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Filings: Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax report 2024 revenue of $44.4M and $30.5M, respectively, as both prepare for Hong Kong IPOs in the coming weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-22 China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Google's TPUs and Gemini are competitive but Nvidia's and OpenAI's first-mover advantage makes their lead seem durable, and Google faces the innovator's dilemma (siliconangle.com)
2025-12-22 Google Nvidia

Some US schools are deploying AI surveillance tech like facial recognition and listening devices; critics say there is little evidence they make school safer (www.forbes.com)
2025-12-22 AI Facial Recognition

A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more (thechipletter.substack.com)
2025-12-22 Google

A look at stablecoin-powered neobanks like Rizon and Dakota that are offering dollar-denominated digital banking services to customers worldwide (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-22

In 2025 Scammers Have Stolen $835M from Americans Using Fake Customer Service Numbers (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 U.S.

Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-22 Amazon Startup Robot

Adam Mosseri says “maybe we'll need” premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (www.semafor.com)
2025-12-22 Instagram Algorithm

Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after a blackout, and says most active trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-22 San Francisco

The U.S. Could Ban Chinese-Made Drones Used By Police Departments (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 China Drone Ban

Indians fly the duopolistic skies (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-22

Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-22 Uber London

Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-22 AI chatbot

Google Launches CO2 Battery Plants for Long-Duration Storage of Renewable Energy (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 Google Energy Battery Renewable

The most influential book I read this year (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-22

Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (www.billboard.com)
2025-12-22 Spotify

Ukraine ‘destroyed' its own mobilization drive – Kiev's spy chief (www.rt.com)
2025-12-22 Ukraine

A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (fortune.com)
2025-12-22 Startup AI

Are 'Geek Gifts' Becoming Their Own Demographic? (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22

Paying it forward: PNG's taxpayers need a voice (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-22

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to warmongers is a crime that's gone on too long (www.rt.com)
2025-12-22 Nobel

US tries to raid third oil tanker near Venezuela – media (www.rt.com)
2025-12-22 Venezuela

A group of PE firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-22

'Confused' Waymos Stopped in Intersections During San Francisco Power Outage (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 San Francisco

Do Gamers Hate AI? Indie Game Awards Disqualifies 'Clair Obscur' Over GenAI Usage (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 AI

This refurbished touchscreen Chromebook is just $80 this week (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-22

Docker Hardened Images now open source and available for free (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-22

Echo, which uses AI agents to build Docker images that eliminate vulnerabilities at the source, raised a $35M Series A, bringing its total funding to $50M (www.securityweek.com)
2025-12-22 AI

Package Forge: The Lesser Known Snap/Flatpak Alternative Without Distro Lock-In (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22

Sources: The US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers who were suspended in July misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, which he failed (www.politico.com)
2025-12-22

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