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The US imposes visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints — The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
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| Lorne Cook / Associated Press: |
The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its “regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures” — The European Union's executive on Wednesday warned that it would take action against any “unjustified measures” …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Waymo says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages, after pausing its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20 — Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause it driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company …
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups — OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot …
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| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass — Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don't misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S.| John Koblin / New York Times: |
YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even — At Nancy Ann Ling's house in Central Texas, the TV generally goes on around 5 a.m., and Mrs. Ling flips over to the same app each day: YouTube.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was the $1.4B breach at Bybit — Cybercriminals stole $2.7 billion in crypto this year, a new record for crypto-stealing hacks, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.| Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: |
AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet — Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing.| Elvira Pollina / Reuters: |
Italy's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp; Meta calls the decision “fundamentally flawed” — Italy's antitrust authority (AGCM) on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms (META.O) to suspend contractual terms … | Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped moving forward; interviews with 20+ people describe how dealmaker Lip-Bu Tan gave Intel a lifeline — It was a Thursday before dawn in Silicon Valley when Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan found himself under attack by the president of the United States.| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Bitcoin miners that are retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up ~90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped — The pivot to AI has lifted a bitcoin-mining ETF by around 90% this year, even as bitcoin itself has slumped. — It's harder than ever to mine bitcoin.
More: Dow Jones Newswires, Coinspeaker, Forbes, Blockchain.News, and CoinDesk
| Heo Kyungjun / The Asia Business Daily: |
South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who previously worked for Samsung — Prosecutors: “Hundreds of DRAM Process Steps Copied and Leaked” — Samsung Electronics' Sales Declined by 5 Trillion Won Last Year
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| Kiran Rathee / The Economic Times: |
Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October — The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations.
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| New York Times: |
A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat — As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China's battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.
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