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Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US AI infrastructure buildout, starting with Texas and New York data centers in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026 — Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York.
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Valve unveils a new Steam Machine, a cube-shaped gaming PC with SteamOS, a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and 16GB of RAM, expected in early 2026 — Valve is promising 4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Zoe Thomas / Bloomberg: |
Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless rides on freeways, available 24/7 in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles for users who opt in — Waymo will become the first robotaxi provider in the US to offer driverless rides on highways, a milestone that positions …
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| Financial Times: |
Google files a lawsuit in the SDNY against China-based hackers who it says run the Lighthouse platform for “phishing services”, ensnaring 1M and stealing $1B+ — Tech giant aims to dismantle the ‘Lighthouse Enterprise’, which it claims has tricked 1mn victims out of $1bn
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| Chris Bryant / Bloomberg: |
Michael Burry's warning that hyperscalers are underestimating AI chip depreciation shows that tech investors may have forgotten how much depreciation can hurt — Costing tens of thousands of dollars each, Nvidia Corp.'s pioneering AI chips make up a hefty chunk of the $400 billion …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Digital ID in Apple Wallet, letting iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the US carry a copy of their passport, which can be used at TSA checkpoints — iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the United States will now be able to carry a copy of their U.S. passport on their device …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs debuts Marble, its first world model, which lets users turn prompts, photos, and other media into editable 3D environments, after a beta — World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware “once provided companies with consistency” but now has “unpredictable outcomes” — Coinbase is following Tesla out of Delaware and into Texas. — Paul Grewal, Coinbase's chief legal officer …
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more — A staggering 97% of listeners cannot distinguish between artificial intelligence-generated and human-composed songs …
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| Washington Post: |
An analysis of 47K publicly shared ChatGPT chats: ~10% were related to emotional support, ChatGPT's responses started with “yes” 10x more than “no”, and more — The questions flood in from every corner of the human psyche. “What are permanent hair removal solutions?”| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb says it will launch a three-month pilot on January 5 that lets guests order groceries via Instacart within its app in Phoenix, Orlando, and Los Angeles — Airbnb Inc. is testing a new service with Instacart that will let guests at some US rentals order groceries through the home-sharing app ahead of and during their stay.| Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: |
Amazon says it is rolling out a tougher approach to combat illegal sports streaming on Fire TV Stick devices, aiming to block apps that stream pirated content — Amazon is rolling out a tougher approach to combat illegal streaming, with the United States-based tech company aiming … | Financial Times: |
Sources: software-focused PE firm Vista plans significant workforce cuts in the coming years as it uses AI to compile presentations, aggregate data, and more — Software-focused buyout shop will use technology to trim roles making investor presentations and aggregate data| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
WisdomAI, which offers AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions, including from “dirty” data, raised a $50M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins — WisdomAI, the new AI data analytics startup from Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar, has landed a fresh $50 million Series …
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B — Matt Carey, the co-founder and CEO of Boston-based startup Teradar loves when people tell him: “I don't believe you.”| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is preparing to probe Google over news publisher rankings in search over claims that Google demotes sites with “third party” promotional content — Brussels set to announce new probe under Digital Markets Act despite Trump threats on tariffs| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or ~2,000 employees, after completing its $35B acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys earlier in 2025 — Synopsys (SNPS.O) will lay off about 10% or roughly 2,000 employees, as the chip-design software maker looks … | Bloomberg: |
Ireland's media regulator launches its first formal investigation under the EU DSA, probing X for allegedly failing to remove illegal content reported by users — Ireland's media regulator has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X, saying that the company is failing to remove content users report as illegal.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands-on: better hardware and software, Alexa+ is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads are coming later — Amazon's Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 launch this week, here are my first impressions — | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
An Apple-funded study about DMA finds developers didn't pass on App Store fee savings to EU users, keeping prices the same or increasing them on 91% of products — A study backed by Apple claims to show that the Digital Markets Act is not lowering prices for App Store users, even when the company is forced to lower its fees.| Liv McMahon / BBC: |
The UK proposes an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would let “authorized testers” proactively assess AI models for their ability to generate CSAM — The UK government will allow tech firms and child safety charities to proactively test artificial intelligence tools …
More: The Decoder and GOV.UK
| Catarina Demony / Reuters: |
More: GOV.UK, GOV.UK, Financial Times, CSO, Silicon Republic, UKTN, Bloomberg, and GOV.UK
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Chinese government is intervening in how SMIC distributes its chip output for AI, prioritizing Huawei amid US export restrictions on advanced chips — Shortages of advanced AI chips are so acute that Beijing is intervening and tech companies are resorting to workarounds| Reuters: |
Circle reports Q3 revenue up 66% YoY to $739.8M, USDC in Circulation at quarter end up 108% YoY to $73.7B, and net income up 202% YoY to $214M; CRCL drops 5%+ — Circle (CRCL.N) topped Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Wednesday, driven by higher reserve income amid rising USDC circulation … | Karmela Padavic-Callaghan / New Scientist: |
IBM unveils two quantum computers, Loon and Nighthawk, that it says feature unprecedented qubit connectivity designs aiming to enable error-free computations — IBM revealed two new quantum computers, called Loon and Nighthawk - the qubits they use are connected in newly intricate ways … | Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi criticizes UK crypto promotion rules, which require clear risk warnings, saying they hinder retail investors by slowing fund movement — Arjun Sethi says users are hindered by dire warnings and hurdles that slow down transactions — The head of crypto exchange Kraken …
More: The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, Cryptonews, Coinpedia Fintech News, and crypto.news. Bluesky: @shona
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Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$66.3B, matching est., net profit up 17% YoY to ~$1.86B, vs. $1.63B est., and expects Q4 results to “remain favorable” — Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped 17% … Sponsor Posts
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