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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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| 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
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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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| 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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| TechCrunch: |
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.
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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
More: Benzinga
| 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| 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
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| 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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| 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: Digit, Ai2, and Hugging Face
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: Notion told staff it is doing a $300M tender offer at an $11B valuation, ahead of a potential IPO, and passed $600M in ARR, half of it from AI products — The company, which sells a popular productivity software application and now wants to be an ‘AI everything’ app …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood: some oppose all AI use while others like director Timur Bekmambetov say they are exploring ways to utilize AI tools — While finishing Mercy, his upcoming film starring Chris Pratt, Timur Bekmambetov decided to make a new movie almost entirely generated by artificial intelligence.| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI Chief Communications Officer Hannah Wong plans to leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 — Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.Sponsor Posts
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