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Shruti Srivastava / Bloomberg:
After a backlash, India says its preinstalled cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi is “optional” and “users have complete freedom to activate, or delete the app”  —  India sought to address concerns that its mandate to pre-install a cybersecurity app on mobile phones …
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
Jonathan Slotkin / New York Times:
An analysis of Waymo data covering nearly 100M driverless miles in four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers  —  I recently got called to see a teenager ejected in a rollover car crash.  The trauma team rushed him into surgery to stop major abdominal bleeding, but we all knew.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, which adds features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs  —  Spotify Wrapped is back.  After last year's widely criticized flop that included an AI podcast as its highlight …
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 …
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had many problems, 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 …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Marvell says it will acquire Celestial AI for $3.25B+ in cash and stock, set 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.
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 tools to make videos for kids and babies, raising concerns that such AI content may negatively impact early brain development  —  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.
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 …
Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics:
Amazon launches AWS AI Factories, which lets customers deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in their existing data centers
James Whitbrook / Gizmodo:
After an online backlash, Amazon Prime Video removes AI-generated English and Spanish dubs that it had quietly rolled out in beta for several anime titles  —  As quickly as they arrived, many of Prime Video's controversial generated dubs have been removed from the streamer.  —  READING TIME 2 MINUTES
Bloomberg:
TikTok plans to invest $37.7B+ to build a data center in Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its first Latin American project  —  ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok will invest more than 200 billion reais ($37.7 billion) to build a data center in Brazil, marking its first project in Latin America.
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 …

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From Mediagazer

Associated Press:
A US district court judge agrees to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing an executive order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A new filing from Nexstar in the DirecTV lawsuit says the existing restraining order freezing the Nexstar-Tegna merger could jeopardize assets of both companies

Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi officials say a US journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and security forces are looking for her captors; one outlet identified her as Shelly Kittleson

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

Earlier Picks

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
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
Padraic Halpin / Reuters:
Ireland investigates TikTok and LinkedIn over concerns that their illegal content reporting tools are hard to access and don't allow anonymous CSAM reporting
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%
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
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
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