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OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images — OpenAI is rolling out an update to ChatGPT that's intended to generate images better and faster, the latest move by the artificial intelligence developer …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B+ in OpenAI at a $500B+ valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models — Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B led by Alphabet at a valuation near $100B, and has achieved an annual revenue run rate above $350M — Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s autonomous driving unit, is in discussions to raise more than $15 billion at a valuation near $100 billion …
More: The Information, The Information, CNBC, Financial Times, Benzinga, Investing.com, Reuters, and The Information
| New York Times: |
The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants — U.S. officials excoriated the European Union for discriminating against American technology companies and threatened …
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Bluesky: @glinden, @wavesblog, @kylehugh.es, and @campuscodi.risky.biz
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
California DMV says a California administrative law judge recently ruled Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems — A California administrative law judge recently ruled recently that Tesla's marketing around its “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving” …
More: Bloomberg, Engadget, Forbes, Business Insider, Benzinga, CleanTechnica, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, InsideEVs, and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative — Former UK chancellor to lead start-up's effort to spread ‘democratic’ AI across the world — OpenAI has hired former UK chancellor George Osborne …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails and calendar — Google's new AI agent delivers a morning briefing personalized using your emails and calendar. … Google wants you to start your day with AI.
More: The Keyword, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, KnowTechie, Android Authority, and 9to5Google
Bluesky: @lokster71, @florini, and @mattknight
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Databricks is raising a $4B+ Series L at a $134B valuation, up from $100B in September and $62B in December 2024, and had a $4.8B annual revenue rate in October — The data-analytics and AI software company is raising over $4 billion and crossed $4.8 billion in annual revenue rate
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York — DoorDash Inc. is experimenting with a standalone artificial intelligence-powered app for users to find new restaurants, expanding its reach beyond its flagship food-delivery service.
More: TechCrunch, Mission Local, and Dexerto
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| The Information: |
A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner — The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion of its smartphone product line …
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Forums: MacRumors Forums and MacRumors Forums
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M — MoEngage, a customer engagement platform used by consumer brands across 75 countries, has raised $180 million in a Series F follow …
More: Entrackr, The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, and MoEngage
| Financial Times: |
Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating — A year of internal disorder, fluctuating priorities and colossal spending at Meta has rattled insiders and investors
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Meta is partnering with Singapore-based K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, with plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026 — Tech giant plans to roll out new AgeKey technology across multiple countries next year — Meta is adopting a new age-checking system …
More: OpenAge Initiative, OpenAge Initiative Blog, and OpenAge Initiative on LinkedIn. LinkedIn: k-ID
| Ismi Damayanti / Nikkei Asia: |
Shares of Super Bank Indonesia, a Grab-backed digital lender, rose by 24% during their stock market debut in Jakarta, after the company raised ~$168M in its IPO — JAKARTA — The share price of Super Bank Indonesia, a digital lender backed by Singapore's Grab and South Korea's KakaoBank … | Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares jumped as much as 755% in its Shanghai debut after a heavily oversubscribed $585.8M IPO, pushing its market cap past $42B — MetaX Integrated Circuits Shanghai Co. soared in its first day of trading on Wednesday, the latest outsized debut by a Chinese chipmaker …
More: Reuters, CNBC, Economic news, Malay Mail, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, and BSS
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures — Adaptive Security has raised an $81 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, co-founder and CEO Brian Long tells Axios Pro.| Jessica Testa / New York Times: |
Netflix announces a partnership with iHeartMedia to exclusively publish 15+ video podcasts from early 2026, including The Breakfast Club and My Favorite Murder — The streaming service now has about 30 video podcasts lined up for 2026, including the influential radio show “The Breakfast Club.”
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X updates its ToS to claim rights to the “Twitter” trademark and countersues Operation Bluebird after the startup filed an application to trademark the term — Elon Musk's X is updating its Terms of Service to indicate it still lays claim to the “Twitter” trademark.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms — Meta Platforms Inc.'s Instagram unveiled its first dedicated TV app, which lets users watch the short-form video feature Reels on a larger screen.
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Threads: @veronique_medrano, @jdickerson, @mosseri, @juliabeverly, @jolenesugarbaker, and @eddygraphic1
| Xiaomi Mimo: |
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios — Today, we are releasing and open-sourcing MiMo-V2-Flash. It is a powerful, efficient, and ultra-fast foundation language model …
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M — Partner offers — Quick Take — RedotPay, a stablecoin-based payments fintech, has raised $107 million in a Series B round …
More: RedotPay, Blockhead, DealStreetAsia, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: New York-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone, valuing the company at $9B, up from $6B in June — Investment values company at $9 billion as investor interest in cybersecurity startups grows — Blackstone is leading a $400 million investment … | Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone — Exploratory conversations have taken place between Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test …
More: 9to5Mac
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO, after years of its for-profit arm juggling layoffs, restructuring, its Google dependence, and the AI landscape — Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks there's room for another browser, even an AI browser — as long as you can trust it.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection — Amazon.com Inc. is partnering with a JPMorgan Chase & Co.-backed startup to provide financing for small online businesses … Sponsor Posts
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