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Sources: the US pauses a tech trade deal with the UK, signed in September, over disagreements about the UK's online safety rules and digital services taxes — The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain's digital regulations and food safety rules.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Shares of Broadcom, CoreWeave, and Oracle, companies tied to the AI infrastructure buildout, extend last week's decline; ORCL is down 46%+ since September 10 — In at least one corner of the artificial intelligence market, sentiment has turned decidedly negative.| William Sandlund / Financial Times: |
Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure surged in 2025, with CATL up 45% and Sungrow up 130%, as exports boost margins despite Trump's tariffs — Companies such as battery maker CATL earn big margins on export sales despite US tariffs — Shares in Chinese makers of batteries …
More: Financial Times
| Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: |
The Trump administration launches the US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government — After pushing hundreds of thousands of government employees to leave their posts and dismantling many government technology units …
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
CoreWeave's market value fell $33B in six weeks amid construction delays at its Denton, Texas AI data center, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more — The data-center provider's terrible six-week slide picked up speed when a famous short seller piled concerns on top of delays| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal says it has filed applications to establish PayPal Bank to provide loans more efficiently to US small businesses and reduce its reliance on third parties — The payments company says it filed applications with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the FDIC to establish PayPal Bank| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Tesla's shares closed at a 2025 high on December 15 after the company confirmed it is testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator — Nearly six months after launching a limited Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas with safety drivers in the car, the company …
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Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs — Amid Ford's shift away from making large electric vehicles, the automaker is adding a new product line to find a home for its batteries.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover to ex-Googler Diana Layfield in October, was pushed out by the board over an IPO timing clash — Timing for fintech's planned listing was a key aspect of ructions ahead of TS Anil's surprise departure| Gregory Schmidt / New York Times: |
VW plans to end vehicle production at its Dresden plant, which opened in 2001, and convert it into a research hub focused on AI, robotics, and chip design — The auto giant stopped making cars at the plant in Dresden, which opened in 2001, as it faces weaker demand and steep U.S. tariffs.| Rest of World: |
Analysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C — In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot. — On paper, Singapore is a terrible location for a data center.| Reuters: |
China approves two cars from state-owned automakers with Level 3 autonomous capabilities, the first such approvals; the cars can drive in Chongqing and Beijing — China's industry regulator on Monday approved two Chinese cars with level-3 autonomous driving capabilities …
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
As Europe rearms, Anduril is trying to break through in the UK by co-funding major programs, cutting manufacturing deals, and billing itself as “Anglo-American” — As Europe rearms, the US weapons maker is trying to break through in the UK by co-funding major programs …
More: CBS News
| New York Times: |
Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs — Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses.
More: Bloomberg
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and rolls out support for digital keys, after it started phasing out CarPlay in 2023 — General Motors is racing to add more native apps to make up for its decision to block Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
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| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years — Amazon.com Inc.'s decision earlier this year to ax 14,000 employees around the globe is reverberating at the company's European headquarters in Luxembourg.
More: GeekWire
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are “the first fully open byte-level language models”, built on its Olmo 3 models — Enterprises that want tokenizer-free multilingual models are increasingly turning to byte-level language models to reduce brittleness in noisy or low-resource text.
More: WinBuzzer, Ai2, Digit, and Hugging Face
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