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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, calling them “reasoning-first models built for agents”, after releasing V3.2-Exp in September  —  China's DeepSeek unveiled two new versions of an experimental artificial-intelligence model it released weeks ago …
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority:
Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecasts, regardless of subscription tier  —  Netflix will no longer support casting from your mobile to most TVs and streaming devices, regardless of the plan you're on.  —  •
New York Times:
How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts  —  In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House.
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Reuters:
Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately gives smartphone makers 90 days to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices  —  India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app …
Financial Times:
German startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024  —  Low-profile group has quickly emerged as a top developer of image generation technology  —  German start-up Black Forest Labs …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Nvidia acquires $2B of Synopsys' common stock and unveils a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including deploying CUDA  —  Nvidia on Monday announced it has purchased $2 billion of Synopsys' common stock as part of a strategic partnership …
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
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  —  The executive on the ‘hideous’ implementation of the 2022 Chips Act, his new role heading up a Christian AI platform …
Tim Balk / New York Times:
New York becomes the first US state to require that retailers disclose using algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills  —  The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.
NBC News:
US startups are increasingly adopting open-weight Chinese AI models, which are cheaper, more customizable, and sufficiently capable compared to frontier US ones  —  AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models.
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 80+ tech startups reached $1B valuations, many of them focused on AI with exceptions like Kalshi  —  With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status.  —  Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook …

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Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: Netflix is interested in acquiring Lionsgate and took a look at Roku, but a Roku deal would have faced tougher antitrust scrutiny than Fox's

CBC News:
Canada's CBC, which began televising NHL games in 1952, will no longer show NHL games after it was unable to reach a new sublicense deal with Rogers Sportsnet

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Consultancy Madison & Wall estimates a combined Fox and Roku would capture 14% of all US TV ad revenue and 16% of US streaming ad revenue

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Reuters:
China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules

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Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis:
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, and how the latest Google TPU generation positions Google as the most threatening challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korea is investigating a data leak at Coupang, allegedly by a former Chinese employee, that exposed ~33.7M accounts, or 65% of the country's 51.7M people
Matthew Hutson / IEEE Spectrum:
Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shortened deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion
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