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Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about its €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account — Nikita Bier, X's head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying …
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| Alex Dooler / Bloomberg: |
Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms — Binance has won three separate licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, giving the crypto exchange giant one of its most comprehensive regulatory footholds yet.| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close — Deal for data-infrastructure company could come as soon as Monday — International Business Machines is in advanced talks …
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| Bloomberg: |
President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have “to go through a process” and he will be personally involved in the decision-making process — President Donald Trump raised potential antitrust concerns for Netflix Inc.'s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. …
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| Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly — How the human behind Tilly Norwood brought her to digital life — Tilly Norwood, an “actress” built with artificial intelligence … | Rohan Doshi / The Keyword: |
Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories — Gemini 3 Pro delivers state-of-the-art performance across document, spatial, screen and video understanding.| Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: |
A look at an “etiquette camp” for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders — SAN FRANCISCO — Strolling into the Four Seasons Hotel, wearing a suit on a recent Wednesday, artificial intelligence start … | Associated Press: |
Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers — Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a “high risk” … | Financial Times: |
Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI “bubble” — A lack of electricity for new data centres could deflate the AI ‘bubble’ — Rafe Rosner-Uddin in San Francisco … | Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps — HONG KONG — A battle over online security and consumer eyeballs is brewing among China's tech giants.
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| Aaron Krolik / New York Times: |
How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert national currencies to stablecoins and then debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions — Smugglers, money launderers and people facing sanctions once relied on diamonds, gold and artwork to store illicit fortunes.
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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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| Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems — The architecture underlying large language models revolutionized AI. Pathway's Dragon Hatchling is designed to do more.| Rest of World: |
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