| 9:55 PM • | Gene Maddaus / Variety: Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links |
| 9:35 PM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical vulnerability, including in third-party code, impacting its online services is eligible for awards |
| 8:40 PM • | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “skills” mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs |
| 8:01 PM • | Loren Grush / Bloomberg: Internal message: SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale at $421/share, valuing the company at ~$800B, and said it's preparing for a possible IPO in 2026 |
| 7:05 PM • | Rachyl Jones / Semafor: Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery |
| 6:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month |
| 6:35 PM • | Andrew Welsch / Barron's Online: Automated digital wealth management company Wealthfront's stock closed up 1.36% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at ~$2.7B, after raising $486M in its IPO |
| 6:20 PM • | Financial Times: Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas |
| 5:35 PM • | Reuters: Exor rejects Tether's all-cash offer for its 65.4% majority stake in Juventus, which valued the Italian soccer club at $1.17B |
| 5:15 PM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue |
| 5:00 PM • | Xuedong Huang / Zoom: Zoom says its “federated AI” model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools |
| 4:00 PM • | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants “semiconductor independence” and to “prop up and subsidize Huawei” |
| 2:55 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps |
| 2:20 PM • | Thinking Machines Lab: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more |
| 2:15 PM • | Bloomberg: David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard |
| 1:55 PM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Google expands Google Translate's live speech translation from Pixel Buds to any headphones, supporting 70+ languages, in beta on compatible Android phones |
| 1:30 PM • | Axios: Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump |
| 12:40 PM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: X reported $752M in Q3 revenue, up 17% YoY, a net loss of $577.4M, and EBITDA of ~$454M, up 16%; revenue for the first nine months of 2025 was $2B+ |
| 12:30 PM • | Ann Gehan / The Information: Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales |
| 12:05 PM • | Rocket Drew / The Information: Companies are updating insider trading policies to cover prediction markets; Kalshi and others are pushing for federal oversight, including of insider trading |
| 11:17 AM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Oracle has delayed completion of some OpenAI data centers from 2027 to 2028, largely due to labor and material shortages; Oracle denies delays |
| 11:10 AM • | Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: Kalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B |
| 11:00 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD |
| 10:25 AM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity updates World to make it a “super app” with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto |
| 9:50 AM • | Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI |
| 9:40 AM • | Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz: [Thread] Substack quietly added a feature that forced subscribers to download the app to read full newsletters, but says it reverted the change after complaints |
| 9:15 AM • | Reuters: Serval, which offers an AI assistant for IT, HR, legal, and finance, raised a $75M Series B led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $127M |
| 8:55 AM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws |
| 8:45 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Nvidia told its Chinese clients that it is evaluating adding production capacity for its H200 chips after orders exceeded its current output level |
| 8:35 AM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 chip, used in its Mate 80 Pro Max phone, is China's most advanced chip to date and was produced with SMIC's updated 7nm tech |
| 7:55 AM • | John Liu / Bloomberg: Sources: China is considering a ~$28B-to-$70B incentives package, which would be separate from the $50B Big Fund III plan, to support its chipmaking industry |
| 7:50 AM • | Reuters: EU finance ministers agree on a €3 customs duty on low-value parcels from July 2026, aiming to crack down on Chinese imports from retailers like Shein and Temu |
| 6:50 AM • | Kirsty Needham / Reuters: Papua New Guinea says Google will build three subsea cables for the country, a $120M effort funded by Australia, amid China boosting its influence in the region |
| 4:55 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center, with Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation |
| 2:30 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Intel has tested chipmaking tools in 2025 from California-based ACM Research, which has deep China ties; US sanctions targeted two ACM overseas units |
| 2:00 AM • | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Newsletter: GPT-5.2 models have a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, like GPT-5 and 5.1, but have an August 31, 2025, knowledge cutoff, vs. September 30, 2024 |
| 12:55 AM • | Alex Heath / Sources: An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking |
| 11:15 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on the Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal “completely shuts down” App Store rules letting Apple collect “junk fees” |
| 10:55 PM • | Reuters: Reddit files a lawsuit against Australia to overturn its social media ban for under-16s, saying it “infringes the implied freedom of political communication” |
| 10:35 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an “AI Litigation Task Force” that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge “inconsistent” state AI laws |
| 9:55 PM • | Zachary Small / New York Times: A look at France-based indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had a sub-$10M budget and sold 5M+ copies |
| 8:50 PM • | Dara Kerr / The Guardian: xAI partners with El Salvador to deploy Grok across 5,000+ public schools, reaching 1M+ students in an “AI-powered education program” over the next two years |
| 7:55 PM • | OpenAI: On OpenAI's 10-year anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on “a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity” |
| 7:35 PM • | CNBC: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says Anthropic placed an additional $11B order in Q4 |
| 6:55 PM • | Reuters: President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval” |
| 6:05 PM • | Maria Curi / Axios: New US OMB guidance states that LLMs procured by federal agencies must comply with two “unbiased AI principles”: “truth-seeking” and “ideological neutrality” |
| 5:15 PM • | Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August |
| 4:25 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Broadcom Q4: revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above est., and expects AI chip sales to double YoY to $8.2B; AVGO falls 10%+ |
| 4:20 PM • | Issie Lapowsky / Transformer: Sources: New York's governor proposes rewriting the RAISE Act, the AI bill that passed NY legislature in June, with text copied verbatim from California's SB 53 |
| 3:45 PM • | Bloomberg: A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple, but says Apple can argue in a lower court to charge <27% for transactions outside the App Store |
| 2:40 PM • | Kritika Lamba / Reuters: Fortnite returns to Google Play in the US following a US District Court injunction; Google and Epic settled last week, after a years-long antitrust dispute |
| 2:20 PM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Bob Iger says Disney's OpenAI deal “does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all”, as it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices |
| 2:15 PM • | @openaidevs: [Thread] GPT-5.2 is now available in the API, priced at $1.75/1M input and $14/1M output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro is priced at $21/1M input and $168/1M output tokens |
| 2:10 PM • | Dade Hayes / Deadline: New York's governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating heirs' consent to use a deceased person's likeness commercially |
| 1:45 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost |
| 1:40 PM • | Time: Time names “the Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year and examines AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how people interact with the world |
| 1:30 PM • | The Verge: OpenAI's Fidji Simo says she expects ChatGPT's “adult mode” to launch in Q1 2026 and that OpenAI wants to get better at age prediction before adding the feature |
| 1:25 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history |
| 1:17 PM • | Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 and is more reliable for agentic AI needs; prerelease testers include Notion, Box, Shopify, and Zoom |
| 1:06 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI debuts GPT-5.2, its “best model yet”, in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning benchmarks |
| 12:40 PM • | The Keyword: Google DeepMind debuts an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent, available to developers via its new Interactions API, along with agent benchmark DeepSearchQA |
| 12:30 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip, the Rivian Autonomy Processor, and will launch a foundation “Large Driving Model”, for fully autonomous driving |
| 12:20 PM • | TechCrunch: Runway debuts GWM-1, its first world model, which uses frame-by-frame prediction to simulate physics, and adds native audio and multi-shot generation to Gen 4.5 |
| 12:00 PM • | Axios: The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations |
| 11:45 AM • | Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal: Palantir expands its Percepta lawsuit, accusing Percepta's co-founders of poaching its workers and customers, and another employee of stealing confidential docs |
| 11:25 AM • | Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Worktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and releases a workflow automation agent |
| 11:15 AM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing via Cursor's agent |
| 10:50 AM • | Carlos Garcia / Fortune: Berlin-based LI.FI, which provides businesses with price comparisons of crypto exchange rates and bridging fees, raised $29M, taking its total funding to ~$52M |
| 10:30 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages |
| 9:58 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist letter, accusing Google of “massive scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” its content |
| 9:20 AM • | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Stanford researchers develop AI hacking bot Artemis and say it surpassed nine out of 10 penetration testers by rapidly finding bugs in the university's network |
| 9:05 AM • | OpenAI: Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer |
| 8:50 AM • | Clare Duffy / CNN: Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers; TikTok says that 14 of the accounts don't violate its rules |
| 8:25 AM • | Steve Dent / Engadget: Google brings Gemini to Chrome for iOS and iPadOS, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English for signed-in users |
| 8:15 AM • | Financial Times: Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 |
| 8:10 AM • | The Information: Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including by offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team |
| 7:50 AM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests |
| 7:30 AM • | Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M |
| 7:15 AM • | Francesca Micheletti / Politico: The EU opens investigations into Temu and airport scanner maker Nuctech to assess whether they unfairly penetrated the EU market thanks to Beijing subsidies |
| 6:40 AM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M |
| 6:25 AM • | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation |
| 6:05 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation |
| 5:55 AM • | Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son, who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT |
| 5:00 AM • | Tim Dettmers: An Ai2 research scientist says AGI may never emerge because such a concept ignores the physical realities and limits of computation, such as energy constraints |
| 2:50 AM • | Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management on the economics of AI, data centers in space, mistakes SaaS companies are making in adopting AI, and more |
| 2:45 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks |
| 2:35 AM • | Hayden Field / The Verge: A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project from two Anthropic employees to an industry standard managed by the Linux Foundation |
| 2:30 AM • | Wall Street Journal: China's power grid, the world's largest, gives it an edge in the global AI contest, helping Chinese companies develop AI models more cheaply than US competitors |
| 2:25 AM • | Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: a16z crypto expands to Asia, opens a Seoul office, hires Monad's Sungmo Park as its Asia head, and calls South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market |
| 2:20 AM • | The Economic Times: Uber launches its B2B logistics service Uber Direct in India with ONDC integration, starting in Bengaluru with grocery deliveries for Zepto and KPN Farm Fresh |
| 1:25 AM • | Wall Street Journal: US investors are boosting Chinese AI-related tech stocks and adding cash to ETFs tracking China's tech sector, as US lawmakers push for tighter capital curbs |
| 1:15 AM • | Ben Elgin / Bloomberg: Uber discontinues its monthly EV bonuses as it scales back key climate efforts after embracing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which slashed clean-energy incentives |
| 12:10 AM • | Reuters: JD.com's JingDong Industrials, a supply chain tech and services provider, opened down 7.8% after the company raised ~$383M in its Hong Kong IPO |
| 11:15 PM • | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup planning to launch a “Twitter.new” social network, petitions the USPTO to cancel X's trademarks over “abandonment” |
| 10:45 PM • | Megan Morrone / Axios: A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 finds that health, career, and relationship topics dominated users' questions |
| 9:50 PM • | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: Google DeepMind plans to open its first “automated science laboratory” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more |
| 9:05 PM • | Reuters: Sources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B+ over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval |
| 8:45 PM • | Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: Sei partners with Xiaomi to preinstall its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 |
| 8:15 PM • | Courtney Rozen / Reuters: US state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and nine others, warning that their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws |
| 7:45 PM • | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: The US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a Designated Contract Market license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets betting platform Gemini Titan |
| 7:20 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid |
| 6:50 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify says it will test Prompted Playlist, which lets users describe what they want to hear and receive a unique set of songs based on their listening history |
| 6:20 PM • | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Memo: Google names Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to chief technologist for AI infrastructure, reporting to Sundar Pichai |
| 5:50 PM • | Peyton Bigora / Grocery Dive: Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300+ US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30%+ since its August launch |
| 5:20 PM • | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users star Top Stories in Search, and Spotlighting, which highlights links from users' news subscriptions |
| 4:55 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US App Store, up from fourth in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram |
| 4:30 PM • | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $6.19B, Digital Media revenue up 11% YoY to $4.62B, $7.13B in net income, and forecasts FY 2026 revenue above estimates |
| 4:25 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $16.06B, below $16.21B est., and raises its FY capex forecast to ~$50B, up from $35B as of September; ORCL drops 15%+ |
| 4:00 PM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Reddit starts a limited alpha test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark next to the usernames of notable people or businesses |
| 3:30 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: Google is set to be hit with a potentially large EU fine in Q1 2026 if it doesn't do more to ensure that Google Play complies with EU competition rules |
| 3:25 PM • | Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI says the cyber capabilities of its frontier AI models are accelerating, and warns that upcoming models are likely to pose a “high” cybersecurity risk |
| 3:15 PM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine |
| 3:05 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Blue Origin has worked for over a year on tech for orbital AI data centers; SpaceX plans to use upgraded Starlink satellites for AI computing payloads |
| 2:55 PM • | Reuters: Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba have asked Nvidia about placing large orders for H200 chips after Trump's export approval, as they remain concerned about supply |
| 2:05 PM • | Peter Chapman / Bloomberg: Sources: EU competition watchdogs raided Temu's European headquarters in Dublin last week, amid suspicions Temu may have received unfair subsidies from Beijing |
| 1:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Tim Cook met with US lawmakers in a closed-door meeting to lobby against provisions in pending legislation that would require app stores to verify users' ages |
| 1:25 PM • | Financial Times: Nick Clegg joins London-based VC firm Hiro Capital as a general partner, and Yann LeCun joins the firm as an adviser; sources say Hiro is raising a €500M+ fund |
| 12:45 PM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Google unveils Emergency Live Video, similar to iOS' Emergency SOS Live Video, that lets US users on Android 8 or later to share live video with 911 responders |
| 12:15 PM • | Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: Dropbox says its CFO Timothy Regan will step down after five years in the role and will be succeeded by Avalara president Ross Tennenbaum; DBX drops 7.55% |
| 12:05 PM • | Jem Aswad / Variety: TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato |
| 11:55 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 |
| 11:30 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube plans to launch 10+ genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, like a Sports Plan with ESPN Unlimited, NBC Sports Network, and Fox Sports 1 |
| 10:45 AM • | Lauren Johnson / Adweek: Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts |
| 10:30 AM • | Benoît Morenne / Wall Street Journal: Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017 |
| 10:20 AM • | Pia Singh / CNBC: Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma |
| 10:05 AM • | Bloomberg: In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine |
| 9:40 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Nvidia says that it hasn't seen “substantiation or received tips” about chip smuggling via data centers outside of China, after The Information's DeepSeek story |
| 9:30 AM • | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11" display and productivity features |
| 9:20 AM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, which lets publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers |
| 9:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Meta's new AI model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in spring 2026 as a “closed” model, and was trained using Google's Gemma, OpenAI's gpt-oss, and Qwen |
| 8:50 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go |
| 8:43 AM • | Reece Rogers / Wired: Instagram launches Your Algorithm in the US, an AI-powered feature that lets users influence their Reels feed by picking topics they want to see more or less of |
| 8:30 AM • | Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: How US startups like Oakland-based Brimstone are racing to develop sources of raw materials that the US needs for tech, an industry China has long dominated |
| 8:05 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added ChatGPT app integrations in October |
| 7:55 AM • | New York Times: Sources: Lip-Bu Tan's dual roles as Intel CEO and tech investor cause consternation in the industry and at Intel; four ex-Intel execs say it caused them to exit |
| 7:45 AM • | Justina Lee / Bloomberg: Betting exchange Matchbook plans to launch a prediction market platform in the UK in January 2026 as a “road test” before a planned US launch as early as March |
| 7:35 AM • | Joe Wilkins / Futurism: McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash |
| 7:25 AM • | Joseph Menn / Washington Post: The Tech Transparency Project: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps for US-sanctioned companies; Google removed 17 and Apple removed 35 |
| 7:15 AM • | The Information: Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries |
| 7:05 AM • | Bloomberg: How President Trump's tariffs ended China's monopoly on making US game consoles, boosting Vietnam, whose exports jumped from $30M/month in 2024 to $400M in May |
| 6:50 AM • | Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources detail tensions between Meta's TBD Lab and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg over computing, company goals, priorities, and more |
| 6:40 AM • | Ofcom: A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50%+ of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services |
| 6:30 AM • | Nasteho Said / Bloomberg: As Australia bans under-16s from social media platforms, TikTok-powered video app Lemon8, friends-only photo app Yope, and others climb Apple's App Store charts |
| 6:20 AM • | David E. Sanger / New York Times: President Trump letting Nvidia sell AI chips to China reverses decades of the US' tech restrictions on its adversaries, giving China a boost in the AI race |
| 6:10 AM • | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU's General Court reduces a 2023 EU antitrust fine on Intel to €237.1M, down from €376.36M; the EU fined Intel a record €1.06B in 2009, then overturned |
| 5:55 AM • | Christine Chung / New York Times: The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info |
| 5:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Australia's under-16 social media ban currently excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids |
| 4:10 AM • | Peter Andringa / Financial Times: Documents and former US government officials detail the DHS' digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year |
| 3:50 AM • | Bloomberg: An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-on dealmaking approach generated $10B in international gaming revenue over the past year |
| 3:40 AM • | Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners |
| 2:40 AM • | Pew Research Center: A survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% use Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai |
| 2:30 AM • | New York Times: Nexperia's former CEO Frans Scheper says Wingtech, which bought the Dutch chipmaker in 2019, quickly plotted to send Nexperia's research and IP to China |
| 2:25 AM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA |
| 2:20 AM • | The Guardian: Australia eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be “booted off” the platforms in time |
| 2:10 AM • | Dylan Butts / CNBC: Amazon plans to invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the nearly $40B it has invested in India, and expects to create 1M more jobs |
| 2:00 AM • | Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May |
| 1:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10, their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rapidly rising memory chip prices will erode its profit |
| 1:40 AM • | The Guardian: Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a “lower level” than before age checks began; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M+ in mid-August and now stand at 900K |
| 1:15 AM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M+ people was compromised |
| 12:50 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in |
| 12:25 AM • | Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, which they say can analyze tumors in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods |
| 12:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho's stock opened up 54% in its debut, giving the company an ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO |
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