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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed  —  Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney, a generative AI company, accusing it of copyright infringement …
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Researchers find the first known “zero-click” attack on an AI agent; the now-fixed flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot would let a hacker attack a user via an email  —  Microsoft 365 Copilot, the AI tool built into Microsoft Office workplace applications including Word, Excel, Outlook …
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Android 16 review: live updates and Advanced Protection are nice, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive design won't come until later in 2025  —  After months of speculation and beta testing, Google is rolling out Android 16 starting today.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: X used threats of lawsuits and pressure tactics to push companies like Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Verizon to resume buying ads on the site; it worked  —  Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
Stripe has agreed to acquire Privy, which helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences; Privy was last valued at $230M in March 2025  —  Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed.  —  Privy helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash  —  The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment …
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo says it sold 3.5M+ Switch 2s globally in the console's first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026  —  Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge Shows the Limits of Impressively Thin Phones … Explainers
Ben Hylak / Latent.Space:
OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires a lot of context to run well and without enough it tends to overthink  —  OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro.  Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with the world's first early review.
Bloomberg:
President Trump says a trade framework with China “is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me”, and the US' tariff rate would be 55% “total”  —  President Donald Trump said a trade framework with China has been completed, with Beijing supplying rare earths and magnets …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024  —  More ads could mean lower CPMs, but performance could slip.  —  When Amazon introduced ads on Prime Video in January 2024 …
Bloomberg:
Nvidia unveils projects to bolster AI infrastructure across Europe, including expanding its Mistral partnership to use local AI computing, at VivaTech in Paris
New York Times:
Elon Musk says “I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far”; last week, Trump said he had no desire to repair the relationship  —  President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week.  Mr. Trump has said that he has no interest …
David Pierce / The Verge:
The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites  —  Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company, is almost nothing like the company's last product.  That app, Arc, was a total rethink …
Reuters:
Nvidia plans to build its first industrial AI cloud platform in Germany for European manufacturers, combining AI with robotics to assist carmakers like BMW  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) will build its first artificial intelligence cloud platform for industrial applications in Germany …
Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Sources: OpenAI talked with Saudi Arabia's PIF, India's Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank  —  OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder United …
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
HP unveils the HP Dimension, the first hardware built with Google's 3D video conferencing tech, featuring a 65" light field display, launching in 2025 for $25K  —  The HP Dimension is the first device using Google's 3D video conferencing technology.
Catherine McGrath / Fortune:
London-based OneBalance, which lets developers integrate crypto features into their apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Cyber Fund and Blockchain Capital  —  Ankit Chiplunkar, Stephane Gosselin, and Daniel Worsley cofounded OneBalance in 2024.  —  Felicia Sewerinsson
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Meta launches V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI “world model” to understand and predict 3D environments and object movements, to help robotics and self-driving cars  —  Meta on Wednesday announced it's rolling out a new AI “world model” that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects.

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Associated Press:
A US district court judge agrees to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing an executive order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A new filing from Nexstar in the DirecTV lawsuit says the existing restraining order freezing the Nexstar-Tegna merger could jeopardize assets of both companies

Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi officials say a US journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and security forces are looking for her captors; one outlet identified her as Shelly Kittleson

More News

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Oracle Q4: revenue up 11% YoY to $15.9B, vs. $15.59B est., cloud revenue up 27% YoY, signals strong cloud infrastructure revenue growth; ORCL up 6%+ after hours
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal is named CEO of the Polygon Foundation after the departure of Mihailo Bjelic, and unveils changes to streamline the nonprofit
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple's legal case against the UK Home Office over an encryption backdoor, which “could set a dangerous precedent”

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