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Trump says the US will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, and 25% of the chip sales will be paid to the US — President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to “approved customers” …
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Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108.4B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week — Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war …
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share — Confluent shares surged more than 25% in premarket trading Monday, while IBM's fell slightly.
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Google says it's working to create two different categories of AI-powered smart glasses: one with screens launching in 2026 and another that's audio-focused — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it's working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses …
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President Trump says he will sign “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something” — President Donald Trump said he would approve an executive order this week to establish …
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
European Commission: Meta agreed to change its “pay or consent” model to let Facebook and Instagram users share less data in exchange for less personalized ads — Facebook agrees changes to ‘pay or consent’ model after talks with European Commission
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Johny Srouji, who oversees Apple's chip division, tells his employees that “I don't plan on leaving anytime soon” — Apple Inc.'s Johny Srouji, who oversees the company's chip division, told staff that he's staying at the iPhone maker.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Unconventional AI raised a $475M seed led by a16z and Lightspeed at a $4.5B valuation to build a more energy-efficient AI computer, part of an up to $1B round — Naveen Rao joins a rarified club of prominent tech founders to raise big funding rounds for very young companies.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Apple and Google say they've developed new features that streamline the process of moving data between iOS and Android as part of a joint collaboration — The latest Android Canary build is available today and it features work by Apple and Google to make switching between Android and iPhone devices easier.
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| CoinDesk: |
The US CFTC launches a pilot program allowing BTC, ETH, and USDC to be used as collateral in US derivatives markets — Acting Chair Caroline Pham has unveiled a first-of-its-kind U.S. program to permit tokenized collateral in derivatives markets, citing “clear guardrails” for firms. — What to know:
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google details steps it is taking to secure Chrome's upcoming agentic browsing features, including a “User Alignment Critic” model that vets AI agent's actions — With Gemini in Chrome and the upcoming availability of agentic capabilities, Google is detailing how the browser will protect against threats.
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| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally — The first tool is similar to something Instagram introduced earlier this year. — TikTok just announced a couple of updates that that should make the app a bit more social.
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| Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times: |
Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ — Payments company opens San Francisco base and reduces Tencent's holding in US pivot — A Singapore fintech that was labelled a …
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| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries — - Uber Advertising is launching an insights platform for marketers called Uber Intelligence. — It has partnered with LiveRamp to aggregate users' data without revealing their identities.
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| Amanda Gerut / Fortune: |
The CTO of Amazon's Zoox says the company plans to start charging for rides in Las Vegas in early 2026 and is focused on transporting people, not deliveries — Amazon's self-driving robotaxi subsidiary, Zoox, expects to start charging passengers for rides in Las Vegas in early 2026 … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout — OpenAI and Instacart are launching a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, allowing customers to brainstorm meal ideas …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Skild AI, which develops a foundation model for robots, is in talks to raise $1B+ from SoftBank and Nvidia at a ~$14B valuation, up from $4.7B in July — Japan's SoftBank Group (9984.T) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) are in talks to invest in Skild AI, in a more than $1 billion funding round … | Vallari Srivastava / Reuters: |
NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data center campuses across the US and secures 2.5GW+ of clean energy contracts from Meta — NextEra Energy (NEE.N) expanded its partnership with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud to scale up data center capacity … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Anthropic launches a Slack integration for Claude Code, expanding on the existing Claude app for Slack, launching in beta as a research preview — Anthropic PBC, maker of the Claude family of artificial intelligence models, today introduced a feature in beta mode that lets developers delegate coding tasks … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: its tools save workers ~40-60 minutes daily on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M+ business clients — OpenAI's artificial intelligence products are saving workers an average of about 40 to 60 minutes a day on professional tasks …
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