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Sources: Qualcomm made a takeover approach to Intel in recent days, but a deal is far from certain; Intel's market cap is ~$93B and Qualcomm's is ~$188B — A deal for Intel would be massive and come at a time when the chip maker is sputtering.
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Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers — Constellation to invest $1.6 billion to restart dormant reactor as data-center power demand surges.
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Filing: the US SEC says it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk for failing to appear for scheduled testimony for a probe into his $44B Twitter takeover — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear …
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Sources: EU officials are preparing formal charges against Google under the DMA, targeting how it displays rival product results across its search services — - Google risks hefty fines if it fails to address EU concerns — Regulators are set to issue warning under Digital Markets Act| Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI: |
OpenAI's o1 models are dramatically better at reasoning than previous LLMs, but they struggle with spatial reasoning and are far from human-level intelligence — It's not easy to stump OpenAI's new o1 models. … You might remember around Thanksgiving last year when news broke about Q* …
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| Olena Harmash / Reuters: |
Ukraine bans the use of Telegram on official devices used by state officials, military personnel, and critical workers over fears of Russian spying — Ukraine has banned use of the Telegram messaging app on official devices used by state officials, military personnel and critical workers …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr says it has seen a 222.99% growth in communities and a 349.55% growth in users since the X ban in Brazil, with DAUs up 30% from the 110K prior to the ban — Bluesky isn't the only social networking service to benefit from X's ban in Brazil, now under legal penalties.| Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Source: most daily users of Meta AI use it via WhatsApp, followed by Facebook, and few via Instagram; the vast majority of Meta AI's users are outside of the US — A year after Meta Platforms introduced its artificial intelligence assistant, a picture is emerging of how people are using it … | George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sources: Thrive Capital has already provided $1B+ to OpenAI as part of the $6.5B round; OpenAI's existing backers a16z and Sequoia Capital are not participating — Venture groups believe ChatGPT-maker will eventually be the world's dominant AI company and worth trillions of dollars
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation; it came out of stealth with $31M in August — While OpenAI pursues yet another monster fundraise, it is not stealing all the oxygen in the room: AI startups building promising …
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A profile of Xbox President Sarah Bond, who helped mollify the UK CMA's concerns about the Activision acquisition and is leading the Xbox unit's transformation — A relative outsider, Sarah Bond is leading a high-stakes transformation of a company that's lagging behind Sony and Nintendo.
More: The Information, TweakTown, Gameranx, Metro.co.uk, and Pure Xbox
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Google Ventures CEO David Krane on GV's first 15 years, operating independently from Alphabet, early investments in Nest and Uber, generative AI, and more — One of the first things David Krane and I do is look at some weird sculptures. — Walking through Google's Mountain View … | FinTech Global: |
Akur8, which uses AI to automate the generation of insurance pricing models, raised a $120M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total raised to $180M — Akur8, the machine learning-powered insurance pricing and reserving platform, has announced the closure of a $120m Series C funding round.| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch changes how it enforces its community guidelines: strikes for some offenses will depreciate over time, users will get more info about strikes, and more — Twitch is changing the way it enforces its community guidelines. In an announcement posted on its website … Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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Zoho Books now enables direct VAT filing with EmaraTax — We're excited to announce that Zoho Books is now recognised as a Digital Tax Integrator by the Federal Tax Authority, enabling direct VAT return filing from within your favorite accounting software.
Zoho Books now enables direct VAT filing with EmaraTax — We're excited to announce that Zoho Books is now recognised as a Digital Tax Integrator by the Federal Tax Authority, enabling direct VAT return filing from within your favorite accounting software.
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