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| 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: Advanced Television, Australian Financial Review, Hindustan Times, Benzinga, TechCrunch, TESLARATI, Digital CxO, The Verge, The Information, Barron's Online, and Watcher Guru
Forums: r/space and r/SpaceXLounge
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Report: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink — Elon Musk's SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion …
Forums: r/StockMarket and r/wallstreetbets
| 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 Register, Ars Technica, The New Stack, The Decoder, Techstrong.ai, and The Information
X: @openainewsroom, @docker, @blocks, @rseroter, @chatgpt21, @linuxfoundation, @jetbrains, @dsp_, and @goose_oss
LinkedIn: Allison Stokes, Rebecca Bellan, Randy Bias, Ed Anuff, Sina Khatibi, PhD, and Swami Sivasubramanian. Bluesky: @tprstly.com. Mastodon: @linuxfoundation@social …. Forums: r/linux
| Anthropic: |
More: Model Context Protocol Blog, The Linux Foundation, diginomica, PYMNTS.com, InfoWorld, AIwire, Decrypt, Implicator.ai, Gizmodo, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, and Veza
X: @alexalbert__, @kylebrussell, @mikeyk, @swyx, @marlene_zw, @film_girl, @mcp_community, @cloudflare, @anthropicai, @eastdakota, and @robzolkos
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/linux, and Slashdot
| 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, CNN, ABC, BBC, Australian Financial Review, Irish Independent, Digit, NDTV Profit, Mashable, SmartCompany, KDFX-TV, 9News, SmartCompany, People, Associated Press, Forbes Australia, The Cyber Express, Sydney Morning Herald, SBS News, Al Jazeera, Crikey, The Hill, The Straits Times, UPI, Information Age, CNET, The Verge, IJR, India Today, Breitbart, Tom's Guide, Silicon Republic, Le Monde, Moneycontrol, NDTV Profit, Türkiye Today, Associated Press, and The Independent
X: @jonhaidt, @votelewko, @albomp, @matt_camenzuli, @bradwilcoxifs, @deves_katherine, @theage, @marcushouse, @jimduncanrva, @votelewko, @pmalinauskasmp, @bencarrollmp, @suayrez, and @kobiethatcher. LinkedIn: Nicola Trotman
Bluesky: @claesdevreese, @judah-grunstein, and @bsky.app
| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
More: Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Benzinga, Forbes Middle East, Daily Sabah, TVNewsCheck, Reuters, The Straits Times, YouTube Official Blog, TRT World, Firstpost, The Guardian, and BBC
Bluesky: @rlstollar, @hammancheez, @jan6risingvoice, and @trance. Mastodon: @kate@aus.social. Forums: r/stupidpol
| 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, New York Post, CNBC, CBS News, SFist, San Francisco Chronicle, The National Pulse, NextDraft, and Gizmodo
X: @owenslindsay1, @owenslindsay1, @owenslindsay1, @ewarren, @owenslindsay1, @sonnybunch, @halsinger, @halsinger, @_zeets, @eric_seufert, and @owenslindsay1
LinkedIn: Philip Radford and Derek Kravitz
| 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: Implicator.ai, TheStreet, DigiTimes, Benzinga, United States Senate Committee …, emptywheel, The Information, Axios, Council on Foreign Relations, Capital Brief, Observer, DataBreachToday.com, New York Times, South China Morning Post, New York Times, and Bloomberg
X: @nikkihaley, @kyleichan, @baldingsworld, @zephyr_z9, @jukan05, and @zijing_wu. Forums: r/AMD_Stock
| 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, The Information, San Francisco Business Times, Reuters, TechCrunch, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Adweek, CNBC, and Engadget
X: @laurengoode and @ericnewcomer
LinkedIn: Srini Vemuru and Denise Holland Dresser
Bluesky: @cuthrell.com and @brbarrett
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/artificial
| Bloomberg: |
Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain — Thesis: That which can be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain will be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain.
More: New York Times and Financial Times
| Boom: |
More: TechCrunch, The Register, View from the Wing, and Axios
X: @altcap, @shaanvp, @dylan_morri, @bscholl, @ycombinator, @citrini7, @bscholl, @bscholl, @devahaz, @danprimack, @djsnm, @bscholl, @pitdesi, @bscholl, @bscholl, @bscholl, @davidu, @bscholl, @thestalwart, @treiner5, @paulg, @_clarktang, @chamath, @tbpn, and @luke_metro. Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk. Forums: Hacker News
| 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
| 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, Fast Company, and TechCrunch
| 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, DefenseScoop, Gizmodo, U.S. Department of War, The Verge, Google Cloud, U.S. Department of War, Breaking Defense, Defense News, Common Dreams, One America News Network, Ukrainian National News, Axios, and Fox Business
X: @secwar, @dowcto, @dowcto, and @uswremichael
Forums: r/ABoringDystopia, r/artificial, r/nottheonion, and r/OpenAI
| 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: Match Group, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, Mashable, and TechCrunch. LinkedIn: Bill Archer
| 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, BARD AI, MarkTechPost, SiliconANGLE, The Decoder, Rohan's Bytes, and Implicator.ai
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
| 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, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, WeRSM, Phandroid, MacRumors, The Shortcut, AppleInsider, Android Headlines, and iPhone in Canada
X: @ericmigi, @raywongy, @nexusben, @parkerortolani, @shankmods, and @ericmigi. Bluesky: @hern. Threads: @jetscott. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
More: The Keyword, GSMArena.com, Android Authority, ZDNET, iPhone in Canada, Gadgets & Wearables, Phandroid, Curb Cuts, Android Central, Droid Life, Android Authority, Android Police, and Ars Technica. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Mark Anderson / 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 Inc. Chief Executive Officer Park Dae-jun has resigned after the company incurred the country's largest-ever data breach …
More: Reuters, Korea Joongang Daily, and Tech in Asia
| Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: |
Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, aiming to perform tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods — Pacific Northwest tech and cancer researchers are publicly releasing an AI tool that can perform sophisticated tumor analysis …
More: Microsoft Research, Providence, and Azure AI Foundry Labs
LinkedIn: Peter Lee and Satya Nadella
| 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, Anime Mojo, PCMag, Mashable, GamesRadar, and CBR
| The Guardian: |
Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a “lower level” since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K — Visitor numbers to UK's 10 most-visited services have settled at a ‘lower level’ than before 25 July, report finds| 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
| 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, Chainalysis, Blockworks, and The Crypto Times
X: @matthuang, @gakonst, @patrickc, @tempo, @sytaylor, @finnmurphy12, @gakonst, and @chainlink. LinkedIn: Liam Horne
| 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 …
More: Homepage and electrive.com
| 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: GSMArena.com
| Kendra Barnett / Adweek: |
PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats — The integration enables advertisers to buy ads across a range of AI interfaces through PubMatic or their DSP of choice.| 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, Business Standard, MobileSyrup, and Globe and Mail
Forums: r/news, r/neoliberal, and r/CanadaPolitics
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