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| The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries — DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia's state-of-the-art Blackwell chips …
More: Tom's Hardware, US Department of Justice, CNBC, ZeroHedge News, Mobile World Live, Investing.com, WinBuzzer, DigiTimes, Taiwan News, and Reuters
X: @miles_brundage, @jukan05, @jingyanghk, and @scaling01
Bluesky: @karlbode.com and @migueldeicaza
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia says that it hasn't seen “substantiation or received tips” about chip smuggling via data centers outside of China, after The Information's DeepSeek story — Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has relied on Nvidia Corp. chips that are banned in the country …
More: Barron's Online and Culpium
| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Australia's ban on under-16 social media users takes effect, as Meta, YouTube, and others remove users; platforms that don't comply risk up to AU$49.5M in fines — 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: BBC, Washington Post, Politico, Associated Press, BBC, techinspiredlife.com, Hollywood Life, Time, ABC, KDFX-TV, CNBC, Irish Independent, Mirror, NDTV Profit, The Indian Express, Digit, KnowTechie, CNN, Reuters, SmartCompany, SBS News, People, SmartCompany, Information Age, Forbes Australia, PC Gamer, The Hill, UPI, Al Jazeera, Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey, 9News, IJR, Daily Sabah, India Today, Breitbart, Tom's Guide, Silicon Republic, Le Monde, Moneycontrol, NDTV Profit, Türkiye Today, Associated Press, The Independent, TRT World, Firstpost, and Financial Times
X: @jonhaidt, @votelewko, @albomp, @matt_camenzuli, @omarsbigsister, @bradwilcoxifs, @deves_katherine, @hackingbutlegal, @yacinemtb, @theage, @katykray73, @marcushouse, @jmart, @jimduncanrva, @votelewko, @pmalinauskasmp, @bencarrollmp, @suayrez, @drdemography, @reuters, and @kobiethatcher
LinkedIn: Nicola Trotman and Wansoo Im
Bluesky: @claesdevreese, @rlstollar, @hammancheez, @jan6risingvoice, @trance, @judah-grunstein, and @bsky.app. Mastodon: @kate@aus.social
| The Guardian: |
Australia 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
More: Wall Street Journal, Australian Financial Review, ABC, and Nikkei Asia
X: @mickamiousg, @craigkellyafee, and @ausvstheagenda
Forums: r/RedditSafety and r/AustralianPolitics
| Nasteho Said / Bloomberg: |
As Australia bans under-16s from social media platforms, TikTok-powered video app Lemon8, friends-only photo app Yope, and others climb Apple's App Store charts — Alternative social media platforms have surged in popularity in Australia Wednesday, as the nation's landmark ban for under-16s drives children to non-restricted apps.| Bloomberg: |
Australia's under-16 social media ban currently excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids — Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns …
More: Forbes and Tom's Guide
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI — When Mark Zuckerberg revamped Meta's artificial intelligence operations this year, he recruited a new leader — Alexandr Wang … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta's new model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in spring 2026 as a “closed” model and is trained on Google's Gemma, OpenAI's gpt-oss, and Qwen — Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history …
More: eWeek, Moneycontrol, and CNBC
X: @natolambert, @deitaone, @andrewcurran_, @deitaone, and @zephyr_z9
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the nearly $40B it has invested in India, and expects to 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, TechCrunch, Livemint, IN About Amazon, DatacenterDynamics, UPI, The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, Watcher Guru, TechCircle, TechRadar, Capacity, Benzinga, Arabian Business, Times of India, The Week, Analytics India Magazine, Fortune India, Nikkei Asia, Moneycontrol, EasternEye, Digit, Türkiye Today, Entrackr, The Information, Forbes, DigiTimes, The Indian Express, The Straits Times, Deccan Chronicle, Press Trust of India, Blockonomi, Business Standard, NDTV Profit, Hindustan Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, Sherwood News, Forbes Middle East, Press Trust of India, Dow Jones Newswires, Daily Sabah, and Inc42 Media
| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in …
More: Tom's Hardware, International Business Times, PC Gamer, Benzinga, GSMArena.com, TRT World, New Electronics, The Information, and Tech in Asia. Forums: Slashdot
| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
More: DigiTimes, Silicon UK, Modern Diplomacy, Implicator.ai, New Electronics, Investing.com, and Financial Times
X: @jukan05, @firstadopter, and @zijing_wu
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% use 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 …
More: PCMag, Engadget, Implicator.ai, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, Quartz, and New York Times. Bluesky: @conradhackett
| Christine Chung / New York Times: |
The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info — Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need visas, would have to share five years' worth of social media.
More: BBC, Axios, Bloomberg, Sky News, The Hill, The Irish Times, Financial Times, UPI, The American Bazaar, Dexerto, Rediff, Lawyer Monthly, Ben Werdmuller, New York Post, Metro.co.uk, The Sun, The Independent, NDTV Profit, Gizmodo, and Real Patriotism …
X: @steven_pifer, @davekeating, @frances_coppola, @peterstefanovi2, @franklinleonard, @jerrycap, and @rnaudbertrand
Bluesky: @sunflowermum, @tracydeepbluesea44, @bethanyallen, @jameeljaffer, @donmoyn, and @clarajeffery. Mastodon: @markmccaughrean …
Forums: r/privacy, r/BoycottUnitedStates, r/TourismHell, r/neoliberal, r/Scotland, r/vegas, r/LabourUK, r/ScottishFootball, r/europe, and r/soccer
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
The Tech Transparency Project: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps for US-sanctioned companies; Google removed 17 and Apple removed 35 — Watchdog finds firms and organizations in Apple and Google stores that were banned for issues including human rights abuses in China and facilitating war in Ukraine.
More: Tech Transparency Project, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, and MacTech.com
Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, which lets publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers — RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web.
More: European Commission, RSL Internet Collective, and Search Engine Journal. Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social
| Joe Wilkins / Futurism: |
McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash — There's just one issue: pretty much everybody hates it. — This year, McDonald's decided to get in on the corporate slopfest …
More: BBC, New York Post, Luiza's Newsletter, TheJournal.ie, Los Angeles Times, NDTV Profit, The Scottish Sun, Gizmodo, Forbes, The A.V. Club, Digital Trends, The Verge, and Kotaku
X: @culturecrave, @echotrx, @saberspark, @joncomms, @jacksfilms, @yfcherries, @firagawalkwthme, @gnoofiest, @octanesam, and @girldrawsghosts
Bluesky: @jonkk and @bcmerchant
Forums: r/artificial and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
Sources: Lip-Bu Tan's dual roles as Intel CEO and tech investor cause consternation in the industry and at Intel; four ex-Intel execs say it caused them to exit — Lip-Bu Tan, who was appointed chief executive of Intel in March, is also a longtime venture capitalist. His dual roles have caused some consternation.
More: Wired
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added ChatGPT app integrations in October — Just describe your edits to ChatGPT, and the Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps will do it for you or surface the tool you need.| Ben Casselman / New York Times: |
Study: 193 Instacart users across four US cities saw different prices for the same items 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: PCMag, Groundwork Collaborative, Engadget, AdExchanger, Tech in Asia, New York Post, SFist, Tom's Guide, Consumer Reports, Instacart, and NextDraft
X: @jrichlive, @ewarren, @sonnybunch, @halsinger, @halsinger, @eric_seufert, @owenslindsay1, @owenslindsay1, @owenslindsay1, @owenslindsay1, @_zeets, and @owenslindsay1
LinkedIn: Philip Radford and Derek Kravitz
Bluesky: @caseynewton, @rbreich, and @ddayen
Forums: r/technology, r/news, r/Economics, and Slashdot
| Peter Andringa / Financial Times: |
Documents and former US government officials detail the DHS' digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year — The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
More: Washington Post. X: @ft. Bluesky: @peter.andringa.me, @tonytassell, and @samjoiner. Mastodon: @jackhutton@mstdn.social
| 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.| Reuters: |
Bloomberg: SpaceX is expected to make ~$15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority of sales coming from Starlink — Elon Musk's SpaceX is pursuing an initial public offering next year, looking to raise more than $25 billion, with a valuation over $1 trillion … | Bloomberg: |
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Forums: r/SpaceXLounge and r/space
| 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 …
More: Nintendo Life and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine — Microchip manufacturers Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. were accused in a series of lawsuits …
More: Benzinga
| Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: |
Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners — Nu Quantum, a British startup that builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised $60 million …
More: Resilience Media, Ventureburn, Business Wire, Tech Funding News, BusinessCloud, UKTN, and FinSMEs. LinkedIn: Nu Quantum
| 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 … | Benoît Morenne / Wall Street Journal: |
Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017 — The company, also backed by Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures, has emerged as a leader in advanced geothermal energy
More: FinSMEs, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CleanTechnica, Inc, Fervo Energy, Axios, Canary Media, and Heatmap News
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 — YouTube TV's base package currently costs $82.99 per month. But early next year, the streaming service will roll out a range … | Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations — In the battle for your attention, Instagram is betting that more control over the algorithm could keep you scrolling on Reels.| Lauren Johnson / Adweek: |
Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts — Shopify is taking a big step forward in its much-watched advertising business. The e-commerce firm is formally rolling out a product that allows its merchants … | Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
How US startups like Oakland-based Brimstone are racing to develop sources of raw materials that the US needs for tech, an industry China has long dominated — Startups and venture capital are joining the nationwide push to develop new sources of metals the U.S. desperately needs| 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: South China Morning Post, DigiTimes, and Caixin Global
| Pia Singh / CNBC: |
Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma — Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud trained an artificial intelligence model from space for the first time, signaling a new era for orbital data centers … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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