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Sources: OpenAI is giving employees an extra month, until January 5, to decide whether they want to sell shares in the company through a tender offer (Bloomberg)

Google rolls out updates to Android, Wear OS, and Google TV devices, including adding AI-created image descriptions and an Assistant Routines feature (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)

Perplexity announces two online LLMs that can access the internet to deliver up-to-date responses, available via Perplexity's API and Labs web interface (Kristi Hines/Search Engine Journal)

Sources: Google and Canada have reached an agreement in their dispute over the Online News Act; source: Google will pay news companies around $100M per year (CBC News)

The US sanctions Sinbad, a crypto mixer allegedly used by North Korean Lazarus hackers, and seizes its service in an international law enforcement operation (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Survey of Substack and Telegram finds "scores" of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters among Substack's ~17K total; over 16 use Nazi symbols (Jonathan M. Katz/The Atlantic)

Pika, a startup building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raised $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, after emerging from stealth six months ago (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

The FTC can proceed with changes to Meta's 2020 $5B privacy settlement, like barring monetization of kids' data, after a judge denied Meta's move to go to court (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

The European Commission says Amazon's $1.4B iRobot acquisition may restrict competition; Amazon says it's working to address the EC's concerns; IRBT drops 18%+ (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits, which offers quantum-computing-as-a-service, announces a new 32-qubit system and an ongoing $100M Series B led by Japan's SBI (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

ByteDance Is Said to Shut Main Gaming Arm in Business Retreat (Bloomberg)

Huawei announces it's moving its smart car unit's core tech and resources into a new joint venture with Changan Auto, which is taking a 40% stake in the company (Reuters)

A look at the growing usage of social media apps like Douyin among the elderly in China since the COVID-19 lockdowns, often to find companionship (Lavender Au/Wired)

A look at Shein's NYC pop-up store, which resembled its website and may have only reinforced Shein's image of being quick, cheap, and not quite as it seems (Mia Sato/The Verge)

A profile of Binance CEO Richard Teng, who faces the tough task of transforming the company's culture amid spiraling compliance costs and an ongoing SEC lawsuit (Reuters)

Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it "disabled only a fraction" of those (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

FOIA docs: Prashant Bhardwaj, hired in March as the US OCC's first officer to police fintech firms, lied about his work history; OCC quietly replaced Bhardwaj (Michael Roddan/The Information)

Filing: Nvidia says regulators in the EU and China requested information about its sale of GPUs and how it allocates their supply (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

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