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| Ellen O'Regan / Politico: |
The European Commission considers simplifying the 2009 rule that plastered the internet with cookie consent banners, as it seeks to reduce regulatory burdens — In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Oracle promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOs, replacing Safra Catz; Magouyrk previously led Cloud Infrastructure, and Sicilia led Oracle Industries — Oracle Corp. on Monday promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to the joint role of chief executive officer, as Safra Catz … | Axios: |
White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle would retrain; US users wouldn't need to re-download the app — TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease its algorithm from Chinese owner ByteDance under the terms of a proposed deal between the U.S. and China …
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the data center cluster in the Chinese city of Wuhu, where 15 companies, including Huawei, have built data centers with a total investment of $37B — Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy.| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Cardless, which lets Coinbase and others launch co-branded credit cards, raised $60M and projects annualized revenue will grow from $15M now to $150M by Q2 2026 — Cardless, a co-brand credit-card startup, raised $60 million in fresh venture funds to add features and build programs with name-brand clients … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google DeepMind updates its Frontier Safety Framework to account for new risks, including the potential for models to resist shutdown or modification by humans — Google DeepMind said Monday it has updated a key AI safety document to account for new threats — including the risk …
More: Google DeepMind and South China Morning Post
| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
Ethereum's “low-risk DeFi” applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business — One of the important tensions in the Ethereum community for a long time has been the tension between (i) …
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Seattle, transformed into a tech hub by Amazon and Microsoft's explosive growth, is grappling with the companies' layoffs affecting local economy — Amazon and Microsoft remade the Seattle area. Now its economy is feeling the pain of the industry's pullback.
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| Maggie Shiltagh / Bloomberg: |
Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline — Nordic power companies stand to win big from Europe's data-center boom, as cool weather and lower power prices entice more mega-projects northward.| CoinDesk: |
In an interview, Brian Armstrong says Coinbase plans to become a financial super app that integrates its crypto offering with traditional banking services — Brian Armstrong, a co-founder and the CEO of Coinbase (COIN), said in an interview on Friday that Coinbase's long-term goal is to be a financial … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Tide, a neobank used by 1.6M micro and small enterprises, half of them in India, raised $120M led by TPG at a $1.5B valuation — U.K.-based fintech Tide has entered the unicorn club with a fresh funding of $120 million led by TPG, as the startup now serves over 1.6 million micro …
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| Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
The GSA adds Meta's Llama to its list of approved AI tools for US federal agencies, after previously approving Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI's tools — U.S. government agencies will be able to use Meta Platforms' (META.O) artificial intelligence system Llama …
More: Modern Diplomacy, The Independent, FedScoop, Meta Newsroom, and Nextgov/FCW. Bluesky: @fintwitter
| Reuters: |
A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims — Across Southeast Asia, a multibillion-dollar fraud industry has emerged, staffed in part by victims of trafficking.
LinkedIn: Poppy McPherson and Devjyot Ghoshal
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| Naoki Watanabe / Nikkei Asia: |
OECD lists 1,300+ AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled — NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence policies have proliferated worldwide over the past few years as the U.S. … Sponsor Posts
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