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President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, on the condition that the US gets a 25% cut — President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ detains two men for allegedly violating export controls by trying to smuggle $160M+ of Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China; a third man pleads guilty — The US Department of Justice has detained two men for allegedly violating export control laws by attempting to smuggle … | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
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The European Commission opens an investigation into whether Google used publishers' content to provide AI services and YouTube content to train its AI models — Investigation is bloc's latest challenge to US big tech companies — Brussels has launched an investigation into whether Google …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 — You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.
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| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
Reddit launches new safety features globally for under-18s, like stricter chat settings, ahead of Australia's social media ban for under-16s from December 10 — Reddit Inc. is launching new safety features globally for all under-18s on its popular online forums ahead of Australia's groundbreaking social media ban.| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
As Australia prepares to enact the world's first under-16 social media ban on December 10, a look at the implications, reaction from parents and teens, and more — Under-16s will no longer be able to subscribe to popular apps under Australian groundbreaking law| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: as soon as this week, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards — For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: after Netflix announced its WBD deal, Larry Ellison called Trump to argue it would hurt competition; Paramount CEO David Ellison promised CNN changes — David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal
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Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment — French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks …
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Sources: Meta is pursuing a Llama successor and new frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, set for release in Q1 2026 and that could be a proprietary model — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last year about his company's Llama family of artificial intelligence models that he predicted … | Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Source: ChatGPT has nearly 900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini's MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M — The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up, with Google's Gemini nipping at OpenAI's heels.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest Asia investment yet, after meeting with Modi — Microsoft Corp. pledged to invest $17.5 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing in India over four years … | Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters: |
Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO — Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia, on Tuesday named Bernadette Meehan its chief executive officer, tapping an administrator with deep policy expertise …
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Sources: Sam Altman said OpenAI plans to end its “code red” after releasing a model in January 2026 with improved image generation, speed, and personality — The CEO is prioritizing achieving mass popularity through ChatGPT versus moonshot projects like artificial general intelligence
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AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete, are forcing web developers to rethink whether they are designing websites for humans or crawlers — A crop of under-baked new products is splitting the internet into two lanes, forcing website developers to rethink who their pages are for.| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic's top three enterprise customers — The artificial-intelligence model maker and consulting firm say they can help businesses see a positive return on their AI investments| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Spotify rolls out music videos to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following a beta launch in nearly 100 markets last year — Spotify (SPOT.N) said on Tuesday it is making music videos available to premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada, as the Swedish streaming giant challenges YouTube for market share.
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Microsoft plans to invest CA$7.5B in Canada over two years to build AI infrastructure, coming online in 2026, taking its investment to CA$19B from 2023 to 2027 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday it was investing more than C$7.5 billion ($5.42 billion) in Canada over the next two years …
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| Prima Wirayani / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investing boom, after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto — Robinhood Markets Inc. is set to enter the Indonesian market after signing deals to acquire two local brokerages …
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Saviynt, an identity and access management service focused on “human and nonhuman” identity controls, raised a $700M Series B led by KKR at a $3B valuation — AI has businesses scrambling to ensure workers and software robots are who they say they are| Bloomberg: |
Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners — Stripe Inc. and crypto venture firm Paradigm have launched a public trial for their joint blockchain project, Tempo … | Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: |
An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an “at least 3%” stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports — Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) holds at least a 3% stake in EssilorLuxottica (ESLX.PA), a board director … | Jen Judson / Bloomberg: |
The US DOD says it has chosen Google's new GenAI.mil platform to help the US military quickly analyze video and imagery, as part of a $200M contract from July — The Defense Department said it has chosen Alphabet Inc.'s Gemini for Government system to deliver artificial intelligence capability … | Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
Dutch media: ASML has sold parts to a subsidiary of a Chinese army supplier, per Chinese import and export data; ASML says it can't confirm the report — Customers of chip equipment maker ASML (ASML.AS) include at least one firm with links to the Chinese military, Dutch television program Nieuwsuur reported on Tuesday.
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| Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: |
Italy-based humanoid robotics startup Generative Bionics raised €70M led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Tether, AMD Ventures, and others — Stablecoin giant Tether has joined a €70 million ($81.6 million) funding round for Italy-based Generative Bionics …
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| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Fal, which hosts generative AI models for developers, raised a $140M Series D led by Sequoia, a source says at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in July — Artificial Intelligence startup Fal raised fresh funding from investors in a deal that values the company at $4.5 billion …
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