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia’s stock has beaten every other stock in the S&P 500 this year and is on pace for the best annual performance of any major stock in the past decade — Jensen Huang, the CEO of the year’s most successful company, has a theory about the superpower of entrepreneurs

Lead attorneys for Epic and Google say Tim Sweeney and Sundar Pichai met for an hour on December 7 and the meeting “did not result in a settlement” (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Lead attorneys for Epic and Google say Tim Sweeney and Sundar Pichai met for an hour on December 7 and the meeting “did not result in a settlement” — “These meetings did not result in a settlement.” — Also new: This is the final verdict form (pdf) the jury will

A Ham Radio Answering Machine

For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one point a separate machine needed to be attached to the phone to record messages if no one was

Axel Springer ends a deal to pre-install its Upday news aggregator on Samsung devices and plans to relaunch Upday in 2024 as an AI-driven “trend news generator” (Reuters)

Reuters: Axel Springer ends a deal to pre-install its Upday news aggregator on Samsung devices and plans to relaunch Upday in 2024 as an AI-driven “trend news generator” — Axel Springer is shutting down the news outlet Upday, the German publishing giant said on Friday …

Microsoft’s Edge Copilot AI can’t really summarize every YouTube video

Image: The Verge One feature added to Microsoft’s AI Copilot in the Edge browser this week is the ability to generate text summaries of videos. But Edge Copilot’s time-saving feature is still fairly limited and only works on pre-processed videos or those with subtitles, as Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft’s CEO of advertising and web services, explained.

Malaysia’s YTL Power partners with Nvidia in a $4.3B investment deal to create AI infrastructure in the country, including building a supercomputer in Malaysia (Reuters)

Reuters: Malaysia’s YTL Power partners with Nvidia in a $4.3B investment deal to create AI infrastructure in the country, including building a supercomputer in Malaysia — Malaysian conglomerate YTL’s utilities unit (YTLP.KL) will partner with U.S technology giant Nvidia (NVDA.O) …

Cold War Spying And The Questionable Use Of Smuggled Blueprints In Developing Supersonic Airliners

Three views of a Boeing 2707-300. Although spying is a time-honored tradition, the sheer scope of it reached a fever pitch during the Cold War, when everyone was spying on everyone, and conceivably for both sides at the same time. In an era where both McCarthyism and the character of James Bond enjoyed strong popularity,

The EU AI Act includes restrictions for foundation models, with some proprietary models classified as having “systemic risk” subjected to additional obligations (Washington Post)

Washington Post: The EU AI Act includes restrictions for foundation models, with some proprietary models classified as having “systemic risk” subjected to additional obligations — The regulation paves the way for what could become a global standard to classify risk, enforce transparency …

a16z-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere, is shutting down; D2iQ raised $250M and was valued at $775M in 2018 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

Cory Weinberg / The Information: a16z-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere, is shutting down; D2iQ raised $250M and was valued at $775M in 2018 — Andreessen Horowitz-backed D2iQ, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Mesosphere and which was once popular with software developers, is shutting down.

Failure to communicate: Apple cuts off Beeper Mini messaging app for Android

Beeper Mini’s workaround for iMessage doesn’t work anymore

Near Intelligence, which provides data insights to companies, files for bankruptcy with plans to sell itself; Near went public via a SPAC merger in 2022 (Amelia Pollard/Bloomberg)

Amelia Pollard / Bloomberg: Near Intelligence, which provides data insights to companies, files for bankruptcy with plans to sell itself; Near went public via a SPAC merger in 2022 — – Company, listed on the Nasdaq in March, plans to sell itself — Lender Blue Torch to provide opening bid and financing

MOSFETs — the Big Lie

How many terminals does a MOSFET have? Trick question since most have three leads, even though there are really four connections to the underlying device. It isn’t a conspiracy, though and [Aaron Lanterman] talks about how MOSFETs really work and why thinking of them as three-terminal devices can lead you astray in a recent video

Tencent’s Lightspeed LA studio reveals Last Sentinel, an ambitious console game by GTA veteran Steve Martin and part of Tencent’s push to create IP from scratch (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Tencent’s Lightspeed LA studio reveals Last Sentinel, an ambitious console game by GTA veteran Steve Martin and part of Tencent’s push to create IP from scratch — – Lightspeed LA reveals ‘Last Sentinel’ at The Game Awards — AAA game sets the stage in a futuristic, cyberpunk Tokyo

The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI

The European Union agreed on terms of the AI Act, a major new set of rules that will govern the building and use of AI and have major implications for Google, OpenAI, and others racing to develop AI systems.

EU reaches provisional agreement on AI Act, paving way for landmark law

The earliest that we will likely see these rules come into force is 2025. | The Verge Following a round of intense negotiations this week, lawmakers in Brussels have now reached a “provisional agreement” on the European Union’s proposed Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). The EU’s AI Act is anticipated to be the world’s first

As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app’s ability to function (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app’s ability to function — Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users …

Beeper Mini is down, and we’re learning what that will mean for its future

Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Days after its launch, Beeper Mini has gone down. Beeper representatives say the error is on its servers’ end, so all we can do is wait. This outage forebodes a rocky future for the paid chat app. Today, Beeper Mini is experiencing a significant outage. A thread on Reddit

Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app

Illustration: The Verge It appears that Beeper Mini, an easy iMessage solution for Android, was simply too good to be true — or a short-lived dream, at least. On Friday, less than a week after its launch, the app started experiencing technical issues when users were suddenly unable to send and receive blue bubble messages.

The EU reaches a deal on the AI Act, a comprehensive attempt to limit the use of the technology; the law still needs to go through a few steps for approval (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

Adam Satariano / New York Times: The EU reaches a deal on the AI Act, a comprehensive attempt to limit the use of the technology; the law still needs to go through a few steps for approval — The agreement over the A.I. Act solidifies one of the world’s first comprehensive attempts to limit the

The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI

As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app’s ability to function (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app

Metronome Flashes and Vibrates To the Beat

Annoying though they can be, if you play any kind of instrument, you will definitely benefit from using a metronome. While many of them thock or otherwise tock, the VRRVRR metronome from [Turi] works a little differently. In addition to flashing LEDs, the VRRVRR contains a small vibrating motor. If you’re wondering about the name,

The spreadsheet revealing who got cut at Spotify

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Well, it’s been a messy, messy week. Today, I have a look at the departure of Spotify CFO Paul Vogel, who (as first reported by Podnews) sold millions worth of stock on Tuesday. Plus, other key Spotify layoffs and the podcast download fallout of Apple’s iOS 17. After

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