🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-12-07
In this edition, I highlight stories that sneak past Friday's slow news facade.
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By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
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Techmeme: FEC filing: Elon Musk poured at least $274M into US political groups in 2024, including $238.5M for his America PAC, making him the biggest US political donor (Bill Allison/Bloomberg)
By Bill Allison / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: The US FCC proposes rules for carriers to submit an annual certification attesting they have a plan to protect against cyberattacks, after the Salt Typhoon hack (Reuters)
From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Pat Gelsinger was dealt a bad hand by Intel's board, which gave him just three years to execute a turnaround despite challenging timing and circumstances (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
By M.G. Siegler / Spyglass. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: An evaluation of six frontier AI models for in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal: only OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming in all the tests (Marius Hobbhahn/Apollo Research)
By Marius Hobbhahn / Apollo Research. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Sources: trading and investment platform eToro weighs a US IPO as soon as Q2, 2025, seeking a $3.5B+ valuation; it has 38M+ registered users from 75 countries (Bloomberg)
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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