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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.