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Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account — Nikita Bier, X's head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role — Apple Inc., long the model of stability in Silicon Valley, is suddenly undergoing its biggest personnel shake-up in decades …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed WBD should go to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix wasn't a monopoly — Netflix Inc. co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos ventured to the White House in mid-November for a meeting with President Donald Trump.
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Bluesky: @gigawattconduit and @toomuchtv.substack.com
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| Bloomberg: |
President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have “to go through a process” and the deal creates “a big market share. It could be a problem” — President Donald Trump said Netflix Inc.'s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. will require a review … | Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are “either not real or not ads”; OpenAI's research chief says “anything that feels like an ad” is now turned off — Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled “Shop for home and groceries.
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| Lora Kelley / New York Times: |
In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are “refounding”, as they scramble to add new AI features — In the age of artificial intelligence, some company leaders are framing new business lines as radical reboots.| Bloomberg: |
India's digital transformation has exposed citizens to scams like “digital arrests”, where victims are coerced into transferring funds under false accusations — She races into her bedroom, shuts the door behind her, then falls to the checkered-tile floor. The only place to hide is beneath the bed.
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X: @clairejiao, @suparnasharma, @suparnasharma, @paranjoygt, @andymukherjee70, @business, @business, @business, and @suparnasharma
LinkedIn: Natalie Obiko Pearson and Preeti Soni
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| Ashish Vaswani / Essential AI: |
Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o — The long-term advancement and equitable diffusion of AI technologies crucially depend on their development in the Open.| Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: |
Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak — What began the year as one of the best trades in the stock market has, in a matter of months, turned into one of the worst.
More: Cryptonews, Benzinga, and Inside Bitcoins
| Financial Times: |
Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China — Manufacturers tout apps that help users switch from iPhones — William Langley in Guangzhou and Gloria Li in Hong Kong| Emma Jacobs / Financial Times: |
An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on its AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists isn't for serious mental health issues, Ebb's upgrade to voice, and more — Tom Pickett says care is needed when chatbots take the role of therapists — Before meeting for this interview …
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| Sally Ward-Foxton / EE Times: |
Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon — AI software startup Lemurian Labs has pivoted away from AI hardware, having raised a $28-million series A to build its AI software stack.
More: Lemurian Labs, VC News Daily, FinSMEs, and SiliconANGLE
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier — Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures … | Reuters: |
South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists — South Korea's industry ministry and SoftBank's (9984.T) chip unit, Arm Holdings, have signed an agreement to strengthen …
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