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Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client — Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
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Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @markriedl, and @hunterwalk.com. Mastodon: @[email protected]. Forums: Hacker News
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a “massive scale” and using AI to “exploit and distribute” the content — Disney sends cease-and-desist letter to internet giant — As Disney has gone into business with OpenAI …
Bluesky: @davelee.me and @wavesblog
| Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
US state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and nine others, warning that their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws — Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were among the 13 companies that received a warning from a bipartisan group …
More: TechCrunch, National Association of Attorneys General, Implicator.ai, Computerworld, Financial Times, KnowTechie, Android Headlines, Silicon UK, MediaPost, WinBuzzer, 9to5Mac, Tech in Asia, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Digit, Iowa Attorney General, Pennsylvania Office …, NY State Attorney General, and WV News
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $16.06B, below $16.21B est., and raises its FY capex forecast to ~$50B, up from $35B as of September; ORCL drops 15%+ — Oracle shares sank 11% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker reported lower quarterly revenue …
More: CNBC, Ars Technica, Oracle, Financial Times, Barchart.com, Fast Company, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Silicon UK, Financial Times, Euronews, Bitcoin Insider, Agence France-Presse, Forbes Middle East, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Blockchain.News, Yahoo Finance, Constellation Research, Proactive, Benzinga, Bloomberg, and Reuters
X: @dowdedward, @chafkin, @zephyr_z9, @zerohedge, @faisalislam, @spencerhakimian, @beth_kindig, @samsolid57, @stocksavvyshay, @stocksavvyshay, @thetranscript_, @levynews, @beth_kindig, @danielnewmanuv, @jessecoheninv, @danielnewmanuv, @mattzeitlin, @beth_kindig, @ericjhonsa, @thexcapitalist, @kakashiii111, @ericjhonsa, @thetranscript_, @garethsoloway, @realmeetkevin, @elerianm, @aleabitoreddit, and @patientinvestt. LinkedIn: Jordan Novet. Bluesky: @iankmsmith.ft.com. Forums: r/technology
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup planning to launch a “Twitter.new” social network, petitions the USPTO to cancel X's trademarks over “abandonment” — A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition …
More: Twitter.new, 9to5Mac, San Francisco Business Times, The Verge, Reuters, Baller Alert, Digit, The Independent, and Decrypt
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/Fauxmoi, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Tim Dettmers: |
An Ai2 research scientist says AGI may never emerge because such a concept ignores the physical realities and limits of computation, such as energy constraints — If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI.
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google brings Gemini to Chrome for iOS and iPadOS, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English for signed-in users — It can summarize pages, create a FAQ on a topic and modify recipes for your dietary needs. — After rolling it out on desktop …
More: Thurrott, 9to5Google, MacRumors, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Digital Trends, Business Standard, and iPhone in Canada
| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers; TikTok says that 14 of the accounts don't violate its rules — TikTok AI — AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked …
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says it will test Prompted Playlist, which lets users describe what they want to hear and receive a unique set of songs based on their listening history — Spotify announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it's giving users more control over the streaming service's algorithm.
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LinkedIn: Rasmus Zwickson and Anna Lundström
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind plans to open its first “automated science laboratory” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more — Big Tech group will work with Sir Keir Starmer's government to enhance AI use across public sector| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project from two Anthropic employees to an industry standard managed by the Linux Foundation — Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation …
More: Tom's Hardware, WinBuzzer, eeNews Europe, CIO Dive, Techstrong.ai, and ZDNET
Bluesky: @eean.dev, @cjkarr, @linuxfoundation.org, and @reckless
Forums: r/linux and r/LocalLLaMA
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
a16z crypto expands to Asia, opens a Seoul office, hires Monad's Sungmo Park as its Asia head, and calls South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market — What to know: … A16z crypto, a venture capital fund of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), said it is expanding into Asia … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Blue Origin has worked for over a year on tech for orbital AI data centers; SpaceX plans to use upgraded Starlink satellites for AI computing payloads — Space companies backed by tech billionaires hope to move AI data centers off Earth — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have raced …
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Forums: r/ASTSpaceMobile and r/BlueOrigin
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son, who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT — The estate of victim Suzanne Eberson Adams is suing OpenAI for wrongful death, and her grandson is speaking out for the first time
More: Washington Post, Axios, New York Post, Digit, Fox News, WinBuzzer, and Metro.co.uk
Bluesky: @nitasha, @judah-grunstein, @metacurity.com, and @justinhendrix
| Wall Street Journal: |
China's power grid, the world's largest, gives it an edge in the global AI contest, helping Chinese companies develop AI models more cheaply than US competitors — Push for power supremacy transforms Inner Mongolia; tech leaders worry about U.S.-China ‘electron gap’
More: MarketWatch
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Stanford researchers develop AI hacking bot Artemis and say it surpassed nine out of 10 penetration testers by rapidly finding bugs in the university's network — A recent Stanford experiment shows what happens when an artificial-intelligence hacking bot is unleashed on a network| Financial Times: |
Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 — Dutch payments group aims to create new European fintech — Dutch payments group Mollie has agreed to acquire …
More: Sifted, Tech.eu, Balderton Capital, and Bloomberg
| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 finds that health, career, and relationship topics dominated users' questions — People are increasingly turning to Microsoft's Copilot chatbot for advice about their health, careers and relationships …
More: The Register, Microsoft AI, Microsoft, The Indian Express, Thurrott, Implicator.ai, and GeekWire. Bluesky: @worklesshard
| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Sei partners with Xiaomi to preinstall its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 — The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages — Connected Life combines Nest and Abode devices with AT&T cellular backup to stay online during outages.
More: Wired
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests — Fertility startup Inito has raised $29 million in Series B funding to scale its at-home health diagnostics platform …
More: MediaBrief, VCCircle, Tech in Asia, Entrackr, and DealStreetAsia
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation — Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it's also got a wildly popular developer-tool side-hustle called “Backstage.”| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Memo: Google names Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to chief technologist for AI infrastructure, reporting to Sundar Pichai — THE SCOOP — With the rapid buildout of infrastructure taking center stage in the tight AI race between tech giants …
More: Benzinga, TechCrunch, Reuters, Tech in Asia, The Hans India, Business Today, and The Indian Express
| The Information: |
Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team — Throughout the past couple of years, as AI fever swept China's technology sector, one giant—Tencent—seemed to mostly be sitting on the sidelines.
More: Tom's Hardware
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M — Flaviu Radulesc started Runware in 2023 when he was testing a text-to-image company and realized that, though genAI tech was powerful, it was slow in generating images.
More: Tech.eu and Tech Funding News
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US App Store, up from fourth in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Apple on Wednesday released its annual list of the most downloaded apps and games for the year.| Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Invest Like The Best on YouTube: |
Q&A with investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management on the economics of AI, data centers in space, mistakes SaaS companies are making in adopting AI, and more — In this episode of Invest Like The Best, Patrick O'Shaughnessy sits down with investor Gavin Baker to explore the rapidly evolving AI landscape.| Francesca Micheletti / Politico: |
The EU opens investigations into Temu and airport scanner maker Nuctech to assess whether they unfairly penetrated the EU market thanks to Beijing subsidies — The Commission is probing whether the companies receive unfair support from Beijing when they operate in Europe.| Peyton Bigora / Grocery Dive: |
Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300+ US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30%+ since its August launch — The company has expanded the service to 2,300 markets and said customers who buy perishables through the offering shop twice as often as those who don't.
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