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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% — TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios.
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection — Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor. — The TikTok sale is officially happening …
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| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police did not need a warrant to obtain a convicted rapist's Google searches when investigating the crime.
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is something that it's “maintaining” — Connor Hayes wants Meta's X rival to be “the place on the internet to talk about what's going on in the world.”| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado — Alexandr Wang, the company's AI chief, said the new model will debut soon, along with a large language model dubbed Avocado| Jake Kanter / Deadline: |
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads — The Google-owned video giant has switched off Screen Culture and KH Studio, which together boasted well over 2 million subscribers and more than a billion views.
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| Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets — The US Senate on Thursday night confirmed Michael Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois and Michigan over state attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that they fall under the jurisdiction of the CFTC — Coinbase Global Inc. said it is suing the US states of Michigan, Illinois and Connecticut over their attempts to regulate prediction markets.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more — The most advanced agentic coding model for professional software engineering and defensive cybersecurity. — Get started
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| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models — Galaxy S26 could get Samsung's boldest chip yet: Meet the 2nm Exynos 2600. — • — TL;DR
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more — Anthropic's Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents.
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League of Legends, internally called League Next, for 2027; Riot confirms a big update is in the works — A refreshed version being called ‘League Next’ is planned for 2027 — Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of its flagship game League …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
The administrator winding down Do Kwon's Terraform Labs sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging it unlawfully profited from and contributed to Terraform's collapse — Administrator winding down what remains of Terraform Labs is seeking $4 billion in damages — The administrator winding … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
France charges a crew member of an Italian passenger ferry for allegedly infecting the ship with a remote access tool on behalf of a foreign power — French authorities arrested two crew members of an Italian passenger ferry suspected of infecting the ship with malware that could have enabled them to remotely control the vessel.
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| Mistral AI: |
Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages — Overview — Mistral OCR 3 is designed to extract text and embedded images from a wide range of documents with exceptional fidelity.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files — The UK's Foreign Office was the victim of a major cyber attack in October, which officials believe was carried out by Chinese hackers.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's “code red” call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more — OpenAI's CEO joins Big Technology for a candid discussion covering OpenAI's strategy, its product ambitions …
More: Silicon Continent and Don't Worry About the Vase
| Chris McGuire / Council on Foreign Relations: |
US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening — Executive Summary — On December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence …
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LinkedIn: Liza Tobin and Marc Gustafson
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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