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Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business — Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of consortium that would control 80% stake — TikTok's U.S. business …
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| Financial Times: |
China says the US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the US-agreed framework includes “licensing the algorithm and other IP rights” — Security hawks have raised fears recommendation code could be manipulated to push propaganda
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump extends the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be finalized soon — President Donald Trump again extended the deadline for TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. to divest the platform's US operations …
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| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI says it is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction tech to bar kids under 18 from the standard version — OpenAI is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction technology …
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Mastodon: @dcdeejay@mastodon.online and @evacide@hachyderm.io
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, and r/privacy
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Google launches the Agent Payments Protocol, or AP2, designed to securely facilitate agent-led payments across platforms, with the support of 60+ organizations — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google announces Agent Payments Protocol (AP2). — AP2 helps companies carry out agent-led payments securely.
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LinkedIn: Anurag Soin, Holt S., Lucinda, Daniel Gabis, Michael Clark, and Darren Mowry. Bluesky: @markriedl. Forums: r/Hedera
| Bloomberg: |
US tech giants announce £31B+ in UK investments, coinciding with Trump's visit to the nation; OpenAI will bring Stargate to the UK with Nvidia and Nscale — Microsoft Corp., OpenAI and other American companies announced plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on technology infrastructure in the UK …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a $30B investment in the UK over four years to support AI infrastructure and ongoing operations, including $15B to build a supercomputer — Microsoft's announcement comes on the same day President Trump visits Britain and Google makes its own UK investment.
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Forums: r/unitedkingdom and r/ukpolitics
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils new generative AI tools for Shorts, including a custom version of Veo 3 called Veo 3 Fast, which includes sound, and an Edit with AI feature — At its Made on YouTube live event on Tuesday, the company unveiled new generative AI tools for Shorts creators.
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| Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
YouTube says it has paid out $100B+ to creators over the last four years and the number of YouTube channels making over $100K from TV screens has jumped 45% YoY — YouTube said on Tuesday it has paid out over $100 billion to creators, artists and media companies since 2021.
More: YouTube Official Blog, Android Police, Search Engine Journal, Engadget, Dexerto, and Mashable
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils new livestreaming features, including letting creators transition between public and members-only streams, and ads that run next to the stream — At its Made on YouTube event on Tuesday, the video giant announced several new features aimed at improving the livestreaming experience.
More: YouTube Official Blog, Lifehacker, Decrypt, Yahoo Finance, and Tubefilter
| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 11 review: slightly better battery and Sleep Score is intuitive, but the most exciting updates are coming to older watches through watchOS 26 — No one is going to wax lyrical about the Apple Watch Series 11. Not because it's a bad smartwatch — it's a great smartwatch, actually.
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| Kate Kozuch / Tom's Guide: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
| Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: |
HR software provider Workday agrees to acquire Sana, an AI startup specializing in workplace tools, for $1.1B; the transaction is set to close before January 31 — the Sana acquisition also will deepen Workday's educational offerings — Workday is acquiring Sana, an AI company focused on workplace tools …
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X: @shaig, @deedydas, @joelhellermark, @sanalabs, and @mmurph
LinkedIn: Jeff Allen, Susie Karadsheh, and Philip Chopin
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google is testing a Windows desktop app that brings Mac's Spotlight-like search bar to PC users, allowing them to search local files, Google Drive, and the web — Google's app can search local files, in Google Drive, and on the web. … Google is testing a new search app for Windows.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: StubHub is pricing its US IPO at $23.50/share after marketing a range of $22-$25, giving it an $8.6B market cap, and will trade under the ticker STUB — StubHub Holdings Inc. is pricing its initial public offering at the midpoint of a marketed range, according to people familiar with the matter.| Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures — Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto exchange, is moving toward a potential deal with the US Justice Department …
More: Blockworks, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, NewsBTC, CryptoSlate, and CoinGape
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Dyna Robotics, which is building an AI foundation model for robotics, raised a $120M Series A led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital — Dyna Robotics, a startup working to develop cost-effective, general-purpose robots, has raised $120 million in a new funding round that boosts … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds automatic AI model selection to Visual Studio Code; it primarily favors Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 or GPT-5 mini for paid GitHub Copilot users — Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5.
More: Visual Studio Code, Windows Report, Implicator.ai, and Every
Bluesky: @calbucci.com and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: Hacker News and r/GithubCopilot
| The Verge: |
How Meta's California super PAC, rare as a single-company entity, lets Mark Zuckerberg spend Meta's money on his own political choices, including AI regulation — Mark Zuckerberg, via Meta, can now essentially spend unlimited money in California elections.
More: The A.V. Club. X: @daniel_271828 and @dkokotajlo. Bluesky: @haydenfield
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $60M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, valuing the company at $550M, and says it makes $15M+ in ARR — Harjot Gill was running FlexNinja, an observability startup he co-founded several years after selling his first startup Netsil to Nutanix in 2018, when he noticed a curious trend.| Silicon Republic: |
Nory, which offers an AI-powered restaurant management system, raised a $37M Series B led by Kinnevik, bringing its total funding to $63M — Conor Sheridan says his AI platform frees up restaurants to focus on what matters most - “great food and even greater customer experiences”.
More: UK Tech Investment News, We back challengers, Nory, and EU-Startups
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apollo Global is exploring a sale of AOL in a deal that could value AOL at around $1.5B; Apollo bought AOL in 2021 as part of its $5B Verizon deal — Apollo bought AOL in 2021; a new deal could fetch around $1.5 billion — Apollo Global Management is exploring a sale … | Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Console, which uses AI agents in Slack to resolve lower-level IT support tickets, raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and Thrive Capital — Year-old startup Console works with Ramp, Flock Safety and Scale AI. Now it's raised a $23 million Series A to go beyond IT, too. — The Upshot
X: @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, @andrei_serban, and @alexrkonrad
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024 — Figure AI Inc., a company developing humanoid robots, has received more than $1 billion in committed capital in a financing round that values …
More: FigureAI, Reuters, NBC News, PitchBook, SiliconANGLE, and The Robot Report
X: @scobleizer, @thedefisaint, and @figure_robot. LinkedIn: Jesse Coors-Blankenship. Bluesky: @prietschka
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Jack Altman's Alt Capital raised $275M in just a month for a new fund to lead more Series A rounds at AI startups, after closing a $150M fund in February 2024 — The former CEO of Lattice raised his fund in just a month—a lightning-fast process — Jack Altman has swiftly closed …
More: TechCrunch. X: @jaltma, @brettberson, @spatialjlo, @zackkanter, and @bchandras3karan. Bluesky: @siobhanmcelduff
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
BreachForums admin Conor Fitzpatrick is resentenced to three years in prison after an appeals court vacated his prior sentence of 20 years of supervised release — Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 22-year-old behind the notorious BreachForums hacking forum, was resentenced today to three years … Sponsor Posts
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