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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground m...

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Play...

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 ...

OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism i...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “sk...

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease&and&desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube tha...

Gene Maddaus / Variety: Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that...

Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical vulnerability, including in third&party code, impacting its online services is eligible for awards (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any cr...

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that an...

Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third&party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into w...

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into ...

Sources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is considering adding production capacity for its H200 chips in response to robust demand (Reuters)

Sources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is co...

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is considering adding...

TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 processor, used in its Mate 80 Pro Max phone, is China's most advanced chip to date and produced with SMIC's updated 7nm tech (Ian King/Bloomberg)

TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 processor, used in it...

Ian King / Bloomberg: TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 processor, used in its M...

On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity" (OpenAI)

On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a...

OpenAI: On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on “a decade of breakt...

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says it placed an additional $11B order in Q4 (CNBC)

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $...

CNBC: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Googl...

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying "we want to have one central source of approval" (Reuters)

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preem...

Reuters: President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing ...

Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real&time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (Dominic&Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that ...

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Runware, which operates a developer tool plat...

Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open&source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary develo...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary develo...

Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verifi...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, ver...

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting us...

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally...

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US i...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US ...

Amazon now offers same&day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300+ US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30%+ since its August launch (Peyton Bigora/Grocery Dive)

Amazon now offers same&day perishable grocery delivery ...

Peyton Bigora / Grocery Dive: Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery deli...

Ford, Renault team up on low&cost electric cars to counter Chinese rivals

Ford, Renault team up on low&cost electric cars to coun...

Automotive heavyweights Renault and Ford are to join forces to develop a line of...

An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands&on dealmaking approach generated $10B in international gaming revenue over the past year (Bloomberg)

An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu...

Bloomberg: An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-...

Cambridge, UK&based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners (Isabella Ward/Bloomberg)

Cambridge, UK&based Nu Quantum, which builds networking...

Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networki...

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