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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve unveils Steam Frame, a VR headset that can stream games from a PC or run Windows and Android games locally, expected to launch in 2026 for under $999 — Valve is about to launch a new virtual reality headset, and with it, a comprehensive new approach to what a VR device should be.
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Valve's Steam Frame features a replaceable battery strap, dual 2160×2160 LCD panels, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, 16GB of RAM, a microSD slot, and weighs 440g — Valve just officially announced Steam Frame, a “streaming-first” standalone VR headset launching in “early 2026”.| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Valve unveils a new Steam Machine, a cube-shaped gaming PC with SteamOS, a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and 16GB of RAM, expected in early 2026 — Valve is promising 4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR — Valve rattled the gaming industry in 2022 with the launch of the Steam Deck …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve unveils the second-gen Steam Controller, with a puck that serves as both a low-latency wireless connector and a charging station, launching in early 2026 — Imagine a Steam Deck with the screen lopped off, and you're close. … One of the best parts of the Steam Deck is its many different controls … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, “warmer” and “more conversational”, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, “easier to understand and faster”, starting with paid ChatGPT users — We're upgrading GPT‑5 while making it easier to customize ChatGPT.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US AI infrastructure buildout, starting with Texas and New York data centers in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026 — Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Digital ID in Apple Wallet, letting iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the US carry a copy of their passport, which can be used at TSA checkpoints — iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the United States will now be able to carry a copy of their U.S. passport on their device …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
OpenAI asks a federal judge to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in NYT's copyright suit, citing privacy concerns — OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized …
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| Zoe Thomas / Bloomberg: |
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 — Waymo will become the first robotaxi provider in the US to offer driverless rides on highways, a milestone that positions …
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
An Apple-funded study about DMA finds developers didn't pass on App Store fee savings to EU users, keeping prices the same or increasing them on 91% of products — A study backed by Apple claims to show that the Digital Markets Act is not lowering prices for App Store users, even when the company is forced to lower its fees.
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| Financial Times: |
Google files a lawsuit in the SDNY against China-based hackers who it says run the Lighthouse platform for “phishing services”, ensnaring 1M and stealing $1B+ — Tech giant aims to dismantle the ‘Lighthouse Enterprise’, which it claims has tricked 1mn victims out of $1bn
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft unveils an AI “super factory”, a new class of hubs built for AI training, in Atlanta as part of its Fairwater network of data centers — Tech giant is building out huge data centers among most advanced in the world as it rushes to meet demand for AI computing power| Chris Bryant / Bloomberg: |
Michael Burry's warning that hyperscalers are underestimating AI chip depreciation shows that tech investors may have forgotten how much depreciation can hurt — Costing tens of thousands of dollars each, Nvidia Corp.'s pioneering AI chips make up a hefty chunk of the $400 billion …
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Visa announces a pilot allowing businesses to send stablecoins payouts directly to users' or workers' crypto wallets — Visa Inc. is testing the ability for businesses to send stablecoins directly to consumers' cryptocurrency wallets for global payouts, targeting growing demand …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware “once provided companies with consistency” but now has “unpredictable outcomes” — Coinbase is following Tesla out of Delaware and into Texas. — Paul Grewal, Coinbase's chief legal officer …
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| Tom Dotan / Newcomer: |
Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's Parallel Web Systems, which is building tools for AI agents to search the web, raised a $100M Series A at a $740M valuation — Former Twitter CEO says agents use the web differently and need their own API — Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced exclusively … | Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
A Dubai court orders a worldwide freeze on $456M in reserves linked to Justin Sun's bailout of Techteryx's TrueUSD, saying there's evidence of a breach of trust — Dubai's Digital Economy Court said there was compelling evidence of a breach of trust and ordered a worldwide freeze to protect the assets.| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more — A staggering 97% of listeners cannot distinguish between artificial intelligence-generated and human-composed songs …
More: Deezer Newsroom, The Independent, and Gizmodo
| Washington Post: |
An analysis of 47K publicly shared ChatGPT chats: ~10% were related to emotional support, ChatGPT's responses started with “yes” 10x more than “no”, and more — The questions flood in from every corner of the human psyche. “What are permanent hair removal solutions?”| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Boston-based Code Metal, which uses AI to help engineers translate code into other languages, raised a $36.5M Series A led by Accel at a $250M valuation — Peter Morales started Code Metal two years ago, jumping into the market for artificial intelligence coding tools at a time when AI companies …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs debuts Marble, its first world model, which lets users turn prompts, photos, and other media into editable 3D environments, after a beta — World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product.
More: SiliconANGLE, Observer, and Fast Company
| Reuters: |
Circle reports Q3 revenue up 66% YoY to $739.8M, USDC in Circulation at quarter end up 108% YoY to $73.7B, and net income up 202% YoY to $214M; CRCL drops 5%+ — Circle (CRCL.N) topped Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Wednesday, driven by higher reserve income amid rising USDC circulation … | Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: |
Amazon says it is rolling out a tougher approach to combat illegal sports streaming on Fire TV Stick devices, aiming to block apps that stream pirated content — Amazon is rolling out a tougher approach to combat illegal streaming, with the United States-based tech company aiming …
More: How-To Geek, Android Headlines, The Verge, and 9to5Google
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Cisco reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $14.88B, vs. $14.77B est., net income up 5% to $2.86B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; CSCO jumps 5%+ after hours — Cisco reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for its fiscal first quarter on Wednesday. The stock rose about 5% in extended trading.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb says it will launch a three-month pilot on January 5 that lets guests order groceries via Instacart within its app in Phoenix, Orlando, and Los Angeles — Airbnb Inc. is testing a new service with Instacart that will let guests at some US rentals order groceries through the home-sharing app ahead of and during their stay.| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B — Matt Carey, the co-founder and CEO of Boston-based startup Teradar loves when people tell him: “I don't believe you.”| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
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 — Synopsys (SNPS.O) will lay off about 10% or roughly 2,000 employees, as the chip-design software maker looks … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Maryland-based autonomous military vehicle software startup Forterra raised $238M, including $50M in debt, led by Moore Strategic Ventures at a $1B+ valuation — Moore Strategic Ventures, Franklin Templeton and others have invested $238 million in Forterra.
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