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December 8, 2025

5:25 PM  •
Amanda Gerut / Fortune:  The CTO of Amazon's Zoox says the company plans to start charging for rides in Las Vegas in early 2026 and is focused on transporting people, not deliveries
4:55 PM  •
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:  Trump says the US will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, and 25% of the chip sales will be paid to the US
4:20 PM  •
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget:  TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally
3:30 PM  •
Todd Spangler / Variety:  Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France
2:45 PM  •
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:  Anthropic launches a Slack integration for Claude Code, expanding on the existing Claude app for Slack, launching in beta as a research preview
2:35 PM  •
Abner Li / 9to5Google:  Google details steps it is taking to secure Chrome's upcoming agentic browsing features, including a “User Alignment Critic” model that vets AI agent's actions
2:25 PM  •
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:  Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries
2:15 PM  •
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:  OpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout
2:05 PM  •
Abner Li / 9to5Google:  Apple and Google say they've developed new features that streamline the process of moving data between each platform as part of a joint collaboration
1:55 PM  •
David Heaney / UploadVR:  Samsung's Galaxy XR gets beta support for Google's realistic avatar system for video calls, a Travel Mode, and a built-in PC remote desktop feature
1:50 PM  •
Lucas Baird / Australian Financial Review:  An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data
1:45 PM  •
Scott Stein / CNET:  Hands-on with Xreal's Project Aura prototype glasses: they feel like VR shrunken to a far smaller form, the 70° FoV is small but enough for immersion, and more
1:20 PM  •
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:  Google says it's working to create two different categories of AI-powered smart glasses: one with screens launching in 2026 and another that's audio-focused
1:10 PM  •
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:  Source: the US Department of Commerce plans to allow the export of Nvidia's old H200 chips to China, seeking a compromise over controlling exports to China
12:20 PM  •
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:  Sources: Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026; Google's VP of Global Ads says there are no plans for ads in the Gemini app
11:50 AM  •
Vallari Srivastava / Reuters:  NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data center campuses across the US and secures 2.5GW+ of clean energy contracts from Meta
11:30 AM  •
CNBC:  Leaked letter: Tiger Global launches Private Investment Partners 17, a fund targeting raising $2.2B, signaling a pivot from megafunds to more discipline
11:25 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Internal memo: Johny Srouji, who oversees Apple's chip division, tells his employees that “I don't plan on leaving anytime soon”
10:55 AM  •
Reuters:  Sources: Skild AI, which develops a foundation model for robots, is in talks to raise $1B+ from SoftBank and Nvidia at a ~$14B valuation, up from $4.7B in July
10:25 AM  •
Bobby Allyn / NPR:  ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for violating the First Amendment, after Apple removed its app under White House pressure
10:07 AM  •
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:  Unconventional AI raised a $475M seed led by a16z and Lightspeed at a $4.5B valuation to build a more energy-efficient AI computer, part of an up to $1B round
9:30 AM  •
James Hunt / The Block:  Michael Saylor's Strategy acquired 10,624 bitcoin for $962.7M between December 1 and 7, its largest BTC purchase since July; MSTR is down ~40% so far in 2025
9:07 AM  •
CNBC:  Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108.4B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week
8:55 AM  •
Nandan Mandayam / Reuters:  India's Tata Electronics signs up Intel as a prospective customer for its upcoming chip facilities; Tata is investing ~$14B to build fabs in Gujarat and Assam
8:45 AM  •
Bloomberg:  President Trump says he will sign “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something”
7:30 AM  •
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:  OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: its tools save workers ~40-60 minutes daily on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M+ business clients
7:15 AM  •
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:  Netflix changed movie distribution, and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case
7:02 AM  •
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:  European Commission: Meta agreed to change its “pay or consent” model to let Facebook and Instagram users share less data in exchange for less personalized ads
6:15 AM  •
Financial Times:  Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI “bubble”
5:55 AM  •
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia:  Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps
5:40 AM  •
Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times:  Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ
5:05 AM  •
Alex Dooler / Bloomberg:  Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and broker-dealer arms
4:45 AM  •
Associated Press:  Police in Edmonton, Canada, partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be analyzed later at police stations
4:30 AM  •
Rohan Doshi / The Keyword:  Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories
4:15 AM  •
Rest of World:  Interviews with 10 Kenyan AI annotators show how Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability
4:00 AM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Coinbase reopens app registrations in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026
3:50 AM  •
Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:  Inside Particle6's creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6 says it has signed ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly
2:00 AM  •
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:  How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems
12:30 AM  •
Aaron Krolik / New York Times:  How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions

December 7, 2025

11:35 PM  •
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:  IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share
10:25 PM  •
Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:  A look at an “etiquette camp” in San Francisco that teaches young founders how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations as the industry gains power
9:10 PM  •
John Thornhill / Financial Times:  Impressions from a London test ride in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since its launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy
7:00 PM  •
Bloomberg:  President Trump says Netflix's WBD deal has “got to go through a process”, its big market share “could be a problem”, and he will be involved in the decision
5:40 PM  •
Emma Jacobs / Financial Times:  An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists is not for serious mental health issues, upgrading from text to voice, and more
3:45 PM  •
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:  Sources: Aaru, which generates AI agents to simulate user behavior, raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B
1:05 PM  •
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:  Sources: Ted Sarandos met with Trump in November, arguing that Netflix wasn't a monopoly; Sarandos agreed with Trump that WBD should sell to the highest bidder
11:05 AM  •
Ashish Vaswani / Essential AI:  Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o
10:05 AM  •
Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico:  Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its X post about its €120M fine of X; X terminates the EC's ad account
6:15 AM  •
Sally Ward-Foxton / EE Times:  Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon
2:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  India's digital transformation exposes citizens to scams like “digital arrests”, where victims are coerced into transferring funds under false accusations
2:10 AM  •
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:  Simular, which is building AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis; Simular has released its 1.0 version for macOS
2:00 AM  •
Aayushi Pratap / Chemical & Engineering News:  Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others
1:50 AM  •
Reuters:  South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists
1:45 AM  •
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:  PermitFlow, which develops AI-powered workflow software for construction permitting, raised a $54M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a ~$500M valuation
1:00 AM  •
Financial Times:  Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China

December 6, 2025

10:40 PM  •
Lora Kelley / New York Times:  In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are “refounding”, as they scramble to add new AI features
8:10 PM  •
Monique Mulima / Bloomberg:  Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak
5:40 PM  •
John Pavlus / Fast Company:  A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks
3:35 PM  •
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:  ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are “either not real or not ads”; OpenAI's research chief says “anything that feels like an ad” is now turned off
3:05 PM  •
SemiAnalysis:  A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials
12:35 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role
10:05 AM  •
Kat Tenbarge / Wired:  Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content
6:35 AM  •
Andy Greenberg / Wired:  A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on “zero-knowledge proofs”
2:35 AM  •
Sam Kriss / New York Times:  A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by “overfitting” in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech
1:55 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims
1:30 AM  •
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:  Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks
1:20 AM  •
Abram Brown / The Information:  Sources: Microsoft is in talks to design custom chips with Broadcom, switching its business from Marvell, which recently tried to win more business from Meta

December 5, 2025

10:30 PM  •
Jyoti Mann / Business Insider:  Leaked memos: Meta is delaying the release of its MR glasses codenamed “Phoenix” from H2 2026 to H1 2027 for “more breathing room to get the details right”
9:20 PM  •
OpenRouter:  An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more
7:25 PM  •
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:  Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+
6:30 PM  •
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:  Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October
5:55 PM  •
Bloomberg:  A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices
4:15 PM  •
Ted Johnson / Deadline:  A look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulators, and state attorneys general
3:20 PM  •
Chris Kerr / Game Developer:  WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business
3:05 PM  •
Echo Wang / Reuters:  Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M
2:45 PM  •
Katie Roof / The Information:  Sources: SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an IPO in the second half of 2026
2:35 PM  •
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:  Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases
2:00 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company
1:00 PM  •
Liv McMahon / BBC:  Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine
12:35 PM  •
Rose Henderson / Bloomberg:  Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month
12:20 PM  •
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:  Marc Benioff says it “would not shock” him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings
11:40 AM  •
TrendForce:  Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15% to 20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026
10:45 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Polish lawmakers fail to override the president's veto on a crypto assets regulation bill; Poland is the last EU country not to adopt EU's crypto regulation
10:05 AM  •
Hugging Face:  Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune an LLM using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more
9:30 AM  •
Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law:  The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using “io” as a trademark in some instances while an infringement lawsuit against it proceeds
9:10 AM  •
New York Times:  The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months
9:05 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC to support its WBD deal, one of the largest ever loans of its kind
8:55 AM  •
Sara Fischer / Axios:  Meta strikes commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN, Fox News, and The Daily Caller, to provide real-time answers in its Meta AI chatbot
8:50 AM  •
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:  Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.' theatrical releases for films” but “the windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly”
7:45 AM  •
Reuters:  Sources and docs: India is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung have opposed the move
7:25 AM  •
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:  Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026
6:45 AM  •
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:  The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue checkmarks, after a two-year probe
6:20 AM  •
Shashwat Chauhan / Reuters:  The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges
6:05 AM  •
About Amazon:  AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 chip, with an up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50%+ of AWS' new CPU capacity
5:25 AM  •
Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia:  Japan faces data center bottlenecks due to labor shortages, rising costs, and outdated building processes; DC Byte: Japan's capacity has tripled over five years
3:50 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved
2:35 AM  •
Bloomberg:  A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others
2:20 AM  •
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai:  A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about “verification debt”
2:05 AM  •
Casey Newton / Platformer:  An overview of the five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases that it hears have generally had limited impact
1:45 AM  •
Robert Hart / The Verge:  Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content
1:25 AM  •
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:  Similarweb: generative AI platforms received an average of ~7B monthly web visits in September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks
1:05 AM  •
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:  CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI
12:55 AM  •
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:  A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple employees with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more left to join OpenAI in recent months

December 4, 2025

11:45 PM  •
Google Research:  Google unveils Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer accuracy for real-time learning, which can scale to context windows of 2M+ tokens
11:25 PM  •
David Shepardson / Reuters:  The US NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving cars illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas in 2025, as part of a probe opened in October
11:15 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: Masayoshi Son and the White House plan to build “Trump Industrial Parks” in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by the Japan trade deal
10:40 PM  •
A.J. Vicens / Reuters:  US and Canadian agencies warn that Chinese hackers are using Brickstorm malware to penetrate and maintain backdoor access to unnamed government and IT entities
9:50 PM  •
FinSMEs:  Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A
9:05 PM  •
Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve:  Physicist Steve Hsu says he published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper, on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics, whose main idea came from GPT-5
8:25 PM  •
Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg:  Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., surpasses 25K IAM platform customers, and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; DOCU drops 6%+
8:00 PM  •
Bloomberg:  AI chipmaker Moore Threads jumped 425% in its Shanghai debut after raising ~$1.13B, marking the biggest first-day pop for a major Chinese IPO since 2019 reforms
7:15 PM  •
Boaz Sobrado / Forbes:  A Polymarket trader allegedly netted $1M+ in 24 hours with large positions on 22 correct predictions out of 23 attempts on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings
7:00 PM  •
Anna Tong / Forbes:  Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation
6:55 PM  •
Will Oremus / Washington Post:  Two studies suggest that AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, by presenting many claims, regardless of their accuracy
5:55 PM  •
Sam Becker / Fast Company:  TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the live video podcast the same exchange floor access to other financial networks, such as CNBC and FintechTV
5:35 PM  •
CNBC:  Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud services and AI models and to jointly support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers
5:00 PM  •
Kif Leswing / CNBC:  Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson are retiring, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's chief legal officer, will replace Adams in March
4:30 PM  •
Juby Babu / Reuters:  HPE reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.68B, vs. $9.94B est., Server revenue down 5% YoY to $4.5B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below est.
3:55 PM  •
Mike Isaac / New York Times:  Meta says it's shifting some of its metaverse investment to AI glasses and wearables “given the momentum” and “we aren't planning any broader changes than that”
3:35 PM  •
Abner Li / 9to5Google:  Google rolls out Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, after saying in November it needed “extra time for safety evaluations”
3:00 PM  •
Chris Metinko / Axios:  Lumia, which analyzes interactions between autonomous agents and humans using AI tools to evaluate risks or enforce policies, raised an $18M seed led by Team8
2:10 PM  •
The Information:  Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M+ led by Situational Awareness
1:50 PM  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:  Microsoft will increase prices for commercial Office subscriptions on July 1, 2026, including a 33% jump for front-line worker plans like Microsoft 365 F1
1:15 PM  •
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg:  NYC-based Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine app and Chrome and Safari extension, raised $30M at a $180M valuation
12:45 PM  •
Reuters:  Russia's Roskomnadzor says it has blocked FaceTime in Russia, saying Apple's service “is being used to organize and carry out terrorist attacks in the country”
12:35 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Polymarket has recruited staff for a market making team that could face off against its customers; Kalshi's similar unit exposed Kalshi to criticism
12:15 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  Amazon plans to release its $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and $500 Kindle Scribe on December 10, after announcing them in September, but won't offer preorders
12:10 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, in its iOS and Android apps
11:50 AM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations
11:20 AM  •
Dominic Preston / The Verge:  OnePlus launches US preorders for its $900+ OnePlus 15 a month late, after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown
10:45 AM  •
Blake Brittain / Reuters:  A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other news outlets
10:25 AM  •
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:  7AI, which makes agents that analyze and triage info like cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, taking its total funding to $166M
9:55 AM  •
Steven Levy / Wired:  A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip
9:25 AM  •
Aditya Soni / Reuters:  Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $60M Series B led by Portage, a source says at a ~$500M valuation
9:08 AM  •
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:  Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January
8:55 AM  •
Ben Blanchard / Reuters:  Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024
8:40 AM  •
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:  The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US
8:25 AM  •
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:  AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M
8:15 AM  •
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:  Yann LeCun says Meta will not back his unnamed AI startup, which will focus on advanced machine intelligence and world models, and hints it will be Paris-based
8:05 AM  •
Bloomberg:  The EU says it is gathering more info and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business
7:50 AM  •
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:  University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician”
7:35 AM  •
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:  Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer, providing $6B+ in 2025 revenue, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its US delivery network
7:20 AM  •
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:  A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings skilled workers from Taiwan who struggle with adapting to a sprawling suburbia and summer temperatures
7:01 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners for power theft, which cost a state energy company ~$1.1B over five years
6:50 AM  •
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:  Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K+ local chip jobs are set to be created over four years
6:40 AM  •
Reuters:  Docs: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's gaming supply chain role
6:30 AM  •
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:  How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into a US chip hub, investing tens of billions and illustrating the difficulties of large-scale US projects
6:15 AM  •
Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo:  DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir
5:55 AM  •
Reuters:  Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google's and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money”
5:40 AM  •
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:  Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+ under the OSA, the largest penalty so far, and threatens action against a “major social media company”
5:00 AM  •
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:  Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips
4:45 AM  •
AI Alignment Forum:  Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on “pragmatic interpretability”
4:20 AM  •
CoinDesk:  BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks, including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank, to develop a euro-pegged stablecoin via joint venture Qivalis
4:05 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding from 30%+ to <10%
3:55 AM  •
Maggie Astor / New York Times:  Some people are feeding years of medical records into chatbots like ChatGPT, despite privacy risks and receiving generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response
2:35 AM  •
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:  Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning
2:05 AM  •
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:  DealBook Summit: Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by “YOLO-ing” and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers
1:40 AM  •
Dylan Butts / CNBC:  Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first startup to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore
1:05 AM  •
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:  Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may revive the Jobs-era “design is how it works” ethos in Apple's UI design that faded due to Jony Ive elevating Dye
12:30 AM  •
Anna Heim / TechCrunch:  Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M, says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 ahead of time, and now has 600K+ customers
12:20 AM  •
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:  The European Commission opens an antitrust investigation into Meta over its new policy on AI providers' access to WhatsApp; the probe won't fall under the DMA

December 3, 2025

11:45 PM  •
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:  OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions”, or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat
11:25 PM  •
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:  Nvidia says GB200 Blackwell AI servers, which pack 72 chips in one unit, boost performance 10x over H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking
10:30 PM  •
Biz Carson / Bloomberg:  A profile of Databricks co-founder and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, who pivoted from Jehovah's Witness to helping solve “species-level” problems via AI
10:10 PM  •
Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:  The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in “censorship”, including fact-checking and online safety
9:40 PM  •
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:  Seattle-based Gradial, which makes agentic tools that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $35M Series B led by VMG Partners at a $350M valuation
9:15 PM  •
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:  Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active
8:55 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division, NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit
8:25 PM  •
Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:  Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multiyear $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake's platform and deploy AI agents for enterprises
7:55 PM  •
Sam Sabin / Axios:  The US DOJ indicts two Virginia twin brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors
7:40 PM  •
The Hacker News:  React discloses a React Server Components flaw that allows unauthenticated remote code execution; Wiz says 39% of cloud environments have vulnerable instances
7:25 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds
7:10 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Jensen Huang says “we don't know” if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips should the US relax export controls on them, after a meeting with President Trump
6:35 PM  •
Abner Li / 9to5Google:  Google debuts Workspace Studio, a no-code tool for creating, designing, managing, and sharing AI agents, for users on Business, Education, and Enterprise plans
6:20 PM  •
Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck@threads.com:  Mark Zuckerberg announces a creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Senior Director of Apple Design Team Billy Sorrentino

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