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| 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 …
More: OpenAI, The Indian Express, and Digit
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Forums: r/firefox, r/artificial, and r/BetterOffline
| 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
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Coinbase agrees to acquire prediction markets startup The Clearing Company for an undisclosed sum; the startup was founded in 2025 and raised a $15M seed — Partner offers — Quick Take — Coinbase has agreed to acquire The Clearing Company, a prediction markets startup …
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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 — 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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| 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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| 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance has made preliminary plans to spend ~$23B in AI capex in 2026, up from ~$21.3B in 2025, and has budgeted ~$12B for AI processors — ByteDance set to increase capital expenditure next year in effort to further build AI infrastructure — TikTok owner ByteDance is set …
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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 — 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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| 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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| Ivan Zhao / @ivanhzhao: |
| 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 — Singapore-based Megaspeed has imported tens of thousands more chips than Nvidia saw when checking its data centers.
More: Wall Street Journal, City A.M., Sinocism, and DigiTimes
| 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 — What to Know — Prolific video game designer Vince Zampella and a passenger were killed in a crash Sunday on Angeles Crest Highway …
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| Colin Campbell / Axios: |
Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir — Kargo, a San Francisco-based warehouse inventory tech startup, closed a $42 million Series B led by Avenir, the company announced Monday.
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| 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
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