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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M — Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under ban
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LinkedIn: Nicola Trotman and Wansoo Im
Bluesky: @claesdevreese, @rlstollar, @hammancheez, @jan6risingvoice, @trance, @judah-grunstein, and @bsky.app. Mastodon: @kate@aus.social
| The Guardian: |
Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be “booted off” the platforms in time — Albanese says commencement of ban a ‘proud day’ for him as prime minister, while eSafety commissioner unconcerned by reports of children bypassing restrictions| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Amazon will invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the ~$40B it has invested in the country, and says the plan will create 1M more jobs — Amazon on Wednesday committed to investing over $35 billion in India's cloud and artificial intelligence space by 2030, as hyperscalers race to get a foothold in the market.
More: About Amazon, The Information, Business Standard, IN About Amazon, Entrackr, Moneycontrol, Bloomberg, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, DigiTimes, Press Trust of India, The Week, Benzinga, Fortune India, Türkiye Today, The Straits Times, Times of India, Analytics India Magazine, Deccan Chronicle, Hindustan Times, Press Trust of India, Dow Jones Newswires, NDTV Profit, Inc42 Media, and Hürriyet Daily News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever — SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion …
More: The Guardian, Gulf Business, The Times, StrictlyVC, Advanced Television, Australian Financial Review, Analytics India Magazine, Hindustan Times, Benzinga, TechCrunch, TESLARATI, Digital CxO, The Information, The Verge, Barron's Online, Watcher Guru, and Capital Brief
Forums: r/SpaceXLounge and r/space
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Report: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink — Elon Musk's SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion … | Ben Casselman / New York Times: |
Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers across four cities saw different prices for the same item from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it's running tests — The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
More: Groundwork Collaborative, Engadget, AdExchanger, Consumer Reports, New York Post, SFist, Tom's Guide, The National Pulse, NextDraft, CNBC, San Francisco Chronicle, CBS News, and Gizmodo
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LinkedIn: Philip Radford and Derek Kravitz
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers — Today, we're donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund under the Linux Foundation …
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X: @alexalbert__, @kylebrussell, @mikeyk, @swyx, @marlene_zw, @film_girl, @mcp_community, @cloudflare, @anthropicai, @eastdakota, and @robzolkos
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/linux, and Slashdot
| Will Knight / Wired: |
More: Block, TechCrunch, The Linux Foundation, OpenAI, Ars Technica, The Register, The New Stack, The Decoder, Techstrong.ai, and The Information
X: @openainewsroom, @docker, @blocks, @rseroter, @chatgpt21, @linuxfoundation, @jetbrains, @dsp_, and @goose_oss
LinkedIn: Allison Stokes, Rebecca Bellan, Sina Khatibi, PhD, Ed Anuff, Randy Bias, and Swami Sivasubramanian. Bluesky: @tprstly.com. Mastodon: @linuxfoundation@social …. Forums: r/linux
| Bloomberg: |
Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain — Thesis: That which can be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain will be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain.
More: New York Times and Financial Times
| Boom: |
More: TechCrunch, The Register, Axios, and View from the Wing
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| Wired: |
Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer — A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser's departure from Slack. She is now headed to OpenAI. — Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI …
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LinkedIn: Srini Vemuru and Denise Holland Dresser
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Forums: r/OpenAI and r/artificial
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA — Yesterday, Apple and Google announced that they have teamed up to make it easier to switch between Android and iPhone devices.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race — Debate over pre-emption of state laws marks a major flashpoint in GOP politics — WASHINGTON—At a November meeting in the Oval Office … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V open-weight vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters — The release includes two models in “large” and “small” sizes: — GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inference
More: Z.ai, Z.ai on Hugging Face, and Z.ai on GitHub
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported — Shipping chips from Taiwan to U.S. to China would allow government to get 25% cut of sales — The artificial-intelligence chips … | 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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| Yasmin Gagne / Fast Company: |
Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge, steps down to launch Overtone, an “AI-driven” dating service backed by Match; Hinge promotes CMO Jackie Jantos to CEO — Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of dating app Hinge, is consciously uncoupling from his app.
More: Moneycontrol, Match Group, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, Mashable, and TechCrunch. LinkedIn: Bill Archer
| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10 to their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rising memory chip prices will erode its profit — Nintendo Co.'s shares slid as much as 4.7% Wednesday to their lowest level since May, weighed down by concerns that the surging price … | Jen Judson / Bloomberg: |
The US DOD says it has chosen Google's Gemini for Government to power its new GenAI.mil platform for the US military, 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 … | Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai — Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about 3 in 10 who do so daily
More: Engadget, PCMag, Kansas City Star, Courthouse News Service, TechCrunch, CNN, and NBC Bay Area
| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Mistral launches Devstral 2, an AI coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and Devstral Small, a 24B-parameter model for local use — French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding …
More: Mistral AI, BARD AI, MarkTechPost, SiliconANGLE, Rohan's Bytes, and The Decoder
X: @rohanpaul_ai, @scaling01, @mervenoyann, @guillaumelample, @maziyarpanahi, @andrew_n_carr, @arthurmensch, @onetwoval, @mistralai, @mistralai, @zeddotdev, @inderosd, @bindureddy, @b_roziere, @sagar_vaze, @bentheegg, @dorialexander, @mistralai, @eliebakouch, and @emostaque. LinkedIn: Alexandre Jean
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: |
Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, aiming to perform tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods — Pacific Northwest tech and cancer researchers are publicly releasing an AI tool that can perform sophisticated tumor analysis …
More: Microsoft Research, Providence, and Azure AI Foundry Labs
LinkedIn: Peter Lee and Satya Nadella
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies — After missing out on last month's Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Watch 4 update this December that adds one-handed gestures.
More: Android Authority, The Keyword, iPhone in Canada, Gadgets & Wearables, Phandroid, Curb Cuts, ZDNET, Android Central, Droid Life, Android Authority, Android Police, and Ars Technica. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May — SHANGHAI — Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is abandoning its plans to merge with its top shareholder …
More: DigiTimes
| Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News: |
Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year — Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime …
More: CNET, CBR, Anime Mojo, PCMag, Mashable, GamesRadar, and CBR
| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
The US Navy and Palantir announce ShipOS, saying the software will speed up shipbuilding and improve supply chain visibility; the deal is valued at $448M — The U.S. Navy and Palantir Technologies on Tuesday announced “ShipOS,” software they said will initially help build and maintain American submarines …
More: New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M+ people was compromised — Coupang Chief Executive Officer Park Dae-jun resigned over his failure to prevent South Korea's largest-ever data breach … | Romolo Tosiani / Reuters: |
Stellantis partners with Estonian ride-hailing service Bolt, which serves 200M+ riders, to test Level 4 driverless vans across Europe in 2026 — Carmaker Stellantis (STLAM.MI) is teaming up with Estonia-based ride-hailing platform Bolt to deploy driverless vehicles across Europe …
More: Homepage and electrive.com
| Kendra Barnett / Adweek: |
PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats — The integration enables advertisers to buy ads across a range of AI interfaces through PubMatic or their DSP of choice.| Bloomberg: |
Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho opened up 54% in its stock market debut, giving the company a ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO — Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing.
More: The Economic Times, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, and The Economic Times
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