Santa Sam has made his first delivery of the promised 12 days of launches from OpenAI. David Sacks is named the AI and Crypto Czar. Samsung’s entire UI is getting a radical overhaul. OpenAI is seemingly about to restructure everything. No more Surface Studios? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

• OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its o1 ‘reasoning’ model (The Verge)
• Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar (Bloomberg)
• Here’s everything new Samsung’s Android 15 update, One UI 7, and the full changelog [Gallery] (9to5Google)
• OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching ‘AGI’ clause with Microsoft (Financial Times)
• The Surface Studio is dead? — Microsoft ends production on $4,500 Surface Studio 2+ as stock dwindles (Windows Central)
• Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch (Cointelegraph)
• What Pat Gelsinger’s exit means for Intel and the US Chips Act (Financial Times)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• He Was Going to Save Intel. He Destroyed $150 Billion of Value Instead. (WSJ)
• Friend or Faux (The Verge)
• When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk (The Atlantic)

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