Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re exploring the DOJ telling Google to sell off Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI accidentally deleting potential evidence in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, and how AI companies are using TikTok brainrot for study tools. Let’s do this. The U.S. Department of Justice argued that Google should divest its Chrome browser to help break up the company’s illegal monopoly in online search. District Court judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google was an illegal monopoly for abusing its power over the search business, and the DOJ’s latest filing suggests that Google’s ownership of Android and Chrome pose “a significant challenge” to apply remedies for making the search market competitive. Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services the primary place it’ll train its flagship generative AI models. Anthropic is also working with Annapurna Labs, AWS’ chipmaking division, to develop future generations of Trainium accelerators, AWS’ custom-built chips for training AI models. The new cash infusion from Amazon brings the tech giant’s total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion. OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in The New York Times and Daily News’ copyright lawsuit, lawyers for the publishers allege. As part of the suit, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel could perform searches for their copyrighted content in its AI training sets. But in a letter, attorneys for the publishers say that OpenAI engineers erased all the publishers’ search data stored on one of the virtual machines. If you’d like to receive the Week in Review newsletter in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here ! News Kim Kardashian meets Optimus: The fashion mogul got some hands-on experience with Tesla’s bipedal, humanoid robot. In videos posted to X, Kardashian prompts Optimus to make a heart with its hand, dance like it’s at a luau, and play rock, paper, scissors. Read more Oura’s valuation surpasses $5B: The smart ring maker received a $75 million investment from glucose device maker Dexcom. The investment, which marks Oura’s Series D funding round, brings the company’s valuation to more than $5 billion. Read more Let’s throw a party for Partiful: The customizable event-planning app challenging older solutions like Evite, Eventbrite, and Facebook Events is a favorite among Gen Z users — and has just been named Google’s best app of 2024. Read more Talk to me in your language: Microsoft will soon let Teams users clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak to others in up to nine languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Read more Hackers go after Andrew Tate: According to The Daily Dot, hackers breached an online course founded by the influencer and self-described misogynist, leaking data on close to 800,000 users. Tate is currently under house arrest awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking and rape. Read more What makes a bank a bank? The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ruled that all digital services that handle a significant number of transactions should be subject to bank-like supervision, which could affect Apple Pay, Cash App, Google Pay, PayPal, and Venmo. Read more A more conversational Siri: Apple is developing a new version of Siri powered by advanced large language models, according to sources cited by Bloomberg, in an attempt to catch up with more natural-sounding competitors like Google’s Gemini Live. Read more Cashing in on TikTok brainrot: Several AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a “PDF to Brainrot” trend, in which the text of a document you upload is read to you in a monotone voice over “oddly satisfying” vertical videos like Subway Surfers gameplay. Read more Threads takes a stab at Bluesky: As Bluesky tops 20 million users, Instagram Threads has begun rolling out a new feature called custom feeds in an effort to capitalize on the user demand for more personalization. Read more ChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI released a free online course designed to help K-12 teachers learn how to bring ChatGPT into their classrooms. But some educators are wary of the technology — and its potential to go awry. Read more Do we need another daily word game? I am a daily word game and crossword puzzle evangelist, but it feels like we’re quickly approaching oversaturation in the market. Netflix, in collaboration with TED, launched its new daily word puzzle called TED Tumblewords. Read more Analysis Please don’t upload your X-rays to a chatbot: People frequently turn to generative AI chatbots to ask questions about their medical concerns and to better understand their health. Since October, X users have been encouraged to upload their X-rays, MRIs, and PET scans to the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, to help interpret their results. Medical data is a special category with federal protections that, for the most part, only you can choose to circumvent. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should. As Zack Whittaker writes, it’s good to remember that what goes on the internet never leaves the internet. Read moreAt a town hall meeting with the bureau workforce, Mr Wray said he would be stepping down “after weeks of careful thought”. Mr Wray’s intended resignation is not unexpected considering that Mr Trump had picked Mr Patel for the role in his new administration. Mr Wray had previously been named by Mr Trump and began the 10-year term — a length meant to insulate the agency from the political influence of changing administrations — in 2017, after Mr Trump fired then-FBI director James Comey. Mr Trump had demonstrated his anger with Mr Wray on multiple occasions, including after Mr Wray’s congressional testimony in September. “My goal is to keep the focus on our mission — the indispensable work you’re doing on behalf of the American people every day,” Mr Wray told agency employees. “In my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray, while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work.” Mr Wray continued: “It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway — this is not easy for me. I love this place, I love our mission, and I love our people — but my focus is, and always has been, on us and doing what’s right for the FBI.” Mr Wray received a standing ovation following his remarks before a standing-room-only crowd at FBI headquarters and some in the audience cried, according to an FBI official who was not authorised to discuss the private gathering and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press. Mr Trump applauded the news on social media, calling it “a great day for America as it will end the weaponisation of what has become known as the United States Department of Injustice” and saying that Mr Patel’s confirmation will begin “the process of Making the FBI Great Again”. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr Patel would herald a radical leadership transformation at the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency. He has advocated shutting down the FBI’s Washington headquarters and called for ridding the federal government of “conspirators”, raising alarm that he might seek to wield the FBI’s significant investigative powers as an instrument of retribution against Mr Trump’s perceived enemies. Mr Patel said in a statement Wednesday that he was looking forward to “a smooth transition. I will be ready to serve the American people on day one”.
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is continuing his fight to make the B.C. government wake up to the threat of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). “As the former MLA for Kootenay East, I had the opportunity to address the wildlife issue in our province head-on. One of my biggest warnings for the past four years has been the threat of Chronic Wasting Disease. I worked with all wildlife stakeholder groups and fully supported the latest CWD management strategy as presented by regional biologists,” Shypitka stated on social media Nov. 22. “My efforts received complete $400,000 support from my former party. It was also part of a larger package of $200 million going toward a complete wildlife and habitat strategy for our province. This is what is needed. “To this date no political party has adopted these same commitments and I am calling on all parties to push this forward.” Shypitka also called out for any MLA to “promote my private member’s bill to legislate an independent funding model for wildlife and habitat. This is critical and we were so close to getting this done. This cannot slide.” And as the cases of CWD discovered in B.C. have all been found in the Cranbrook area, Shypitka said he is calling on Cranbrook city council to “initiate a city-wide cull, sterilization, hazing, translocation program on urban deer and for the province to give financial support as well as autonomy to city government to set the cull limits. “This is not a silver bullet solution and has to be part of a holistic strategy but the science is crystal clear that no action is of great harm to communities, wildlife sustainability and public health,” he stated.Robert Wickens moving up to IMSA GTD series in 2025 thanks to new Bosch hand controls
