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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an “opportunistic” bridge ahead of an IPO — OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier this month, after facing resistance from some investors — AI lab floated $1.4tn price tag earlier this month, according to documents seen by the FT — OpenAI has cut its valuation target …
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| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains PHP and automates its patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities — On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites.
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| Matthew Prince / @eastdakota: |
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit attempts on its network rose from thousands in the 10 hours before the disclosure to millions afterward — Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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| Associated Press: |
US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern” — The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to crack down on American high-tech investments such as supercomputing …
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of users' instructions — Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting …
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| P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal: |
SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing “market conditions and share price trends” — SK Hynix's shares fell as much as 4.2% in early trade in Seoul — SK Hynix halted plans to list its memory-chip unit in the U.S. … | Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: |
a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies — In 2018, Andreessen Horowitz made a splash in the venture capital world by launching a spin-off dedicated to digital assets called a16z Crypto.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats — The company fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information. They had been fighting to keep the workings … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 — Today, we're donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls — DeepSeek and MiniMax Group Inc. have won approval to deploy models overseas, part of a wave of homegrown AI technologies that Beijing …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors — 'We're going to build something that is indistinguishable from human performance ... in the next couple of years,' Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge.
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| Rohan Goswami / Semafor: |
Sources: Elon Musk has invested ~$1B in Ellisons' Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take Twitter private — Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to people familiar with the matter, providing …
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| Bloomberg: |
SK Telecom unit SK Hyper is in talks with tech firms and investors to finance 15GW of data center capacity in South Korea by 2035; the first 5GW will cost $350B — SK Hyper Co. is in talks with big tech firms and financial investors to secure funding for an envisioned $350 billion data center buildout …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove security properties at the assembly level across 100+ real-world open-source libraries — Introduction — Even mature, heavily tested software contains bugs, and LLMs are increasingly adept at finding them.
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| Angeliki Koutantou / Reuters: |
Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from 2027 and gives companies two months to verify users' ages — Greece's parliament approved a bill on Friday that bans the use of social media platforms for children under 15 amid growing concerns … | Wall Street Journal: |
US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds — Military-grade system appeared to be working more normally on Thursday, soon after the call — WASHINGTON—President Trump …
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| New York Times: |
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Warp Sciences, founded by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to speed up drug development using AI, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation — Kevin Weil, the former OpenAI executive who led the ChatGPT maker's AI-for-science efforts, is launching a new startup aimed …
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| Maria Diaz / ZDNET: |
Amazon rebrands its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI — Unlike narrated audiobooks from Audible and other providers, the audiobooks created with Virtual Voice in Kindle+ will instead be narrated by AI. — ZDNET's key takeaways| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch — SpaceX aims to secure a minimum of 80,000 cell sites across the US, and it's in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure company … | Alfred Ng / Politico: |
Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting “President Trump's Federal Trade Commission,” the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president — Millions of Americans are expected to receive a settlement check from Amazon credited to “President Trump's Federal Trade Commission” … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots — Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
The Browser Company says it will shut down its Arc browser on December 22, launched in 2023, shifting attention to its AI-focused Dia browser, launched in 2025 — New feature development for the innovative web browser ended last year. Now The Browser Company is telling users to try Dia, Arc's replacement.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban — Smart ring maker Oura has sued Indian rival Ultrahuman again, seeking to block U.S. sales of its Ring Pro (pictured above) … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify confirms it is rolling out a new family plan verification method requiring members to scan QR codes on plan managers' phones within seven days of notice — Spotify confirmed the reports of its crackdown on Family Plan sharing during its third-quarter call with investors … Sponsor Posts
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