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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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| Bloomberg: |
Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC to support its WBD deal, one of the largest ever loans of its kind — Netflix Inc. has lined up $59 billion of financing from Wall Street banks to help support its planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. … | 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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| Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films” — Now that that's settled... Netflix just solidified itself as the leading entertainment company (and then some), and all it cost was $83 billion.
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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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Threads: @lanceulanoff and @timothybucksf
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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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| 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 … | 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.
More: Oversight Board, AR Insider, Engadget, Forbes, Social Media Today, and Agence France-Presse
| 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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Forums: r/technology, r/EverythingScience, r/politics, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| New York Times: |
The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months — Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
More: Windows Central, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Company, and Tech Times
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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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| 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
Bluesky: @newmethos and @carlquintanilla
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot — Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc., CNN …
More: Reuters, Meta Newsroom, Benzinga, The Verge, and Le Monde
X: @mgsiegler, @stocksavvyshay, @francisbrennan, and @sarafischer
| Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: |
The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using “io” as a trademark in some instances while an infringement suit against it proceeds — The Ninth Circuit affirmed a temporary order blocking OpenAI Inc. from using “io” as a trademark in certain circumstances …
More: MacRumors, IPWatchdog.com, and 9to5Mac
| 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.
More: The Keyword, Tom's Guide, The Hindu, Business Today, Mashable, Business Standard, Livemint, Neowin, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @demishassabis, @noamshazeer, @quocleix, @jeffdean, and @sundarpichai
| 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 … | 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.
More: Tom's Hardware, Beyond Search, and WinBuzzer
| About Amazon: |
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
More: Analytics India Magazine and The Next Platform
| 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.
More: Wired, arXiv, Business Today, Engadget, Livemint, Tech Times, Schneier on Security, The Cyber Express, and KnowTechie
| 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 … | 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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| 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) … | 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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X: @jeonghaeju, @wiimee, @gergelyorosz, @tszzl, @darrenrovell, @hradzka, @joshgalt, @cholent_lover, @jeonghaeju, @moonchaser2020, @jack_raines, @theballisorange, @atenov_d, @victorzubarev, and @immortalhowwl. Bluesky: @joemenn. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| 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
| Google Research: |
Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M+ context window — Ali Behrouz, Student Researcher, Meisam Razaviyayn, Staff Researcher, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
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