Bitcoin crosses the big $100k mark for the first time. We now know who Trump wants to fill the roles Silicon Valley cares about the most. Is Amazon about to become a top tier AI model player? Two new models from Google DeepMind, one of them promises to revolutionize weather prediction. And Waymo says bienvenido a Miami.

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• Crypto Trading Volume Surged to $10 Trillion for the First Time in November (Bloomberg)
• Trump Picks Paul Atkins to Run the S.E.C. (NYTimes)
• Trump Taps Vance Aide Gail Slater as Top DOJ Antitrust Cop (Bloomberg)
• Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models (TechCrunch)
• First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin) (Simon Willison's Blog)
• DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games (TechCrunch)
• Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts (NYTimes)
• Key leaders behind Google’s viral NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup (TechCrunch)
• Waymo to expand to Miami, aims to launch robotaxi service there in 2026 (CNBC)

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