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NBC News:
Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock  —  This structure will comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform were not sold to U.S.-based owners this year.
Washington Post:
How Trump leveraged Biden's TikTok ban law to help allies gain control of the app, amid fears it could be used to boost pro-Trump content and suppress criticism  —  The Biden administration argued a forced sale of the app would protect it from political influence.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot, starting with Researcher and Copilot Studio  —  Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users. … Microsoft is bringing Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta says Instagram has hit 3B monthly users and is changing its home screen to prioritize DMs and Reels; it is testing opening directly into Reels in India  —  Instagram has reached 3 billion monthly users, cementing the network as one of the most popular consumer apps of all time and leading …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Intel approached Apple about a potential investment in the chipmaker as part of its turnaround efforts and discussed how to work more closely together  —  Intel Corp. has approached Apple Inc. about securing an investment in the ailing chipmaker, according to people familiar with the matter …
Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC:
UK's National Crime Agency says it's arrested a man in connection with a cyberattack that has caused days of disruption at Heathrow and other European airports  —  A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle seeks to borrow $15B through the US sale of corporate bonds, as it begins to fulfill massive cloud infrastructure deals with OpenAI and others  —  Oracle Corp. sold $18 billion US investment-grade bonds on Wednesday, the market's second-largest deal this year …
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET:
Google launches its Search Live feature in the US, letting users ask questions in AI Mode while sharing their phone's camera feed for real-time help  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Search Live officially launches in the US.  — You can share your video feed and talk to Search.
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares hit a nearly four-year high after CEO Eddie Wu announced plans to increase AI spending beyond the $53B target over three years  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s shares surged to their highest in nearly four years after revealing plans to ramp up AI spending past …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Waymo launches Waymo for Business, a service targeting employers, universities, and event organizers, available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix  —  Waymo is launching a new product that lets businesses offer employee or event rides in its robotaxis, a move that could expand …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI partners with SAP to launch OpenAI for Germany, bringing its AI tools to Germany's public sector through SAP's Delos Cloud  —  SAP SE announced deals with OpenAI and Amazon Web Services to expand its “digital sovereignty” offerings to European governments.
Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News:
iPhone 17 Pro teardown: the anodized aluminum scratches badly around the camera plateau edge, the screwed-in battery is a nice repairability upgrade, and more  —  iPhone 17 Pro Teardown  —  The anodized aluminum finish on the brand new iPhone 17 Pro is gorgeous, right up until it meets …
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Trump Administration's chaotic H-1B visa overhaul, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick initially presenting the $100,000 fee as an annual charge  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sowed confusion over whether new fees were annual and applicable to existing visa holders.
Bloomberg:
Taiwan curbs chip exports to South Africa over national security concerns, the first time it has used its chip industry as a weapon against a China ally  —  Taiwan has imposed restrictions on the export of chips to South Africa over national security concerns, taking the unusual step of using …
The Economic Times:
Indian digital payments giant PhonePe confidentially files for an IPO in India, seeking to raise $1.5B, sources say at a valuation of $15B  —  PhonePe, supported by Walmart, has confidentially filed its DRHP with SEBI.  The digital payments platform reduced its net loss by 13.4% to Rs 1,727.4 crore …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta plans to open new pop-up shops in Las Vegas and NYC and reopen its LA shop starting in October to show off Meta Ray-Ban Display and other hardware  —  The Meta Lab shops will be opening in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York. … The new Meta Lab shops will be located in Las Vegas and New York …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Emergent, which lets non-technical users build apps via AI agents that handle coding errors and more, raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $30M  —  In the last decade, as the camera quality of smartphones improved, platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok rose in popularity for photo and video sharing.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Bain: by 2030, AI companies will need $2T in combined annual revenue to fund compute power to meet projected demand, but are likely to fall short by $800B  —  Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers …

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Financial Times:
Sources: WBD's board wanted a proposal it could sign immediately, and Netflix was the only bidder whose paperwork was fully executable the night of December 4

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Paramount's culture shift under David Ellison, where the focus is on male-driven action movies, and not on prestige films seen as critics' darlings

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Huxe, an app built by three former NotebookLM developers that offers users personalized daily briefs and topic exploration with AI podcast hosts, raised $4.6M
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Alibaba releases the Qwen3-VL vision models, the Qwen3Guard “safety moderation” models, and three closed-weight models, including Qwen3-Max with 1T+ parameters
Catharine Tunney / CBC News:
A joint investigation by Canadian privacy authorities finds TikTok collected sensitive personal data from hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under 13
Xavier René-Corail / The GitHub Blog:
GitHub outlines plans to secure npm following multiple supply-chain attacks, including deprecating legacy classic tokens and migrating users to FIDO-based 2FA
Wired:
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new data center locations in the US, boosting Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 GW
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Meta starts rolling out built-in message translation in WhatsApp, with support for 19+ languages on iOS and six on Android
Myles Miller / Bloomberg:
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
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