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December 10, 2025, 2:30 AM

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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
Nic Fildes / Financial Times:
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 …
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.
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.
Anthropic:
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.
Boom:
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
New York Times:
Nexperia's former CEO Frans Scheper says Wingtech, which bought the Dutch chipmaker in 2019, quickly plotted to send Nexperia's research and IP to China  —  The former chief executive of Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, said Dutch officials had known for years that the company's Chinese owner sought to move its technology to China.
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 …

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