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Sources detail the efforts SoftBank is making to raise the necessary funds as it races to close its $22.5B funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-22

Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New 'Tech Force' to Build AI Infrastructure (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 Trump AI

FSF Says Nintendo's New DRM Allows Them to Remotely Render User's Device 'Permanently Unusuable' (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 Nintendo

Sources: tech lobbyists say that David Sacks' push for an EO blocking state AI laws undercut their efforts to craft a permanent, bipartisan federal solution (www.politico.com)
2025-12-22 AI

Q&A with Blizzard President Johanna Faries on company staff bonus transparency, working under Xbox leadership, restoring the NetEase partnership, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-22 Xbox

While Releasing 'Avatar 3', James Cameron Questions the Future of Movies (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

US CHIPS Act-funded SMART USA Institute, focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Department of Commerce will terminate its $285M five-year contract (spectrum.ieee.org)
2025-12-21 U.S.

Is America's Tech Industry Already Facing a Recession? (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 U.S.

Q&A with Harvard economist Jason Furman, who consults for OpenAI, on the similarities between the AI boom and the dot-com era, AI's impact on jobs, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-21 AI

DataLane, which is using AI to build an identity graph to map local businesses across the US, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Amplify Partners (www.axios.com)
2025-12-21 AI

Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles (missionlocal.org)
2025-12-21 San Francisco

Rust's 'Vision Doc' Makes Recommendations to Help Keep Rust Growing (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B+ contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (www.ft.com)
2025-12-21 Tencent Tokyo

METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (x.com)
2025-12-21

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after its blockbuster IPO in China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-21 China IPO AI

Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (apnews.com)
2025-12-21 China Refugee Nepal

Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-21 Google

Does AI Really Make Coders Faster? (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 AI

S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-21

Parrot OS Switches to KDE Plasma Desktop (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

Flock Executive Says Their Camera Helped Find Shooting Suspect, Addresses Privacy Concerns (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

Google advises some employees on visas, including H-1B visas, not to travel outside the US due to processing delays, following new social media screening rules (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-12-21 Google H1B

Military Satellites Now Maneuver, Watch Each Other, and Monitor Signals and Data (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M+ in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-21 AI

'Subscription Captivity': When Things You Buy Own You (slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

EV Battery-Swapping Startup That Raised $330 Million Files for Bankruptcy (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 Startup Battery

Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney+ subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all net subscriber additions in 2025 (sherwood.news)
2025-12-21 Morgan Stanley Netflix

Firefox Will Ship With an 'AI Kill Switch' To Completely Disable All AI Features (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 AI Firefox

RansomHouse upgrades encryption with multi-layered data processing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-21

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