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| 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 11%+ — Oracle shares sank 11% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker reported lower quarterly revenue …
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| 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 … | 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, Metro.co.uk, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @metacurity.com, @justinhendrix, @judah-grunstein, and @nitasha
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project made by 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, Windows Central, CIO Dive, Techstrong.ai, ZDNET, ITPro, Windows Report, KnowTechie, CIO.com, It's FOSS, Digit, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, and AIwire
Bluesky: @eean.dev, @cjkarr, @linuxfoundation.org, and @reckless
Forums: r/linux and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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, The Independent, Baller Alert, Digit, and Decrypt
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/Fauxmoi, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
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Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a “major” OpenAI customer — Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.| 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.
More: Spotify, 9to5Mac, Android Police, PCMag, Music Ally, Tech Times, Windows Report, WinBuzzer, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Billboard, The Verge, Engadget, Bloomberg, and How-To Geek
LinkedIn: Rasmus Zwickson and Anna Lundström
| 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 …
More: Fortune, Forbes, ZeroHedge News, Blockonomi, Politico, Benzinga, TheStreet, Blockchain.News, Semafor, Fast Company, The Verge, Analytics India Magazine, Reuters, and Gizmodo
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| 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 says it is expanding to Asia and opening an office in Seoul, calling 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, opening an office Seoul and hiring Sungmo Park to head operations in the region.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google launches Gemini AI features in Chrome for iPhone and iPad, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English — It can summarize pages, create a FAQ on a topic and modify recipes for your dietary needs. — After rolling it out on desktop …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Google, PCMag, Business Standard, and iPhone in Canada
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US App Store, up from 4th 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.| 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 … | 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, Implicator.ai, and Washington Post
| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install 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.| Tim Dettmers: |
An Ai2 research scientist argues that AGI, as commonly conceived, will not emerge because it ignores, among other things, the physical realities of computation — If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI.
| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 finds 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, according to data Microsoft first shared with Axios.
More: The Register, Microsoft AI, Microsoft, The Indian Express, Thurrott, Implicator.ai, and GeekWire
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Internal memo: Google names Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure — THE SCOOP — With the rapid buildout of infrastructure taking center stage in the tight AI race between tech giants …
More: Benzinga, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Hans India, Business Today, and The Indian Express
| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M+ likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules — TikTok AI — AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked … | 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
| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $6.19B, Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.62B, and forecasts FY 2026 revenue above estimates — Adobe (ADBE.O) forecast fiscal 2026 revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, signaling strong demand for the Photoshop maker's design tools …
More: Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, PetaPixel, and Business Wire
| 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.| 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: VCCircle, Tech in Asia, Entrackr, and DealStreetAsia
| 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.| 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 … | 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 — AI agents are being sold as the solution for planning trips, answering business questions, and solving problems of all kinds …
More: Google Cloud Blog, Digit, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, and TestingCatalog
X: @rseroter, @thomasortk, and @rebeccabellan
LinkedIn: Chengliang, Adam Parco, Christopher Duncan, Marie Haynes, and Manoj Methil. Bluesky: @louisgray
| 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.| Reuters: |
Sources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B+ over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval — Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp may pay more than $1 billion to the U.S. government to resolve years-old allegations …
More: DigiTimes, Tech Times, Modern Diplomacy, and GSMArena.com
| 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 …
More: Entrackr, Fortune India, Business Today, The Economic Times, and Inc42 Media
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