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| Beth Galetti / About Amazon: |
Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 — I want to let you know that we're making additional organizational changes across Amazon that will impact some of our teammates.
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| Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: |
Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google Chrome is being upgraded with Gemini 3 and a revamped sidepanel UX.
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X: @krynsky, @glenngabe, @joshwoodward, @addyosmani, @_philschmid, @google, @laparisa, and @rosterloh
| Reuters: |
Sources: China approved its first batch of Nvidia H200 imports, covering 400K+ chips for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent, during Jensen Huang's visit to China — China has given the green light to three of its largest tech companies to buy Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H200 artificial intelligence chips … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Tim Cook told Apple staff that he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis”, calls for a “deescalation”, and says he discussed it with President Trump — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook became the latest executive to weigh in on the killing …
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Forums: r/apple, r/apple, r/politics, and MacRumors Forums
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $23B, above ~$22.4B est., and operating profit up 137% YoY to $13.3B, both company records, driven by AI HBM demand — South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday reported record full-year profit for 2025, more than doubling its operating earnings as shortages … | Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results — News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summaries
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q4 net sales of €9.7B, vs. €9.6B est., and €2.84B net profit, vs. €3.01B est., and says it expects China to account for 20% of its total 2026 sales — ASML reported on Wednesday orders that smashed past expectations while 2026 sales guidance was also ahead …
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| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Toronto-based self-driving truck startup Waabi raised a $750M Series C led by Khosla and G2 and partners with Uber, which can invest $250M based on performance — Waabi Innovation Inc., a Canadian startup that develops self-driving technology for trucks, has secured $1 billion in funding …
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X: @vkhosla, @manuinvests, @waabi_ai, @techau, @waabi_ai, and @itselanagold
| Carl Zimmer / New York Times: |
Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model trained on molecular data to predict 11 different genomic processes, such as gene splicing — AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Snap launches a wholly-owned subsidiary called Specs Inc. for its upcoming AR glasses, in a bid to facilitate minority investment and offer distinct branding — Specs will now be launched under... Specs. … Snap is launching a separate business for its upcoming Specs augmented reality glasses …
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| Abhijeet Mishra / SamMobile: |
Samsung says it will introduce a display feature for the Galaxy S26 series that improves “privacy at a pixel level” to protect users from “shoulder surfing” — Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S26 series will introduce a new display feature designed to improve privacy when using your phone in public.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
A Google bug report apparently leaks the planned Android desktop interface, showing a taller status bar, a new mouse cursor, Chrome extensions, and more — A Google bug report on the Chromium Issue Tracker today has inadvertently leaked the Android desktop interface for the first time.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/chromeos, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk proposes timing SpaceX's IPO with a rare planetary alignment and his June birthday; SpaceX seeks to raise up to $50B at a ~$1.5T valuation — Celestial calendar meets high finance, as billionaire's personal impulses shape plans to raise $50bn in record listing
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| Marie Woolf / Globe and Mail: |
Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US — Save for later — Log in or create a free account to listen to this article. — Government officials are in talks …
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Forums: r/CanadaPolitics and r/onguardforthee
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Decagon, which offers AI-powered customer service agents, raised a $250M Series D led by Coatue and Index Ventures at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in June — Decagon AI Inc., a customer support startup, has raised $250 million in a new round of funding that triples its valuation to $4.5 billion …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
ADL study of Grok, ChatGPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek: Grok performed worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, while Claude was best — In a study, the Anti-Defamation League fed Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama antisemitic, anti-Zionist …
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @reckless, and @robertscotthorton
Forums: r/technology, r/singularity, and r/Twitter
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Bluesky says it is working to make feeds more “live”, interactive, and timely during live events, and teases improvements to posting and follow suggestions — The Bluesky 2026 roadmap teases updates for feeds, follows, posting, and real-time features.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor — Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling and cathode production startup scales …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
ESA astronomers say they used AI model AnomalyMatch to scan 100M image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive in 2.5 days, finding ~1,400 “anomalous objects” — The AI model took just 2.5 days to search 100 million image cutouts and flag oddities like jellyfish galaxies.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health — The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids. PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy
More: Techdirt, Crikey, BBC, Digital Watch Observatory, Crooked Timber, BBC, and Euronews
| Tyler Kingkade / NBC News: |
Some US college students say they are using AI “humanizer” tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch “humanizers” — Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI … | Jack Ryan / Bloomberg: |
Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons per week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months — There are roughly 370,000 nuclear bunkers in Switzerland, a legacy of the Cold War that are now rarely used. One of them, though, is a hive of activity.
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| Gil Press / Forbes: |
Tel Aviv-based Factify raised a $73M seed led by Valley Capital to develop an AI-native document standard intended to replace the legacy PDF format — Tel Aviv-based Factify has raised $73 million in a seed funding round to establish a new document standard for AI, the company announced Wednesday.
More: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, CTech, and Globes
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab “devoted to solving the data efficiency problem”, raised $180M at a $1.5B valuation from GV, Sequoia, Index, and others — Flapping Airplanes is one of a wave of new startup research labs drawing intense interest from investors, the latest chapter in the AI race
More: Flapping Airplanes and Sequoia Capital
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
LinkedIn launches a new feature to let users display verified “vibe coding” and AI proficiency levels from third-party partners including Replit and Lovable — You can connect AI coding tools from Replit, Lovable and Relay.app directly to your profile.
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Sources: Hugging Face declined Nvidia's $500M investment offer at a $7B valuation in late 2025; Hugging Face says it does not want a single dominant investor — Amid investor frenzy over AI, the ‘anti Silicon Valley’ group chose independence and desire to promote open models
Bluesky: @justinhendrix
| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
PayPal survey in October 2025: 40% of merchants already accept crypto, led by large enterprises, 85% expect crypto payments to be commonplace by 2030, and more — Partner offers — Quick Take — Four in 10 surveyed merchants said they already accept crypto at checkout …
More: PayPal Newsroom, CryptoNinjas, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, and crypto.news
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Fidelity Investments announces its own stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar, or FIDD, available to institutional and retail clients in the coming weeks — Fidelity Investments, one of the largest asset managers on the planet, announced on Wednesday it will launch its own stablecoin.Sponsor Posts
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