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Bloomberg:
Naver agrees to acquire Dunamu, which runs South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in a $10.3B all-stock deal; Upbit has 80%+ market share in South Korea
Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations  —  Call comes as several EU countries prepare to restrict social media for kids.  —  The European Parliament on Wednesday called …
Reuters:
EU states agree on a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM, and will now negotiate with EU lawmakers  —  A web camera is seen in front of the displayed words “Child Pornography” in this illustration taken October 21, 2025.
Nicholas Fearn / Financial Times:
London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M  —  Seeing limited potential in its niche dubbing product, Synthesia built an AI tool to appeal across industries
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
S&P downgrades the ability of Tether's USDT to maintain its peg to the US dollar to “weak”, the lowest rating, citing exposure to high-risk assets such as BTC  —  The ability of Tether's USDT stablecoin to maintain its peg to the US dollar has been downgraded to the lowest rating …
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July  —  The regulator began probing Meta over its WhatsApp AI messaging tool in July  —  Italy's competition regulator has broadened …
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8  —  Clover Security has nabbed $36 million in funding from a slew of high-profile industry stalwarts, including Wiz co-founders Assaf Rappaport …
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
In recent months, RAM and SSD prices have surged due to a shortage of memory chips caused primarily by the ongoing AI boom; some RAM kits now cost 3x as much
The Information:
Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B+ in a deal as early as next week  —  ServiceNow, an IT, HR and finance software provider, is in advanced talks to buy five-year-old security startup Veza for more than $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal.
Reuters:
Intel denies allegations in a TSMC lawsuit that VP Wei-Jen Lo likely leaked trade secrets after retiring from TSMC and joining Intel  —  Intel (INTC.O) on Thursday denied allegations by Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) that one of the U.S. firm's executives, Wei-Jen Lo, had leaked trade secrets.
Jenny Che / Bloomberg:
The EU says its regulators asked Shein for documents on measures to prevent the exposure of minors to inappropriate content and the circulation of illegal items  —  Shein is under pressure from the European Union to curb sales of childlike sex dolls and weapons on its third-party marketplace …

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From Mediagazer

John Koblin / New York Times:
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Paramount's culture shift under David Ellison, where the focus is on male-driven action movies, and not on prestige films seen as critics' darlings

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Sam Sabin / Axios:
The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage

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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Counterpoint: Apple is set to overtake Samsung as the world's largest smartphone maker for the first time since 2011, lifted by the success of iPhone 17 models
Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood plans to launch a futures and derivatives exchange with Susquehanna in 2026 and acquires MIAXdx, which clears and executes derivatives trades
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
Polymarket says it received an amended US CFTC designation, letting it operate a prediction market in the US with a fully regulated exchange structure
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