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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