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Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico: Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its post about the €120M fine on X; X terminates the EC's ad account -
Bloomberg: President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have “to go through a process” and he will be personally involved in the decision-making process -
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed WBD should go to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix wasn't a monopoly -
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role -
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are “either not real or not ads”; OpenAI's research chief says “anything that feels like an ad” is now turned off -
Lora Kelley / New York Times: In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are “refounding”, as they scramble to add new AI features -
Bloomberg: India's digital transformation has exposed citizens to scams like “digital arrests”, where victims are coerced into transferring funds under false accusations -
Ashish Vaswani / Essential AI: Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o -
Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak -
Financial Times: Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China -
Emma Jacobs / Financial Times: An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on its AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists isn't for serious mental health issues, Ebb's upgrade to voice, and more -
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier -
Sally Ward-Foxton / EE Times: Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon -
Reuters: South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists