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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b9320b82eb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta says it will use users' AI chatbot conversations to help personalize ads and content, starting on December 16, but not in the UK, South Korea, or the EU</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=73ea1effdc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a foundry customer; Intel lacks the technology to produce AMD's most advanced chips; INTC closes up 7.12%</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=952a5264ec&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Google Assistant on smart speakers, with new voices and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Abner Li / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=525dfa9dbd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google unveils new Home products: a $99 Google Home Speaker, set for spring 2026, a third-gen $100 Nest Cam Indoor, a second-gen $150 Nest Cam Outdoor, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Welch / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=01f07dbefc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google Home Speaker hands-on: the new $99 speaker is around the same size as a HomePod mini, but wider and flatter, and Gemini is a vastly improved assistant</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6e0f192f48&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI signs with Samsung and SK Hynix to supply chips and other gear to Stargate; Samsung and SK Hynix say demand from OpenAI could reach 900K wafers per month</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Yoolim Lee / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4170c90256&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 review: 3K video capture is a little sharper than last gen and improved battery life, but some may feel uneasy wearing a camera in public</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=abf1a0fac5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft launches a $19.99/month Microsoft 365 Premium subscription, which bundles Copilot Pro with Microsoft 365 Family for six users and 6TB of cloud storage</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jordan Novet / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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Gaming
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4e2482aa7f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft raises its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription price from $19.99/month to $29.99/month, rebrands Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard plans, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=56a922d285&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft makes Xbox Cloud Gaming generally available, removing its beta tag after over five years, adds 1440p support, and raises the bitrate quality to 27Mbps</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dbee6edd5e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon revamps Luna “from the ground up” with a new UI and AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy and new GameNight original party games, available to Prime subscribers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jennifer Maas / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</span>)</span>
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Litigation
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a08813c6a6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple files a motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit, which alleges that Apple's ChatGPT integration stifles competition, saying it plans to integrate other chatbots</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Robert Burnson / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7aed4fa22a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: European prosecutors are investigating whether Northern Data illegally claimed a tax break on ~€500M worth of GPUs it used for crypto mining</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=38d6ceb824&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A California jury finds that Uber isn't liable for a woman's alleged sexual assault by her driver, in the first trial of 500+ lawsuits consolidated in the state</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Diana Novak Jones / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e315337c94&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A Delaware court dismissed Arm's last claim against Qualcomm, ruling that Qualcomm and subsidiary Nuvia didn't breach license agreements; Arm plans to appeal</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Peter Blumberg / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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Artificial Intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d76af498f5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AWS and the NBA announce a multiyear partnership to launch new AI-powered features and data insights from games, including an “NBA Inside the Game” platform</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zaheer Kachwala / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7b2e6610db&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV parody, and says that it opposes replacing performers with “synthetics”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Thomas Buckley / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d651e8e128&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Z.ai releases GLM-4.6, an open-weights model with a context window of up to 200K tokens, claiming near parity with Claude Sonnet 4 on coding and reasoning tasks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Z.ai</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1d851f9c04&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Yale and Brookings study: generative AI is not shifting the composition of US jobs faster than computers and the internet did, with little evidence of job loss</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=85687b1171&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding Project, a vector-based semantic search database with nearly 120M entries, to make data accessible to AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Russell Brandom / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0051a24f8e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sora, which is fun and simple to use, shows that OpenAI remains good at creating viral products, unlike Meta, whose Vibes video feed feels half-baked and obtuse</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">M.G. Siegler / </span><span class="pub_name">Spyglass</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e5cc113f1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Swedish AI startups Lovable, Legora, and Sana, which Workday is acquiring for $1.1B, highlight a dilemma in European tech: sell out or bet on becoming huge</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Richard Milne / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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funding deals
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0c02768a89&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, up from a valuation of €400M in a 2021 funding round</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rafaela Lindeberg / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=613ef7efb7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Assort Health, which is developing AI voice agents for health care, raised a $76M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $102M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allie Garfinkle / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fddf665bdd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Axiom Math, which aims to build an “AI mathematician” and has recruited researchers from Meta, raised a $64M seed led by B Capital at a $300M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rashi Shrivastava / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0756adb0ff&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI agents to help make data centers more resource efficient, raised over $50M in a Series B led by Collaborative Fund</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alan Neuhauser / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0cdda6cfcc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Paris-based Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and run targeted ads on streaming services, raised a $50M Series B led by Hedosophia at a $410M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / </span><span class="pub_name">Sifted</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=432bd7521a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tel Aviv-based Commcrete, which makes handheld satellite comms devices and software, raised a $21M Series A led by Greenfield, sources say at a $100M+ valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Resilience Media</span>)</span>
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more news
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c112f96e84&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with Marc Andreessen and investor Charlie Songhurst on Silicon Valley's past, present, and future, AI, productivity, Stripe, crypto, Musk, media, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Cheeky Pint</span>)</span>
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