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Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept : A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft   —  The Intercept's lawsuit argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline.

Financial Times : Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5   —  Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges  —  Meta's Threads is losing ground …

Christine Lemmer-Webber / Dustycloud Brainstorms : ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a “credible exit”   —  Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular …

New York Times : Sources: the US government launched an investigation into the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft alerted it and telecom companies about anomalies   —  Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security …

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Sources: MatX, which designs chips to train LLMs, raised a ~$80M Series A led by Spark Capital, at a ~$300M valuation, after raising a $25M seed in March   —  MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say …

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., resigned from the House last week. That is final. The precedent of the House is that once you bow out, it is done. So, Gaetz cannot revoke his letter of resignation last week. It declared he was stepping aside "effective immediately." As reported earlier, Gaetz could serve in the new Congress. He was duly re-elected to his seat for the new Congress to be seated on Jan. 3. In his letter to the clerk of the House, Gaetz declared, "I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress to pursue the position of Attorney General in the Trump Administration." GAETZ WITHDRAWS AS ATTORNEY GENERAL However, Fox is told that Gaetz would have to inform the clerk of the House that he, in fact, does intend to serve in the new Congress – if he elects to do so. Gaetz has not signaled his future plans. That part of the Gaetz letter is not binding.  Technically, the House Ethics Committee must wrap up its inquiry in...

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch : In 2025, Revolut plans to roll out branded ATMs with facial recognition, start offering mortgages, and ramp up its business offerings with BNPL options and more   —  Revolut, the London-based fintech unicorn, shared a few items on the company's 2025 roadmap at a corporate event in London on Friday.

Five more of President Biden's judicial nominees advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and will proceed to the Senate floor in the coming days. Senate Democrats confirmed Biden's 220th federal court appointment on Wednesday and are hoping to add to that number before the Thanksgiving holiday. Republicans have fought several of these nominees on grounds that they are too left wing, but a number of Biden's appointments were confirmed after GOP senators missed votes. President-elect Trump accused Democrats of attempting to "stack the Courts" with radical appointees and urged Republicans to "Show Up and Hold the Line."  "No more Judges confirmed before Inauguration Day!" Trump posted on Truth Social. SENATE SHOWDOWN: GOP SECURES DEAL WITH SCHUMER TO SAVE COVETED APPELLATE JUDGES FOR TRUMP Democrats are in a mad rush to confirm as many of Biden's nominees as possible before Trump returns to the White House and Republic...

Brady Dale / Axios : SEC chair Gary Gensler will step down on January 20; it has been traditional for SEC chairs to resign if the administration changes in the middle of their term   —  - “I thank President Biden for entrusting me with this incredible responsibility. … The agency had resisted launching exchange …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta   —  H, the Paris startup founded by Google alums, made a big splash last summer when, out of the blue, it announced a seed round of $220 million …

Illinois’ Democratic attorney general and a court-appointed monitor are among those warning Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson that his administration’s proposed cuts to police resources may land the crime-wracked city in litigation. During a status hearing last week, monitor Maggie Hickey told Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer that cuts to the Chicago Police Department's (CPD’s) Constitutional Policing division could "could be a devastating blow to the future of CPD reforms" under a legally-mandated consent decree , according to the Chicago Sun-Times. State Attorney General Kwame Raoul separately warned Johnson that adopting cuts proposed in his new budget would place Chicago "at significant risk of being held in contempt of court for failing to comply with the consent decree." In 2017, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel, then-Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and then-Illinois Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan entered into the consent decree after the Justice Department re...

Paige Smith / Bloomberg : Robinhood agrees to buy TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a $300M deal expected to close in H1 2025   —  The deal — for about $300 million in cash and stock — is expected to close in the first half of next year, Robinhood said in a statement.

Elizabeth Passarella / New York Times : Musk asked X users to try “submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis” weeks ago; many have, and HIPAA protections may not apply   —  Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok.

Fears over President-elect Trump’s plan to declare a state of emergency at the border and make use of the military as part of a mass deportation plan have been overblown, according to one expert. "The country is not going to be militarized," Alfonso Aguilar, a former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship and the director of Hispanic engagement at the American Principles Project, told Fox News Digital. "Neighborhoods with immigrants are not going to militarize." The comments come after Trump confirmed Monday via Truth Social a report that he is "prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program." "The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin, giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. He will deliver," Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump transition team , told Fox News Digital. 'TRU...

EXCLUSIVE: The GOP appears to be attracting more of America's youth than in previous elections, with the 2024 cycle seeing a double-digit shift by young voters toward the top of the Republican ticket. One of the Republicans leading that new wave is Rep.-elect Brandon Gill, of Texas, who at age 30 will be the youngest member of the House GOP conference and among the youngest in the 119th Congress overall. "I think that's a few things. One is that younger voters are looking, more than anything, for sincerity. They're looking for people who understand what they're going through," Gill told Fox News Digital. "And the reality is, the younger voters, they don't like things like censorship. They don't like government authorities telling them what they can and can't say. Younger voters don't like entering the workforce and finding out that it's really difficult to buy a home in Joe Biden's economy, that it's really difficult to ge...

The House Ethics Committee is meeting this Wednesday after previously postponing a meeting when the panel was expected to discuss its investigation of now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Fox News has learned. Lawmakers were expected to vote last Friday on whether to release the committee's report into Gaetz before that meeting was canceled without explanation. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters that Gaetz had resigned from Congress effective immediately on Wednesday, hours after he was tapped to serve as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general. House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., told reporters after Gaetz's nomination that his panel would lose jurisdiction over the Florida Republican if he left Congress. JOHNSON BLASTS DEM ACCUSATIONS HE VOWED TO END OBAMACARE AS 'DISHONEST' "Once the investigation is complete, then a report will be issued, assuming that at that time, that Mr. Gaetz is still a member of Congress...

The former White House coronavirus response coordinator on Sunday said she is looking forward to the Senate confirmation hearing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who President-elect Trump tapped for his secretary of Health and Human Services, as a unique opportunity to have a transparent discussion on the health of Americans. Dr. Deborah Birx, who served in Trump's first administration, appeared on CBS’ "Face the Nation," where she was asked at length about Kennedy potentially leading the agency. and his views on health issues such as vaccines. "That's why when he talks about transparency, I'm actually excited that in a Senate hearing he would bring forward his data and the questions that come from the senators would bring forth their data," Birx said of Kennedy. "What I know for sure is he's a very smart man who can bring his data and his evidence base forward."  When Birx was asked about Kennedy’s past controversial comments on vaccines, she...

Harry McCracken / Fast Company : Q&A with Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark on AGI, how Elon Musk could constructively engage with the Trump administration on AI safety, and more   —  More than 33,000 people—including a hall of fame of AI experts—signed a March 2023 open letter calling on the tech industry …

President Biden approved Ukraine's military to use U.S.-provided long-range missiles on targets inside Russian territory, the New York Times reported Sunday, citing unnamed U.S. officials. Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said that such an escalation would constitute an act of war. He has yet to react to Biden's announcement Sunday. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. Biden's announcement came just hours after Russia concluded one of its largest missile and drone attacks in months, launching over 200 targeting Ukraine's power and energy infrastructure. DOCUMENTS REVEAL RUSSIA'S INITIAL 'PEACE DEAL' EQUATED TO THE SURRENDER OF UKRAINE: REPORT Putin has previously said that giving Ukraine the green light on missile use would effectly mean that the U.S. and NATO are "in the war." "Flight assignments for these missile systems can, in fact, only be entered by military per...