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Samsung's mobile chief TM Roh says Samsung and Google are working on AR glasses, but doesn't provide further details or a launch timeframe (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-23 Google Mobile Samsung AR

Google says Galaxy S25 supports the Gemini Nano AI model and Samsung's TalkBack accessibility app is the first non-Google app to use the model (www.androidpolice.com)
2025-1-23 Google Samsung AI

Google's Gemini will be the default on-device assistant for the new Galaxy S25 series, and gets the ability to work across multiple apps in a single prompt (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-23 Google

Microsoft Secures Deal To Restore Amazon Rainforest and Offset AI Emissions (news.slashdot.org)
2025-1-23 Amazon Microsoft AI

Antenna estimates Netflix drove 650K+ new US subscribers in the days surrounding the NFL games, and the Paul-Tyson fight drove 1.43M US subscription sign-ups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-23 Netflix

YouTube adds experimental features for Premium users, including higher audio bitrate of up to 256kbps for music videos and faster playback on mobile (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Mobile YouTube

Netflix Raises Prices Again (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-1-23 Netflix

Meta will soon let you share WhatsApp Status as Stories on Facebook and Instagram (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-23 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

Google Invests Another $1 Billion in AI Developer Anthropic (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-1-23 Google AI

Google unveils classroom and accessibility ChromeOS features, including rolling out a tool to let users control a device with their head and facial expressions (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-22 Google

UK CMA Chair Marcus Bokkerink plans to leave the antitrust agency, after pressure from UK ministers; the CMA appoints ex-Amazon exec Doug Gurr as interim chair (www.ft.com)
2025-1-22 Amazon

Days before TikTok briefly went dark, Instagram and Facebook made design tweaks, released new features, and ran ads promoting its apps as TikTok alternatives (www.wired.com)
2025-1-22 Facebook Instagram

Microsoft to buy 3.5M carbon credits, estimated to be worth about $200M, from Re.green over 25 years to restore parts of Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic forests (t.co)
2025-1-22 Amazon Microsoft Brazil

Microsoft Loses Status as OpenAI's Exclusive Cloud Provider (slashdot.org)
2025-1-22 Microsoft

Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation (t.co)
2025-1-22 Google

Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-22 Israel Google AI

Google adds SandboxAQ's quantitative AI models to cloud offerings (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-22 Google AI

Microsoft relaxes data center grip on OpenAI amid $500 bln joint venture (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-22 Microsoft

Microsoft says it has a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it's no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22 Microsoft

Nielsen: Netflix captured 8.5% of all US streaming viewership in December 2024, its highest share since July 2023, in part due to NFL games; YouTube had 11.1% (awfulannouncing.com)
2025-1-22 YouTube Netflix

Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $10.2B, up 16% YoY, an operating income of $2.3B, and 301.6M global subs, adding 18.9M subs, more than doubling Wall St. estimates (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-22 Netflix 4Q

Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rises from $15.49 to $17.99, standard with ads jumps a dollar to $7.99 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-22 Netflix Canada Portugal

TikTok app unavailable on Apple, Google stores in US despite Trump delaying ban (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-22 Trump Google Apple Ban

Fake Homebrew Google ads target Mac users with malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-1-22 Google

Microsoft previews Game Assist in-game browser in Edge Stable (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-1-22 Microsoft Browser

Ransomware gangs pose as IT support in Microsoft Teams phishing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-1-22 Microsoft

Meta will soon let users link WhatsApp accounts with Instagram and Facebook, allowing cross posts of WhatsApp Statuses as Stories on Instagram and Facebook (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

Google reveals Android 16 release timeline: Beta in January, stable release by May 2025 (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-21 Android Google

Donald Trump inauguration: From Google to Meta, tech leaders who attended the swearing-in creremony (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-21 Trump Google

Microsoft rolls out more Copilot+ experiences to Snapdragon-powered AI PCs (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-21 Microsoft AI

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