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George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic taps law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and held preliminary talks with big investment banks  —  AI start-up picks law firm Wilson Sonsini for what could be one of the largest public offerings ever
Shruti Srivastava / Bloomberg:
After a backlash, India says its pre-installed cybersecurity app is optional for users, who “have complete freedom to activate, or delete the app at any time”  —  India sought to address concerns that its mandate to pre-install a cybersecurity app on mobile phones could invade privacy …
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
YouTube says it will comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16s, after rejecting its inclusion in the crackdown and calling the regulation “rushed”  —  YouTube is taking steps to comply with Australia's upcoming under-16s social media ban, even after rejecting …
Jonathan Slotkin / New York Times:
An analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Marvell announces a deal to buy Celestial AI for at least $3.25B, expected to close in Q1 2026; the price can rise to $5.5B if Celestial hits revenue targets  —  Semiconductor company Marvell on Tuesday announced that it will acquire Celestial AI for at least $3.25 billion in cash and stock.
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file  —  But the best one definitely did. … The 4K stream of the classic Lionsgate Television series for AMC Network came to HBO Max on Monday …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ  —  The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange announced a significant leadership move on Wednesday, naming longtime executive …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law  —  As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric …
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Some YouTube creators are using AI video tools to make content for kids and babies, causing concern that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos  —  As younger children spend more time on the platform, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
George Steer / Financial Times:
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025  —  Company's shares plummet as investors cash out at end of lock-up period  —  Shares in a US cryptocurrency miner backed by Donald Trump Jr …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
CNN partners with Kalshi to use its real-time prediction data in TV, digital, and social channel reporting, on-air data tickers, analysis, and fact-checking  —  CNN has stuck a partnership with Kalshi, the world's largest global prediction market company, bringing Kalshi's data …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development  —  Amazon Web Services Inc. is using its annual AWS re:Invent 2025 extravaganza this week in Las Vegas to show …
Will Knight / Wired:
Amazon releases its second-gen Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and fully multimodal reasoning model Nova Omni, to limited customers
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches Trainium3 UltraServer, a system powered by its 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which it says will work with Nvidia's chips  —  Amazon Web Services, which has been building its own AI training chips for years now, just introduced a new version known …

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Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix wins rights to the Sesame Street movie; Rideback, the production company behind live-action Lilo & Stitch and Aladdin movies, will produce the feature

Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A case of brazen copyright infringement of John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, part of a trend where people use AI to repackage and replace sources

CNN:
Haberman-Swan book: Trump wanted to make Fox News “beg” for a presidential interview, he almost settled for $3M with ABC instead of $16M, and more

More News

Scott Woody / Metronome:
Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding
Anthropic:
Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google debuts Android 16 QPR2, a minor update expanding features for notifications, icons, calling screens, and more, marking the end of annual Android releases

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1%
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil Capital at a $4B valuation, almost 3X from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M
Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Anthropic acquires dev tool maker Bun, a source says for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue in November
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including its new flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models
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