| 9:50 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B |
| 9:15 PM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours |
| 7:40 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis |
| 7:00 PM • | Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October |
| 6:10 PM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 |
| 5:35 PM • | Jacob Adelman / Barron's Online: Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection |
| 5:25 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is considering retaining an advisory role |
| 5:20 PM • | Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted |
| 4:55 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package, worth around $56B when it vested, must be restored, ending a years-long fight |
| 4:45 PM • | Andrej Karpathy / karpathy: 2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more |
| 4:05 PM • | Physical Intelligence: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence says it saw improvements in its vision-language-action model by including human video data in the fine-tuning process |
| 3:25 PM • | The San Francisco Standard: California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details |
| 3:15 PM • | Blake Brittain / Reuters: Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties |
| 2:55 PM • | Emily Mullin / Wired: Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech |
| 1:55 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M |
| 12:35 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M |
| 11:55 AM • | Associated Press: A Paris court rejects a French government request to suspend Shein in the country after finding illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on the site |
| 11:00 AM • | Karl Bode / Techdirt: The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China |
| 10:45 AM • | Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product |
| 10:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is on track for ~$50B profit in 2025 after generating a ~$40B net income in the first three quarters, surpassing its internal target for 2025 |
| 10:05 AM • | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Boston-based Neurable, which builds an OS for brain-computer interfaces, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, bringing its total raised to $65M |
| 9:35 AM • | Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a source says is Google Cloud's largest security services deal “approaching $10B” over several years |
| 9:30 AM • | Financial Times: Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing |
| 9:21 AM • | Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis |
| 8:50 AM • | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: China is retrofitting older models of ASML's DUV machines to produce advanced smartphone and AI chips, exposing cracks in US-led export controls |
| 8:30 AM • | Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: DraftKings launches DraftKings Predictions, a new app that lets customers in 38 states trade contracts on sports and financial events through prediction markets |
| 7:55 AM • | Miranda Bryant / The Guardian: Denmark says Russia was behind “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections |
| 7:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cut ties with FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating its main funding source |
| 5:50 AM • | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan over attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that the markets fall under CFTC's jurisdiction |
| 5:45 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files |
| 4:25 AM • | Alex Heath / Sources: Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a top priority, but it is something that “we're maintaining” |
| 1:05 AM • | Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models |
| 12:40 AM • | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: The administrator winding down Do Kwon's Terraform Labs sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging it unlawfully profited from and contributed to Terraform's collapse |
| 11:15 PM • | Anvee Bhutani / Wall Street Journal: Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tech companies |
| 10:20 PM • | Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's “code red” call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more |
| 9:30 PM • | Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked |
| 9:25 PM • | Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets |
| 8:50 PM • | Chris McGuire / Council on Foreign Relations: US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening |
| 7:43 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League of Legends, internally called League Next, for 2027; Riot confirms a big update is in the works |
| 6:30 PM • | Suzanne Smalley / The Record: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide |
| 6:15 PM • | Mistral AI: Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages |
| 5:55 PM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection |
| 5:30 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% |
| 5:25 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest |
| 5:05 PM • | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado |
| 4:45 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: France charges a crew member of an Italian passenger ferry for allegedly infecting the ship with a remote access tool on behalf of a foreign power |
| 3:50 PM • | Jake Kanter / Deadline: YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads |
| 3:25 PM • | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more |
| 3:20 PM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M |
| 3:15 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Instacart will pay $60M to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and “satisfaction guarantee” advertising |
| 2:55 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon rolls out Alexa+ on the web to early access users, with chat functionality, smart home controls, file management, and cross-device conversations |
| 2:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Armadin, launched by Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia to fight AI hacking, raised a $24M seed and is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $600M+ valuation |
| 1:56 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more |
| 1:35 PM • | Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg: Twenty-four companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and AWS, join the US Genesis Mission to boost the use of AI for scientific discovery |
| 12:55 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air sports host in a multiyear deal; Duncan will also cover other live events for the company |
| 12:40 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March |
| 12:25 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic launches Agent Skills as an open standard with a specification and SDK, and says VS Code, GitHub, Cursor, Goose, and others already support the format |
| 12:10 PM • | The Information: Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the “code red”; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B |
| 11:55 AM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Edison, which last month released AI tool Kosmos to speed up and automate complex scientific hypothesis generation, raised $70M at a $250M valuation |
| 11:25 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Rivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M+ miles across the US and Canada |
| 10:50 AM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion |
| 10:25 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Luma AI launches Ray3 Modify, which allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images; users can also define start and end frames |
| 9:15 AM • | Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M+ in bookings in 2025 |
| 8:40 AM • | Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Imprint, which helps retailers like Brooks Brothers offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $150M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation |
| 8:10 AM • | Chainalysis: North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K |
| 8:00 AM • | Niko Gallogly / New York Times: Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July |
| 7:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot |
| 7:25 AM • | Justine Calma / The Verge: Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M |
| 7:10 AM • | Financial Times: Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026 |
| 7:05 AM • | Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication |
| 6:50 AM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 “to increase opportunity in search results”; Apple's website says 800M+ users visit the App Store weekly |
| 6:35 AM • | Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt says subtle keystroke data lag, measuring 110ms instead of the expected tens of milliseconds, helped catch a North Korean IT worker |
| 6:25 AM • | Rebekah Valentine / IGN: Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall |
| 6:01 AM • | Bloomberg: Honda plans to halt production in Japan and China from December 29 to January 6, showing the ongoing fallout of the global chip shortage and Nexperia takeover |
| 5:40 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation; LeCun has named Alexandre LeBrun as its CEO, ahead of a January launch |
| 4:40 AM • | Axios: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC “is not an independent agency”; the agency removed “independent agency” from its site as he testified |
| 4:25 AM • | Gavin Bonshor / More Than Moore: An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization |
| 4:05 AM • | Rose Henderson / Bloomberg: Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for protecting connected devices including cars and home routers, raised €100M led by Blue Cloud Ventures |
| 3:05 AM • | Issie Lapowsky / Rest of World: Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% |
| 2:45 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Filing: Sony and Tencent reach a “confidential settlement” over Tencent's Light of Motiram, a game that Sony alleged was a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series |
| 2:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Tokyo-based Resonac, a crucial cutting-edge chip chemicals supplier whose shares are up 40%+ YTD, says it has bolstered China production capacity to meet demand |
| 2:25 AM • | Martha Muir / Financial Times: Oilfield service companies are moving into the data center business by supplying power and cooling tech as demand from traditional drilling customers weakens |
| 1:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform |
| 1:30 AM • | Tim Sweeney / @timsweeneyepic: Tim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is “charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments” |
| 1:25 AM • | Financial Times: In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at “bargain prices” |
| 1:20 AM • | Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: Manus says it crossed $100M ARR eight months after launch and is growing at 20%+ MoM since Manus 1.5's release; its total revenue run rate is now over $125M |
| 1:15 AM • | Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: SoftBank Group was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on December 18, as Wall Street's AI infrastructure spending worries crossed into the Asian markets |
| 1:05 AM • | Dakin Campbell / Business Insider: Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on December 12 after saying a tenant canceled |
| 12:55 AM • | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC |
| 12:10 AM • | Chiranjivi Chakraborty / Bloomberg: India-listed RRP Semiconductor surged 55,000%+ in the 20 months through December 17, despite negative revenue; a source says India's SEBI is examining the jump |
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