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December 3, 2025, 1:05 AM
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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
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  —  Nova Forge lets Amazon's customers train frontier models for different tasks—a potential breakthrough in making AI actually useful for businesses.
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
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models
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.
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 …
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
A profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024  —  Dario Amodei is, in his telling, the accidental CEO of an accidental business—one that just happens to be among the fastest-growing on the planet.
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 J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after its $300M Series D in October, making its co-founders billionaires
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  —  Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date …
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  —  Switching up the release schedule could bring new features to third-party Android phones much faster.
Financial Times:
Software testing startup Antithesis raised $105M led by trading firm Jane Street, as demand grows for software to vet code generated by AI coding tools  —  Trading firm Jane Street leads $105mn investment in software testing group Antithesis  —  Companies' rapid embrace of artificial intelligence tools …
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  —  I'm excited to announce that Metronome has signed a definitive agreement to join Stripe.  —  Today's best companies treat monetization …
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  —  Ireland's media regulator began investigations into TikTok and LinkedIn on Tuesday over concerns that their illegal content reporting mechanisms …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14K-token document that Claude calls its “Soul overview”; an Anthropic employee confirms the doc's validity  —  Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document.  Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the “Soul overview”.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US on desktop and mobile, arriving globally next week  —  The new annual insights feature lets you review your top channels, interests, and other viewing habits.
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  —  Key findings  —  How is AI changing the way we work?  Our previous research on AI's economic impacts looked at the labor market as a whole …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Paramount completes its $110B acquisition of WBD, creating Skydance and putting David Ellison in control of Hollywood studios, streamers, and cable networks

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Amazon's Prime Video acquires exclusive global rights to the Primetime Emmys under a six-year deal from 2027; sources say Prime Video will pay ~$15M per year

New York Times:
Disney is seeking an injunction in US District Court to block the FCC from conducting an unusual, early review of eight ABC-owned station licenses

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Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:
Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B acquisition of Vimeo in September and its pending acquisition of AOL
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

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Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $6.25B for 25M children, or $250 per investment “Trump account”, comparing the gift to Dell's direct PC sales model
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production
Anthropic:
Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 blockchain smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 developed exploits together worth $4.6M
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's health care push was “inappropriate”, IBM's quantum computing bet, and more
More: Business Insider.  LinkedIn: Elaine Parr, Kristen Shaughnessy, and John Thompson.  Bluesky: @reckless.  Mastodon: @dyckron@mstdn.ca
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