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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=026a2a71f6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=af4d51eb64&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I'm sure Vance and Musk and others who blast Europe's free speech issues will loudly protest this invasion of privacy and free speech in the US!</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cbf3a43bd9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5d9e8afecb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">DeepSeek is secretly training its next-gen model on *thousands of banned Nvidia Blackwell chips* that were smuggled into China via “phantom” overseas data centers. ... The scheme exposes how porous U.S. export controls still are-even as Washington labels DeepSeek a national security threat, brings smuggling charges against intermediaries, and Nvidia races to deploy location-tracking features that could cripple the use of these underground chips</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9c824e5f69&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">DeepSeek is illicitly smuggling AI chips to train their next model! If DeepSeek advances in AI it will only be because we just let them do it by selling them chips and not enforcing our export controls. [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5d808bf789&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources detail tensions between Meta's TBD Lab and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg over computing, company goals, priorities, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Eli Tan / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ea659eca57&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=473fc41fba&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba have asked Nvidia about placing large orders for H200 chips after Trump's export approval, as they remain concerned about supply</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=535f970d92&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: China added AI chips from Chinese groups to its government-approved list of suppliers for the first time, before Trump's move to allow Nvidia exports</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zijing Wu / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6431dfff4c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David E. Sanger / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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</ul>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=32c31c5d8c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Blue Origin has worked for over a year on tech for orbital AI data centers; SpaceX plans to use upgraded Starlink satellites for AI computing payloads</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story">
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ef4a870025&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added ChatGPT app integrations in October</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jess Weatherbed / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;">
Social Networks
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<div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story">
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=793ac81368&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Guardian</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=052b83da52&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nasteho Said / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e8ae658cc1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Australia's under-16 social media ban currently excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids</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=ca635269a4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Instagram launches Your Algorithm in the US, an AI-powered feature that lets users influence their Reels feed by picking topics they want to see more or less of</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Reece Rogers / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</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=a935fda17f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Amanda Silberling / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;">
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=1f05a86d72&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dylan Butts / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=7aa88514cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, which lets publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emma Roth / </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=88d7e2b666&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joe Wilkins / </span><span class="pub_name">Futurism</span>)</span>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=00beb5f095&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, which they say can analyze tumors in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lisa Stiffler / </span><span class="pub_name">GeekWire</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=53447b41cf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI says the capabilities of its frontier AI models are accelerating and warns that upcoming models are likely to pose a “high” cybersecurity risk</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ina Fried / </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=645d8da9bc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Mehta / </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=4f5ec4de58&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Pew Research Center</span>)</span>
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Regulation
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1aa04a01cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tim Cook met with US lawmakers in a closed-door meeting to lobby against provisions in pending legislation that would require app stores to verify users' ages</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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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=341f98dc6b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</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=262cb5a9bc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The EU's General Court reduces a 2023 EU antitrust fine on Intel to €237.1M, down from €376.36M; the EU fined Intel a record €1.06B in 2009, then overturned</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samuel Stolton / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4deea92ab3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: EU competition watchdogs raided Temu's European headquarters in Dublin last week, amid suspicions Temu may have received unfair subsidies from Beijing</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Peter Chapman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fffc3a7851&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Google is set to be hit with a potentially large EU fine in Q1 2026 if it does not do more to ensure Google Play complies with EU competition rules</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Foo Yun Chee / </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=5b2be28ae1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chance Miller / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span>
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personnel changes
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b1117c0850&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dropbox says its CFO Timothy Regan will step down after five years in the role and will be succeeded by Avalara president Ross Tennenbaum; DBX drops 5%+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anhata Rooprai / </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=cff2555af5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nick Clegg joins London-based VC firm Hiro Capital as a general partner, and Yann LeCun joins the firm as an adviser; sources: Hiro looks to raise a €500M+ fund</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=871fea76bd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</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=61fa964354&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Internal memo: Google is naming Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Reed Albergotti / </span><span class="pub_name">Semafor</span>)</span>
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App Stores
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5d4bec199e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The Tech Transparency Project: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps for US-sanctioned companies; Google removed 17 and Apple removed 35</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joseph Menn / </span><span class="pub_name">Washington Post</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=2487d2dc7b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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Streaming
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bd1803fd18&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Todd Spangler / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</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=2d71da2dda&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify will begin testing a feature that lets a user write a prompt for a playlist and receive a unique set of songs based on the user's earlier behavior</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </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=b4de84fb06&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jem Aswad / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</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=e60c51d77a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300+ US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30%+ since its August launch</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Peyton Bigora / </span><span class="pub_name">Grocery Dive</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=86f646ba0d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Johnson / </span><span class="pub_name">Adweek</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=4a0d242650&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho's stock opened up 54% in its debut, giving the company an ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO</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=8e32e4872c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Benoît Morenne / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</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=7271dae67b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped robot dogs and humanoid robots, raised a ~$70M Series C to expand R&D and recruit robotics talent</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Danielle Popov / </span><span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</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=e31954de8a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Isabella Ward / </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=e4de139e19&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize “top stories” in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Barry Schwartz / </span><span class="pub_name">Search Engine Land</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=28598267b3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid</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=6cdc8a4d9f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google unveils Emergency Live Video, similar to iOS' Emergency SOS Live Video, letting US users on Android 8 or later to share live video with 911 responders</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=d7bf685fb1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine</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=5bb691bac2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Boom modifying its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of some key industrial input being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain</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=14bd573da3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Pia Singh / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</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=58649fc1f2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York 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=0e17714061&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </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=2ff6bf2a5a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Wataru Suzuki / </span><span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</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=006ef05601&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nexperia's former CEO Frans Scheper says Wingtech, which bought the Dutch chipmaker in 2019, quickly plotted to send Nexperia's research and IP to China</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York 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=036b029ad1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</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=5041d5fec4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Documents and former US government officials detail the DHS' digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Peter Andringa / </span><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=95b68b4e59&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10, their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rapidly rising memory chip prices will erode its profit</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=e796b5953e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine</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=7fa0cffcda&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $6.19B, Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.62B, and forecasts FY 2026 revenue above estimates</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="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Guardian</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=d800da449b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50%+ of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Ofcom</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=9e6bbf6981&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How President Trump's tariffs ended China's monopoly on making US game consoles, boosting Vietnam, whose exports jumped from $30M/month in 2024 to $400M in May</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=bd20fe9f90&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Betting exchange Matchbook plans to launch a prediction market platform in the UK in January 2026 as a “road test” before a planned US launch as early as March</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Justina 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=aed3528d96&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-on dealmaking approach generated $10B in international gaming revenue over the past year</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Daniel Kuhn / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Romolo Tosiani / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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