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| Tulsee Doshi / The Keyword: |
Gemini 3 Flash costs $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, vs. Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens — Gemini 3 Flash is our latest model with frontier intelligence built for speed that helps everyone learn, build, and plan anything — faster.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Gemini 3 Flash, which it says has Pro-grade reasoning with lower latency, outperforming 2.5 Pro “while being 3x faster at a fraction of the cost” — Following last month's launch of Gemini 3 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3 Flash for consumers and developers.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 3 Pro's 37.5% — Google today released its fast and cheap Gemini 3 Flash model, based on the Gemini 3 released last month, looking to steal OpenAI's thunder.
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and more, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app — Coinbase is making its biggest push yet to reposition itself as a mainstream trading and financial platform, moving beyond crypto …
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B — OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with some investors about raising new funding at a valuation of around $750 billion … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls — Apple today introduced several changes to the App Store in Japan to meet the requirements of the Mobile Software Competition Act …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon's AGI team lead, Rohit Prasad, is leaving at the end of 2025; AWS SVP Peter DeSantis will lead a group combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing teams — Rohit Prasad, the executive who has led Amazon's artificial intelligence initiatives and overseen the creation of its homegrown Nova AI models … | Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter: |
The Academy signs a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars, beginning in 2029 and running through 2033 — The Academy announced on Wednesday: — LOS ANGELES, CA - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and YouTube signed a multi-year deal …
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LinkedIn: Demetrius Bagley and David Freeman
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| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Sources: US FTC is probing Instacart's AI pricing tool, after a study showed different prices for the same items at the same stores; CART drops 8%+ after hours — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing Instacart (CART.O), two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters …
More: TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, San Francisco Business Times, and CNBC
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Micron reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to $13.64B, vs. $12.84B est., net income up 180% to $5.24B, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; MU jumps 5%+ after hours — Micron Technology reported fiscal first-quarter results on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings per share … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified — In a new experiment, Meta is limiting the number of links users can post on Facebook, unless they have a paid Meta Verified subscription.
More: Social Media Today, Engadget, and MediaPost
| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines — In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent …
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Forums: r/hardware, r/neoliberal, r/accelerate, r/TrueAnon, r/thenetherlands, r/China_irl, r/KanagawaWave, r/Sino, and r/China
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Pornhub is being extorted by ShinyHunters after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach — Adult video platform PornHub is being extorted by the ShinyHunters extortion gang after the search and watch history of its Premium members …
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Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social and @dannyjpalmer@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/antipornography, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/technology, r/Destiny, r/hacking, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Blue Owl won't back Oracle's planned $10B Michigan data center after negotiations stalled due to concerns over debt and delays; ORCL closes down 5.4% — Investment firm concerned about tougher debt terms and the risk of delays to the vast project — Oracle's largest data centre …
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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @carlquintanilla, @ljkawa, and @peark.es
| Dakin Campbell / Business Insider: |
Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled — - Amazon has been in talks to become the “first tenant” at Fermi America's Texas data centers, Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told BI.| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Meta says it has “paused” its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in April 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as its first partners to build the headsets — Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market.
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X: @sadlyitsbradley and @lunayian
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/gadgets, r/Android, r/OculusQuest, r/virtualreality, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at “bargain prices” — Shareholder's claims of impairments put billionaire investor Oliver Samwer's stewardship back in the spotlight| FinSMEs: |
Tebra, which offers practice management tools for private healthcare providers, raised $250M led by Hildred, mostly in equity, to accelerate its AI capabilities — Tebra, a Newport Beach, CA-based EHR+ platform provider, received $250m in new financing. — The financing was led … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI opens app submissions for review and publication in ChatGPT, where users can discover or search for apps in a new app directory — We're opening app submissions for review and publication in ChatGPT, and users can discover apps in the app directory. — Earlier this year at DevDay, we introduced apps in ChatGPT.
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X: @romainhuet, @testingcatalog, and @openaidevs. Mastodon: @shish@techhub.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC — Canton creator Digital Asset will help tokenize DTC-custodied U.S. Treasury securities. — What to know:| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Manus says it crossed $100M ARR eight months after launch and is growing at 20%+ MoM since Manus 1.5's release; its total revenue run rate is now over $125M — Singapore-based AI pioneer Manus said its annual run rate for revenue is over $125 million, eight months after it released artificial …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform — PDD Holdings Inc. fired a government relations team in Shanghai following a fistfight between employees and Chinese regulators … | Chiranjivi Chakraborty / Bloomberg: |
India-listed RRP Semiconductor's stock surged 55,000%+ in the 20 months through Dec. 17, despite negative revenue; source: India's SEBI is examining the surge — The world's best-performing stock is turning into a cautionary tale for investors chasing outsized returns from the artificial-intelligence boom.
More: Hindustan Times
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
How Apple is helping filmmakers and developers create immersive media for the Vision Pro and share best practices — The headset opens up immersive new opportunities for dramas, documentaries, music videos, and beyond. Some filmmakers and developers are diving right in. — ADD ON GOOGLE| Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: |
SoftBank Group Corp was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on Dec. 18, as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed into the Asian markets — Japanese tech stocks took a tumble on Thursday as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed the ocean into the Asian markets …
More: Associated Press
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A UK family and a US family sue Meta for the alleged wrongful deaths of their teenage sons, who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion on Instagram — One boy joined Instagram on Sunday and was dead by Tuesday afternoon. His mother says the app is to blame.
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Bluesky: @davidingram, @davidingram, @davidingram, and @davidingram
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit uploads more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images — OpenAI is rolling out an update to ChatGPT that's intended to generate images better and faster, the latest move …
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