The Roundup

📰 Artifact, the news-sharing platform founded by an Instagram co-founder, is shutting down.

🧵 Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users on its platform by year-end.

🍎 Apple has made a big change to its app store guidelines. 

🤖 A robot has learned how to cook, clean, and do your laundry. 

📱 Samsung announced a new range of smartphones with AI built in.

🤖 Microsoft is planning to auto-launch its Copilot on some Windows devices. 

🛍️ Google Cloud is rolling out gen AI features specifically for retailers.

🔋 Microsoft has discovered a new battery material – thanks to AI.

🤖 Quora has raised $75m from a16z to grow its AI chatbot Poe.

📹 Elon Musk is now claiming that X will be a video-first platform.

⌨️ Microsoft is updating its keyboards to have a dedicated “Copilot key.”

🕹️ Ever wanted Xbox toast? Now you can have it thanks to this toaster.

📱 This case turns your iPhone into a Blackberry.

💲 Bitcoin is on the move, rising to above $45k for the first time since 2022.

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💔 Adobe and Figma have officially abandoned their proposed merger. 

📈 MrBeast beta launched a YouTube analytics platform.

🍪 RIP cookies. Chrome will start blocking cookies on January 4.

🧠 An AI made from human brain cells now exists. 

⌚ Apple lost an appeal to avoid a ban on selling its Apple Watch Series 9 models.

📷 TikTok's year in review is a quick hit of 2023’s top videos, songs, and people.

🍟 McDonalds is using AI to make sure your fries are fresh.

📸 Instagram has a new AI backdrop feature – here’s how to use it.

🧵 EU users, here we go! Threads has landed for you.

🎨 Figma launched a new keyboard for all your design shortcuts.

🖼️ Google dropped a new text-to-image modal to rival DALL-E.

🧵 Threads is rolling out hashtags – now we just wait for threads.

🐦 X (formally Twitter) has started rolling out Grok to subscribers.

🌴 The first GTA 6 trailer is here after being leaked last week. 

🚀 NASA plans to land a spacecraft on a world 800 million miles away.

🐕 A startup is trying to use science to make your dog live longer.

✈️ Virgin Atlantic flew the first transatlantic flight using sustainable fuel.

🧵 Europeans, you might finally be getting Threads – as a little treat.

🤖 OpenAI has a new board that includes Microsoft.

🐦 Elon had some choice words for advertisers pulling out of X.

💸 Stripe launched a dashboard for you to see the total volume of sales today.

🐛 Valve finally squashed a decades-long Half-Life bug.

🎵 Teenage Engineering just dropped a powerful and portable synthesizer.

🤖 We finally have an idea of why Sam Altman was fired. Meet Q.

🌌 NASA pointed the Webb telescope at our galaxy, and it’s beautiful.

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Here's the news:

🤖Sam Altman was ousted as the CEO of OpenAI. He now joins Microsoft.

💨 An MIT startup has created a Lego-like system to pull carbon out of the air.

🧠 AI is helping develop potential Alzheimer’s treatments.

🚗 Xiaomi, the company most known for phones, has launched a car.

📱 iPhones are finally getting RCS. But the green bubbles will remain.