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OpenAI:
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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.
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 …
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
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 …
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
Carlos Garcia / Fortune:
LI.FI, which provides businesses with price comparisons of crypto exchange rates and bridging fees, raised $29M, bringing its total funding to ~$52M  —  When businesses decide to engage with crypto, they quickly discover the landscape is fragmented across numerous blockchains.
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 …
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.
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.”
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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.
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.
Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M  —  Medra, which programs robots with artificial intelligence to conduct and improve biological experiments, has raised $52 million to build …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks  —  Unacademy, once one of India's best-known edtech startups, may now be worth less than $500 million, 85% less …
The Information:
Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including by 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.

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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Filing: Paramount seeks a $1.88B bond from state AGs, based on its calculation of ticking fees and other costs it will have to pay due to the WBD deal delay

Michael Calderone / New York Magazine:
Q&A with WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich about her role, Trump plane swap in Turkey, why the annual dinner is important, Karoline Leavitt stepping down, and more

Max Tani / Semafor:
The Daily Show faces an uncertain future under Paramount; a source says Paramount has a strong interest in renewing Jon Stewart's deal at the end of 2026

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Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users star Top Stories in Search, and Spotlighting, which highlights links from users' news subscriptions
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
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Google unveils Emergency Live Video, similar to iOS' Emergency SOS Live Video, that lets US users on Android 8 or later to share live video with 911 responders
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