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Bhutan unveils a pledge of up to 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham says Bhutan holds 5,984 bitcoin, ranking 7th among sovereign holders (decrypt.co)
2025-12-17 Bitcoin

Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B of shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany's most valuable startup (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Germany Startup

The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-17

More than 500 writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for how AI is trained and used across creative industries (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-12-17 AI

TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-12-17 India

Sources: Disney has been hesitant to license its IP to Roblox because it doesn't consider it a safe platform, bucking the trend followed by Netflix and others (variety.com)
2025-12-17 Netflix

The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17

Shares of Super Bank Indonesia, a Grab-backed digital lender, rose by 24% during their stock market debut in Jakarta, after the company raised ~$168M in its IPO (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-17 IPO Indonesia

Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 AI Zuckerberg

Meta is partnering with Singapore-based K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, with plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Singapore

Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares jumped up to 755% in its Shanghai debut after a heavily oversubscribed $585.5M IPO, pushing its market cap past $42B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 China IPO AI Shanghai

Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures (www.axios.com)
2025-12-17 AI

Breach At South Korea's Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Korea Amazon

Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B+ in OpenAI at a $500B+ valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-17 Amazon Microsoft

Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-12-17 India iPhone Apple

EU Moves To Ease 2035 Ban On Internal Combustion Cars (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Ban

Meta Tolerates Rampant Ad Fraud From China To Safeguard Billions In Revenue (meta.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 China

Sources: New York-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone, valuing the company at $9B, up from $6B in June (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-17 Startup New York

California DMV says a California administrative law judge recently ruled Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-17 Tesla California

Dual-PCB Linux Computer With 843 Components Designed By AI Boots On First Attempt (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Linux AI

Mark Carney Criticised For Using British Spellings In Canadian Documents (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 U.K. Canada

Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios (mimo.xiaomi.com)
2025-12-17 Xiaomi

Cellik Android malware builds malicious versions from Google Play apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17 Android Google

Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Intel

Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Alphabet

GhostPoster attacks hide malicious JavaScript in Firefox addon logos (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17 Firefox

Reporter Suggests Half-Life 3 Will Be a Steam Machine Launch Title (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Android iPad

Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Germany

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