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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual sexual images of others, including deepfakes, and require platforms to remove them  —  Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images.
Reece Rogers / Wired:
OpenAI announces that it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites  —  OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says users made over a billion web searches in ChatGPT last week and that WhatsApp users can now message 1-800-ChatGPT to get up-to-date search results  —  OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters  —  Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models the company claims matches …
Joey Roulette / Reuters:
Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites it plans to send into low-Earth orbit  —  The first 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday …
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
A deep dive on GPT-4o's tendency to give sycophantic responses, an issue Sam Altman promised to fix and that may be caused by OpenAI optimizing for engagement  —  GPT-4o tells you what it thinks you want to hear.  —  The results of this were rather ugly.  You get extreme sycophancy.  Absurd praise.
CNBC:
Temu adds “import charges” of between 130% and 150% “due to recent changes in global trade rules and tariffs”; Shein also hikes prices but without explicit fees  —  Chinese e-tailer Temu has started adding “import charges” of about 145% in response to President Donald Trump's tariffs.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
IBM plans to invest $150B in the US over the next five years, including in R&D, to fuel the economy and “accelerate its role as the global leader in computing”  —  Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality  —  Beats' newest exercise headphones …
Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET:
Nothing announces the $279 CMF Phone 2 Pro, with a 6.77" 120Hz AMOLED display and three rear cameras, including a 50MP telephoto lens, plus three new earbuds  —  Nothing's affordable sub-brand, CMF, has announced a new phone alongside a trio of earbuds.  The CMF Phone 2 Pro …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Researchers say bots on Reddit posing as rape victims and more were effective at changing minds in over 1,000 posts, in an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment  —  A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Kickstarter introduces a “Tariff Manager tool” that lets creators add extra charges for backers on projects that were already fully funded  —  Kickstarter projects have the option of asking backers for more money in order to manage the costs of Trump's tariffs.
More: Engadget, The Verge, and Gizmodo
Bluesky: @jasonkoebler, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephcox.  Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to.  Forums: Slashdot
Ben Smith / Semafor:
A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen  —  THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.
More: The Verge, The Information, Politico, Boing Boing, Inc, New Republic, Vanity Fair, Garbage Day, emptywheel, and Raw Story
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @maxread.info, @leahmcelrath, @areidross, @joshsternberg.com, @espiers, @otsumamiboy, @monteiro, @carlbergstrom.com, @karlbode.com, @ryanlcooper.com, @sethcotlar, @nicholasgrossman, @aaronhuertas, @donmoyn, @donmoyn, @cgallaher, @tomscocca, @evanurquhart, @claireconnelly, @harikunzru, @nathalievanraemdonck.com, @reckless, @jonathanfriedman.com, @nathantankus, @wafoli, @esqueer.net, @mmasnick, @twesq, @kyledchurch, @hunterwalk.com, @gaberivera, @donmoyn, @protecttruth, @donmoyn, @originalist, @peark.es, @anildash.com, @jamellebouie.net, @greene.haus, @davidklion, and @davidklion.  Mastodon: @BrideOfLinux@mastodon ….  Threads: @carnage4life
X: @balajis, @benryanwriter, @hissgoescobra, @growing_daniel, @taylorlorenz, @tvietor08, @zichenwanghere, @bmeiselas, @discourse_blog, @silvermanjacob, @davidklion, @kantrowitz, @richardhanania, @jordanschnyc, @kathyf, @bigmeaninternet, @nicknotned, @richardhanania, @evanoconnell, @mikeisaac, @semaforben, @semaforben, @richardhanania, @leehepner, @davidklion, @austen, @richardhanania, @jefflonsdale, @jessicalessin, @ktmboyle, @teddyschleifer, @jtlonsdale, @semaforben, @semaforben, @semaforben, @antoniogm, @buccocapital, @oyhsu, @semaforben, @levie, @lessin, @semaforben, @joshelman, @semaforben, and @semaforben
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueReddit, r/samharris, r/ezraklein, r/BetterOffline, r/signal, r/neoliberal, r/billsimmons, and r/politics

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From Mediagazer

Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

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The Citizen Lab:
In March 2025, World Uyghur Congress members were targeted with a spearphishing campaign via Windows malware in a legitimate Uyghur language word processor

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Jessica Testa / New York Times:
Spotify says it has paid $100M+ to podcast publishers and creators since January 2025 via a new creator program based on Premium subscribers' video engagement
Financial Times:
A deep dive into Apple's iPhone manufacturing process, which uses ~2,700 parts from 187 suppliers in 28 countries; just 30 suppliers have no presence in China
David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY:
Google won the browser wars fair and square, and the web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even to atone for ad market monopoly abuses
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