LinkedIn is rolling out new profile verification features and will also begin alerting users if messages they have received from other users seem suspicious (Clare Duffy/CNN)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with LinkedIn’s Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen on the number of people hired via LinkedIn being a core metric, generative AI, regulation, and more  —  We dive into managing the relationships between designers, engineers, and PMs. … Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn …

The Verge:
At Tesla AI Day, Musk reveals a protoype of Optimus, a humanoid robot that uses Tesla’ AI and advanced driver assist features, expects to cost less than $20K  —  Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of a humanoid robot that he said utilizes the company’s AI software …

Halisia Hubbard / NPR:
British artist Damien Hirst burns thousands of his paintings live on Instagram as part of an NFT project, “completing the transformation” from physical to NFTs  —  British artist Damien Hirst is among the many art-world giants who have set fire to their work, having burned 1,000 of his artworks Tuesday.

Kathryn Tewson / Techdirt:
Hands-on with DoNotPay, a service claiming to be the first robot lawyer: slow, drafted a terrible defamation demand letter, missed legal issues, and more  —  Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread.  —  I’ve been going pretty hard on DoNotPay …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A New York-based artist received copyright registration on a comic featuring artwork by Midjourney, the first known US copyright for latent diffusion AI art  —  Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics.  —  In what might be a first …

Platformer:
Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile carriers, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, in an attempt to rid Twitter of spam  —  PLUS: Why it’s time to start leaving Twitter behind  —  On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted a vague warning: “the bots are in for a surprise tomorrow.”