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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026 — Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant player in Hollywood — Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue checkmarks, after a two-year probe — Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson are retiring, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's chief legal officer, will replace Adams in March — Apple's general counsel, Kate Adams, and its vice president for environment, policy, and social initiatives, Lisa Jackson …
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| Shashwat Chauhan / Reuters: |
The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Thursday that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on futures exchanges registered with the agency.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact — Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved? — Five years ago this week, Meta's Oversight Board accepted its first cases.
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| A.J. Vicens / Reuters: |
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities — Chinese-linked hackers used sophisticated malware to penetrate and maintain long-term access to unnamed government … | Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy — New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people's political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta says it is shifting some of its investment from metaverse toward AI glasses and wearables, and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that” — Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, after saying in November it needed “extra time for safety evaluations” — After previewing last month with the launch of Gemini 3 Pro, the new Deep Think mode is now available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build “Trump Industrial Parks” in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal — SoftBank billionaire seeks to build ‘Trump Industrial Parks’ on federal land, using hundreds of billions of capital from the Japan trade deal
More: MarketWatch, The Japan Times, and Analytics India Magazine
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| Reuters: |
Sources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed — India's government is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to force smartphone firms to enable satellite location tracking … | Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content — Riddle-like poems tricked chatbots into spewing hate speech and helping design nuclear weapons and nerve agents.
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others — Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for granted. She was working on a process optimization project … | Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: |
A Polymarket trader netted $1M+ in 24 hours, mostly by placing suspiciously accurate bets on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings — Boaz Sobrado is a fintech leader and entrepreneur. — A Polymarket trader known as AlphaRaccoon has ignited controversy after allegedly netting over $1 million …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI — Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company's efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.
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AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 processor, with an up to 25% performance boost over Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50%+ of AWS' new CPU capacity — Fifth generation chip provides the best price performance for a broad range of workloads in Amazon EC2. — Key takeaways| Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: |
Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years — TOKYO — Since relocating his Tokyo office in August to accommodate a growing team, veteran construction consultant Takehiko Yuge …
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| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
HPE reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.68B, vs. $9.94B est., Server revenue down 5% to $4.5B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below est.; HPE drops 8%+ after hours — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.N) forecast first-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Thursday, signaling cautious enterprise spending.
More: The Register, Verdict, Benzinga, Constellation Research, Bloomberg, Proactive, and HPE
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about “verification debt” — Sixty thousand people wait in the Venetian Expo. Werner Vogels walks out holding something nobody expected: a newspaper.
More: Tech in Asia
| Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve: |
Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 — I think I've published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an [image]
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October — A U.S. agency said on Thursday it has asked Waymo to answer more questions after Texas officials said the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) … | Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks — New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.Sponsor Posts
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