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President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval” — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …
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| Axios: |
Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump — States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
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Google expands Google Translate's live speech translation from Pixel Buds to any headphones, supporting 70+ languages, in beta on compatible Android phones — Live speech translations were once only on the Pixel Buds. … Google Translate's latest update brings live speech translations …
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| Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Kalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B — As Kalshi's trading volume surpasses Polymarket's, it will now offer prediction market access to Phantom's 15 million users on Solana.
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| Reuters: |
Serval, which offers an AI assistant for IT, HR, legal, and finance, raised a $75M Series B led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $127M — AI-powered IT support startup Serval has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia, achieving a $1 billion valuation … | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity updates World to make it a “super app” with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto — World, the biometric ID verification project co-founded by Sam Altman, released the newest version of its app today …
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Reddit files a lawsuit against Australia to overturn its social media ban for under-16s, saying it “infringes the implied freedom of political communication” — Message board website Reddit (RDDT.N) on Friday filed a lawsuit asking the High Court to overturn Australia's social media ban …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on the Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal “completely shuts down” App Store rules letting Apple collect “junk fees” — In an interview, Epic Games' CEO says that an appeals court ruling in its case against Apple is ‘really awesome for all developers.’
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws — Switzerland's competition authority has launched a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access …
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking — Product chief Nikita Bier on journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.” Also: Fidji Simo on OpenAI's Code Red, and a new episode of ACCESS.
X: @alexeheath and @ashleymayer
| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: X reported $752M in Q3 revenue, up 17% YoY, a net loss of $577.4M, and EBITDA of ~$454M, up 16%; revenue for the first nine months of 2025 was $2B+ — Sales at Elon Musk's X jumped during the third quarter, but the social network is still dealing with significant costs …
More: The Information
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle has delayed completion of some OpenAI data centers from 2027 to 2028, largely due to labor and material shortages; Oracle denies delays — Oracle Corp. has pushed back the completion dates for some of the data centers it's developing for the artificial intelligence model developer OpenAI …
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD — Big Tech continues to tiptoe into crypto. The latest example is a move by YouTube to let creators on the video platform choose to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin.
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| John Liu / Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is considering a ~$28B-to-$70B incentives package, which would be separate from the $50B Big Fund III plan, to support its chipmaking industry — China is considering a package of incentives worth as much as $70 billion to bankroll and support its chipmaking industry …
More: Implicator.ai, ZeroHedge News, The National Pulse, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, and The Information
Bluesky: @jessefelder and @sensehofstede.nl
| Thinking Machines Lab: |
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more — Today we are announcing four updates to Tinker: — No more waitlist — New reasoning model: Kimi K2 Thinking
X: @miramurati and @thinkymachines
| CNBC: |
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says Anthropic placed an additional $11B order in Q4 — Broadcom revealed during a September earnings call that it had signed a customer that had placed a $10 billion order for custom chips.
More: The Decoder, DigiTimes, The Register, and Yahoo Finance
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
| Reuters: |
Sources: Intel has tested chipmaking tools in 2025 from California-based ACM Research, which has deep China ties; US sanctions targeted two ACM overseas units — Chipmaker Intel (INTC.O), has tested chipmaking tools this year from a toolmaker with deep roots in China and two overseas units …
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