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Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75B in cash, plus its existing debt, as part of its push to expand its AI data center footprint — Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt …
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Italy's competition watchdog fines Apple €98.6M, saying the company's ATT rules are “disproportionate” and “harmful” to app developers and advertisers — Italy's Competition Authority (AGCM) has imposed a €98.6 million ($116 million) fine on Apple over its App Tracking Transparency feature.
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Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty, died Sunday at 55 in a single-car crash in Southern California — Video game developer Vince Zampella, whose studios have created several of the world's best-selling games, was killed Sunday afternoon in a crash …
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OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — ChatGPT is releasing its own version of Spotify Wrapped. That is, the OpenAI-owned chatbot is now rolling out an annual review feature called …
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Sources: Erebor, Palmer Luckey's digital bank, raised $350M led by Lux Capital at a $4.35B post-money valuation; it secured FDIC approval last week — Erebor, a new digital bank co-founded by Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey, has quietly raised $350 million at a $4.35 billion post-money valuation, Axios has learned.| Bloomberg: |
Uber and Lyft partner with Baidu to trial driverless taxis in the UK in 2026; both companies plan to use Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis — Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. are each teaming up with Baidu Inc. to trial driverless taxis in the UK, as ride-sharing companies race to deploy autonomous services around the world.| Chris Wack / Wall Street Journal: |
Instacart scraps all item price tests after customer pushback, and won't charge different prices for the same items bought from the same store at the same time — Company says retailers will no longer be able to use Eversight technology to run item price tests on Instacart| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia plans to begin shipping its H200 chips to China before mid-February 2026 and expects initial shipments to be ~40,000 to 80,000 H200 units — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has told Chinese clients it aims to start shipping its second-most powerful AI chips to China before the Lunar … | Z.ai: |
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight model that Z.ai says delivers significant improvements in coding performance compared to GLM-4.6 — - Core Coding: GLM-4.7 brings clear gains, compared to its predecessor GLM-4.6, in multilingual agentic coding and terminal-based tasks …
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FanDuel and CME Group launch a prediction market app called FanDuel Predicts in five US states, just days after DraftKings rolled out a similar product — FanDuel, the US online gambling division of Flutter Entertainment Plc, launched its own prediction-market app in five states just days …
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Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal — Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags
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Investigation: in 22 US states, Uber approves drivers with many types of convictions, such as violent felonies, that are over seven years old to keep costs low — The ride-hailing giant's background check process was intended to speed drivers onto its network while keeping costs down, internal documents show.| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Paramount says Larry Ellison “agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4B” for its WBD bid, after WBD's board raised concerns about the offer — Paramount Skydance on Monday guaranteed the backing of billionaire Larry Ellison in an amended offer for Warner Bros. Discovery …
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Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development — More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service that could rival Amazon Web Services … | Bloomberg: |
Filings: Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax report 2024 revenue of $44.4M and $30.5M, respectively, as both prepare for Hong Kong IPOs in the coming weeks — Chinese OpenAI contenders MiniMax and Zhipu AI offered the first look into their business models and profit prospects in listing filings …
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A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more — Is GPU vs TPU the CISC vs RISC contest of the modern era? … All of a sudden, everyone is talking - and writing - about Google's TPUs (Tensor Processing Units).
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