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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Australia's ban on under-16 social media users takes effect, as Meta, YouTube, and others remove users; platforms that don't comply risk up to AU$49.5M in fines — Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under ban
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| The Guardian: |
Australia eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be “booted off” the platforms in time — Albanese says commencement of ban a ‘proud day’ for him as prime minister, while eSafety commissioner unconcerned by reports of children bypassing restrictions
More: ABC, Wall Street Journal, Australian Financial Review, and Nikkei Asia
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| Nasteho Said / Bloomberg: |
As Australia bans under-16s from social media platforms, TikTok-powered video app Lemon8, friends-only photo app Yope, and others climb Apple's App Store charts — Alternative social media platforms have surged in popularity in Australia Wednesday, as the nation's landmark ban for under-16s drives children to non-restricted apps.| Bloomberg: |
Australia's under-16 social media ban currently excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids — Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns …
More: Forbes and Tom's Guide
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta's new model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in 2026 as a “closed” model, a move Alexandr Wang advocates, shifting from Meta's open-source strategy — Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history … | Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI — When Mark Zuckerberg revamped Meta's artificial intelligence operations this year, he recruited a new leader — Alexandr Wang …
More: Business Insider
| The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries — DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia's state-of-the-art Blackwell chips …
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the nearly $40B it has invested in India, and expects to create 1M more jobs — Amazon on Wednesday committed to investing over $35 billion in India's cloud and artificial intelligence space by 2030, as hyperscalers race to get a foothold in the market.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers — RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web.
More: European Commission, RSL Internet Collective, and Search Engine Journal. Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social
| Christine Chung / New York Times: |
The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info — Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need visas, would have to share five years' worth of social media.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
TTP: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps linked to US-sanctioned foreign companies; Google removed 17 apps and Apple removed 35 — Watchdog finds firms and organizations in Apple and Google stores that were banned for issues including human rights abuses in China and facilitating war in Ukraine.
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Tech Transparency Project, and MacTech.com
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA — Yesterday, Apple and Google announced that they have teamed up to make it easier to switch between Android and iPhone devices.| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% use Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai — Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots …
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
President Trump letting Nvidia sell AI chips to China reverses decades of the US' tech restrictions on its adversaries, giving China a boost in the AI race — President Trump's decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain … | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
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| Joe Wilkins / Futurism: |
McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company Sweetshop, after backlash that the ad is distasteful — There's just one issue: pretty much everybody hates it. — This year, McDonald's decided to get in on the corporate slopfest …
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Forums: r/artificial and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
Sources: Lip-Bu Tan's dual roles as Intel CEO and tech investor cause consternation in the industry and at Intel; four ex-Intel execs say it caused them to exit — Lip-Bu Tan, who was appointed chief executive of Intel in March, is also a longtime venture capitalist. His dual roles have caused some consternation.
More: Wired
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, which would make it the largest IPO to date — SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion …
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Forums: r/SpaceXLounge and r/space
| Ben Casselman / New York Times: |
Study: ~200 Instacart users across four US cities saw different prices for the same items from the same store at the same time; Instacart confirms running tests — The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
More: Groundwork Collaborative, Engadget, AdExchanger, Tech in Asia, SFist, Tom's Guide, Consumer Reports, New York Post, NextDraft, The National Pulse, CNBC, and San Francisco Chronicle
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Forums: r/news and r/Economics
| Peter Andringa / Financial Times: |
Documents and former US government officials detail ICE's digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year — The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations — In the battle for your attention, Instagram is betting that more control over the algorithm could keep you scrolling on Reels.| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10 to their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rising memory chip prices will erode its profit — Nintendo Co.'s shares slid as much as 4.7% Wednesday to their lowest level since May, weighed down by concerns that the surging price …
More: Nintendo Life and Tech in Asia
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added app integrations in October — Just describe your edits to ChatGPT, and the Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps will do it for you or surface the tool you need.| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M+ people was compromised — Coupang Chief Executive Officer Park Dae-jun resigned over his failure to prevent South Korea's largest-ever data breach … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race — Debate over pre-emption of state laws marks a major flashpoint in GOP politics — WASHINGTON—At a November meeting in the Oval Office … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V open-weight vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters — The release includes two models in “large” and “small” sizes: — GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inference
More: Z.ai, WinBuzzer, and Z.ai on Hugging Face
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| Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: |
Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners — Nu Quantum, a British startup that builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised $60 million …
More: UKTN, FinSMEs, Resilience Media, Ventureburn, Business Wire, Tech Funding News, and BusinessCloud. LinkedIn: Nu Quantum
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go — Google on Wednesday launched its more affordable AI Plus plan in India as it seeks to compete on pricing with other low-cost AI offerings, like OpenAI's ChatGPT Go subscription.
More: Ukrainian National News, Livemint, and Business Standard
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11" display and productivity features — Review: Amazon's $630 pen-enabled device is a tough sell for most people. — Amazon.com Inc.'s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft …
More: Engadget, ZDNET, Android Police, Tom's Guide, and Wired
| Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May — SHANGHAI — Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is abandoning its plans to merge with its top shareholder …
More: South China Morning Post, DigiTimes, and Caixin Global
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies — After missing out on last month's Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Watch 4 update this December that adds one-handed gestures.| Bloomberg: |
Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain — Thesis: That which can be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain will be repurposed to serve the AI supply chain.
More: New York Times, Boom, and Financial Times
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