Jacob Kastrenakes

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said yesterday that the administration is “tracking this case and the December 25th deadline” — after which imports of new watches will be banned over a patent dispute.

— along with the rest of the truck, too. He’s got a 40-minute video out this morning taking Tesla’s new vehicle for a spin and offering some first impressions.

The company is working with Amkor to have Apple Silicon chips tested and packaged in Arizona, not far from the TSMC plant in Phoenix where some of the chips are being produced.

Spotify had a bunch of artists record videos to their fans for its year-end Wrapped lists. Weird Al used his to joke about Spotify payouts from right inside Spotify’s platform.

“I’ve got a lot of fish to fry,” he said.

“It should be renamed Super Closed Source for Maximum Profit AI. This is what it actually is,” he said. Musk co-founded it as a nonprofit and says its name is meant to reference open source. “I don’t know how you go from here to there, but that seems ... is this legal?”

Once again, we’re finding that definition matters when talking about AI intelligence. But if you’re talking about AI that can “write as good a novel as J.K. Rowling or discover new physics or invent new technology, I would say we’re less than three years from that point,” Musk says.