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December 31, 2025, 4:55 PM
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Reuters:
Sources: Nvidia has approached TSMC to ramp up H200 chip production; Chinese companies have placed orders for 2M+ H200 chips for 2026, while Nvidia holds 700K  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) is scrambling to meet strong demand for its H200 artificial intelligence chips from Chinese technology companies …
Wency Chen / South China Morning Post:
Sources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025
Wall Street Journal:
How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees  —  The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors  —  Workers at Butterfly Effect …
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Trump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain  —  Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. plans to issue a new cryptocurrency, which will be distributed among its shareholders.
Essi Lehto / Reuters:
Finland seizes a ship suspected of damaging an undersea cable linking Helsinki and Estonia in the Gulf of Finland; Estonia says a second cable was also damaged  —  Finnish police on Wednesday seized a ship suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki …
Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI financial data: its stock-based pay averaged ~$1.5M per employee in 2025, ~7x Google pre-IPO and ~34x the average pay of other pre-IPO peers, per Equilar  —  The company's stock-based compensation in 2025 reached an average of $1.5 million per employee
Reuters:
TSMC says the US government has granted the company an annual license to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China  —  The U.S. government has granted an annual license to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) to import U.S. chip manufacturing equipment …
Jeff Horwitz / Reuters:
Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” for regulators and others  —  As regulators press Meta to crack down on rogue advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them.
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries  —  Move marks latest setback for project that originally promised to sell a US-made device  —  Trump Mobile, the phone company launched …

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at ABC News' 24-hour Fourth of July programming marathon for the US' 250th anniversary, which it calls “the longest commercial broadcast in history”

Peter Walker / The Guardian:
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Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says xAI bought a third building called “MACROHARDRR”, reportedly adjacent to Colossus 2, that will take the company's training compute to almost 2GW
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Review of Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold: sturdy but poor camera performance and has some unique design flaws that make it even less polished than regular foldables
Zak Killian / Tom's Hardware:
IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply
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