| 9:50 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B |
| 9:15 PM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours |
| 7:40 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis |
| 7:00 PM • | Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October |
| 6:10 PM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 |
| 5:35 PM • | Jacob Adelman / Barron's Online: Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection |
| 5:25 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is considering retaining an advisory role |
| 5:20 PM • | Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted |
| 4:55 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package, worth around $56B when it vested, must be restored, ending a years-long fight |
| 4:45 PM • | Andrej Karpathy / karpathy: 2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more |
| 4:05 PM • | Physical Intelligence: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence says it saw improvements in its vision-language-action model by including human video data in the fine-tuning process |
| 3:25 PM • | The San Francisco Standard: California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details |
| 3:15 PM • | Blake Brittain / Reuters: Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties |
| 2:55 PM • | Emily Mullin / Wired: Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech |
| 1:55 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M |
| 12:35 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M |
| 11:55 AM • | Associated Press: A Paris court rejects a French government request to suspend Shein in the country after finding illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on the site |
| 11:00 AM • | Karl Bode / Techdirt: The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China |
| 10:45 AM • | Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product |
| 10:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is on track for ~$50B profit in 2025 after generating a ~$40B net income in the first three quarters, surpassing its internal target for 2025 |
| 10:05 AM • | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Boston-based Neurable, which builds an OS for brain-computer interfaces, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, bringing its total raised to $65M |
| 9:35 AM • | Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a source says is Google Cloud's largest security services deal “approaching $10B” over several years |
| 9:30 AM • | Financial Times: Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing |
| 9:21 AM • | Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis |
| 8:50 AM • | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: China is retrofitting older models of ASML's DUV machines to produce advanced smartphone and AI chips, exposing cracks in US-led export controls |
| 8:30 AM • | Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: DraftKings launches DraftKings Predictions, a new app that lets customers in 38 states trade contracts on sports and financial events through prediction markets |
| 7:55 AM • | Miranda Bryant / The Guardian: Denmark says Russia was behind “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections |
| 7:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cut ties with FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating its main funding source |
| 5:50 AM • | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan over attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that the markets fall under CFTC's jurisdiction |
| 5:45 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files |
| 4:25 AM • | Alex Heath / Sources: Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a top priority, but it is something that “we're maintaining” |
| 1:05 AM • | Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models |
| 12:40 AM • | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: The administrator winding down Do Kwon's Terraform Labs sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging it unlawfully profited from and contributed to Terraform's collapse |
| 11:15 PM • | Anvee Bhutani / Wall Street Journal: Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tech companies |
| 10:20 PM • | Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's “code red” call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more |
| 9:30 PM • | Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked |
| 9:25 PM • | Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets |
| 8:50 PM • | Chris McGuire / Council on Foreign Relations: US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening |
| 7:43 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League of Legends, internally called League Next, for 2027; Riot confirms a big update is in the works |
| 6:30 PM • | Suzanne Smalley / The Record: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide |
| 6:15 PM • | Mistral AI: Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages |
| 5:55 PM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection |
| 5:30 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% |
| 5:25 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest |
| 5:05 PM • | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado |
| 4:45 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: France charges a crew member of an Italian passenger ferry for allegedly infecting the ship with a remote access tool on behalf of a foreign power |
| 3:50 PM • | Jake Kanter / Deadline: YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads |
| 3:25 PM • | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more |
| 3:20 PM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M |
| 3:15 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Instacart will pay $60M to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and “satisfaction guarantee” advertising |
| 2:55 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon rolls out Alexa+ on the web to early access users, with chat functionality, smart home controls, file management, and cross-device conversations |
| 2:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Armadin, launched by Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia to fight AI hacking, raised a $24M seed and is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $600M+ valuation |
| 1:56 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more |
| 1:35 PM • | Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg: Twenty-four companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and AWS, join the US Genesis Mission to boost the use of AI for scientific discovery |
| 12:55 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air sports host in a multiyear deal; Duncan will also cover other live events for the company |
| 12:40 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March |
| 12:25 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic launches Agent Skills as an open standard with a specification and SDK, and says VS Code, GitHub, Cursor, Goose, and others already support the format |
| 12:10 PM • | The Information: Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the “code red”; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B |
| 11:55 AM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Edison, which last month released AI tool Kosmos to speed up and automate complex scientific hypothesis generation, raised $70M at a $250M valuation |
| 11:25 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Rivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M+ miles across the US and Canada |
| 10:50 AM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion |
| 10:25 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Luma AI launches Ray3 Modify, which allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images; users can also define start and end frames |
| 9:15 AM • | Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M+ in bookings in 2025 |
| 8:40 AM • | Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Imprint, which helps retailers like Brooks Brothers offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $150M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation |
| 8:10 AM • | Chainalysis: North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K |
| 8:00 AM • | Niko Gallogly / New York Times: Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July |
| 7:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot |
| 7:25 AM • | Justine Calma / The Verge: Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M |
| 7:10 AM • | Financial Times: Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026 |
| 7:05 AM • | Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication |
| 6:50 AM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 “to increase opportunity in search results”; Apple's website says 800M+ users visit the App Store weekly |
| 6:35 AM • | Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt says subtle keystroke data lag, measuring 110ms instead of the expected tens of milliseconds, helped catch a North Korean IT worker |
| 6:25 AM • | Rebekah Valentine / IGN: Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall |
| 6:01 AM • | Bloomberg: Honda plans to halt production in Japan and China from December 29 to January 6, showing the ongoing fallout of the global chip shortage and Nexperia takeover |
| 5:40 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation; LeCun has named Alexandre LeBrun as its CEO, ahead of a January launch |
| 4:40 AM • | Axios: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC “is not an independent agency”; the agency removed “independent agency” from its site as he testified |
| 4:25 AM • | Gavin Bonshor / More Than Moore: An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization |
| 4:05 AM • | Rose Henderson / Bloomberg: Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for protecting connected devices including cars and home routers, raised €100M led by Blue Cloud Ventures |
| 3:05 AM • | Issie Lapowsky / Rest of World: Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% |
| 2:45 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Filing: Sony and Tencent reach a “confidential settlement” over Tencent's Light of Motiram, a game that Sony alleged was a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series |
| 2:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Tokyo-based Resonac, a crucial cutting-edge chip chemicals supplier whose shares are up 40%+ YTD, says it has bolstered China production capacity to meet demand |
| 2:25 AM • | Martha Muir / Financial Times: Oilfield service companies are moving into the data center business by supplying power and cooling tech as demand from traditional drilling customers weakens |
| 1:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform |
| 1:30 AM • | Tim Sweeney / @timsweeneyepic: Tim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is “charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments” |
| 1:25 AM • | Financial Times: In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at “bargain prices” |
| 1:20 AM • | Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: Manus says it crossed $100M ARR eight months after launch and is growing at 20%+ MoM since Manus 1.5's release; its total revenue run rate is now over $125M |
| 1:15 AM • | Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: SoftBank Group was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on December 18, as Wall Street's AI infrastructure spending worries crossed into the Asian markets |
| 1:05 AM • | Dakin Campbell / Business Insider: Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on December 12 after saying a tenant canceled |
| 12:55 AM • | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC |
| 12:10 AM • | Chiranjivi Chakraborty / Bloomberg: India-listed RRP Semiconductor surged 55,000%+ in the 20 months through December 17, despite negative revenue; a source says India's SEBI is examining the jump |
| 11:50 PM • | FinSMEs: Tebra, which offers practice management tools for private healthcare providers, raised $250M led by Hildred, mostly in equity, to accelerate its AI capabilities |
| 11:35 PM • | Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B+ valuation |
| 11:05 PM • | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: How Apple is helping filmmakers and developers create immersive media for the Apple Vision Pro and share best practices |
| 10:40 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI opens app submissions for review and publication in ChatGPT, where users can discover or search for apps in a new app directory |
| 8:50 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple makes iOS changes in Japan to comply with local laws, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls |
| 7:55 PM • | Jody Godoy / Reuters: Sources: the US FTC is investigating Instacart's AI pricing tool, after a study showed different prices for the same items at the same stores; CART drops 8%+ |
| 7:35 PM • | The Information: Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B |
| 6:20 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Coinbase rolls out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and other features, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app |
| 5:55 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified |
| 5:30 PM • | Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines |
| 5:10 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Micron reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to $13.64B, above $12.84B est., net income up 180% YoY to $5.24B, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; MU jumps 5%+ |
| 4:30 PM • | David Ingram / NBC News: A UK family and a US family sue Meta for the alleged wrongful deaths of their teenage sons, who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion on Instagram |
| 4:20 PM • | Libby Brooks / The Guardian: Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death |
| 3:15 PM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Pornhub is being extorted by ShinyHunters after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach |
| 2:55 PM • | Connor Jones / The Register: In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay the victims of a July 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen |
| 2:00 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon's AGI team lead, Rohit Prasad, is leaving at the end of 2025; AWS SVP Peter DeSantis will lead a group combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing teams |
| 12:54 PM • | Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter: The Academy signs a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars, beginning in 2029 and running through 2033 |
| 12:40 PM • | Ben Lang / Road to VR: Meta says it has “paused” its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in April 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as its first partners to build the headsets |
| 11:50 AM • | Tulsee Doshi / The Keyword: Gemini 3 Flash costs $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, above Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens |
| 11:15 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 3 Pro's 37.5% |
| 11:10 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google unveils Gemini 3 Flash, which it says has Pro-grade reasoning with lower latency, outperforming 2.5 Pro “while being 3x faster at a fraction of the cost” |
| 10:50 AM • | Kevin Collier / NBC News: Google sues the Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group known as Darcula, allegedly behind a US text message phishing ring, in the US, seeking a restraining order |
| 10:30 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom AI-powered mini apps, called Gems, which can be reused later |
| 10:20 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Google is working on a new initiative to make its AI chips run PyTorch better and is working closely with Meta, as the two discuss Meta using more TPUs |
| 10:15 AM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OnePlus 15R review: the $700+ phone is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but has one fewer camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support |
| 10:00 AM • | Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Circana: US game console spending fell 27% YoY in November to $695M, the lowest in the pivotal month for holiday shopping since 2005, in a tough year for gaming |
| 9:50 AM • | Punchbowl News: a16z releases a nine-pillar AI policy framework for Congress, including restricting AI use for under-13s without parental consent and keeping a role for states |
| 9:35 AM • | Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: Oracle says final equity deal negotiations for its Michigan data center project are “on schedule” and Related Digital, not Blue Owl Capital, will be its partner |
| 8:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Binance has explored ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, such as a recapitalization to reduce CZ's majority stake, which is a hurdle to expansion |
| 8:30 AM • | Akash Sriram / Reuters: Coursera plans to acquire rival online education platform Udemy in an all-stock deal valued at $2.5B, combining two of the largest US-based learning platforms |
| 8:25 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Blue Owl won't back Oracle's planned $10B Michigan data center after negotiations stalled due to concerns over debt and delays; ORCL closed down 5.4% |
| 8:20 AM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: AI chip startup Mythic, which makes “analog processing units” that perform AI computations within memory, raised $125M led by DCVC; its CEO is an Nvidia veteran |
| 7:55 AM • | Akash Sriram / Reuters: Hut 8 partners with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, ~$7B lease, starting with 245MW of computing capacity |
| 7:06 AM • | Wall Street Journal: WBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited $108.4B cash bid, calling the offer “illusory” and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is superior |
| 6:50 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau |
| 6:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: at least six Chinese AI companies, like chip firms Montage and GigaDevice, are set to IPO in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, aiming to raise up to $1B |
| 6:20 AM • | Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US' number, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs |
| 6:05 AM • | Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg: Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho is up 95% from its IPO offer price, valuing it at nearly $11B and making it India's best-performing major IPO of 2025 |
| 5:50 AM • | Reuters: Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% and then falling 8.4% intraday, amid recent weakness in digital assets |
| 5:40 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust Chair Gary Hoffman and retain CEO TS Anil, who is in the role until February |
| 5:30 AM • | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico |
| 5:20 AM • | Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Monzo receives an Irish banking license, letting the London-based digital lender offer its personal, business, children's, and savings accounts across the EU |
| 5:05 AM • | Vismaya V / Decrypt: Bhutan pledges up to 10K bitcoin, valued at ~$1B, to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham: Bhutan holds 5,984 BTC, ranking seventh among sovereign holders |
| 4:55 AM • | Prianka Srinivasan / The Guardian: The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers ~$200 payments per quarter to every resident citizen via USD stablecoin or traditional currency |
| 4:45 AM • | Financial Times: Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B in shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany's most valuable startup |
| 4:35 AM • | Jill R Shah / Financial Times: Dune and Keyrock: bets placed on prediction markets rose from <$100M per month in early 2024 to $13B+ per month in November, as Polymarket and Kalshi compete |
| 2:35 AM • | Chris Gardner / The Hollywood Reporter: Daniel Kwan and 500+ writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for AI training and use across creative industries |
| 2:15 AM • | Jennifer Maas / Variety: Sources: Disney has not partnered with or licensed its IP to Roblox, unlike Netflix, Lionsgate, and others, because it doesn't consider Roblox a safe platform |
| 2:05 AM • | Tanya Pandey / The Economic Times: TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount from 1.2M in 2022 to nearly 2M, up 18% to 27% YoY, vs. 4% to 6% at IT companies |
| 1:25 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $180M follow-on Series F, split into $57M as primary capital and $123M as secondary, six weeks after raising $100M |
| 1:05 AM • | Financial Times: Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating |
| 1:00 AM • | Ismi Damayanti / Nikkei Asia: Super Bank Indonesia, a Grab- and KakaoBank-backed digital lender, rose by 24% in its stock market debut in Jakarta, after the company raised ~$168M in its IPO |
| 12:30 AM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Meta partners with Singapore-based startup K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, and plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026 |
| 12:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares jumped as much as 755% in its Shanghai debut, after a heavily oversubscribed ~$585.8M IPO, pushing its market cap past ~$42B |
| 11:05 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures |
| 9:40 PM • | The Information: Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $10B+ from Amazon at a $500B+ valuation and use AWS Trainium; Amazon won't be able to sell OpenAI models to cloud customers |
| 8:50 PM • | Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India-based CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone |
| 8:00 PM • | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: NYC-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone at a $9B valuation, up from its $6B valuation in its $540M round in June |
| 7:30 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: California's DMV says a California administrative law judge ruled that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” systems |
| 6:25 PM • | Xiaomi Mimo: Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios |
| 5:47 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise $15B+ led by Alphabet at a ~$100B valuation, up from 45B+ in October 2024, and has a $350M+ annual revenue run rate |
| 4:50 PM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android |
| 4:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updates its ToS to claim the rights to the “Twitter” trademark and countersues Operation Bluebird after the startup filed an application to trademark the term |
| 3:20 PM • | Yogita Khatri / The Block: Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total funding to ~$200M |
| 2:40 PM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection |
| 2:10 PM • | Jessica Testa / New York Times: Netflix announces a partnership with iHeartMedia to exclusively publish 15+ video podcasts from early 2026, including The Breakfast Club and My Favorite Murder |
| 1:45 PM • | Robert Hart / The Verge: Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails, calendar, and docs |
| 1:35 PM • | New York Times: The US threatens penalties against European companies, like Mistral and Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants |
| 1:25 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Leona Health, the maker of an AI copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts for patient chats in Latin America, raised a $14M seed led by a16z |
| 1:20 PM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit uploads more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images |
| 1:05 PM • | Financial Times: OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative in the US |
| 1:00 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs |
| 12:55 PM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M |
| 12:40 PM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York |
| 12:20 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI debuts FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific capabilities with 700+ questions, and finds GPT-5.2 is its strongest model |
| 11:55 AM • | The Information: A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner |
| 11:40 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings |
| 11:35 AM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Instagram unveils its first TV app, for watching Reels and initially available on Amazon's Fire TV platform as a test, and plans to expand to other TV platforms |
| 11:15 AM • | Andrew McCalip: Orbital solar data centers' cost-per-watt of compute is $51.10/W, far above $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital |
| 10:20 AM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M |
| 9:25 AM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more |
| 9:10 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe adds a prompt-based video editor to its Firefly app that uses Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others |
| 8:45 AM • | David Pierce / The Verge: Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO, after years of its for-profit arm juggling layoffs, restructuring, its Google dependence, and the AI landscape |
| 8:25 AM • | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Databricks is raising a $4B+ Series L at a $134B valuation, up from $100B in September and $62B in December 2024, and had a $4.8B annual revenue rate in October |
| 7:45 AM • | Emily Mason / Bloomberg: Visa says it will allow US banks to settle transactions using Circle's USDC over Solana, the US banking system's first full deployment of stablecoin settlement |
| 7:10 AM • | New York Times: Elizabeth Warren and two other Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and others about AI data centers' role in rising electricity bills |
| 6:55 AM • | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs at its European HQ in Luxembourg, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, the country's biggest layoffs in 20+ years |
| 6:35 AM • | Gregory Schmidt / New York Times: VW plans to end vehicle production at its Dresden plant, which opened in 2001, and convert it into a research hub for tech such as AI, robotics, and chip design |
| 6:20 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: As Europe rearms, Anduril is trying to break through in the UK by co-funding major programs, cutting manufacturing deals, and billing itself as “Anglo-American” |
| 6:05 AM • | Rest of World: Analysis: of the world's 8,808 data centers in October 2025, nearly 7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in 27C+ areas |
| 5:50 AM • | Reuters: China approves two Level 3 autonomous cars from state-owned Changan Auto and BAIC Motor, the first such approvals; the cars can drive in Chongqing and Beijing |
| 5:35 AM • | Counterpoint Research: Global smartphone shipments are set to shrink 2.1% in 2026, led by Chinese OEMs, due to rising memory costs; DRAM prices could further raise costs by 10%-15% |
| 2:05 AM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: How the rise of AI has divided Hollywood: some oppose all AI use, while others, like director Timur Bekmambetov, say they are exploring ways to embrace AI tools |
| 12:55 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Monzo's board pushed out CEO TS Anil, who in October announced his exit and handover to former Google executive Diana Layfield, over IPO timing plans |
| 12:00 AM • | William Sandlund / Financial Times: Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure surged in 2025, with CATL up 45% and Sungrow up 130%, as exports boost margins despite Trump's tariffs |
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