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😢 Claude, Beloved Albino Alligator at SF’s Cal Academy, Dead at 30 | KQED https://www.kqed.org/news/12065763/claude-beloved-albino-alligator-at-sfs-cal-academy-dead-at-30

Claude, Beloved Albino Alligator at SF’s Cal Academy, Dead at 30
The iconic California Academy of Sciences resident brought joy to visitors of the San Francisco museum for nearly two decades.

OpenAI setzt auf Audio-KI – neue Hardware im Blick
Bei OpenAIs angekündigter, aber bisher ominöser Hardware soll Audio im Vordergrund stehen. Das interne Team wird massiv umgebaut.
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Critical minerals dropped from final text at COP30
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/critical-minerals-dropped-from-final-text-at-cop30/

Critical minerals dropped from final text at COP30
Delegates at last month’s U.N. climate change summit, or COP30, adopted a new mechanism to coordinate action on a just energy transition worldwide toward a low-carbon economy, away from fossil fuels. However, a proposal at the conference in Brazil to include language on critical minerals within the mechanism’s scope was scrapped at the last minute […]

Source: CBS News may cut ties with new contributor Peter Attia, a wellness expert, after the latest trove of Epstein emails revealed Attia's Epstein links (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/peter-attia-epstein-cbs-param…

CBS News Expected to Cut Ties With Contributor Peter Attia Over Epstein Links | Exclusive
Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss announced Peter Attia’s hiring last week as part of her new vision for the network, but since then he appeared in the Epstein files.

Sources: OpenAI ramped up efforts to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its AI-powered personal device, which is expected to be largely audio-based (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ramps-audio…

OpenAI Ramps Up Audio AI Efforts Ahead of Device
OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its eventual release of an AI-powered personal device, said a person with knowledge of the effort. The device is expected to be largely audio-based, said three people with knowledge of it. When people speak to ChatGPT, the ...

Security researcher fumes at low macOS bug bounty awards
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/02/security-researcher-fumes-at-low-macos-bug-bounty-awards

Security researcher fumes at low macOS bug bounty awards | AppleInsider
A security researcher has complained about reduced payments from discovered macOS flaws by Apple's bug bounty program, despite Apple raising the maximum for more high-profile rewards.

Security — A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions
A cybersecurity incident at analytics provider Mixpanel announced just hours before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend could set a new standard for how not to announce a data breach.
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A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions | TechCrunch
We sent over a dozen questions to Mixpanel's CEO about the company's data breach. Here's what we want to know.

Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)
https://anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-work-at-anthropic/

How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic
How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic

MBUX 3.3: Mercedes-Benz bringt Audible und Amazon Music ins Auto
Mercedes-Benz stattet seine Fahrzeuge mit dem MBUX-Infotainment-System mit einem Update auf Version 3.3 aus. Audible und Amazon Music sind nun integriert.

CBS pulls a 60 Minutes segment with contributor Peter Attia that was set to re-air after the Super Bowl, as Attia's name appears ~1,700 times in Epstein docs (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

CBS News Pulls ’60 Minutes’ Segment With Peter Attia From Rerun After Epstein Files Revelation
Attia, named a contributor to the network last week, is named in the latest release of documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.