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Politico : Trump plans to appoint Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees the US intelligence community   —  Devin Nunes will also continue leading Trump Media & Technology Group, a public company with a nearly $8 billion market cap.

Nicola Jones / Nature : AI companies, running out of the conventional training data sets, may be forced to shift away from big, all-purpose LLMs to smaller, more specialized models   —  By -  The Internet is a vast ocean of human knowledge, but it isn't infinite.  And artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have nearly sucked it dry.

A New Jersey state Senator is calling on Gov. Phil Murphy to declare a state of emergency to ground all drones as a way of getting to the bottom of ongoing reports of unmanned craft swarming the Garden State in recent weeks.  State Sen. Jon Bramnick, a Republican , told "Cavuto Live" on Saturday that he also wants the FAA to join in the state of emergency as the public becomes increasingly frustrated with a lack of answers as to what is going on in the skies.  Bramnick says he has contacted Murphy about enacting a state of emergency but has not gotten a response.   DRONE MYSTERY BEFUDDLES NEW JERSEY OFFICIALS, FRUSTRATES RESIDENTS "I've gotten silence and we met with the state police [who] have no information. Can you imagine? The Department of Defense must have some serious secret if we can't get any information on car-sized drones flying over our military bases." A series of unidentified drone sightings near U.S. military installations and over resid...

Katie Tarasov / CNBC : An inside look at TSMC's $20B Arizona fab, which the company says is “dang near back” on schedule and will produce 4nm chips at a rate of 20K wafers per month   —  WATCH NOW  —  TSMC says first advanced U.S. chip fab ‘dang near back’ on schedule.  Here's an inside look.

Wall Street Journal : Sources: the US is preparing rules restricting the sale of GPUs to some countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, to limit China's ability to access them   —  Washington plans rules limiting semiconductor shipments to some countries accused of supplying Beijing

FIRST ON FOX: A controversial judicial advocacy organization funded by left-wing nonprofits continues to work with judges and experts involved in climate change litigation despite publicly downplaying the extent of those connections. "CJP doesn’t participate in litigation, support or coordinate with any parties in litigation, or advise judges on how they should rule in any case," the Environmental Law Institute Climate Judiciary Project President Jordan Diamond wrote in a  recent letter to The Wall Street Journal in response to criticism of the project.  The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Law Institute (ELI) created the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) in 2018, establishing a first-of-its-kind resource to provide "reliable, up-to-date information" about climate change litigation, according to the group. The project's reach has extended to various state and federal courts, including powerful appellate courts, and comes as various cities and states  pursu...

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac : Report: Apple will stop selling iPhone SE and iPhone 14 series at the year's end in the EU, as the USB-C universal charging connector deadline comes into effect   —  As reported by iGeneration, Apple will stop selling the iPhone SE and the iPhone 14 series at the end of the year …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans to roll out its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip as part of Apple TV and HomePod mini updates in 2025, and in iPhones later in the year   —  - Company developing Proxima chip in separate move from modems  — New component will be part of Apple TV box and HomePod updates

FIRST ON FOX - More than 30 House Republicans who are military veterans are expressing their "strong support" for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary. In a letter to Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the incoming Senate majority leader, and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, the current majority leader, the House GOP lawmakers "call on the Senate to honor its constitutional duty of advice and consent by conducting a fair, thorough confirmation process." The letter, shared first with Fox News on Wednesday, was written by Rep. August Pfluger of Texas. He urges that senators evaluate Hegseth's nomination "solely on its substantive merits— his distinguished military service, academic credentials, and a bold vision for revitalizing our national defense." TIDE TURNS FOR HEGSETH AS TRUMP'S DEFENSE SECRETARY NOMINEE GOES ON OFFENSE Hegseth, an Army National Guard officer who deployed to the wars in Afghanist...

Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul's approval and favorable ratings are edging up, but a new poll indicates a majority of New Yorkers would prefer someone else to win the 2026 election for governor in the Empire State. According to a Siena College poll conducted Dec. 2-5 and released on Tuesday, only a third (33%) of registered voters in New York state said they would vote to re-elect Hochul to a second four-year term, with a majority (57%) saying they wanted someone else. Only 48% of Democrats said – at this extremely early point – that they're prepared to re-elect Hochul, with four in 10 Democrats saying they want "someone else." WHAT NEW YORK REPUBLICANS THINK ABOUT DEMOCRATIC GOV. KATHY HOCHUL'S ‘INFLATION REFUNDS’ The percentage of voters who prefer another candidate jumps to 65% among independents and 85% among Republicans. Hochul, who at the time was the state’s lieutenant governor, in August 2021 was sworn in as New York’s first female governor, after thr...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Stainless, a startup offering an AI-powered API-to-SDK generator to customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z   —  Devs expect tech vendors to supply software development kits, or SDKs, alongside their products to make it easier to create apps using those products.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI says the depiction of minors is limited with Sora, and only a “subset” of users can create videos of a real person using uploaded footage of that person   —  OpenAI launched its video-generating tool, Sora, on Monday.  But the company's opting not to release a key feature for most users pending further testing.

President Biden's administration has filled up the Federal Register with more pages of regulations than any other president in history, breaking President Barack Obama's record.  As of last week, on Dec. 3, the Biden administration set a new federal record for the most Federal Register pages filled in a single year – 96,088. The number puts the administration on pace to fill more than 100,000 pages by the end of its term. The record was previously held by Obama, who, in the final year of his second term, filled 95,894 pages. EPA'S NEW RULE TO CHARGE OIL AND GAS COMPANIES FOR EMISSIONS COULD FACE A TRUMP RECKONING The Federal Register, which is published by the National Archives and Records Administration and overseen by the Office of the Federal Register, is a daily publication of new and amended federal regulations. "Federal Register page counts are a highly imperfect gauge of regulatory burden. Biden’s milestone, though, still underscores the expanding scope o...

OpenAI : OpenAI launches Sora, available as part of ChatGPT Plus, letting users generate up to 50 videos at 480p or fewer videos at 720p each month, in select countries   —  We're moving our video generation model out of research preview.  —  Learn more System Card

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who fled the country Saturday as rebels closed in on the capital of Damascus , has arrived in Moscow and has been granted asylum by the Russian government, according to Russian News Agency Tass. Speculation about where Assad might land has been widespread since the longtime dictator fled the country, with allies such as Iran and Russia being at the top of the list. TRUMP URGES US TO STAY OUT OF SYRIAN CIVIL WAR, BLAMING OBAMA FOR FAILURE AS ISLAMISTS CLOSE IN ON CAPITAL Assad was forced to flee the country after a coalition of largely radical Islamist groups led a sweeping offensive across Syria, culminating in the capture of the country's capital city and the fall of Assad's regime, which had seen his family rule Syria for over 50 years. The offensive was the latest development in a bloody civil war that has ravaged Syria for almost 14 years, a war that also led to the rise of the Islamic State terrorist organization and yearslong interventio...

Andrew Williams / Wired : A look at the opportunities India provides for smartphone companies, including its growing market for premium phones and as a manufacturing hub outside of China   —  A quarter of all iPhones could be made outside China by 2025, most likely in India—a rapidly growing market with hundreds of millions of potential customers.