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December 9, 2025, 3:46 PM

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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
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 …
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 groundbreaking Australian law
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg:
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 …
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 …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
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 …
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 ZeffBluesky: @carnage4life, @jetjocko, @katie-drummond, and @brbarrettForums: r/OpenAI
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 …
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.
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.
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
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 …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
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
More: Fortune and Livemint
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 …

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