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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 …
More: European Commission, BBC, 9to5Google, Engadget, Business Today, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, Originally Reported …, CIO Dive, DeviceSecurity.io, Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Post, TechCrunch, WinBuzzer, Europe-Data.com, Techstrong.ai, eWeek, Benzinga, and Wall Street Journal
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Bluesky: @perrinwolfbrother, @seldo.com, @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu, and @tmsqrll. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 …
More: Model Context Protocol Blog, The Linux Foundation, Thurrott, diginomica, SiliconANGLE, Implicator.ai, The New Stack, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, and Veza
X: @swyx, @film_girl, @robzolkos, @alexalbert__, @kylebrussell, @mikeyk, @marlene_zw, @mcp_community, @cloudflare, @anthropicai, @eastdakota, and @dsp_
Forums: Hacker News, r/linux, r/ClaudeAI, and r/singularity
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation — American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for building agentic software and tools.
More: The Linux Foundation, TechCrunch, The Information, Ars Technica, The Register, The New Stack, OpenAI, The Decoder, and Techstrong.ai
X: @openainewsroom, @docker, @rseroter, @jetbrains, @blocks, @chatgpt21, and @linuxfoundation
LinkedIn: Sina Khatibi, PhD, Ed Anuff, Randy Bias, and Swami Sivasubramanian. Bluesky: @tprstly.com. Mastodon: @linuxfoundation@social …
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite Trump allowing their export to China, as it pushes to achieve chip self-sufficiency — Discussions among regulators come as Beijing seeks to achieve self-sufficiency in semiconductor production
More: Tom's Hardware, United States Senate Committee …, emptywheel, Council on Foreign Relations, Benzinga, Quartz, Implicator.ai, DataBreachToday.com, New York Times, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Transport Topics, Barchart.com, South China Morning Post, The Decoder, Evertiq, and Asia Financial
X: @nikkihaley, @jukan05, @zijing_wu, @zephyr_z9, @kyleichan, and @baldingsworld. Forums: r/AMD_Stock
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
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X: @chinaselect, @jordanschneider, @tom_winter, @senwarren, @usao_sdtx, @michaelsobolik, @usao_sdtx, @usao_sdtx, @chrisrmcguire, and @miles_brundage. LinkedIn: Roman Rozhavsky
| 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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Bluesky: @claesdevreese, @bsky.app, and @judah-grunstein
Forums: r/worldnews, r/australia, and Beehaw
| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
As Australia enacts 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 groundbreaking Australian law — Kirstin Hunter was picking …
More: Washington Post, Politico, Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Times, The Guardian, TRT World, YouTube Official Blog, Firstpost, BBC, and Reuters
Bluesky: @rlstollar, @trance, @hammancheez, and @jan6risingvoice. Mastodon: @kate@aus.social. Forums: r/stupidpol
| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
| 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, The Decoder, Rohan's Bytes, Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, and TestingCatalog
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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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.| 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 …
More: OpenAI, Associated Press, San Francisco Business Times, TechCrunch, CNBC, Reuters, Axios, Bloomberg Law, and Adweek
| 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 Sophia / Reuters: |
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Forums: r/news and r/CanadaPolitics
| 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 … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Sources: Meta is pursuing a Llama successor and new frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, which could be a proprietary model and is set for release in Q1 2026 — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last year about his company's Llama family of artificial intelligence models …
More: Benzinga, Livemint, Proactive, and WinBuzzer
X: @andrewcurran_ and @herrmanndigital
Bluesky: @bgrueskin and @ljkawa
| 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 …
More: Tempo, Blockworks, NFTgators, Chainalysis, The Block, and The Crypto Times
X: @gakonst, @patrickc, @tempo, @finnmurphy12, @matthuang, @sytaylor, @gakonst, and @chainlink
| Menlo Ventures: |
Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY — AI Boom vs. Bubble — For all the fears of over-investment, AI is spreading across enterprises at a pace with no precedent in modern software history.| Boom: |
Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom's supersonic engine, to power AI data centers — It started, as many things do these days, by scrolling on X. — I was reading post after post about the power crisis hitting AI data centers …
More: TechCrunch, Axios, View from the Wing, Aviation Week Network, Cautious Optimism, Bloomberg, and Denver Business Journal
X: @bscholl, @ycombinator, @citrini7, @djsnm, @pitdesi, @luke_metro, @altcap, @dylan_morri, @devahaz, @davidu, @_clarktang, @chamath, @danprimack, @thestalwart, and @paulg. Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor — Google Photos announced on Tuesday the launch of new features aimed at making video editing and highlight reel creation easier.
More: The Keyword, How-To Geek, Thurrott, Android Police, 9to5Google, The Verge, iPhone in Canada, Android Central, and BGR. X: @shimritby
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave — Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI.
LinkedIn: Maxwell Zeff. Bluesky: @carnage4life, @brbarrett, @jetjocko, and @katie-drummond
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| 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.| Jen Judson / Bloomberg: |
The US DOD says it has chosen Google's Gemini for Gov 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 … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record” — Blockchains are public databases. That's an immediate roadblock for large institutions like banks …
More: Circle, Business Wire, Decrypt, The Block, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, and The Crypto Times
| Emily Sundberg / Feed Me: |
Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now — “During the pilot, Substack is simply facilitating payments and is not taking a cut.” — ∙ Paid — Hello everyone. — Today's letter includes …
More: Adweek. X: @emily_sundberg, @alexeheath, @loudmouthjulia, and @mediaevan
Bluesky: @garvanwalshe.org and @caseynewton
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
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 investmentsSponsor Posts
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