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Internal documents: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads like scams (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 China

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-16 Startup AI

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes (venturebeat.com)
2025-12-16 AI Nvidia

Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD case, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-16 Netflix

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-15 Germany AI

Google links more Chinese hacking groups to React2Shell attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-15 China Google

French Interior Ministry confirms cyberattack on email servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-15 France

Get a private, offline AI assistant with Pansophy for 60% off (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-15 AI

Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-15

Teneo survey of 350 public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than their cost, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-15 AI

AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-15 Startup AI

Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages (www.ft.com)
2025-12-15 Google Apple

Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-15 Trump H1B

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-15 Mobile AT&T

DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (www.ft.com)
2025-12-15 AI

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (tech.eu)
2025-12-15 AI London

Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is “a collection of public fora” and social interaction isn't its “sole purpose” (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-12-15 Australia Ban Reddit

US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-15 Equity

AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-15 AI

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
2025-12-15 AI Freelance

How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-15 Trump AI

Microsoft: December security updates cause Message Queuing failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-15 Microsoft

Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power? (slashdot.org)
2025-12-15

How Nvidia's lobbying efforts grew after Howard Lutnick brokered Jensen Huang's access to Trump, ending with the president's approval of the H200 sales to China (t.co)
2025-12-15 Trump China Nvidia

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-15 Oracle

SpaceX Alleges a Chinese-Deployed Satellite Risked Colliding with Starlink (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-15 China SpaceX

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-15 China Amazon

Roomba Maker 'iRobot' Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-15

Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones involving Trump-linked companies (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-15 Trump

How UAE's growing interest in crypto drew Michael Saylor, Changpeng Zhao and other crypto executives to Abu Dhabi, hoping to secure deals with Emirati investors (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-15

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