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In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at “bargain prices” (www.ft.com)
2025-12-18 Startup

SoftBank Group Corp was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on Dec. 18, as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed into the Asian markets (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-18 Japan AI Wall Street

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-12-18 Amazon AI Texas

Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-18 Blockchain Wall Street Asset

India-listed RRP Semiconductor's stock surged 55,000%+ in the 20 months through Dec. 17, despite negative revenue; source: India's SEBI is examining the surge (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 India

Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B+ valuation (sources.news)
2025-12-18 AI

Tebra, which offers practice management tools for private healthcare providers, raised $250M led by Hildred, mostly in equity, to accelerate its AI capabilities (www.finsmes.com)
2025-12-18 AI Equity

MIT Grieves Shooting Death of Renowned Director of Plasma Science Center (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18

How Apple is helping filmmakers and developers create immersive media for the Vision Pro and share best practices (www.fastcompany.com)
2025-12-18 Apple

OpenAI opens app submissions for review and publication in ChatGPT, where users can discover or search for apps in a new app directory (openai.com)
2025-12-18

Apple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls (www.macrumors.com)
2025-12-18 IOS Japan Apple

Senate Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman As New NASA Chief (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 Senate Entrepreneur NASA

Sources: US FTC is probing Instacart's AI pricing tool, after a study showed different prices for the same items at the same stores; CART drops 8%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-18 AI

Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-18

The Oscars Will Abandon Broadcast TV For YouTube In 2029 (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 YouTube

Meta 'Pauses' Third-Party Headset Program (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18

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 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-18 Coinbase

Zeroday Cloud hacking event awards $320,0000 for 11 zero days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-18

Netflix To Add Soccer Video Game Based On FIFA World Cup Next Year (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 Netflix

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 (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-18 Facebook

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 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-18 China

Meta partners with Singapore-based startup K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, and plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026 (t.co)
2025-12-18 Startup Singapore

France arrests suspect tied to cyberattack on Interior Ministry (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-18 France

Micron reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to $13.64B, vs. $12.84B est., net income up 180% to $5.24B, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; MU jumps 5%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-18

GitHub Is Going To Start Charging You For Using Your Own Hardware (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 GitHub

Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-18 Amazon

A UK family and a US family sue Meta for the alleged wrongful deaths of their teenage sons, who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion on Instagram (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-12-18 Instagram

Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-18

Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 Linux

Google Releases Gemini 3 Flash, Promising Improved Intelligence and Efficiency (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 Google Intelligence

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