Tuesday, December 9, 2025

5:50 AM
As Australia prepares to enact the world's first under-16 social media ban on December 10, a look at the implications, reaction from parents and teens, and more
Financial Times
5:35 AM
Mercedes partners with Chinese software developer Momenta to deploy Level 4 self-driving cars for Lumo Mobility in Abu Dhabi, its first foray into robotaxis
Bloomberg
4:25 AM
The European Commission opens an investigation into Google to assess possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in “the use of online content for AI purposes”
Financial Times
4:10 AM
The US DOJ detains two men for allegedly violating export controls by trying to smuggle $160M+ of Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China; a third man pled guilty
Bloomberg
3:50 AM
Q&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more
The Verge
2:30 AM
An overview of AI in 2025, including arguments for and against above-trend model capabilities growth, the state of evals, and the safety of reasoning models
LessWrong
2:05 AM
AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete, are forcing web developers to rethink whether they are designing websites for humans or for robots
Bloomberg
1:35 AM
The future of AI development could resemble the rivalry between iOS and Android, with China's AI approach closer to Google's open and customizable Android OS
Financial Times
1:05 AM
Reddit rolls out new safety features globally for all users under 18, ahead of Australia's social media ban for under-16s that takes effect on December 10
Bloomberg

Monday, December 8, 2025

11:55 PM
Sources: Sam Altman said OpenAI plans to end its “code red” after releasing a model in January 2026 with improved image generation, speed, and personality
Wall Street Journal
11:20 PM
Scientists at NeurIPS, which drew a record 26,000 attendees this year, say key questions about how AI models work and how to measure them remain unresolved
NBC News
11:10 PM
Italy-based humanoid robotics startup Generative Bionics raised €70M led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Tether, AMD Ventures, and others
Bloomberg
9:50 PM
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which runs major research archives, warned that AI models are fabricating research papers, journals, and archives
Scientific American
9:30 PM
Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto
Bloomberg
8:55 PM
Sources: after Netflix announced its WBD deal, Larry Ellison called Trump to argue that it hurts competition; Paramount CEO David Ellison promised CNN changes
Wall Street Journal
8:10 PM
The US FDA qualifies the first AI drug development tool, AIM-NASH, to help doctors assess a severe form of fatty liver disease in drug trials
Reuters
7:55 PM
David Sacks says “AI preemption” won't apply to US state laws on child safety, communities won't be forced to host data centers they don't want, and more
@davidsacks
7:40 PM
President Trump says the “same approach” that allows Nvidia to ship H200 chips to China will also apply to “AMD, Intel, and other GREAT American Companies”
Reuters
7:06 PM
Filing: HashKey, Hong Kong's largest licensed crypto exchange, is aiming to raise up to ~$215M in its IPO in the city
Reuters
6:50 PM
US lawmakers remove provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 that would have ensured military members' right to repair their own equipment
Wired
6:35 PM
Google announces system “autospatialization” for Android XR, an AI feature to turn 2D content, including games streamed from a PC, into 3D, arriving in 2026
UploadVR
6:05 PM
After rallying early in 2025, Netflix's shares have fallen 28% since the end of June amid concerns about its growth outlook and its costly pursuit of WBD
Bloomberg
5:55 PM
The US CFTC launches a pilot program allowing bitcoin, ether, and USDC to be used as collateral in US derivatives markets
CoinDesk
5:25 PM
Amazon's Zoox CTO Jesse Levinson says Zoox plans to start charging for rides in Las Vegas in early 2026 and is focused on transporting people, not deliveries
Fortune
4:55 PM
President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, and 25% of the chip sales will be paid to the US
CNBC
4:20 PM
TikTok announces Shared Collection, to organize and share saved videos, and plans to launch Shared Feed, a daily curated selection of 15 videos, globally
Engadget
3:30 PM
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
Variety
2:45 PM
Anthropic launches a Slack integration for Claude Code, expanding on the existing Claude app for Slack, launching in beta as a research preview
SiliconANGLE
2:35 PM
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
9to5Google
2:25 PM
Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries
Business Insider
2:15 PM
OpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout
TechCrunch
2:05 PM
Apple and Google say they have developed new features that streamline the process of moving data between iOS and Android, as part of a joint collaboration
9to5Google
1:55 PM
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
UploadVR
1:50 PM
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
Australian Financial Review
1:45 PM
Xreal's Project Aura prototype glasses hands-on: they feel like VR shrunken to a far smaller form, the 70° FoV is small but enough for immersion, and more
CNET
1:20 PM
Google details its plans to create two different categories of AI-powered smart glasses: one with screens launching in 2026 and another that's audio-focused
Bloomberg
1:10 PM
Commerce to open up exports of NVIDIA H200 Chips to China
Semafor
12:20 PM
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
Adweek
11:50 AM
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
Reuters
11:30 AM
Leaked letter: Tiger Global launches Private Investment Partners 17, a fund targeting raising $2.2B, signaling a pivot from megafunds to more discipline
CNBC
11:25 AM
Internal memo: Johny Srouji, who runs Apple's chip division, tells staff that “I don't plan on leaving anytime soon”, after reports he was considering leaving
Bloomberg
10:55 AM
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
Reuters
10:25 AM
ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for violating the First Amendment, after Apple removed its app under White House pressure
NPR
10:07 AM
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
Bloomberg
9:30 AM
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
The Block
9:07 AM
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
CNBC
8:55 AM
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
Reuters
8:45 AM
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”
Bloomberg
7:30 AM
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
Bloomberg
7:15 AM
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
Stratechery
7:02 AM
The EU says Meta agreed to change its “pay or consent” model to let Facebook and Instagram users share less data in exchange for less personalized ads
Financial Times
6:15 AM
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”
Financial Times
5:55 AM
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
Nikkei Asia
5:40 AM
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
Financial Times
5:05 AM
Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and broker-dealer arms
Bloomberg
4:45 AM
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
Associated Press
4:30 AM
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
The Keyword
4:15 AM
Interviews with 10 Kenyan AI annotators show how Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability
Rest of World
4:00 AM
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
TechCrunch
3:50 AM
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
Wall Street Journal
2:00 AM
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
Wall Street Journal
12:30 AM
How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions
New York Times

Sunday, December 7, 2025

11:35 PM
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
Wall Street Journal
10:25 PM
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
Washington Post
9:10 PM
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
Financial Times
7:00 PM
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
Bloomberg
5:40 PM
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
Financial Times
3:45 PM
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
TechCrunch
1:05 PM
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
Bloomberg
11:05 AM
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
Essential AI
10:05 AM
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
Politico
6:15 AM
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
EE Times
2:15 AM
India's digital transformation exposes citizens to scams like “digital arrests”, where victims are coerced into transferring funds under false accusations
Bloomberg
2:10 AM
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
TechCrunch
2:00 AM
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
Chemical & Engineering News
1:50 AM
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
Reuters
1:45 AM
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
Forbes
1:00 AM
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
Financial Times

Saturday, December 6, 2025

10:40 PM
In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are “refounding”, as they scramble to add new AI features
New York Times
8:10 PM
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
Bloomberg
5:40 PM
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
Fast Company
3:35 PM
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
The Decoder
3:05 PM
A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials
SemiAnalysis
12:35 PM
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
Bloomberg
10:05 AM
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
Wired
6:35 AM
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”
Wired
2:35 AM
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
New York Times
1:55 AM
Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims
Bloomberg
1:30 AM
Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks
NBC News
1:20 AM
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
The Information

Friday, December 5, 2025

10:30 PM
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”
Business Insider
9:20 PM
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
OpenRouter
7:25 PM
Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+
TechCrunch
6:30 PM
Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October
TechCrunch
5:55 PM
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
Bloomberg
4:15 PM
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
Deadline
3:20 PM
WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business
Game Developer
3:05 PM
Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M
Reuters
2:45 PM
Sources: SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an IPO in the second half of 2026
The Information
2:35 PM
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
New York Times
2:00 PM
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
Wall Street Journal
1:00 PM
Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine
BBC
12:35 PM
Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month
Bloomberg
12:20 PM
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
Business Insider
11:40 AM
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
TrendForce
10:45 AM
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
Bloomberg
10:05 AM
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
Hugging Face
9:30 AM
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
Bloomberg Law
9:10 AM
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
New York Times
9:05 AM
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
Bloomberg
8:55 AM
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
Axios
8:50 AM
Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.' theatrical releases for films” but “the windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly”
The Hollywood Reporter
7:45 AM
Sources and docs: India is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung have opposed the move
Reuters
7:25 AM
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
Financial Times
6:45 AM
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
Reuters
6:20 AM
The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges
Reuters
6:05 AM
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
About Amazon
5:25 AM
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
Nikkei Asia
3:50 AM
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
Bloomberg
2:35 AM
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
Bloomberg
2:20 AM
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”
Implicator.ai
2:05 AM
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
Platformer
1:45 AM
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content
The Verge
1:25 AM
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
The Decoder
1:05 AM
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
Wired
12:55 AM
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
Wall Street Journal

Thursday, December 4, 2025

11:45 PM
Google unveils Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer accuracy for real-time learning, which can scale to context windows of 2M+ tokens
Google Research
11:25 PM
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
Reuters
11:15 PM
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
Wall Street Journal
10:40 PM
US and Canadian agencies warn that Chinese hackers are using Brickstorm malware to penetrate and maintain backdoor access to unnamed government and IT entities
Reuters
9:50 PM
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
FinSMEs
9:05 PM
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
@hsu_steve
8:25 PM
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%+
Bloomberg
8:00 PM
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
Bloomberg
7:15 PM
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
Forbes
7:00 PM
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
Forbes
6:55 PM
Two studies suggest that AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, by presenting many claims, regardless of their accuracy
Washington Post
5:55 PM
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
Fast Company
5:35 PM
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
CNBC
5:00 PM
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
CNBC
4:30 PM
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.
Reuters
3:55 PM
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”
New York Times
3:35 PM
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”
9to5Google
3:00 PM
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
Axios
2:10 PM
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
The Information
1:50 PM
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
CNBC
1:15 PM
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
Bloomberg
12:45 PM
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”
Reuters
12:35 PM
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
Bloomberg
12:15 PM
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
The Verge
12:10 PM
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
TechCrunch
11:50 AM
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
TechCrunch
11:20 AM
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
The Verge
10:45 AM
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
Reuters
10:25 AM
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
Wall Street Journal
9:55 AM
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
Wired
9:25 AM
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
Reuters
9:08 AM
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
Bloomberg
8:55 AM
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
Reuters
8:40 AM
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
Wall Street Journal
8:25 AM
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
New York Times
8:15 AM
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
Bloomberg
8:05 AM
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
Bloomberg
7:50 AM
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”
Wall Street Journal
7:35 AM
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
Washington Post
7:20 AM
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
New York Times
7:01 AM
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
Bloomberg
6:50 AM
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
New York Times
6:40 AM
Docs: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's gaming supply chain role
Reuters
6:30 AM
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
New York Times
6:15 AM
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
Gizmodo
5:55 AM
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”
Reuters