Tech

Japan Issues Tsunami Warning After Magnitude 7.6 Earthquake (slashdot.org)
13 days ago Japan

Leaked letter: Tiger Global launches Private Investment Partners 17, a fund targeting raising ~$2B to $3B, signaling a pivot from megafunds to more discipline (www.cnbc.com)
13 days ago

Internal memo: Johny Srouji, who oversees Apple's chip division, tells staff that “I don't plan on leaving anytime soon” (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Apple

How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions (news.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Cryptocurrency

Sources: Skild AI, which develops a foundational model for robots, is in talks to raise $1B+ from SoftBank and Nvidia at a $14B valuation, up from $4.7B in July (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago AI Robot Nvidia

ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for First Amendment violations after Apple removed its app following White House pressure (www.npr.org)
13 days ago Trump Apple

The Accounting Uproar Over How Fast an AI Chip Depreciates (tech.slashdot.org)
13 days ago AI

AdGuard VPN protection on 10 devices is just $35 in this limited time deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago VPN

How Agentic BAS AI Turns Threat Headlines Into Defense Strategies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago AI

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Energy AI

How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions (www.nytimes.com)
13 days ago

Michael Saylor's Strategy acquired 10,624 bitcoin for $962.7M between December 1 and 7, its largest purchase since July; its stock is down ~40% in 2025 (www.theblock.co)
13 days ago Bitcoin

Paramount Skydance Launches Hostile Bid For WBD After Netflix Wins Bidding War (entertainment.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Netflix

Idaho Lab Produces World's First Molten Salt Fuel for Nuclear Reactors (hardware.slashdot.org)
13 days ago

Amazon Pitches AI Tools as Co-Workers While Axing Jobs (slashdot.org)
13 days ago Amazon AI

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Trump Netflix

Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (www.cnbc.com)
13 days ago

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” (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Trump AI

India's Tata Electronics signs up Intel as the first prospective client for its upcoming chip facilities; Tata is investing ~$14B to build in Gujarat and Assam (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago India Intel

IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago IBM

An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago

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.com)
13 days ago YouTube Netflix

The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but “the case is not closed” (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Facebook Instagram

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” (ig.ft.com)
13 days ago AI

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 (asia.nikkei.com)
13 days ago Alibaba AI WeChat Tencent

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 (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Startup Singapore

Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago

Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers (apnews.com)
13 days ago AI Canada Facial Recognition

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 (blog.google)
13 days ago Google AI

An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (restofworld.org)
13 days ago China Interview AI WhatsApp

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