| 11:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Intel shortlists buyout firms for the next round of bidding for its Altera unit, including Francisco Partners, Silver Lake, and Lattice Semiconductor |
| 11:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Google calls DOJ's proposed Chrome sale “extreme” and at odds with the law, urging the judge to take caution to avoid stifling innovation and future investment |
| 10:50 PM • | Jody Godoy / Reuters: As part of its remedies proposal, Google would make its Android agreements with OEMs non-exclusive and allow them to unbundle Play Store from Chrome and Search |
| 10:38 PM • | Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword: Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms |
| 10:10 PM • | Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data |
| 9:05 PM • | TrendForce: Global shipments of VR and MR headsets are expected to reach ~9.6M units in 2024, up 8.8% YoY; Meta remains the global leader with a 73% market share |
| 8:11 PM • | Joseph Menn / Washington Post: A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO |
| 7:30 PM • | David Scheer / Bloomberg: Tai Mo Shan, part of Jump Trading's crypto unit, agrees to pay $123M to settle SEC's claims it misled investors about the stability of TerraUSD |
| 7:10 PM • | Kali Hays / Fortune: Sources: David Sacks' role as WH AI and crypto czar will be limited to an adviser role, overseen by Michael Kratsios, partly because he won't divest from Craft |
| 6:45 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: A study by Waymo and insurer Swiss Re finds Waymo's vehicles were safer than those driven by humans, with a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims and more |
| 5:30 PM • | Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk: Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours |
| 5:25 PM • | Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: Google hired 100+ staffers of Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google's work on its new Android XR OS, raising questions about the future of Magic Leap |
| 5:10 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US DOJ says a Romanian involved in Netwalker ransomware attacks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to computer fraud and wire fraud |
| 4:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Qualcomm prevails at trial against Arm's claim that it breached a chip tech license acquired in the $1.4B Nuvia purchase in 2021; Arm plans to seek a retrial |
| 4:05 PM • | Liz Pelly / Harper's: How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts |
| 3:01 PM • | The Information: Shivakumar Venkataraman, a longtime Google executive who joined OpenAI earlier in 2024 to help lead the development of search and AI for enterprise, has left |
| 2:40 PM • | Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: The US charges dual Russian and Israeli national Rostislav Panev for allegedly working with the LockBit ransomware group and seeks his extradition from Israel |
| 2:20 PM • | ARC Prize: o3, trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set, scored 87.5% on ARC Prize's Semi-Private Evaluation in a high-compute configuration; GPT-4o scored 5% in 2024 |
| 1:20 PM • | Bloomberg: OpenAI says safety researchers can sign up for o3 preview today and that it decided not to name the new model o2 “out of respect” for the UK telecom company |
| 1:17 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025 |
| 1:05 PM • | Kelsey Butler / Bloomberg: Grindr will cover 80% in fertility, surrogacy, and adoption costs, up to $300K, for employees who have been at the company for 18+ months, starting in 2025 |
| 12:30 PM • | Fortune: Sam Altman says Elon Musk is “clearly a bully” who is suing OpenAI because the startup is doing really well and calls the lawsuits “a little bit of a sideshow” |
| 11:55 AM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Experts say Apple's spyware notifications for victims are a game changer for research; the notifications direct the victims to nonprofit security lab Access Now |
| 11:20 AM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US hospital operator Ascension notifies nearly 5.6M patients and employees that their personal and health data was stolen in a May 2024 Black Basta cyberattack |
| 10:50 AM • | Hugh Son / CNBC: The US CFPB sues Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, alleging that customers lost $870M+ to fraud since Zelle's launch in 2017 |
| 10:05 AM • | Reuters: Italy's data regulator fines OpenAI €15M after its investigation found OpenAI processed users' personal data to train ChatGPT without an adequate legal basis |
| 9:25 AM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life, which debuted in 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has a ~$650M-per-year economy |
| 7:45 AM • | Robert Booth / The Guardian: The UK ICO criticizes Google as “irresponsible” after the company announced plans to let advertisers employ fingerprinting techniques from February 16, 2025 |
| 7:20 AM • | Reuters: The UK CMA says its Phase 1 probe found chip design software maker Synopsys' $35B acquisition of 3D software maker Ansys could lower innovation and raise prices |
| 6:55 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Bluesky updates its app to include a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections against username squatting, and new controls for replies sorting |
| 6:15 AM • | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European commission approves Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli AI workload management startup Run:ai, saying the deal raises no competition concerns in the EU |
| 5:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Malaysia says it has identified WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Telegram, WeChat, and TikTok as online platforms required to obtain a license by 2025 |
| 4:05 AM • | Bobby Allyn / NPR: Q&A with Australia eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on what led to the country's under-16 social media ban, enforcement, unintended consequences, and more |
| 2:00 AM • | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Crypto executives say the EU's MiCA crypto regulation may drain liquidity from markets without achieving the EU's goals, like helping prevent money laundering |
| 12:55 AM • | Bloomberg: SAP promoted a team lead accused by five female staff of targeting female subordinates, raising concerns about company culture and workplace discrimination |
| 11:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Sony's shares surged 50%+ from an August 2024 low to hit an all-time high last week, as investors are bullish on 2025 gaming growth; its prior ATH was in 2000 |
| 10:15 PM • | Yantoultra Ngui / Reuters: Singapore-based bolttech, a B2B2C startup that offers “embedded” insurance products, raised a $100M+ Series C led by Dragon Fund at a $2.1B valuation |
| 9:20 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valuation in August 2024 |
| 8:55 PM • | Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: Apple researchers say the company's open-source ReDrafter method on Nvidia GPUs led to a 2.7x speed increase in generated tokens per second for greedy encoding |
| 8:20 PM • | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Researchers unveil Genesis, an open-source generative physics engine that trains robots in simulated reality 430K times faster than in the real world |
| 6:20 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Charlotte, NC-based Aiwyn, which provides automation software for accounting firms, raised $113M led by KKR and Bessemer, bringing its total funding to $127M |
| 5:15 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India |
| 4:05 PM • | Bloomberg: A look at Frank McCourt's efforts to acquire TikTok and the obstacles he faces, as he lobbies Congress and Trump's team and recruits former TikTok executives |
| 3:30 PM • | Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Backflip, which is building AI models that can generate 3D designs using text, sketches, or photos as prompts, raised a $30M Series A co-led by NEA and a16z |
| 2:50 PM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Anthropic, whose CEO, Dario Amodei, has vocally opposed Donald Trump, and OpenAI look to hire more people with ties to Trump and the GOP for their policy teams |
| 1:55 PM • | New York Times: Sources: the US' proposed AI chip framework would block adversaries entirely, and give others quotas based on their US alignment, threatening Nvidia's expansion |
| 1:15 PM • | New York Times: In 150+ X posts, Elon Musk led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by sharing misinfo, which may lead to a government shutdown over Christmas |
| 12:40 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental “reasoning” model that “explicitly shows its thoughts” and can use them to strengthen its reasoning |
| 12:00 PM • | Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg: The US FAA publishes 22 temporary flight restrictions for drones over parts of New Jersey, as public hysteria over sightings of possible drone activity persists |
| 11:20 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Insight Partners, which acquired Dotmatics for ~$629M in March 2021, is exploring options for the R&D software maker, including selling it for $5B+ |
| 11:10 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Meta teases an AI editing tool powered by Movie Gen AI in Instagram that can change outfits, backgrounds, and more in videos using a text prompt, coming in 2025 |
| 10:35 AM • | Robert Booth / The Guardian: A coalition of newspapers, writers, movie producers, and others rejects the UK's plans to create a copyright exemption for AI companies to train their models |
| 9:55 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Decart, which helps organizations train and run AI models at scale, raised a $32M Series A, sources say at a $500M+ valuation, after a $21M seed in October 2024 |
| 9:11 AM • | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Oura raised a $200M Series D with participation from Fidelity and Dexcom at a $5.2B valuation and says sales grew 100%+ in 2024 to ~$500M with 2.5M+ rings sold |
| 8:20 AM • | Chainalysis: In 2024, hackers stole $2.2B in crypto across 303 hacks, up from $1.8B across 282 hacks in 2023; by July 2024, $1.58B had been stolen, but the pace slowed after |
| 7:30 AM • | Washington Post: Congress approves $3B in funding for a project to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US phone networks nationwide; Trump's FCC started the initiative in 2020 |
| 7:10 AM • | Business Insider: How Bengaluru, the “Silicon Valley of India”, is under pressure as rapid growth tests local infrastructure; its population jumped from 8M in 2010 to ~14M now |
| 6:25 AM • | Paul Arnold / Reuters: Swiss tech advisory SoftwareOne to buy Norwegian rival Crayon in a cash and stock deal valuing Crayon at ~$1.4B; the combined firm will have ~$1.8B in revenue |
| 6:10 AM • | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The US finalizes a $458M grant for SK Hynix under the CHIPS Act and $500M in loans to build a $3.87B chip packaging facility in Indiana |
| 5:50 AM • | S.E. Smith / The Verge: A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase many media formats; a Pew study says 38% of webpages accessible in 2013 are now gone |
| 5:35 AM • | Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: Sony buys ~$320M of shares in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, which owns FromSoftware, taking its stake to ~10% and becoming Kadokawa's top shareholder |
| 5:15 AM • | Jef Feeley / Bloomberg: Arm v. Qualcomm: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon called Arm's Nuvia license cancellation and demand that Qualcomm destroy the IP after acquiring Nuvia “outrageous” |
| 4:50 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Tracxn: Indian startup funding rounds fell 32% YoY to 1,448 in 2024, but overall funding rose 6% YoY to $11.3B; 40+ startups completed IPOs, up 80% YoY |
| 4:20 AM • | Christian Elliott / MIT Technology Review: A look at BirdVoxDetect, ML-powered open-source software that ornithologists can use and adapt to detect migratory songbird flight calls in audio recordings |
| 4:05 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Apple is in early-stage talks with Tencent and ByteDance about integrating their AI models into iPhones sold in China; ChatGPT is unavailable in China |
| 3:55 AM • | Joel Khalili / Wired: A look at Truth Terminal, an AI bot on X that was created to spark debate about AI alignment, as its crypto wallet swells to ~$40M after boosting memecoins |
| 2:40 AM • | Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa |
| 2:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic demonstrates “alignment faking” in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more aligned than it may actually be |
| 2:10 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Q&A with Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing President Yoshihiro Yamaguchi on shipping 20B+ image sensors, a new manufacturing plant in Kumamoto, Japan, and more |
| 1:50 AM • | Financial Times: Alejandro Mayorkas, the US DHS' outgoing secretary, says Europe's “adversarial” relationship with tech companies is hampering a global approach to AI regulation |
| 1:30 AM • | Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Analysis: Alphabet's shares have jumped about 30% from a September 2024 low, with a chunk of those gains coming after Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip |
| 1:00 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B |
| 12:45 AM • | IDC: Global wrist-worn wearable shipments fell 1% YoY to 139M units in Q1 2024 to Q3 2024; China was the largest market with 45.8M units and led growth at 20.1% YoY |
| 12:30 AM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Lens, a high-performance layer-2 blockchain developed by Avara for consumer apps, raised $31M led by Lightspeed Faction, and plans to launch Lens v3 in Q1 2025 |
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