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Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (www.adweek.com)
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Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ (slashdot.org)
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Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma (www.cnbc.com)
1 day ago Google Nvidia

Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017 (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Google Energy

In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Russia Intel Ukraine Berkshire Texas AMD

Nvidia Builds Location Verification Tech That Could Track Where Its AI Chips End Up (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago AI Nvidia

Nvidia says that it hasn't seen “substantiation or received tips” about chip smuggling via data centers outside of China, after The Information's DeepSeek story (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago China Nvidia

Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11" display and productivity features (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Amazon

AI Slop Ad Backfires For McDonald's (slashdot.org)
1 day ago AI

The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago AI Yahoo

Sources: Meta's new model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in 2026 as a “closed” model, a move Alexandr Wang advocates, shifting from Meta's open-source strategy (www.bloomberg.com)
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How US startups like Oakland-based Brimstone are racing to develop sources of raw materials that the US needs for tech, an industry China has long dominated (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago China Startup

Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago India Google AI

Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations (www.wired.com)
1 day ago AI Instagram Algorithm

Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added app integrations in October (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago IOS Adobe

Sources: Lip-Bu Tan's dual roles as Intel CEO and tech investor cause consternation in the industry and at Intel; four ex-Intel execs say it caused them to exit (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago Intel

Rubio Orders Diplomats To Return To Using Times New Roman Font (yro.slashdot.org)
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Betting exchange Matchbook plans to launch a prediction market platform in the UK in January 2026 as a “road test” before a planned US launch as early as March (www.bloomberg.com)
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McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company Sweetshop, after backlash that the ad is distasteful (futurism.com)
1 day ago AI Netherlands

TTP: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps linked to US-sanctioned foreign companies; Google removed 17 apps and Apple removed 35 (www.washingtonpost.com)
1 day ago Google Apple

Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries (www.theinformation.com)
1 day ago China AI Nvidia

How President Trump's tariffs ended China's monopoly on making US game consoles, boosting Vietnam, whose exports jumped from $30M/month in 2024 to $400M in May (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Trump China Vietnam

A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50%+ of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services (www.ofcom.org.uk)
1 day ago Google

Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago AI Instagram

As Australia bans under-16s from social media platforms, TikTok-powered video app Lemon8, friends-only photo app Yope, and others rise up the App Store charts (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Australia

President Trump letting Nvidia sell advanced AI chips to China reverses decades of US tech restrictions on its adversaries, giving China a boost in the AI race (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago Trump China AI Nvidia

The EU's General Court reduces a 2023 EU antitrust fine on Intel to €237.1M, down from €376.36M; the EU fined Intel a record €1.06B in 2009, then overturned (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Intel

The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago Germany France

RoboCrop: Teaching Robots How To Pick Tomatoes (hardware.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Robot

Australia's under-16 social media ban excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Australia Google Facebook YouTube WhatsApp Ban GitHub

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