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Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups  —  OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot …
Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
The US imposes visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints  —  The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed  —  The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.
Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its “regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures”  —  The European Union's executive on Wednesday warned that it would take action against any “unjustified measures” …
Elvira Pollina / Reuters:
Italy's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp; Meta calls the decision “fundamentally flawed”  —  Italy's antitrust authority (AGCM) on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms (META.O) to suspend contractual terms …
Reuters:
How CEO Lip-Bu Tan gave Intel a lifeline after meeting with Trump in August; sources say Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped moving forward  —  It was a Thursday before dawn in Silicon Valley when Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan found himself under attack by the president of the United States.
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Waymo says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages, after pausing its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20  —  Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause it driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company …
Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass  —  Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don't misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S.
Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg:
AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet  —  Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing.
Kiran Rathee / The Economic Times:
Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October  —  The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations.
More: TechRadar
Eunice Xu / South China Morning Post:
Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C  —  The Beijing-based AI-for-Science firm said the Series C round would fund hiring and R&D, as interest grows in using AI to speed up scientific discovery

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