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Meta Poaches Apple Design Exec Alan Dye (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 Apple

A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT user logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times and other news outlets (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-5 New York

7AI, which builds AI agents that analyze and triage cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $166M (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5 AI

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (www.wired.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

Flex, which offers AI-based financial services, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $60M Series B led by Portage, source says at a $500M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-5 AI

'End-To-End Encrypted' Smart Toilet Camera Is Not Actually End-To-End Encrypted (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5

New Homes In London Were Delayed By 'Energy-Hungry' Data Centers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 Energy London

Sources: Meta plans deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Layoffs Budget

Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5

Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-5 China Taiwan Ban

The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5 AI

AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

Yann LeCun says his unnamed AI startup will not receive financial backing from Meta, will focus on advanced AI world models, and hints it will be Paris-based (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI Paris

The EU says it is gathering information and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Google

University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician” (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-4 Startup AI Mathematics Virginia

Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer with $6B+ in revenue in 2025, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its own delivery network (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-4 Amazon

A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-4 Taiwan

Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 Bitcoin Energy Drone Malaysia

Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-4

Documents: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's supply chain role (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-4 China Vietnam

How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into the US' chip hub, investing tens of billions and showing the difficulties of large-scale US projects (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-4 Intel

DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir (gizmodo.com)
2025-12-4

Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+ under the OSA, the largest penalty so far, and threatens action against a “major social media company” (www.ft.com)
2025-12-4

Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money” (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-4 Google AI

Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-4 Climate

Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 AI

Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on “pragmatic interpretability” (www.alignmentforum.org)
2025-12-4 Google

10 More Representations of Death from Myth, Legend, and Folktale (listverse.com)
2025-12-4

BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank developing a euro-pegged stablecoin in a JV called Qivalis (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-4 Europe

Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 India Mobile

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