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Some YouTube creators are using AI video tools to make content for kids and babies, causing concern that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago AI YouTube

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (www.theguardian.com)
21 days ago AI Immigration

Vinci, which uses AI simulations to accelerate chip and other hardware design, raised a $36M Series A led by Xora Innovation, taking its total funding to $46M (www.reuters.com)
21 days ago AI

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025 (www.ft.com)
22 days ago Trump U.S. Bitcoin

HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
22 days ago

Sources: Anthropic taps law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and held preliminary talks with big investment banks (t.co)
22 days ago IPO

ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago

LandSpace Could Become China's First Company To Land a Reusable Rocket (science.slashdot.org)
22 days ago China

A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago Startup AI

Study Finds Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells (science.slashdot.org)
22 days ago

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 (www.404media.co)
22 days ago

London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (tech.eu)
22 days ago London

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 (www.ft.com)
22 days ago AI

Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ (fortune.com)
22 days ago

An analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago

Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and growing impatient with pedestrians as the company seeks to make them “confidently assertive” (www.wsj.com)
22 days ago Autonomous Car

Software testing startup Antithesis raised $105M led by trading firm Jane Street, as demand grows for software to vet code generated by AI coding tools (www.ft.com)
22 days ago Startup AI

MongoDB stock jumped 22% on December 2 after Q3 revenue rose 19% YoY to $628M, above $592M est., and raises full-year guidance on Atlas growth and AI demand (www.cnbc.com)
22 days ago AI

Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding (metronome.com)
22 days ago SaaS

Anthropic Acquires Bun In First Acquisition (developers.slashdot.org)
22 days ago

YouTube says it will comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16s, after rejecting its inclusion in the crackdown and calling the regulation “rushed” (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Australia YouTube Ban

San Francisco Will Sue Ultraprocessed Food Companies (science.slashdot.org)
22 days ago San Francisco

After a backlash, India says its pre-installed cybersecurity app is optional for users, who “have complete freedom to activate, or delete the app at any time” (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago India

Waymo Hits a Dog In San Francisco, Reigniting Safety Debate (tech.slashdot.org)
22 days ago San Francisco

Filing: JD.com's JingDong Industrials, or JDi, a supply chain technology and services provider in China, aims to raise up to ~$420M in its Hong Kong IPO (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago China Hong Kong IPO

Kubernetes Is Retiring Its Popular Ingress NGINX Controller (news.slashdot.org)
22 days ago

Sources: Anthropic has tapped a law firm to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and has held preliminary talks with big investment banks (www.ft.com)
22 days ago IPO

ServiceNow announces a deal to acquire identity security startup Veza, sources say for between $1B and $1.5B; Veza had a private valuation of $808M in March (www.theinformation.com)
22 days ago Startup

Check Point is raising $1.5B from the sale of a five-year zero-coupon convertible bond; proceeds will go toward buying back as much as $225M of stock (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago

OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' As Google Catches Up In AI Race (tech.slashdot.org)
22 days ago Google AI

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