| 3:20 PM • | Yogita Khatri / The Block: Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M |
| 2:40 PM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection |
| 2:10 PM • | Jessica Testa / New York Times: Netflix announces a partnership with iHeartMedia to exclusively publish at least 15 video podcasts beginning in early 2026, including The Breakfast Club |
| 1:45 PM • | Robert Hart / The Verge: Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails and calendar |
| 1:35 PM • | New York Times: The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants |
| 1:25 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z |
| 1:20 PM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images |
| 1:05 PM • | Financial Times: OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative |
| 1:00 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs |
| 12:55 PM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M |
| 12:40 PM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York |
| 12:20 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model |
| 11:55 AM • | The Information: A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner |
| 11:40 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings |
| 11:35 AM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms |
| 11:15 AM • | Andrew McCalip: Orbital solar data centers' cost-per-watt of compute is $51.10/W, far above $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital |
| 10:20 AM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M |
| 9:25 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more |
| 9:10 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe adds a prompt-based video editor to its Firefly app that uses Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others |
| 8:45 AM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO, after years of its for-profit arm juggling layoffs, restructuring, its Google dependence, and the AI landscape |
| 8:25 AM • | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Databricks is raising a $4B Series L at a $134B valuation, up from $100B in September and $62B in December 2024, and had a $4.8B annual revenue rate in October |
| 7:45 AM • | Emily Mason / Bloomberg: Visa says it will allow US banks to settle transactions using Circle's USDC stablecoin over Solana, the US' first full deployment of stablecoin bank settlements |
| 7:10 AM • | New York Times: Elizabeth Warren and two other Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and others about AI data centers' role in rising electricity bills |
| 6:55 AM • | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years |
| 6:35 AM • | Gregory Schmidt / New York Times: VW plans to end vehicle production at its Dresden plant, which opened in 2001, and convert it into a research hub for tech such as AI, robotics, and chip design |
| 6:20 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: As Europe rearms, Anduril is trying to break through in the UK by co-funding major programs, cutting manufacturing deals, and billing itself as “Anglo-American” |
| 6:05 AM • | Rest of World: Analysis: of the world's 8,808 data centers in October 2025, nearly 7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in 27C+ areas |
| 5:50 AM • | Reuters: China approves two Level 3 autonomous cars from state-owned Changan Auto and BAIC Motor, the first such approvals; the cars can drive in Chongqing and Beijing |
| 5:35 AM • | Counterpoint Research: Global smartphone shipments are set to shrink 2.1% in 2026, led by Chinese OEMs, due to rising memory costs; DRAM prices could further raise costs by 10%-15% |
| 2:05 AM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood: some oppose all AI use, while others, like director Timur Bekmambetov, say they are exploring ways to embrace AI tools |
| 12:55 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Monzo's board pushed out CEO TS Anil, who in October announced his exit and handover to former Google executive Diana Layfield, over IPO timing plans |
| 12:00 AM • | William Sandlund / Financial Times: Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure surged in 2025, with CATL up 45% and Sungrow up 130%, as exports boost margins despite Trump's tariffs |
| 10:15 PM • | Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: CoreWeave lost $33B in market value in six weeks amid construction delays at its data center in Denton, Texas, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more |
| 10:00 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI Chief Communications Officer Hannah Wong plans to leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and rehiring in 2023 |
| 8:20 PM • | New York Times: Sources: the US has paused its Tech Prosperity Deal with the UK, signed in September, over frustrations about UK online safety rules and digital services taxes |
| 8:05 PM • | Emilia David / VentureBeat: The Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are “the first fully open byte-level language models”, built using its Olmo 3 models |
| 7:05 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Tesla's shares closed at a 2025 high on December 15, after the company confirmed it is testing its driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator |
| 6:45 PM • | Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: PayPal says it filed US applications to establish PayPal Bank, to offer savings accounts and cut its reliance on third parties when loaning to small businesses |
| 6:30 PM • | TechCrunch: Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs |
| 6:15 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Shares of Broadcom, CoreWeave, and Oracle, companies tied to the AI infrastructure buildout, extend last week's decline; ORCL is down 46%+ since September 10 |
| 5:40 PM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Intel names Robin Colwell, deputy assistant to President Trump, as its head of government affairs, and Pushkar Ranade, the CEO's chief of staff, as interim CTO |
| 5:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Disney's Sora deal is entirely in OpenAI stock warrants rather than a cash licensing fee; Disney has the option to buy more shares beyond its $1B stake |
| 4:20 PM • | Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: Notion told staff it is doing a $300M tender offer at an $11B valuation, ahead of a potential IPO, and passed $600M in ARR, half of it from AI products |
| 3:30 PM • | Bloomberg: How crypto entrepreneur Bill Zanker helped Donald and Melania Trump launch memecoins; $TRUMP is down 88%+ from its peak and $MELANIA is down 98%+ from its peak |
| 2:55 PM • | Reuters: The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging it engaged in deceptive Uber One billing and cancellation practices |
| 2:40 PM • | Cloudflare: Cloudflare's 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular generative AI service, Starlink traffic grew 2.3x, and more |
| 1:45 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: GM adds native Apple Music to select 2025 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles, and rolls out digital key support, after phasing out CarPlay from 2023 |
| 1:40 PM • | Theo Wayt / The Information: Sources: xAI created an enterprise AI sales group six months ago, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back |
| 1:00 PM • | Reshmi Basu / Bloomberg: Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its chip subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M in cash |
| 12:50 PM • | Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank |
| 12:45 PM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 |
| 12:35 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: NYC-based Octane, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, raised a $100M Series F at a $1.3B post-money valuation |
| 11:53 AM • | Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: Nvidia acquires SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source AI workload management system, and says it will keep distributing Slurm on an open-source basis |
| 11:40 AM • | Natalie Alms / Nextgov/FCW: The Trump administration forms the US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 employees from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize government tech |
| 11:30 AM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and has $30B+ in AUM, including a $12B evergreen fund; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022 |
| 11:15 AM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Thrive Holdings announces it has hired Palantir CIO Jim Siders to serve as CEO of Shield Technology Partners, a newly created business focused on IT services |
| 10:30 AM • | Luke James / Tom's Hardware: LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to the home screen, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG unveiled an AI TV strategy at CES |
| 9:35 AM • | Reuters: Internal docs: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads, like for scams |
| 9:15 AM • | Erin Griffith / New York Times: Lightspeed raised $9B+ across six AI funds, including $3.3B to back breakout hits like Anthropic, xAI, and Mistral; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups |
| 9:06 AM • | Emilia David / VentureBeat: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes |
| 8:00 AM • | Rose Henderson / Bloomberg: Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD offer, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid |
| 7:45 AM • | Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret videos to add synced sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index Ventures and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed |
| 7:20 AM • | Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams |
| 7:05 AM • | Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M |
| 6:55 AM • | Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: Teneo survey of 350+ public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than they cost, and more |
| 6:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay |
| 6:25 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages |
| 6:10 AM • | Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads, with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool twice |
| 5:55 AM • | Financial Times: DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust |
| 5:40 AM • | John Reynolds / Tech.eu: London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 |
| 5:15 AM • | Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is “a collection of public fora” and social interaction isn't its “sole purpose” |
| 4:55 AM • | Mike Baker / New York Times: US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market |
| 4:35 AM • | Washington Post: How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame MAGA's opposition to Trump's AI executive order, talking to lawmakers and finally modifying its language |
| 4:20 AM • | Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more |
| 3:50 AM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley |
| 2:00 AM • | Financial Times: How Nvidia's lobbying efforts grew after Howard Lutnick brokered Jensen Huang's early access to President Trump, who ultimately approved H200 sales to China |
| 1:10 AM • | Martin Peers / The Information: Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B |
| 9:55 PM • | Gene Maddaus / Variety: Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links |
| 9:35 PM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical vulnerability, including in third-party code, impacting its online services is eligible for awards |
| 8:40 PM • | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “skills” mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs |
| 8:01 PM • | Loren Grush / Bloomberg: Internal message: SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale at $421/share, valuing the company at ~$800B, and said it's preparing for a possible IPO in 2026 |
| 7:05 PM • | Rachyl Jones / Semafor: Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery |
| 6:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month |
| 6:35 PM • | Andrew Welsch / Barron's Online: Automated digital wealth management company Wealthfront's stock closed up 1.36% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at ~$2.7B, after raising $486M in its IPO |
| 6:20 PM • | Financial Times: Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas |
| 5:35 PM • | Reuters: Exor rejects Tether's all-cash offer for its 65.4% majority stake in Juventus, which valued the Italian soccer club at $1.17B |
| 5:15 PM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue |
| 5:00 PM • | Xuedong Huang / Zoom: Zoom says its “federated AI” model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools |
| 4:00 PM • | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants “semiconductor independence” and to “prop up and subsidize Huawei” |
| 2:55 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps |
| 2:20 PM • | Thinking Machines Lab: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more |
| 2:15 PM • | Bloomberg: David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard |
| 1:55 PM • | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Google expands Google Translate's live speech translation from Pixel Buds to any headphones, supporting 70+ languages, in beta on compatible Android phones |
| 1:30 PM • | Axios: Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump |
| 12:40 PM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: X reported $752M in Q3 revenue, up 17% YoY, a net loss of $577.4M, and EBITDA of ~$454M, up 16%; revenue for the first nine months of 2025 was $2B+ |
| 12:30 PM • | Ann Gehan / The Information: Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales |
| 12:05 PM • | Rocket Drew / The Information: Companies are updating insider trading policies to cover prediction markets; Kalshi and others are pushing for federal oversight, including of insider trading |
| 11:17 AM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Oracle has delayed completion of some OpenAI data centers from 2027 to 2028, largely due to labor and material shortages; Oracle denies delays |
| 11:10 AM • | Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: Kalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B |
| 11:00 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD |
| 10:25 AM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity updates World to make it a “super app” with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto |
| 9:50 AM • | Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI |
| 9:40 AM • | Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz: [Thread] Substack quietly added a feature that forced subscribers to download the app to read full newsletters, but says it reverted the change after complaints |
| 9:15 AM • | Reuters: Serval, which offers an AI assistant for IT, HR, legal, and finance, raised a $75M Series B led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $127M |
| 8:55 AM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws |
| 8:45 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Nvidia told its Chinese clients that it is evaluating adding production capacity for its H200 chips after orders exceeded its current output level |
| 8:35 AM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 chip, used in its Mate 80 Pro Max phone, is China's most advanced chip to date and was produced with SMIC's updated 7nm tech |
| 7:55 AM • | John Liu / Bloomberg: Sources: China is considering a ~$28B-to-$70B incentives package, which would be separate from the $50B Big Fund III plan, to support its chipmaking industry |
| 7:50 AM • | Reuters: EU finance ministers agree on a €3 customs duty on low-value parcels from July 2026, aiming to crack down on Chinese imports from retailers like Shein and Temu |
| 6:50 AM • | Kirsty Needham / Reuters: Papua New Guinea says Google will build three subsea cables for the country, a $120M effort funded by Australia, amid China boosting its influence in the region |
| 4:55 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center, with Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation |
| 2:30 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Intel has tested chipmaking tools in 2025 from California-based ACM Research, which has deep China ties; US sanctions targeted two ACM overseas units |
| 2:00 AM • | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Newsletter: GPT-5.2 models have a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, like GPT-5 and 5.1, but have an August 31, 2025, knowledge cutoff, vs. September 30, 2024 |
| 12:55 AM • | Alex Heath / Sources: An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking |
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