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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Australia's ban on under-16 social media users takes effect, as Meta, YouTube, and others remove users; platforms that don't comply risk up to AU$49.5M in fines — Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under ban
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| The Guardian: |
Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be “booted off” the platforms in time — Albanese says commencement of ban a ‘proud day’ for him as prime minister, while eSafety commissioner unconcerned by reports of children bypassing restrictions
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported — Shipping chips from Taiwan to U.S. to China would allow government to get 25% cut of sales — The artificial-intelligence chips … | Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in …
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the ~$40B it has invested in India, and says the move will create 1M more jobs — Amazon on Wednesday committed to investing over $35 billion in India's cloud and artificial intelligence space by 2030, as hyperscalers race to get a foothold in the market.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA — Yesterday, Apple and Google announced that they have teamed up to make it easier to switch between Android and iPhone devices.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever — SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion … | Bloomberg: |
Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain — Thesis: That which can be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain will be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain.
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| Ben Casselman / New York Times: |
Study: ~200 Instacart users across four US cities saw different prices for the same items from the same store at the same time; Instacart confirms running tests — The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
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LinkedIn: Philip Radford and Derek Kravitz
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% use Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai — Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots …
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| Christine Chung / New York Times: |
The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info — Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need visas, would have to share five years' worth of social media.
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Forums: r/Scotland, r/ScottishFootball, r/europe, r/LabourUK, and r/soccer
| Wired: |
Slack CEO Denise Dresser, in the role since November 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer — A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser's departure from Slack. She is now headed to OpenAI. — Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company …
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LinkedIn: Srini Vemuru and Denise Holland Dresser
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Forums: r/OpenAI and r/artificial
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers — Today, we're donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund under the Linux Foundation …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
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LinkedIn: Allison Stokes, Rebecca Bellan, Sina Khatibi, PhD, Ed Anuff, Randy Bias, and Swami Sivasubramanian. Bluesky: @tprstly.com. Mastodon: @linuxfoundation@social …. Forums: r/linux
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V open-weight vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters — The release includes two models in “large” and “small” sizes: — GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inference
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race — Debate over pre-emption of state laws marks a major flashpoint in GOP politics — WASHINGTON—At a November meeting in the Oval Office … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies — After missing out on last month's Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Watch 4 update this December that adds one-handed gestures.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M+ people was compromised — Coupang Chief Executive Officer Park Dae-jun resigned over his failure to prevent South Korea's largest-ever data breach … | Bloomberg: |
Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10 to their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rising memory chip prices will erode its profit — Nintendo Co.'s shares slid as much as 4.7% Wednesday to their lowest level since May, weighed down by concerns that the surging price …
More: Tech in Asia
| Ofcom: |
A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50%+ of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services — Our latest Online Nation report explores how adults and children in the UK experience life online.
| Bloomberg: |
An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-on dealmaking approach generated $10B in international gaming revenue over the past year — This year, Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s gaming business scored record sales, defying an industry slowdown with international hits like zombie horror Dying Light: The Beast.
X: @business
| Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: |
Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners — Nu Quantum, a British startup that builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised $60 million …
More: Tech.eu, FinSMEs, Ventureburn, BusinessCloud, Business Wire, and Tech Funding News. LinkedIn: Nu Quantum
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU's General Court reduces a 2023 EU antitrust fine on Intel to €237.1M, down from €376.36M; the EU fined Intel a record €1.06B in 2009, then overturned — Intel Corp. won a near-€140 million ($163 million) reduction in what remained of a once-record European Union antitrust fine.
More: RTÉ, Livemint, Euractiv, Investing.com, and Reuters
| Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May — SHANGHAI — Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is abandoning its plans to merge with its top shareholder …
More: DigiTimes and Caixin Global
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