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Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)

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Reuters: Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar...

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" (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+ ...

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult site...

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 (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

Sources: Beijing&based Cambricon plans to more than tri...

Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple...

Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co&founders, David Edery and Daniel Cook; the streamer has shrunk its six&studio gaming operation down to three (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co&found...

Stephen Totilo / Game File: Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-fo...

Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in AI data centers amid a global supply shortage (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)

Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business,...

Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business...

Microsoft says "aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered", following a report that some units lowered sales growth targets for AI products (Reuters)

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Reuters: Microsoft says “aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lo...

Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27&33 tonnes per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers, according to miner Grupo México (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, whic...

Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: Copper demand is being boosted by AI data cen...

London&based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross&border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

London&based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross&b...

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-b...

Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or bi...

Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or ...

Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps inc...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps in...

Google launches Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google's annual OS release schedule as it shifts to more frequent updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Google launches Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Goo...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google launches Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of...

Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all&cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all...

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all...

Trade data shows South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5% YoY to a record $17.26B in November, driven by strong data center demand and higher memory prices (Reuters)

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Shopify says it fixed an issue in its login authentication flow, resolving a December 1 outage that left some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters)

Shopify says it fixed an issue in its login authenticat...

Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: Shopify says it fixed an issue in its login authenticat...

Nvidia announces Alpamayo&R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the "first industry&scale open reasoning vision language action model" (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

Nvidia announces Alpamayo&R1, an AI model for autonomou...

Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for auto...

Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023 (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)

Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after ...

Simon Hunt / City A.M.: Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after L...

Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI&powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI&powered warehouse ro...

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Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters)

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How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, ...

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US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)

US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open sour...

NBC News: US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, a...

Q&A with ex&Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the "decay" at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip&Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Q&A with ex&Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the "decay" ...

Michael Acton / Financial Times: Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “dec...

Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)

Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing...

Matthew Hutson / IEEE Spectrum: Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark ...

OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users (Financial Times)

OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years af...

Financial Times: OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after Chat...

How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House benefits his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All&In podcast he co&hosts (New York Times)

How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White...

New York Times: How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House be...

An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative "off&label" uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John J...

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: An interview with Google DeepMind N...

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake song...

Abram Brown / The Information: A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remak...

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $7...

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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2025)

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A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy (Bloomberg)

A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years aft...

Bloomberg: A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release...

Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on N...

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot...

Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open&source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertis...

Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums ad...

DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath&V2 model got gold&medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024 (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath&V2 model got gold&me...

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got ...

SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher&margin opportunities ahead of a US listing (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations fo...

A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book Cybersel...

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 boo...

Stanford researchers develop a web&based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce "partisan animosity" (Stanford University)

Stanford researchers develop a web&based tool that uses...

Stanford University: Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an ...

CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, was halted on November 28 due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne's data centers (Reuters)

CME Group says futures trading on its markets, includin...

Reuters: CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 50...

The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet DMA thresholds; Apple says the services should not be called "gatekeepers" (Reuters)

The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple A...

Reuters: The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Map...

The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generat...

Blake Brittain / Reuters: The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that genera...

Germany&based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Germany&based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells su...

Sources detail how Anduril's fast&moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)

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Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share&Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two&year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down Germ...

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Six years after EU law enforcement raids shu...

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US ...

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US...

Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer pl...

Sam Sabin / Axios: Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platform...

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is build...

Paresh Dave / Wired: Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building ...

The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)

The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age li...

Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age l...

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a...

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: Italy's competition regulator says it is sc...

watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found via publicly accessible "Recent Links" pages on online code formatting tools JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found via pu...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found...

Pony AI's Hong Kong&listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000+ global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)

Pony AI's Hong Kong&listed shares rose 6.7% after it sa...

Linda Lew / Bloomberg: Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said...

Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics are burying their real, tested recipes, setting home cooks up for disaster this Thanksgiving (Bloomberg)

Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI fo...

Bloomberg: Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics are bu...

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the ma...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main te...

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