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December 23, 2025, 10:55 AM

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Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:

The US FCC bans imports, marketing, and sales of new foreign-made drones and components, including from China's DJI and Autel, citing national security concerns — American customers hoarding products in anticipation of restrictions against popular Chinese manufacturer DJI and a smaller competitor, Autel Robotics

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Forums: r/radiocontrol, r/technology, r/politics, and r/fpv

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:

OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an “LLM-based automated attacker” — Even as OpenAI works to harden its Atlas AI browser against cyberattacks, the company admits that prompt injections …

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

The European Commission says Apple will bring AirPods-like pairing and iPhone notification access to third-party devices under the DMA in iOS 26.3 in 2026 — The European Commission today praised the interoperability changes that Apple is introducing in iOS 26.3, once again crediting the Digital Markets Act …

More: Engadget, Cult of Mac, SammyGuru, and SamMobile

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Bonny Chu / Fox News:

The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 — Grok will be deployed across systems serving 3 million military and civilian personnel by early 2026

More: U.S. Department of War, Gizmodo, The Information, xAI, Benzinga, Crypto Briefing, Townhall, TESLARATI, and Sherwood News

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Reece Rogers / Wired:

Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak — Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.

More: Associated Press. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Forums: r/artificial

Yueqi Yang / The Information:

Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, raised $35M for his new global exchange AX, which offers perpetual futures, a source says at a $187M valuation — Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, has raised $35 million for his startup Architect Financial Technologies, which offers a global perpetual futures exchange.

More: Chicago Business and Crypto Briefing

Kate Duguid / Financial Times:

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% — Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020s Covid debt rush

More: Reuters, Silicon UK, Tech in Asia, and Semafor

Bloomberg:

ServiceNow agrees to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75B, set to close in H2 2026, pending approvals; Insight acquired Armis in a $1.1B deal in 2020 — ServiceNow Inc. has reached a deal to buy the cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal valued at $7.75 billion, representing its largest acquisition to date.

More: CyberScoop, Globes, CRN, The Information, Investor's Business Daily, MarketWatch, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, Axios, Constellation Research, Wall Street Journal, Business Wire, VINnews, and Benzinga

MiniMax:

China's MiniMax releases M2.1, an upgrade to its open-source M2 model that it says has “significantly enhanced” coding capabilities in Rust, Java, and others — MiniMax has been continuously transforming itself in a more AI-native way. The core driving forces of this process are models …

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Bloomberg:

Samsung's Harman agrees to acquire ZF's radar and automotive computing driver-assistance business for €1.5B, as the European auto-supplier sector struggles — Samsung Electronics Co.-owned Harman International is buying the advanced driver assistance systems business of Germany's ZF Group …

More: Samsung Newsroom, Reuters, Korea Joongang Daily, Wall Street Journal, electrive.com, SammyGuru, Analytics India Magazine, SamMobile, Automotive World, and KED Global

Financial Times:

Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021 — Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk's platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents

Reuters:

Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's Hong Kong stock fell as much as 6% to ~$8, the lowest since November 21, after it was hit by a cyberattack on December 22 — Shares of Kuaishou (1024.HK) dropped by as much as 6% on Tuesday to HK$62.70 ($8.06), their lowest since November 21 …

More: South China Morning Post, The Cyber Express, and Dow Jones Newswires

Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:

The Canada Pension Plan Board and Australia's Goodman agree to invest $2.6B+ in data centers in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Paris, starting to build in June 2026 — The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Australia's Goodman Group agreed to set up a multibillion dollar European data center business …

More: DatacenterDynamics, Verdict, Capital Brief, Telecompaper, and Dow Jones Newswires

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:

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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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:

Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Gene Maddaus / Variety:

Sources: Paramount reps are expected to meet Monday with the California AG's office to discuss a possible settlement of the antitrust suit blocking the WBD deal

Dominic Patten / Deadline:

Chris Aronson, ex-president of domestic theatrical distribution at Paramount, sues the company, claiming breach of contract and age discrimination

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Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg Law:

The US says China is engaging in unfair trade practices in the chip sector, but holds off on imposing additional tariffs on chip imports at least until mid-2027

More: Reuters and NewsMax.com. Forums: Slashdot

Keith Bradsher / New York Times:

Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern

More: UKTN, Semafor, and BBC

Ivan Zhao / @ivanhzhao:

How AI can work across scales, from individuals to organizations to economies, like steel and the steam engine before it, as AI arrives as “infinite minds”

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Bloomberg:

Sources reveal inconsistencies in Megaspeed's chip inventory, as the US probes the Singapore AI startup over alleged Chinese ownership and Nvidia chip smuggling

More: DigiTimes and Sinocism

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Financial Times:

Sources: ByteDance has made preliminary plans to spend ~$23B in AI capex in 2026, up from ~$20B in 2025, and has budgeted ~$12B for AI processors

More: Benzinga, New York Times, City A.M., Capacity, and Reuters

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The Information:

Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development

NBC Los Angeles:

Vince Zampella, head of EA-owned Respawn Entertainment, ex-CEO of Infinity Ward, and co-creator of Call of Duty, died on December 21 at 55 in a single-car crash

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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

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

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

Axios:

Sources: Erebor, Palmer Luckey's digital bank, raised $350M led by Lux Capital at a $4.35B post-money valuation; Erebor secured US FDIC approval last week

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Bloomberg:

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

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