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Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump — States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI — The new executive order comes as a growing group of Republicans criticize Trump's staunch support of the tech industry's ambitions for artificial intelligence.| Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard — White House AI czar David Sacks defended President Donald Trump's push to rein in state-level regulation of artificial intelligence …
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Sources: Oracle has delayed completion of some OpenAI data centers from 2027 to 2028, largely due to labor and material shortages; Oracle denies delays — Oracle Corp. has pushed back the completion dates for some of the data centers it's developing for the artificial intelligence model developer OpenAI …
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Google expands Google Translate's live speech translation from Pixel Buds to any headphones, supporting 70+ languages, in beta on compatible Android phones — Live speech translations were once only on the Pixel Buds. … Google Translate's latest update brings live speech translations … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month — Intel Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. for about $1.6 billion including debt …
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Internal message: SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale at $421/share, valuing the company at ~$800B, and said it's preparing for a possible IPO in 2026 — SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale that values Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker at about $800 billion … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue — OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information from medical journals and other trusted sources …
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Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas — Stock price of company co-founded by ex-US energy secretary Rick Perry fell as much as 46% — Shares in data centre real estate group Fermi almost halved … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “skills” mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs — One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic's new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement.
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Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery — Singapore-based ChemLex raised $45 million to build out its autonomous chemistry lab with hopes it can speed drug discovery and therapy development …
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: X reported $752M in Q3 revenue, up 17% YoY, a net loss of $577.4M, and EBITDA of ~$454M, up 16%; revenue for the first nine months of 2025 was $2B+ — Sales at Elon Musk's X jumped during the third quarter, but the social network is still dealing with significant costs … | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity updates World to make it a “super app” with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto — World, the biometric ID verification project co-founded by Sam Altman, released the newest version of its app today …
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Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed — Crypto group Tether said on Friday it has submitted an all-cash proposal to the holding company of the Agnelli family to buy … | Thinking Machines Lab: |
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more — Today we are announcing four updates to Tinker: — No more waitlist — New reasoning model: Kimi K2 Thinking
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| Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Kalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B — As Kalshi's trading volume surpasses Polymarket's, it will now offer prediction market access to Phantom's 15 million users on Solana.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD — Big Tech continues to tiptoe into crypto. The latest example is a move by YouTube to let creators on the video platform choose to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin.| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants “semiconductor independence” and to “prop up and subsidize Huawei” — China has figured out the US strategy for allowing it to buy Nvidia Corp.'s H200 and is rejecting the AI chip … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps — Fallout's season one recap wrongly stated that The Ghoul's flashback takes place in the 1950s, rather than the year 2077.
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| John Liu / Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is considering a ~$28B-to-$70B incentives package, which would be separate from the $50B Big Fund III plan, to support its chipmaking industry — China is considering a package of incentives worth as much as $70 billion to bankroll and support its chipmaking industry …
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