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US's long history of involvement in Venezuelan oil

US's long history of involvement in Venezuelan oil

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to meet executives of top US oil...

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French farmers pile on pressure as Italy reportedly backs Mercosur trade pact

French farmers pile on pressure as Italy reportedly backs...

French farmers are continuing their protests across the country this Tuesday, in...

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AMD teases its next-generation CDNA 6-based MI500 AI chips built on a 2nm node, claiming 1,000x performance gains over predecessors, launching in 2027 (Reuters)

AMD teases its next-generation CDNA 6-based MI500 AI chips...

Reuters: AMD teases its next-generation CDNA 6-based MI500 AI chips built on a 2nm...

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Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming...

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Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent new work for themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just output (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent...

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent...

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US's long history of involvment in Venezuelan oil

US's long history of involvment in Venezuelan oil

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to meet executives of top US oil...

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Sources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse software and the company shuttered the Omniverse Cloud service in August 2025 due to lack of demand (The Information)

Sources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse...

The Information: Sources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse software...

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A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that a "major food delivery app" exploits drivers appears AI-generated; Uber and DoorDash deny the claims (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that...

Elissa Welle / The Verge: A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging...

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Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds (Jeremy White/Wired)

Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered...

Jeremy White / Wired: Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered...

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US's big plans for Venezuela's oil face political, economic challenges

US's big plans for Venezuela's oil face political, economic...

US President Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for American firms to...

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Samsung co-CEO TM Roh says the company has rolled out Gemini-powered AI features to ~400M mobile devices and aims to boost the figure to 800M in 2026 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

Samsung co-CEO TM Roh says the company has rolled out Gemini-powered...

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh says the company has rolled out Gemini-powered...

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Samsung upgrades its Family Hub refrigerators with AI features, such as voice control to open and close the door and Gemini-powered AI Vision to track inventory (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Samsung upgrades its Family Hub refrigerators with AI features,...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Samsung upgrades its Family Hub refrigerators...

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Taiwan says China's cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks, energy, and other infrastructure rose 6% YoY in 2025 to an average of 2.63M attacks a day (Yimou Lee/Reuters)

Taiwan says China's cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks,...

Yimou Lee / Reuters: Taiwan says China's cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks, energy,...

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Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch (Scott Stein/CNET)

Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock...

Scott Stein / CNET: Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock...

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Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity...

Meir Orbach / CTech: Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity...

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Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400M; Koi has raised $48M to date (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli...

Sophie Shulman / CTech: Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli...

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A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations (Jared Perlo/NBC News)

A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court...

Jared Perlo / NBC News: A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court...

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A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets (Herb Scribner/Axios)

A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just...

Herb Scribner / Axios: A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just...

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Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide...

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments...

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A look at Elon Musk's bet that Tesla's future is in its Optimus humanoid robots, which for now rely on human helpers and still face commercial challenges (Becky Peterson/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Elon Musk's bet that Tesla's future is in its...

Becky Peterson / Wall Street Journal: A look at Elon Musk's bet that Tesla's future...

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A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform...

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data...

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The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces as options to deploy its cash flood narrow; its annual free cash flow has risen from $4.2B in 2020 to $80B+ now (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces as options...

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces...

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California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers (Michael Kan/PCMag)

California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets...

Michael Kan / PCMag: California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents...

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Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law (CNBC)

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years...

CNBC: Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking...

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What to expect at CES 2026: laptops with new chips from Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses, and more (The Verge)

What to expect at CES 2026: laptops with new chips from...

The Verge: What to expect at CES 2026: laptops with new chips from Intel, Qualcomm,...

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How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+ annual run rate; Sensor Tower: users spend 27 minutes/day on Instagram Reels, 21 on YouTube Shorts, and 44 on TikTok (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+ annual run...

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+...

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UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (Rachel Clun/BBC)

UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details...

Rachel Clun / BBC: UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details...

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Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future (Dan Wang)

Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist...

Dan Wang: Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon...

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Danish post office delivers last letter, ending 400-year run

Danish post office delivers last letter, ending 400-year...

It's the end of an era for the Danish post office. Citing a 90 percent drop in letter-sending...

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Bulgaria bids farewell to lev currency, awaits euro adoption amid inflation concerns

Bulgaria bids farewell to lev currency, awaits euro adoption...

Bulgaria will formally adopt the euro as its currency starting on January 1, leaving...

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Leaps and bounds: How the power of AI expanded further in 2025

Leaps and bounds: How the power of AI expanded further...

It's only been three years since ChatGPT leaped onto the world stage, but artificial...

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Bulgarians ring in the new year by withdrawing euros

Bulgarians ring in the new year by withdrawing euros

As Bulgaria formally adopts the euro currency this January 1st, residents in the...

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EU's new carbon border tax goes into force

EU's new carbon border tax goes into force

The European Union's controversial new rules on polluting industrial imports went...

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How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral (Philosopher Count)

How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions...

Philosopher Count: How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on...

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Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant...

Miles Kruppa / The Information: Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant...

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Starlink plans to lower its satellites orbiting at ~550km to ~480km in 2026 to improve space safety and reduce the likelihood of debris collisions (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)

Starlink plans to lower its satellites orbiting at ~550km...

Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters: Starlink plans to lower its satellites orbiting at ~550km...

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The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)

The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives...

Suzanne Smalley / The Record: The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives...

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Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to ~$538.5M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 25.4M shares at a price range of ~$19.40 to ~$21.20 per share (Shivangi Lahiri/Reuters)

Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to...

Shivangi Lahiri / Reuters: Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up...

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SoftBank says it has completed a $22.5B investment in OpenAI, finalizing its up to $40B investment commitment announced in March and taking its stake to ~11% (SoftBank Group Corp.)

SoftBank says it has completed a $22.5B investment in OpenAI,...

SoftBank Group Corp.: SoftBank says it has completed a $22.5B investment in OpenAI,...

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Iran's central bank chief resigns amid protests, currency turmoil

Iran's central bank chief resigns amid protests, currency...

Iran's state TV says the country's central bank chief Mohammad Reza Farzin has stepped...

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China issues new proposals to regulate AI chatbots around mental health and suicide

China issues new proposals to regulate AI chatbots around...

China's cyberspace administration has issued new draft rules aiming to regulate...

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Danish post office delivers last letter, ending a 400-year run to adapt to the digital age

Danish post office delivers last letter, ending a 400-year...

It's the end of an era for the Danish post office. Citing a 90% drop in letter-sending...

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Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are expanding into India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, driven by rising incomes and cheap smartphones and data (Bloomberg)

Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are...

Bloomberg: Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are expanding into...

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Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI competition from Amazon and Google; Microsoft Deputy CTO Dee Templeton says Nadella is in "founder mode" (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI...

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing...

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Sources, PitchBook data, and news reports: the founders of Perplexity, Figure AI, Safe Superintelligence, Harvey, and others joined the nine-figure club in 2025 (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)

Sources, PitchBook data, and news reports: the founders...

Natallie Rocha / New York Times: Sources, PitchBook data, and news reports: the...

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Iran's central bank chief resigns amid protests and currency turmoil

Iran's central bank chief resigns amid protests and currency...

Iran's state TV says the country's central bank chief Mohammad Reza Farzin has stepped...

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A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing (Calder McHugh/Politico)

A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and...

Calder McHugh / Politico: A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and...

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How diamonds are being converted to quantum sensors by inserting tiny imperfections, opening up potential uses in medicine, brain-computer interfaces, and more (Financial Times)

How diamonds are being converted to quantum sensors by...

Financial Times: How diamonds are being converted to quantum sensors by inserting...

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Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which makes an AI agent it sells to SMBs; Manus said in December its annual revenue run rate was $125M+ (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which...

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta agrees to acquire Singapore-based startup Manus, which...

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E-commerce giant Coupang offers €1 billion compensation scheme after massive data breach

E-commerce giant Coupang offers €1 billion compensation...

Over a month after announcing a massive data breach affecting 34 million of its...

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Since the GENIUS Act's passage in July, the total value of stablecoins circulating rose from ~$250B to $300B+, as they become the "respectable" face of crypto (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Since the GENIUS Act's passage in July, the total value...

Joel Khalili / Wired: Since the GENIUS Act's passage in July, the total value of...

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Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)

Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed...

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge,...

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A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated "slop" videos, amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds...

Aisha Down / The Guardian: A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds...

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How executives at humanoid robot startups like Agility Robotics and Weave Robotics are managing safety risks and tempering expectations for the technology (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal)

How executives at humanoid robot startups like Agility...

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: How executives at humanoid robot startups like...

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Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure (Patrick Oster/Bloomberg)

Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with...

Patrick Oster / Bloomberg: Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited...

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Global hotel groups are intensifying efforts to get customers to book directly, as they seek to save on online platform commissions and prepare for AI agents (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Global hotel groups are intensifying efforts to get customers...

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Global hotel groups are intensifying efforts...

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Ubisoft says it intentionally shut down Rainbow Six Siege and its in-game Marketplace to resolve an "incident"; reports say hackers breached internal systems (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Ubisoft says it intentionally shut down Rainbow Six Siege...

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Ubisoft says it intentionally shut down Rainbow...

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Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto confidentially files for a ~$1.3B India IPO; Zepto raised $450M at a $7B valuation in October 2025 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)

Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup...

Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times: Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery...

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Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of...

Martha Muir / Financial Times: Data center developers, facing grid access wait times...

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Sources: Peter Thiel and Larry Page may leave CA over a proposed ballot measure, opposed by Newsom, that levies a one-time 5% tax on those with $1B+ in assets (New York Times)

Sources: Peter Thiel and Larry Page may leave CA over a...

New York Times: Sources: Peter Thiel and Larry Page may leave CA over a proposed...

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The European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU Chips Act investments remain on track, despite the stalled GlobalFoundries-STMicro project in France (Virginie Malingre/Le Monde)

The European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU...

Virginie Malingre / Le Monde: The European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU...

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A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts for 98% of Vietnam's electronics exports, "signaling limited technology spillovers" to the local economy (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)

A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts for...

Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts...

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The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including CEO Jonathan Ross, creator of the TPU, and keeps them from companies that may try to make their own chips (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including...

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including...

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users (Andre Revilla/Engadget)

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms...

Andre Revilla / Engadget: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms...

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Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail traders have poured billions of dollars into the stock, which is up ~3,000% in the past three years (Alex Harring/CNBC)

Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail...

Alex Harring / CNBC: Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail...

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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined $67.5B in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending frenzy in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined $67.5B...

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined...

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Oracle stock fell 30% this quarter, its steepest drop since Q3 2001, when it slid ~34%, amid skepticism about its ability to open more data centers for OpenAI (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Oracle stock fell 30% this quarter, its steepest drop since...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle stock fell 30% this quarter, its steepest drop since...

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Refinitiv: AI infrastructure companies borrowed $100B+ in 2025; small companies face higher interest rates given investor wariness over unproven AI businesses (Joe Rennison/New York Times)

Refinitiv: AI infrastructure companies borrowed $100B+...

Joe Rennison / New York Times: Refinitiv: AI infrastructure companies borrowed $100B+...

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An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)

An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about...

Finian Hazen / MIT Technology Review: An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald...

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A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)

A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration...

Aishvarya Kavi / New York Times: A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration...

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As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon...

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PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025...

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals...

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A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges (Paresh Dave/Wired)

A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after...

Paresh Dave / Wired: A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after...

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A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo...

Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis;...

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Disruptive CEO Alex Davis says Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq for $20B in cash; leaked email: Jensen Huang says Nvidia is not acquiring Groq (David Faber/CNBC)

Disruptive CEO Alex Davis says Nvidia has agreed to buy...

David Faber / CNBC: Disruptive CEO Alex Davis says Nvidia has agreed to buy assets...

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Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan...

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan...

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Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M...

Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over...

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Italy's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp; Meta calls the decision "fundamentally flawed" (Elvira Pollina/Reuters)

Italy's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual...

Elvira Pollina / Reuters: Italy's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual...

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AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)

AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting...

Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India,...

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Sources: Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped moving forward; interviews with 20+ people describe how dealmaker Lip-Bu Tan gave Intel a lifeline (Reuters)

Sources: Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped...

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped moving forward;...

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A federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

A federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking...

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: A federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking...

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Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building next-gen AI personal assistants, raised an $8M seed at a $35M valuation and plans to exit stealth in 2026 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building next-gen...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building...

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The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)

The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans,...

Fatima Hussein / Associated Press: The US is imposing visa restrictions on five...

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Off the scales? Work-life balance in the digital age

Off the scales? Work-life balance in the digital age

It's the word of the year in Japan with a literal take on the Rihanna song "Work"....

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Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's Hong Kong stock fell as much as 6% to ~$8, the lowest since November 21, after it was hit by a cyberattack on December 22 (Reuters)

Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's Hong Kong stock fell...

Reuters: Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's Hong Kong stock fell as much as 6% to...

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Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)

Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians...

Financial Times: Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians...

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US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025,...

Kate Duguid / Financial Times: US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds...

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OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like...

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Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight model that Z.ai says delivers significant improvements in coding performance compared to GLM-4.6 (Z.ai)

Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight...

Z.ai: Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight model that Z.ai says...

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Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty, died Sunday at 55 in a single-car crash in Southern California (NBC Los Angeles)

Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio...

NBC Los Angeles: Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio behind...

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Waymo resumes robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout, and says most trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (CNBC)

Waymo resumes robotaxi service in SF after suspending it...

CNBC: Waymo resumes robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout,...

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Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video...

Max Tani / Semafor: Adam Mosseri says “maybe we'll need” premium longform video...

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Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's...

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Sources detail SoftBank's efforts to raise funds as it races to close its $22.5B funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (Reuters)

Sources detail SoftBank's efforts to raise funds as it...

Reuters: Sources detail SoftBank's efforts to raise funds as it races to close its...

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Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70%...

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about...

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Sources: the US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, compounding instability at the agency (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Sources: the US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers...

John Sakellariadis / Politico: Sources: the US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA...

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Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after its blockbuster IPO in China (Bloomberg)

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation...

Bloomberg: Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips...

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METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (@metr_evals)

METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon...

@metr_evals: METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about...

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A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B+ contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (Financial Times)

A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which...

Financial Times: A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources...

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Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+...

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+...

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Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000+ attendees, yacht parties, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a...

Wall Street Journal: Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small...

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Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to...

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to...

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OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (Emma Roth/The Verge)

OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's...

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's...

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Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game...

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game...

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Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous...

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Sacrificing agriculture for trade? Mercosur deal divides European Union

Sacrificing agriculture for trade? Mercosur deal divides...

It's a deal that's been decades in the works, but might not make it across the finishing...

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Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)

Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate...

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to...

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Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing (Financial Times)

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities...

Financial Times: Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will...

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Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a source says is Google Cloud's largest security services deal "approaching $10B" over several years (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)

Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that...

Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a...

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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get...

Suzanne Smalley / The Record: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can...

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Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League of Legends, internally called League Next, for 2027; Riot confirms a big update is in the works (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul...

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US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign ...)

US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the...

Chris McGuire / Council on Foreign Relations: US approving Nvidia H200 exports to...

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Warner Bros. rejects Paramount's bid, accuses it of 'consistently misleading' shareholders

Warner Bros. rejects Paramount's bid, accuses it of 'consistently...

Warner Brothers Discovery has rejected Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid,...

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BP appoints Big Oil's first female CEO to continue shift away from renewables

BP appoints Big Oil's first female CEO to continue shift...

London-based energy giant BP announced on Wednesday it was appointing Meg O'Neill...

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TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and begin building the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)

TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company...

Financial Times: TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE...

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Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024...

Justine Calma / The Verge: Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024...

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Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot (Bloomberg)

Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35...

Bloomberg: Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities...

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Warner Bros. rejects Paramount's bid, accuses it of "consistently misleading" shareholders

Warner Bros. rejects Paramount's bid, accuses it of "consistently...

Warner Brothers Discovery has rejected Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid,...

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Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)

Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine...

Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine...

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Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts...

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Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and more, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading...

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading...

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Oil prices rise as Trump orders blockade of sanctioned tankers in and out of Venezuela

Oil prices rise as Trump orders blockade of sanctioned...

Crude benchmarks were rising on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said the...

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Warner Bros board rejects takeover bid from Paramount, favours deal with Netflix

Warner Bros board rejects takeover bid from Paramount,...

Warner Bros Discovery's board has urged shareholders to reject a $108.4 billion...

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Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline...

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline...

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Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (Financial Times)

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq,...

Financial Times: Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are...

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Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% before falling 8.4% intraday, amid a weakness in digital assets (Reuters)

Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut,...

Reuters: Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising...

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EU rolls back 2035 internal combustion engine ban

EU rolls back 2035 internal combustion engine ban

The European Union has proposed changes to a 2023 law that effectively banned the...

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Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based...

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based...

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X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly claim rights to the "Twitter" trademark after a startup filed an application to trademark the term (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly...

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Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking...

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Ford to take $19.5 billion writedown as it scraps flagship EVs

Ford to take $19.5 billion writedown as it scraps flagship...

Ford is abandoning top EV models like the F-150 Lightning as weak demand and hostile...

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Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure surged in 2025, with CATL up 45% and Sungrow up 130%, as exports boost margins despite Trump's tariffs (William Sandlund/Financial Times)

Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure...

William Sandlund / Financial Times: Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure...

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Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover to ex-Googler Diana Layfield in October, was pushed out by the board over an IPO timing clash (Financial Times)

Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and...

Financial Times: Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover...

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How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose the use of the technology while others say they are exploring ways to utilize AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose...

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China sees first annual investment decline in 30 years

China sees first annual investment decline in 30 years

Despite logging record a trade surplus, economic data for November showed China's...

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GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and rolls out support for digital keys, after it started phasing out CarPlay in 2023 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles,...

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Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular AI service, global traffic from Starlink grew 2.3x, and more (Cloudflare)

Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19%...

Cloudflare: Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT...

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The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (Reuters)

The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended...

Reuters: The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against...

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French government calls for delay of EU-Mercosur trade deal vote

French government calls for delay of EU-Mercosur trade...

France's prime minister has called for pushing back the final approval vote on the...

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Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones involving Trump-linked companies (New York Times)

Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC...

New York Times: Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC eased up...

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A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B deal in 2024, and increased Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse...

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Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the...

Martin Peers / The Information: Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases...

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A look at Trump's AI EO and how its interstate commerce argument could backfire by invalidating laws in GOP states targeting "Big Tech censorship" (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

A look at Trump's AI EO and how its interstate commerce...

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A look at Trump's AI EO and how its interstate commerce...

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Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to...

Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools...

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Exor rejects Tether's all-cash offer for its 65.4% controlling stake in Juventus, which valued the Italian soccer club at €1.1B (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Exor rejects Tether's all-cash offer for its 65.4% controlling...

Zack Abrams / The Block: Exor rejects Tether's all-cash offer for its 65.4% controlling...

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Despite talk of an existential US-China AI race, the Chinese state and its major companies are spending more to dominate other domains, such as EVs and robotics (Tim Wu/Financial Times)

Despite talk of an existential US-China AI race, the Chinese...

Tim Wu / Financial Times: Despite talk of an existential US-China AI race, the Chinese...

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Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining superintelligence, its application in the medical field, universal basic income, regulation, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining...

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining...

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The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the "actual delivery" of a digital asset, aiming to support broader access to regulated crypto markets (Micah Zimmerman/Bitcoin Magazine)

The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the "actual...

Micah Zimmerman / Bitcoin Magazine: The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the...

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic...

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A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids and projects more than $150M of sales this year (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based...

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground...

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Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorted loans and rapidly cut exposure to the enterprise software sector in 2025 amid concerns over AI threat (Financial Times)

Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorted...

Financial Times: Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorted loans...

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Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber strategy that would enlist private companies to mount offensive cyberattacks on foreign adversaries (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)

Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber...

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber...

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OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “skills”...

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Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical vulnerability, including in third-party code, impacting its online services is eligible for awards (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical...

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any...

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Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that...

Gene Maddaus / Variety: Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that...

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How 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' became a gaming tour de force

How 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' became a gaming tour...

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, December 12: A US defence news website reports on leaks from...

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TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 processor, used in its Mate 80 Pro Max phone, is China's most advanced chip to date and produced with SMIC's updated 7nm tech (Ian King/Bloomberg)

TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 processor, used in its...

Ian King / Bloomberg: TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 processor, used in its Mate...

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Sources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is considering adding production capacity for its H200 chips in response to robust demand (Reuters)

Sources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is considering...

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is considering adding...

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Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether...

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into...

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Is the US interested in Venezuela's oil?

Is the US interested in Venezuela's oil?

The US' motives are unclear after it seizes a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast...

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President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying "we want to have one central source of approval" (Reuters)

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting...

Reuters: President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing...

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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says it placed an additional $11B order in Q4 (CNBC)

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B...

CNBC: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's...

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On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity" (OpenAI)

On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a...

OpenAI: On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on “a decade of breakthroughs,...

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Addiction economy: Can regulators rein in social media platforms?

Addiction economy: Can regulators rein in social media...

Will history remember this as the day the planet started to rein in big tech? Australia...

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US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for third straight time

US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for third straight...

The US Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point,...

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US Federal Reserve cuts rate by 25 basis points, but dissenting voices heard

US Federal Reserve cuts rate by 25 basis points, but dissenting...

The Federal Reserve, the US central bank, lowered its benchmark interest rate by...

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The world for sale: A deep dive into the murky world of commodity traders

The world for sale: A deep dive into the murky world of...

They buy, hoard and sell the Earth's resources. In this episode, journalist Javier...

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Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification,...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification,...

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Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer...

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Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that...

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Runware, which operates a developer tool platform...

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US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the third straight time

US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the third straight...

The US Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point,...

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ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US...

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Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users...

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally,...

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Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300+ US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30%+ since its August launch (Peyton Bigora/Grocery Dive)

Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery...

Peyton Bigora / Grocery Dive: Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery...

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Ford, Renault team up on low-cost electric cars to counter Chinese rivals

Ford, Renault team up on low-cost electric cars to counter...

Automotive heavyweights Renault and Ford are to join forces to develop a line of...

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Australian social media ban for kids tackles 'addiction economy', ScrollAware says

Australian social media ban for kids tackles 'addiction...

As Australia's ban on social media for children under 16 takes effect, we speak...

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Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners (Isabella Ward/Bloomberg)

Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking...

Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking...

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An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-on dealmaking approach generated $10B in international gaming revenue over the past year (Bloomberg)

An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu,...

Bloomberg: An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-on...

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Documents and former US government officials detail ICE's digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year (Peter Andringa/Financial Times)

Documents and former US government officials detail ICE's...

Peter Andringa / Financial Times: Documents and former US government officials detail...

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Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style...

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Instagram appears to be generating often misleading...

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Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)

Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native...

Emily Sundberg / Feed Me: Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native...

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Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever (Bloomberg)

Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking...

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far...

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US to allow exports of advanced artificial intelligence chips to China

US to allow exports of advanced artificial intelligence...

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would allow the export of US chipmaker...

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Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros is among 'most audacious in history'

Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros is among 'most...

PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, December 9: The bidding war has begun after Paramount launched...

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The future of AI development could resemble the rivalry between iOS and Android, with China's AI approach closer to Google's open and customizable Android OS (Kai-Fu Lee/Financial Times)

The future of AI development could resemble the rivalry...

Kai-Fu Lee / Financial Times: The future of AI development could resemble the rivalry...

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AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete, are forcing web developers to rethink whether they are designing websites for humans or for robots (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete,...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete,...

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An overview of AI in 2025, including arguments for and against above-trend model capabilities growth, the state of evals, and the safety of reasoning models (Gavin Leech/LessWrong)

An overview of AI in 2025, including arguments for and...

Gavin Leech / LessWrong: An overview of AI in 2025, including arguments for and...

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Paramount challenges Netflix with $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros

Paramount challenges Netflix with $108.4 billion hostile...

Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner...

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Hands-on with Xreal's Project Aura prototype glasses: they feel like VR shrunken to a far smaller form, the 70° FoV is small but enough for immersion, and more (Scott Stein/CNET)

Hands-on with Xreal's Project Aura prototype glasses: they...

Scott Stein / CNET: Hands-on with Xreal's Project Aura prototype glasses: they feel...

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An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)

An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff...

Lucas Baird / Australian Financial Review: An Airwallex executive warned in 2023...

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Samsung's Galaxy XR gets beta support for Google's realistic avatar system for video calls, a Travel Mode, and a built-in PC remote desktop feature (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Samsung's Galaxy XR gets beta support for Google's realistic...

David Heaney / UploadVR: Samsung's Galaxy XR gets beta support for Google's realistic...

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Days before Australia's social media ban, teens race to find loopholes

Days before Australia's social media ban, teens race to...

Australia is about to become the first major democracy to impose a nationwide ban...

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China's trade surplus hits record $1.08 trillion after just 11 months

China's trade surplus hits record $1.08 trillion after...

China exported over $1 trillion worth of goods more than it imported for January...

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A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San...

Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: A look at an “etiquette camp” for young founders in...

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Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming...

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data...

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How "cash to crypto" swaps allow users everywhere to convert national currencies to stablecoins and then debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions (Aaron Krolik/New York Times)

How "cash to crypto" swaps allow users everywhere to convert...

Aaron Krolik / New York Times: How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere...

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Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon (Sally Ward-Foxton/EE Times)

Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic...

Sally Ward-Foxton / EE Times: Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic...

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Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account (Bjarke Smith-Meyer/Politico)

Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to...

Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico: Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying...

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Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)

Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is...

Ashish Vaswani / Essential AI: Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention...

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A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)

A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading...

John Pavlus / Fast Company: A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading...

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Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)

Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in...

Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends...

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In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are "refounding", as they scramble to add new AI features (Lora Kelley/New York Times)

In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake,...

Lora Kelley / New York Times: In recent months, several companies like Airtable,...

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Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims (Bloomberg)

Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging...

Bloomberg: Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review...

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A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly...

Sam Kriss / New York Times: A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly...

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A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that...

Andy Greenberg / Wired: A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that...

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A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)

A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract...

Bloomberg: A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes...

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Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how...

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over...

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Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+ (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication...

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Defence, oil and trade imbalances: Putin in India to boost economic ties

Defence, oil and trade imbalances: Putin in India to boost...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has landed in India for talks with Prime Minister...

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Netflix to acquire Warner Bros studio, HBO Max for $72 billion

Netflix to acquire Warner Bros studio, HBO Max for $72...

Streaming giant Netflix has agreed to acquire Warner Bros studios and its streaming...

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The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues including the deceptive design of its blue checkmarks (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules,...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules,...

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Netflix agrees to buy WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal; the transaction is expected to close after Q3 2026 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Netflix agrees to buy WBD's studios and streaming business...

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Netflix agrees to buy WBD's studios and streaming...

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Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed (Reuters)

Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing...

Reuters: Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers...

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Defence, oil and trade imbalances: Putin arrives in India to boost economic ties

Defence, oil and trade imbalances: Putin arrives in India...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has landed in India for talks with Narendra Modi...

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Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)

Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of...

CNBC: Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings...

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TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC (Sam Becker/Fast Company)

TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video...

Sam Becker / Fast Company: TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video...

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Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views...

Will Oremus / Washington Post: Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political...

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EU proposes using frozen Russian assets to provide €90 billion to Ukraine

EU proposes using frozen Russian assets to provide €90...

The European Commission has unveiled plans to provide €90 billion to support Ukraine...

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France's Macron pushes for more investment, trade rebalancing in China visit

France's Macron pushes for more investment, trade rebalancing...

French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting China with a delegation of business...

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Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple...

Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple...

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Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+ under the OSA, the largest penalty so far, and threatens action against a "major social media company" (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+...

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites,...

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Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)

Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on...

Reuters: Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar...

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EU proposes using frozen Russian assets to provide €90 billion to Ukeraine

EU proposes using frozen Russian assets to provide €90...

The European Commission has unveiled plans to provide €90 billion to support Ukraine...

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Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in AI data centers amid a global supply shortage (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)

Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business,...

Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business,...

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Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-founders, David Edery and Daniel Cook; the streamer has shrunk its six-studio gaming operation down to three (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-founders,...

Stephen Totilo / Game File: Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-founders,...

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Microsoft says "aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered", following a report that some units lowered sales growth targets for AI products (Reuters)

Microsoft says "aggregate sales quotas for AI products...

Reuters: Microsoft says “aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered”,...

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South Korea's digital sex crime crisis: The 'molka' epidemic

South Korea's digital sex crime crisis: The 'molka' epidemic

In South Korea, "molka" refers to filming women's bodies without their consent....

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EU to unveil new plan to end dependence on China's rare earths

EU to unveil new plan to end dependence on China's rare...

The European Union will release an updated plan this Wednesday to end its dependence...

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London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border...

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border...

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Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27-33 tonnes per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers, according to miner Grupo México (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which...

Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers,...

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Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric...

Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or...

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OpenAI's Sam Altman declares 'code red' to improve ChatGPT as rivals threaten its position

OpenAI's Sam Altman declares 'code red' to improve ChatGPT...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a 'code red' to improve ChatGPT, planning to put...

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Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased...

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Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash...

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash...

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Google launches Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google's annual OS release schedule as it shifts to more frequent updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Google launches Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google's...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google launches Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of...

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Airbus hit by new A320 quality issue, days after massive recall

Airbus hit by new A320 quality issue, days after massive...

Airbus says it's inspecting "a limited number" of A320s after it identified a quality...

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Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the "first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model" (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous...

Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous...

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Shopify says it fixed an issue in its login authentication flow, resolving a December 1 outage that left some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters)

Shopify says it fixed an issue in its login authentication...

Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: Shopify says it fixed an issue in its login authentication...

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Trade data shows South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5% YoY to a record $17.26B in November, driven by strong data center demand and higher memory prices (Reuters)

Trade data shows South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5%...

Reuters: Trade data shows South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5% YoY to a record...

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Airbus hit by new A320 quality issue days after massive recall

Airbus hit by new A320 quality issue days after massive...

Airbus said it was inspecting "a limited number" of A320s after it identified a...

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Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters)

Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut...

Ludwig Burger / Reuters: Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut...

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Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots,...

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse...

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Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023 (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)

Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after...

Simon Hunt / City A.M.: Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London...

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Three years of ChatGPT: China surges, Europe retreats and we all drown in AI slop

Three years of ChatGPT: China surges, Europe retreats and...

With the launch of ChatGPT three years ago to the day, it looked like America had...

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World governments eye Australian social media ban as they plan their own

World governments eye Australian social media ban as they...

Australian children brace for an upcoming social media ban on under-16s as governments...

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Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the "decay" at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the "decay" at Intel,...

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “decay”...

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US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)

US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source...

NBC News: US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as...

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How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program,...

Corinne Reichert / CNET: How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program,...

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3 years of ChatGPT: China surges, Europe retreats, and we all drown in AI slop

3 years of ChatGPT: China surges, Europe retreats, and...

With the launch of ChatGPT three years ago to the day, it looked like America had...

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OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users (Financial Times)

OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after...

Financial Times: OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's...

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Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)

Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing...

Matthew Hutson / IEEE Spectrum: Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark...

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How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House benefits his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts (New York Times)

How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White...

New York Times: How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House benefits...

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Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B...

Joan Verdon / Forbes: Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B...

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A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs...

Abram Brown / The Information: A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake...

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An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative "off-label" uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper...

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel...

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Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov....

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot...

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A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy (Bloomberg)

A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after...

Bloomberg: A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release:...

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Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise...

Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise...

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SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher-margin opportunities ahead of a US listing (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its...

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for...

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DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024 (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal...

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got...

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A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book Cyberselfish, warning about Silicon Valley's love for "techno-libertarianism", finds a resurgence in interest (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book Cyberselfish,...

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book...

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Mind the 'LinkedIn' gender gap

Mind the 'LinkedIn' gender gap

LinkedIn, the social media platform with which professionals connect and network,...

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Markets muted in thin trade, hit by data centre glitch

Markets muted in thin trade, hit by data centre glitch

Stock markets were largely flat on Friday, ending a strong week fueled by expectations...

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Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce "partisan animosity" (Stanford University)

Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses...

Stanford University: Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an...

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The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet DMA thresholds; Apple says the services should not be called "gatekeepers" (Reuters)

The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads...

Reuters: The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps...

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CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, was halted on November 28 due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne's data centers (Reuters)

CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including...

Reuters: CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 500...

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JP Morgan says it will build the biggest office block in London

JP Morgan says it will build the biggest office block in...

Two of Wall Street's biggest banks have announced expansion plans in the UK, a day...

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The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative...

Blake Brittain / Reuters: The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative...

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Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with...

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its...

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Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance...

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More taxes, higher spending: A closer look at Britain's new budget

More taxes, higher spending: A closer look at Britain's...

UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves has announced a new budget that includes more...

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Euroclear warns EU that Russian frozen asset plan could lead to higher borrowing costs

Euroclear warns EU that Russian frozen asset plan could...

The Financial Times is reporting that a depositary firm that holds frozen Russian...

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Teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurship in impoverished areas

Teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurship in impoverished...

How to create economic opportunities in underprivileged areas? John Hope Bryant...

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Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms...

Sam Sabin / Axios: Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms...

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An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US...

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US...

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Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German...

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut...

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Inside Britain's new budget with more taxes and higher spending

Inside Britain's new budget with more taxes and higher...

UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves announced a new budget that includes more taxes...

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Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a...

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing...

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The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)

The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit...

Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit...

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Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building...

Paresh Dave / Wired: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building...

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UK's Labour government to present budget under pressure from party base, bond markets

UK's Labour government to present budget under pressure...

UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves will present her second annual budget to parliament...

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Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000+ global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)

Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said...

Linda Lew / Bloomberg: Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said...

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watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found via publicly accessible "Recent Links" pages on online code formatting tools JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found via publicly...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found...

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Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics are burying their real, tested recipes, setting home cooks up for disaster this Thanksgiving (Bloomberg)

Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food...

Bloomberg: Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics are burying...

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Volkswagen says it can make new cars entirely in China

Volkswagen says it can make new cars entirely in China

German auto giant Volkswagen has announced the completion of a new R&D centre in...

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Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M+; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M (Fortune)

Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps...

Fortune: Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store...

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OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text...

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Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7 (Financial Times)

Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng...

Financial Times: Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in...

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EU says loosening tech rules 'not up for negotiation' in trade talks with US

EU says loosening tech rules 'not up for negotiation' in...

The EU's antitrust chief, Teresa Ribera, says changing regulations on US tech is...

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EU, US restart trade talks in Brussels

EU, US restart trade talks in Brussels

The EU and the US have restarted their trade negotiations in a bid to settle sticking...

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Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like...

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like...

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Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro over third-party tools like Cursor, aiming to gather feedback for improvement (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house...

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house...

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India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status...

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EU seeks to deepen trade ties with Africa at summit in Angola

EU seeks to deepen trade ties with Africa at summit in...

The EU and the African Union are marking 25 years of relations with a summit aimed...

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EU, US restart trade talks

EU, US restart trade talks

The EU and the US have restarted their trade negotiations to try and settle sticking...

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AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)

AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build...

Eric Revell / Fox Business: AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build...

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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The...

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The...

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Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme...

Aleksandra Sagan / The Logic: Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud...

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Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid...

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack...

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Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents (Financial Times)

Major insurers have recently sought permission from US...

Financial Times: Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators...

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Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (Associated Press)

Changes to CISA have left some states without support during...

Associated Press: Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections;...

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Brussels under fire for softening grip on Big Tech

Brussels under fire for softening grip on Big Tech

The European Commission triggered a political meltdown this week with proposals...

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Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises...

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An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper's)

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which...

James Vincent / Harper's: An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which...

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Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been raising pay and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (June Yoon/Financial Times)

Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been...

June Yoon / Financial Times: Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have...

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How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models...

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged...

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While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999,...

Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: While the AI bubble feels like the internet...

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How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona...

Justine Calma / The Verge: How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona...

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Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul,...

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Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs'...

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs'...

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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building...

Rest of World: A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for...

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Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances (Bloomberg)

Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia...

Bloomberg: Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips...

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Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years...

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A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up...

David McCabe / New York Times: A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking...

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Beaujolais Nouveau 2025 goes on sale as French wine producers face mounting challenges

Beaujolais Nouveau 2025 goes on sale as French wine producers...

It's the third Thursday of November, which means this year's Beaujolais Nouveau...

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Asian tech stocks tumble as strong Nvidia results fail to ease AI bubble jitters

Asian tech stocks tumble as strong Nvidia results fail...

Technology firms led an Asian market selloff on Friday, tracking a sharp drop on...

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Challenges facing the World Bank today: High debt, low aid and slow growth

Challenges facing the World Bank today: High debt, low...

The World Bank was created in 1944 with a simple mission: to finance reconstruction...

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GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging software and digital workflow tools primarily to outpatient and ambulatory sites, for $2.3B (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging...

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging...

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The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed "first customer" payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (Financial Times)

The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware...

Financial Times: The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups...

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Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B to $3B per year in AI in the next three to five years and is discussing potential investments with Japan (Reuters)

Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B...

Reuters: Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B to $3B per year...

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Beaujolais Nouveau 2025 goes on sale as French wine producers face challenges

Beaujolais Nouveau 2025 goes on sale as French wine producers...

It's the third Thursday of November, meaning this year's Beaujolais Nouveau is out...

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Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in...

Amy Feldman / Forbes: Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug...

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OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all...

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Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities, raised $26M across seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and General Catalyst, respectively (Colin Demarest/Axios)

Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities,...

Colin Demarest / Axios: Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities,...

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Nvidia's upbeat forecast for future demand calms 'AI bubble' fears

Nvidia's upbeat forecast for future demand calms 'AI bubble'...

The world's most valuable company, US chipmaker Nvidia, posted better-than-expected...

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AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users...

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Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)

Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to...

Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia: Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are...

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Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers...

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth...

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Rights groups slam EU for rolling back AI data protection rules

Rights groups slam EU for rolling back AI data protection...

The European Union has proposed plans to ease the bloc's strict data protection...

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Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data...

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data...

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Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product...

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Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup...

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI...

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As Europe aims for 'digital sovereignty', biomedical agentic AI could be the next big field

As Europe aims for 'digital sovereignty', biomedical agentic...

"Europe does not want to be the client" of the US or China in the field of technology,...

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French court rejects Perrier 'natural water' lawsuit against Nestlé

French court rejects Perrier 'natural water' lawsuit against...

A French court has rejected a demand by a consumer protection group to remove Perrier...

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Investors await Nvidia results amid AI bubble fears

Investors await Nvidia results amid AI bubble fears

European markets stabilised on Wednesday morning after losses sustained over concerns...

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A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (Tess Patton/The Wrap)

A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes...

Tess Patton / The Wrap: A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes...

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Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more (Lila Ibrahim/Google DeepMind)

Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore,...

Lila Ibrahim / Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab...

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Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B valuation, up from the $113B it reported after merging with X in March 2025 (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B...

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TotalEnergies buys €5.1 billion stake in Kretinsky's power generation business

TotalEnergies buys €5.1 billion stake in Kretinsky's power...

France's TotalEnergies has struck a partnership deal with Czech billionaire Daniel...

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Questions over artificial intelligence boom lead to global market selloff

Questions over artificial intelligence boom lead to global...

European and Asian equities traded lower this Tuesday, following in the footsteps...

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As Europe aims for "digital sovereignty", biomedical agentic AI could be the next big field

As Europe aims for "digital sovereignty", biomedical agentic...

"Europe does not want to be the client" of the US or China in the field of technology,...

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French court rejects Perrier "natural water" lawsuit against Neslé

French court rejects Perrier "natural water" lawsuit against...

A French court has rejected a demand by a consumer protection group to remove Perrier...

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Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)

Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new...

Microsoft: Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft...

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Agentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale campaigns with YouTube creators, raised a $40M Series B led by Forerunner at a $340M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Agentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Agentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale...

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Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian...

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AI pioneer Yann Le Cun reportedly quits Meta over the future of intelligence

AI pioneer Yann Le Cun reportedly quits Meta over the future...

Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after...

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TotalEnergies buys €5.1 billion stake in Daniel Kretinsky's power generation business

TotalEnergies buys €5.1 billion stake in Daniel Kretinsky's...

France's TotalEnergies has struck a partnership deal with Czech billionaire Daniel...

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Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across 40+ topics; Claude 4.1 Opus takes first place in its key metric (@artificialanlys)

Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark...

@artificialanlys: Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for...

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Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5B and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50B (The Information)

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks...

The Information: Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential...

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Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise money at a valuation of more than $130B, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1B Series K at a $100B valuation (The Information)

Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise money at a valuation...

The Information: Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise money at a valuation of...

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AI pioneer Yann Le Cun allegedly quitting Meta over the future of intelligence

AI pioneer Yann Le Cun allegedly quitting Meta over the...

Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after...

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Diplomatic spat with China threatens Japanese tourism industry

Diplomatic spat with China threatens Japanese tourism industry

A dust-up over comments on Taiwan made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi...

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Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)

Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining...

Zoë Schiffer / Wired: Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining...

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Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled nursing facilities, raised a $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital and plans a US launch in Q1 2026 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled nursing...

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled...

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In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference...

Ben Bergman / Business Insider: In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI...

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Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (Nikkei Asia)

Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn...

Nikkei Asia: Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B...

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Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (Eric Holthaus/The Guardian)

Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly...

Eric Holthaus / The Guardian: Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are...

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BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25%...

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AI pioneer Yann Le Cun is quitting Meta over the future of intelligence

AI pioneer Yann Le Cun is quitting Meta over the future...

Reports suggest Yann Le Cun, one of the "godfathers of AI", is leaving Meta after...

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A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)

A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in...

Heather Knight / New York Times: A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage...

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Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven...

Valida Pau / The Information: Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven...

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Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the company at ~€8B; Vinted says it expects 2025 revenue to cross €1B+, up from €813M in 2024 (Financial Times)

Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value...

Financial Times: Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the...

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Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to...

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The current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary, as unlike the US, China isn't "AGI-pilled" yet, focusing on embodied AI and open source models (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

The current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary,...

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The current AI strategies of China and the US are...

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Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack...

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack...

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COP30 in Brazil & the Global South: Tackling climate change without the US

COP30 in Brazil & the Global South: Tackling climate change...

The week, we head to Belem in Brazil where COP30, the UN's annual climate summit,...

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JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95%+ of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (Hugh Son/CNBC)

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like...

Hugh Son / CNBC: JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid,...

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Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve claims it denied discounts to conservative religious nonprofits; OpenAI and Asana also made deals (Jeff Green/Bloomberg)

Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve...

Jeff Green / Bloomberg: Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve...

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Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their "AI-driven impact", which will be a "core expectation" of their performance from 2026 (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)

Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their...

Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on...

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How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the...

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing...

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Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September (Financial Times)

Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing...

Financial Times: Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing...

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Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed (Soumyajit Saha/Nikkei Asia)

Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73,...

Soumyajit Saha / Nikkei Asia: Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted...

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US federal employees go back to work after longest shutdown in history

US federal employees go back to work after longest shutdown...

Federal agencies have started reopening after the longest-ever US government shutdown......

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Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or "self-contained" experiences built with web tech like HTML5 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced...

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The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging unfairly high App Store fees; a lawyer calculates damages at £1B (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling...

Sam Tobin / Reuters: The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that...

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Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix Nano to focus on preventing AI-enabled bioweapons development, raised a $15M seed led by OpenAI (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters)

Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix...

Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters: Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company...

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The hard task of rebooting the US government after 43-day shutdown

The hard task of rebooting the US government after 43-day...

After President Donald Trump signed a bill into law on Wednesday that funds the...

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Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot,...

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for...

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A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI, data center investments, neocloud renting, GitHub Copilot, MAI models, and the Maia chip (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI,...

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI, data center...

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Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly opening to some users, and says it's fully functional with select users betting on real contracts (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)

Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly...

Denitsa Tsekova / Bloomberg: Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly...

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AI chip rush: From Nvidia's triumph to Musk's megaplan

AI chip rush: From Nvidia's triumph to Musk's megaplan

From Nvidia's record-breaking demand to Elon Musk's latest factory ambitions, the...

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Powered by AI, the era of humanoid robots is here

Powered by AI, the era of humanoid robots is here

US firm 1X Home Robots says its first "housekeeping robot" NEO can be ready to start...

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Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or ~2,000 employees, after completing its $35B acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys earlier in 2025 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or...

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or...

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Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands-on: better hardware and software, Alexa+ is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads are coming later (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands-on:...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11...

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Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless rides on freeways, available 24/7 in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles for users who opt in (Zoe Thomas/Bloomberg)

Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless...

Zoe Thomas / Bloomberg: Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless...

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AI's insatiable appetite for cash, energy and data: Bubble ahead?

AI's insatiable appetite for cash, energy and data: Bubble...

Could the artificial intelligence boom already be running out of road? We examine...

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China's 'Singles' Day' goes big, but physical stores are left behind

China's 'Singles' Day' goes big, but physical stores are...

Chinese consumers, anxious about the slowing economy and worn out by endless retail...

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IEA reports shows rising demand for electricity, need for energy diversity

IEA reports shows rising demand for electricity, need for...

The International Energy Agency (IAE) released its annual World Energy Outlook this...

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Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital...

Financial Times: Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition...

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The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations (Catarina Demony/Reuters)

The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks,...

Catarina Demony / Reuters: The UK proposes laws to protect public services from...

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Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed telecom networks and critical infrastructure; Australia lost $8B+ last year to espionage (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)

Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed...

Kirsty Needham / Reuters: Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed...

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Senators pass shutdown-ending bill, lifting US and European markets

Senators pass shutdown-ending bill, lifting US and European...

After US senators managed to pass a bill that could end what has been the longest...

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Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl expands into AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing...

Miles Kruppa / The Information: Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds...

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A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted...

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+...

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Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage...

Steven Scheer / Reuters: Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage...

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Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving the company to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts (CRN)

Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving...

CRN: Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving the company to...

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Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for more than 1,600 languages (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition,...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition,...

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Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, vs. $46.2M est., net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M a year ago; GEMI drops 5%+ after hours (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to...

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to...

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An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after spending ~10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)

An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav...

Joe Tidy / BBC: An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov,...