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Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about its €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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Bluesky: @jonworth.eu, @grahambs, @prietschka, @852dude, @michielvanhulten.eu, @maximus76a, @bremaininspain.com, @catiomiles, @robfranciseu, @glynmoody, and @robin.berjon.com
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Forums: r/technology, r/EU_Economics, and r/worldnews
| Bloomberg: |
President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have “to go through a process” and he will be personally involved in the decision-making process — President Donald Trump raised potential antitrust concerns for Netflix Inc.'s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. …
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Bluesky: @rphilly, @tracinski, @caseynewton, @mrgq, @fagankara, and @hunterwalk.com
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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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X: @lucas_shaw, @franklinleonard, @tvgrimreaper, @lucas_shaw, @jason, @sharonwaxman, @sharonwaxman, @joecarlsonshow, @sharonwaxman, @lucas_shaw, @sharonwaxman, @sharonwaxman, @atrupar, @cgasparino, @sharonwaxman, @cgasparino, and @sharonwaxman
Bluesky: @samred.com, @toomuchtv.substack.com, @karaswisher, and @gigawattconduit
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close — Deal for data-infrastructure company could come as soon as Monday — International Business Machines is in advanced talks …
More: Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, The Information, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, and Neowin. Bluesky: @dmnd.me
| Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: |
A look at an “etiquette camp” for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders — SAN FRANCISCO — Strolling into the Four Seasons Hotel, wearing a suit on a recent Wednesday, artificial intelligence start … | Aaron Krolik / New York Times: |
How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert national currencies to stablecoins and then debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions — Smugglers, money launderers and people facing sanctions once relied on diamonds, gold and artwork to store illicit fortunes.
X: @neerajka. LinkedIn: Ali Khan. Bluesky: @waldo.net, @klonick, and @watchdogprg. Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social. Forums: r/NoShitSherlock
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase reopens app registrations in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 — After a pause of more than two years, crypto exchange Coinbase has opened its app for registration in India.
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| Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems — The architecture underlying large language models revolutionized AI. Pathway's Dragon Hatchling is designed to do more.| Rest of World: |
An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability — An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.| Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly — How the human behind Tilly Norwood brought her to digital life — Tilly Norwood, an “actress” built with artificial intelligence … | John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
Impressions from a London test ride in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since its launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy — John Thornhill takes an autonomous spin through the city's tangled streets with the British start-up's chief Alex Kendall
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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.| 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 …
LinkedIn: Dr Saif Abed
| Bloomberg: |
India's digital transformation exposes 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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