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| 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, Block, TechCrunch, OpenAI, The Information, The Register, Ars Technica, The Decoder, The New Stack, and Techstrong.ai
X: @goose_oss, @openainewsroom, @docker, @blocks, @rseroter, @chatgpt21, @linuxfoundation, @jetbrains, and @dsp_
LinkedIn: Allison Stokes, Rebecca Bellan, Randy Bias, Ed Anuff, Sina Khatibi, PhD, and Swami Sivasubramanian. Bluesky: @tprstly.com. Mastodon: @linuxfoundation@social …
| 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, PYMNTS.com, The Linux Foundation, InfoWorld, diginomica, Decrypt, Gizmodo, AIwire, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, Implicator.ai, Veza, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @alexalbert__, @kylebrussell, @mikeyk, @swyx, @marlene_zw, @film_girl, @mcp_community, @cloudflare, @anthropicai, @eastdakota, and @robzolkos
Forums: Hacker News, r/linux, r/ClaudeAI, and r/singularity
| 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 Verge, Australian Financial Review, Hindustan Times, Benzinga, TESLARATI, Capital Brief, Barron's Online, TechCrunch, Digital CxO, The Information, and Watcher Guru
Forums: r/space and r/SpaceXLounge
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
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: BBC, 9to5Google, Engadget, Business Today, European Commission, Reuters, WinBuzzer, Europe-Data.com, TechCrunch, CIO Dive, Techstrong.ai, DeviceSecurity.io, Thurrott, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal
X: @eu_commission, @laz_radic, @eu_competition, @kayjebelli, @stokel, @jamescz19, @natejhake, @auerdirk, and @natejhake
Bluesky: @seldo.com, @perrinwolfbrother, @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu, and @tmsqrll. Threads: @carnage4life. Forums: Hacker News
| 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
More: Politico, SmartCompany, CNN, BBC, ABC, SmartCompany, Information Age, KDFX-TV, Mashable, People, Associated Press, 9News, CNET, IJR, Forbes Australia, The Verge, The Cyber Express, Sydney Morning Herald, SBS News, Al Jazeera, Crikey, The Hill, The Straits Times, India Today, Breitbart, Tom's Guide, Silicon Republic, Le Monde, Moneycontrol, NDTV Profit, Türkiye Today, Associated Press, and The Independent
X: @votelewko, @jonhaidt, @deves_katherine, @pmalinauskasmp, @votelewko, @albomp, @matt_camenzuli, @bradwilcoxifs, @theage, @marcushouse, @jimduncanrva, @bencarrollmp, @suayrez, and @kobiethatcher. LinkedIn: Nicola Trotman
Bluesky: @claesdevreese, @judah-grunstein, and @bsky.app
| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
More: Washington Post, Benzinga, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Daily Sabah, TVNewsCheck, Reuters, The Straits Times, YouTube Official Blog, TRT World, Firstpost, The Guardian, BBC, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @rlstollar, @hammancheez, @jan6risingvoice, and @trance. Mastodon: @kate@aus.social. Forums: r/stupidpol
| 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, The Information, Associated Press, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, San Francisco Business Times, Reuters, TechCrunch, Axios, Adweek, and CNBC
X: @laurengoode and @ericnewcomer
LinkedIn: Srini Vemuru and Denise Holland Dresser
Bluesky: @cuthrell.com and @brbarrett
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/artificial
| 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 … | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
More: Benzinga, The Information, United States Senate Committee …, emptywheel, Observer, Axios, DataBreachToday.com, Council on Foreign Relations, Capital Brief, Asia Financial, Quartz, New York Times, South China Morning Post, New York Times, and Bloomberg
X: @nikkihaley, @jukan05, @zijing_wu, @zephyr_z9, @kyleichan, and @baldingsworld. Forums: r/AMD_Stock
| 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, Consumer Reports, Tom's Guide, SFist, New York Post, The US Sun, Gizmodo, CNBC, CBS News, San Francisco Chronicle, and The National Pulse
X: @ewarren, @eric_seufert, @owenslindsay1, @owenslindsay1, @owenslindsay1, @owenslindsay1, @sonnybunch, @halsinger, @halsinger, @_zeets, and @owenslindsay1
LinkedIn: Philip Radford and Derek Kravitz
| 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, The Register, Aviation Week Network, Cautious Optimism, View from the Wing, and Axios
X: @tbpn, @altcap, @shaanvp, @dylan_morri, @bscholl, @ycombinator, @citrini7, @bscholl, @bscholl, @devahaz, @danprimack, @djsnm, @bscholl, @pitdesi, @bscholl, @bscholl, @bscholl, @davidu, @bscholl, @thestalwart, @treiner5, @paulg, @_clarktang, @chamath, and @luke_metro. Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
More: Pebble, Tech Advisor, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Ars Technica, WeRSM, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada, Phandroid, Engadget, Liliputing, The Shortcut, and AppleInsider
X: @raywongy, @ericmigi, @nexusben, @parkerortolani, @shankmods, and @ericmigi. Bluesky: @hern. Threads: @jetscott. Forums: Hacker News
| 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, SiliconANGLE, Simon Willison's Weblog, BARD AI, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, TestingCatalog, Implicator.ai, and Rohan's Bytes
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
| 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
X: @zai_org, @vllm_project, @kimmonismus, @zai_org, @0xsero, @zai_org, and @xianbao_qian
| 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 …
More: 404 Media, U.S. Department of War, DefenseScoop, The Verge, Gizmodo, Google Cloud, Straight Arrow News, Forbes, Breaking Defense, NewsMax.com, U.S. Department of War, Daily Caller News Foundation, Defense News, Common Dreams, One America News Network, Axios, Ukrainian National News, and Fox Business
X: @secwar, @dowcto, @dowcto, and @uswremichael
Forums: r/artificial, r/OpenAI, and r/nottheonion
| 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: |
More: Microsoft, MobileSyrup, WinBuzzer, Windows Report, iPhone in Canada, DatacenterDynamics, and Globe and Mail
Forums: r/news, r/neoliberal, and r/CanadaPolitics
| 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: Reuters, Match Group, TechCrunch, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Mashable. LinkedIn: Bill Archer
| 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, DL News, Cointelegraph, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Blockonomi, Blockchain.News, The Crypto Times, Chainalysis, and Blockworks
X: @matthuang, @gakonst, @patrickc, @tempo, @sytaylor, @finnmurphy12, @gakonst, and @chainlink. LinkedIn: Liam Horne
| 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 …
More: New York Times, StateScoop, Fast Company, and TechCrunch
| 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.| 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, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada, Thurrott, How-To Geek, The Verge, BGR, Android Central, and Android Police
| 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
| 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.
More: PYMNTS.com, ZDNET, and AIwire
| 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, PCMag, Anime Mojo, Mashable, GamesRadar, and CBR
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