|
December 12, 2025, 8:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| 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.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI — The new executive order comes as a growing group of Republicans criticize Trump's staunch support of the tech industry's ambitions for artificial intelligence.| Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard — White House AI czar David Sacks defended President Donald Trump's push to rein in state-level regulation of artificial intelligence …
More: CNBC, The American Bazaar, The Information, Crypto Briefing, Tech in Asia, and CBS News
X: @mrddmia and @davidsacks
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
More: NPR, MobiHealthNews, San Francisco Business Times, Florida Politics, and Reuters
| Reuters: |
More: The White House, Wired, Tech Policy Press, New York Times, eWeek, The Atlantic, New York Post, Colorado Politics, Reason, BBC, Washington Post, Lawfare, Transformer, E&E News, Dailyfly News, Techstrong.ai, MS NOW, StateScoop, PCMag, The Record, CNBC, Associated Press, Barron's Online, The Verge, Politico, and NBC News
X: @collin_mccune, @davidsacks47, @sentedcruz, @davidsacks47, @pmarca, @neil_chilson, @repdonbeyer, @kelseytuoc, @kelseytuoc, @mattyglesias, @natpurser, @kelseytuoc, @wsteaks, @adamthierer, @altcap, @bgurley, @pmarca, @chamath, @sriramk, and @rapidresponse47
LinkedIn: David Schweidel and Keri Tietjen Smith
Bluesky: @murray.senate.gov, @haroldfeld, @noethematt, @datasociety, @mattmcneilshow, @maxkennerly, @karrieurbanist, @ketanjoshi.co, @jjvincent, @ketanjoshi.co, @lorak, @vanhollen.senate.gov, @sarajacobs.house.gov, @altnps, and @thereverended
Mastodon: @fromjason@mastodon.social and @kevin@mastodon.km6g.us
| 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 …
More: Tom's Hardware, Yahoo Finance, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Benzinga, Heatmap News, Investor's Business Daily, Platformonomics, Reuters, The Information, DatacenterDynamics, ZeroHedge News, Proactive, Blockonomi, Capital Brief, and New York Times
X: @kobeissiletter, @prof_heist, @capitalobserver, @deitaone, and @8teapi
Bluesky: @wittywebhandle, @shiv.ing, @bwnash, @edzitron.com, @edzitron.com, @renrut-mas, @pbshaughnessy, @inlaymonsterms, @torontowill, and @chrisharvey. Forums: r/BetterOffline
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
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 … | 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: The National Pulse, Implicator.ai, ZeroHedge News, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, and The Information
Bluesky: @jessefelder and @sensehofstede.nl
| 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 …
More: World, PYMNTS.com, The American Bazaar, Cointelegraph, TestingCatalog, Gizmodo, Tech in Asia, and The Crypto Times
X: @ptraughber, @koide_dev, @tiagosada, @worldcoin, @world_chain_, and @tom_waite_. Mastodon: @madeindex@mastodon.social
Forums: r/worldnews and r/offbeat
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month — Intel Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. for about $1.6 billion including debt …
More: Tech in Asia and Dow Jones Newswires
| Financial Times: |
Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas — Stock price of company co-founded by ex-US energy secretary Rick Perry fell as much as 46% — Shares in data centre real estate group Fermi almost halved … | 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 … | Loren Grush / Bloomberg: |
Internal message: SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale at $421/share, valuing the company at ~$800B, and said it's preparing for a possible IPO in 2026 — SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale that values Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker at about $800 billion … | 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.
More: Business Wire, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, NFTgators, and The Block
X: @solana, @imperooterxbt, @j0hnwang, @kalshi, @orangie, @phantom, @mansourtarek_, and @nftmufettisi
| Rachyl Jones / Semafor: |
Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery — Singapore-based ChemLex raised $45 million to build out its autonomous chemistry lab with hopes it can speed drug discovery and therapy development …
More: ChemLex
| 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
More: SiliconANGLE. X: @mascobot, @rown, @_kevinlu, @natolambert, @tszzl, @miramurati, @giffmana, @thinkymachines, and @dchaplot. LinkedIn: Devendra Chaplot. Bluesky: @zzstoatzz.io
| 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.| Andrew Welsch / Barron's Online: |
Automated digital wealth management company Wealthfront's stock closed up 1.36% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at ~$2.7B, after raising $486M in its IPO — Wealthfront stock trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol WLTH. Its IPO priced at the top of its expected range.| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants “semiconductor independence” and to “prop up and subsidize Huawei” — China has figured out the US strategy for allowing it to buy Nvidia Corp.'s H200 and is rejecting the AI chip … | 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: @gaberivera, @ashleymayer, and @alexeheath
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @fahadhumayun.com, @tamela, @ketanjoshi.co, @niedermeyer.online, @prietschka, @michaelsderby, @shelleybwoke, @markmcgeoghegan, @martingeorge, @tupped, @chronotope.aramzs.xyz, @gillinger.se, @sky.skymarchini.net, @caseynewton, @davidevanlovett, and @alexeheath.com. Threads: @kurtwag8
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps — Fallout's season one recap wrongly stated that The Ghoul's flashback takes place in the 1950s, rather than the year 2077.
More: Gizmodo, Forbes, BBC, IGN, Engadget, The Wrap, The A.V. Club, Mashable, GamesRadar, Business Insider, Thurrott, PCWorld, Digital Trends, Consequence, Cord Cutters News, TheGamer, PCMag, and TechRadar
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @scriban, @caseynewton, and @tyleraking.com
| Reuters: |
Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed — Crypto group Tether said on Friday it has submitted an all-cash proposal to the holding company of the Agnelli family to buy …
More: Tether, The Information, The Block, CoinDesk, The Athletic, Decrypt, Bloomberg, Reuters, BeInCrypto, Watcher Guru, and Coinpedia Fintech News
Sponsor Posts
Airtable:
The central nervous system of your business — Used by 80% of Fortune 100 companies, Airtable combines AI with the scale of an infinitely flexible, no-code system. With all your data in one place, it's like mission control for your company.
The central nervous system of your business — Used by 80% of Fortune 100 companies, Airtable combines AI with the scale of an infinitely flexible, no-code system. With all your data in one place, it's like mission control for your company.
Intel:
5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®
5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®
Zoho:
Keep your business moving with delegated signing in Zoho Sign — Contracts piling up while you're traveling or stuck in back-to-back meetings? With Zoho Sign's delegated signing feature, those delays will be a thing of the past.
Keep your business moving with delegated signing in Zoho Sign — Contracts piling up while you're traveling or stuck in back-to-back meetings? With Zoho Sign's delegated signing feature, those delays will be a thing of the past.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Hard Fork:
A.I. Goes to War + Is 'A.I. Brain Fry' Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey's Identity
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Great Chat:
What comes after the Girl Boss?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Lenny's Podcast:
How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Everybody Goes Home: How technology is helping prevent wildfires from spreading
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Synthesia's Victor Riparbelli: Using AI To Replace Boring PowerPoints With Interactive Video
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
The Nick, Dick and Paul Show:
The Death of Hollywood? W/ Allan Loeb
Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo, and Paul Kedrosky pull back the curtain on AI, startups, and the future rushing toward us, all with healthy dose of irreverence.
Subscribe to The Nick, Dick and Paul Show.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:10 PM ET, December 12, 2025.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:Washington Post:
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Xuedong Huang / Zoom: |
| Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz: |
More: Puck. X: @shakeelhashim, @alexeheath, @gergelyorosz, @alexrkonrad, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, and @leozera
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
More: Eine effektive Aufsicht …, AppleInsider, GSMArena.com, iPhone in Canada, Wccftech, and 9to5Mac. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
More: Council of the EU, Euractiv, Courthouse News Service, The Irish Times, Forbes Middle East, Le Monde, TheJournal.ie, and Bloomberg
Forums: r/diypedals, r/AnimeFigures, and r/BuyFromEU
Earlier Picks
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: Ars Technica, LAW.com, Above Avalon, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, ip fray, Android Headlines, Silicon UK, CoinCentral, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada, Apple - Gadget Hacks, KnowTechie, and Bloomberg
X: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @florian4gamers, @gergelyorosz, @timsweeneyepic, @gergelyorosz, @theo, @timsweeneyepic, and @dhh. Bluesky: @shiraovide
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Slashdot, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
More: Engadget, Associated Press, Gizmodo, BBC, TechCrunch, Telegraph, Mashable, iPhone in Canada, Semafor, ABC, JURIST, Silicon Republic, The Guardian, Benzinga, Sydney Morning Herald, Crikey, Tech in Asia, Agence France-Presse, CNET, 9News, Australian Financial Review, Capital Brief, Washington Times, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg Law
X: @billyez2, @taylorlorenz, @offguardian0, @taylorlorenz, @berniesanders, @loudmouthjulia, @fsuofaustralia, @latikambourke, and @cameronwilson. Bluesky: @karmel80
Forums: r/RedditSafety, r/FreeSpeech, r/neoliberal, r/redditstock, and Slashdot
| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
More: KitGuru, Game World Observer, France 24, Le Monde, GamesIndustry.biz, GamesRadar, GamesRadar, Bloomberg, Kotaku, GameSpot, and TheGamer
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, Mashable, Chrome Unboxed, eWeek, Android Central, WinBuzzer, BGR, The Verge, Business Standard, Android Authority, The Indian Express, and Engadget
X: @benbajarin. Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com. Forums: r/technology, r/GeminiAI, r/google, and r/technology
| Axios: |
More: The Walt Disney Company, NEWS BBVA, AR Insider, Business Insider, MobileSyrup, Nikkei Asia, Forbes, Financial Times, France 24, The Hollywood Reporter, SiliconANGLE, AfroTech, Analytics India Magazine, Music Ally, The Hans India, MediaNama, Verdict, Proactive, DigiTimes, Bloomberg, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @sarafischer. LinkedIn: Johannes Larcher and Daniel Friedlaender. Bluesky: @racebannon. Forums: r/ChatGPT