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Waymo resumes robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout, and says most trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (CNBC)

Waymo resumes robotaxi service in SF after suspending i...

CNBC: Waymo resumes robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout...

Sources: the US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, compounding instability at the agency (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Sources: the US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA sta...

John Sakellariadis / Politico: Sources: the US DHS is investigating whether 6 CI...

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70%...

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to abo...

Sources detail SoftBank's efforts to raise funds as it races to close its $22.5B funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (Reuters)

Sources detail SoftBank's efforts to raise funds as it ...

Reuters: Sources detail SoftBank's efforts to raise funds as it races to close i...

A look at Tokyo&based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B+ contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (Financial Times)

A look at Tokyo&based neocloud provider Datasection, wh...

Financial Times: A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sour...

METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (@metr_evals)

METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time ho...

@metr_evals: METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of abo...

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after its blockbuster IPO in China (Bloomberg)

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new gene...

Bloomberg: Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chip...

Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000+ attendees, yacht parties, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a ...

Wall Street Journal: Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a smal...

Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ ...

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M...

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to ...

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to...

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 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/g...

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.6...

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 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT'...

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's ...

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous ...

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomo...

Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)

Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to a...

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google has formed a new executive council t...

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 (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)

Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that ...

Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a ...

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 (Financial Times)

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entit...

Financial Times: Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will...

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 (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign ...)

US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on t...

Chris McGuire / Council on Foreign Relations: US approving Nvidia H200 exports t...

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 (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of L...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overh...

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get ...

Suzanne Smalley / The Record: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can...

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 (Bloomberg)

Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~3...

Bloomberg: Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public un...

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 (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 202...

Justine Calma / The Verge: Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2...

TMTG agrees to merge with Google&backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and begin building the "world's first utility&scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)

TMTG agrees to merge with Google&backed fusion energy c...

Financial Times: TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company T...

Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and more, amid a push to be a one&stop financial app (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced tr...

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced t...

Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts...

Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse&engineered the company's EUV machines (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)

Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV mach...

Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machi...

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (Financial Times)

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Ic...

Financial Times: Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, ar...

Ankar, which develops LLM&powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Ankar, which develops LLM&powered AI tools to streamlin...

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline ...

Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% before falling 8.4% intraday, amid a weakness in digital assets (Reuters)

Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong de...

Reuters: Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after risin...

X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to expli...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to expl...

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 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Hong Kong&based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stableco...

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stable...

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitaskin...

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 (William Sandlund/Financial Times)

Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructu...

William Sandlund / Financial Times: Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI i...

How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose the use of the technology while others say they are exploring ways to utilize AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppos...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood, as some oppose...

Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover to ex&Googler Diana Layfield in October, was pushed out by the board over an IPO timing clash (Financial Times)

Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit a...

Financial Times: Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and hando...

GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and rolls out support for digital keys, after it started phasing out CarPlay in 2023 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicle...

The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (Reuters)

The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amend...

Reuters: The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint aga...

Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular AI service, global traffic from Starlink grew 2.3x, and more (Cloudflare)

Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19...

Cloudflare: Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, Ch...

French government calls for delay of EU&Mercosur trade deal vote

French government calls for delay of EU&Mercosur trade ...

France's prime minister has called for pushing back the final approval vote on t...

Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones involving Trump&linked companies (New York Times)

Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC ...

New York Times: Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC eased up ...

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 (Martin Peers/The Information)

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in t...

Martin Peers / The Information: Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leas...

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B deal in 2024, and increased Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collaps...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow coll...

A look at Trump's AI EO and how its interstate commerce argument could backfire by invalidating laws in GOP states targeting "Big Tech censorship" (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

A look at Trump's AI EO and how its interstate commerce...

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A look at Trump's AI EO and how its interstate commerce...

Exor rejects Tether's all&cash offer for its 65.4% controlling stake in Juventus, which valued the Italian soccer club at €1.1B (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Exor rejects Tether's all&cash offer for its 65.4% cont...

Zack Abrams / The Block: Exor rejects Tether's all-cash offer for its 65.4% cont...

Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to...

Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tool...

The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the "actual delivery" of a digital asset, aiming to support broader access to regulated crypto markets (Micah Zimmerman/Bitcoin Magazine)

The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the "actual ...

Micah Zimmerman / Bitcoin Magazine: The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on t...

Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defining superintelligence, its application in the medical field, universal basic income, regulation, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on defin...

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on definin...

Despite talk of an existential US&China AI race, the Chinese state and its major companies are spending more to dominate other domains, such as EVs and robotics (Tim Wu/Financial Times)

Despite talk of an existential US&China AI race, the Ch...

Tim Wu / Financial Times: Despite talk of an existential US-China AI race, the C...

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about or...

Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber strategy that would enlist private companies to mount offensive cyberattacks on foreign adversaries (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)

Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyb...

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new c...

Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorted loans and rapidly cut exposure to the enterprise software sector in 2025 amid concerns over AI threat (Financial Times)

Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorte...

Financial Times: Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorted loans ...

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