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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5bfe228809&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=02df5bd82c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Really happy to be working with Disney to bring some magic to Sora and image gen! Disney is the best storytelling company in the world, and our users really, really want to generate content with their characters.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d10a9ee9e1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Bob Iger realized they can't control what people are gonna do with Disney IP anyway, so they might as well make money off it. Interesting timing too: Sora has seen a steady drop in downloads across Google and Apple app stores over the last few weeks, per Sensor Tower. [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=97a6ab35fe&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Quick read is that the deal is more about optics at the moment - certainly in helping OpenAI against Google, but also Disney signaling a continued push to be forward-thinking with tech. At a time when Hollywood is freaking out about the future, no less! </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=bc0c2dfd37&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist letter, accusing Google of “massive scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” its content</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=6dd9985da5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations</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=51493c3421&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bob Iger says the OpenAI deal “does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all” because it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f8928062ef&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">GPT-5.2 is here! Available today in ChatGPT and the API. It is the smartest generally-available model in the world, and in particular is good at doing real-world knowledge work tasks.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d05419794b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">wtf gpt 5.2 long context improvement over gpt 5.1 is actually crazy?? [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=efad5f4cab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The GDPval numbers for GPT-5.2 are quite striking. Claude Opus 4.1 scored 47.6% (I don't think Opus 4.5 has been measured yet?). 74.1% is pretty wild, if it's actually a valid result. As @cogcelia has written, this is one of the better benchmarks out there... [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=404052fc9e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost</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=b1f4007d73&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI's Fidji Simo says ChatGPT's “adult mode” is expected to launch in Q1 2026, says OpenAI wants to get better at age prediction before launching the feature</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=1c7e0f8552&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking hallucinates less than GPT-5.1 and has improved reliability for agentic AI needs; pre-release testers include Notion, Box, Shopify</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=967cdfeec7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Trump declares war on state AI laws, including a law I passed to ensure transparency of AI safety protocols. He's doing so purportedly to promote U.S. AI “dominance.” Of course, he just authorized chip sales to China & Saudi Arabia: the exact opposite of ensuring U.S. dominance. [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6bf4380377&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">At the @dealbook conference, @mtbarra discussed the onerous overhead of state-by-state EV laws. During his presidency, @BarackObama spoke of the burden caused by state-by-state licensing laws. AI is no different. The bureaucracy of 50 diff AI laws would be stifling to America.</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=c60f6b1768&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational “Large Driving Model”, to enable fully autonomous driving</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew J. Hawkins / </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=ea7539f8a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cheyenne Ligon / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</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=f9aee86a19&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, with AI chip sales doubling to $8.2B</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kif Leswing / </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=f989808781&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says it placed an additional $11B order in Q4</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=dd129dfc7d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Fortnite returns to the Google Play Store in the US following a US District Court injunction; Google and Epic announced a settlement last week</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kritika Lamba / </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=7cb7ff05b7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple but says Apple can charge commissions on external links, with the rate to be set by a lower court</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=76cceab4da&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the NY governor proposes a rewrite of the RAISE Act, the AI bill that recently passed NY legislature, with text copied verbatim from California's SB 53</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shakeel Hashim / </span><span class="pub_name">Transformer</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=29d16e9538&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dade Hayes / </span><span class="pub_name">Deadline</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=7fe5addbd1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son, who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Julie Jargon / </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=19a7c001e5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and nine others, warning that their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Courtney Rozen / </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=9d87bdafd5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google brings Gemini to Chrome for iOS and iPadOS, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English for signed-in users</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steve Dent / </span><span class="pub_name">Engadget</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=7941203f89&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Keyword</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=12647fafdc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history</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=1f5cd78816&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing via Cursor's agent</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maxwell Zeff / </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=0e54622138&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Time names “the Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year and takes a look at AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how we interact with the world</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Time</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=93d77ee0ca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project from two Anthropic employees to an industry standard managed by the Linux Foundation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hayden Field / </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=c04a1333b2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">New US OMB guidance states that LLMs procured by federal agencies must comply with two “unbiased AI principles”: “truth-seeking” and “ideological neutrality”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maria Curi / </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=f4f3df0987&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An Ai2 research scientist says AGI may never emerge because such a concept ignores the physical realities and limits of computation, such as energy constraints</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Tim Dettmers</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=b3492eadf6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Runway launches GWM-1, its first world model, which uses frame-by-frame prediction to simulate physics, and updates Gen 4.5 to add native audio and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=a07f1b6fb4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google DeepMind plans to open its first “automated science laboratory” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Melissa Heikkilä / </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=d78d78d262&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 finds that health, career, and relationship topics dominated users' questions</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Megan Morrone / </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=46ce5f62e9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stanford researchers develop AI hacking bot Artemis and say it surpassed nine out of 10 penetration testers by rapidly finding bugs in the university's network</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Robert McMillan / </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=0cf7e30842&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">China's power grid, the world's largest, gives it an edge in the global AI contest, helping Chinese companies develop AI models more cheaply than US competitors</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=c953adbf13&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including by offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Information</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=9e455f26f8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on “a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">OpenAI</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=44ec4ebadc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management on the economics of AI, data centers in space, mistakes SaaS companies are making in adopting AI, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Patrick O'Shaughnessy / </span><span class="pub_name">Invest Like The Best on YouTube</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=ddb5fff15b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup planning to launch a “Twitter.new” social network, petitions the USPTO to cancel X's trademarks over “abandonment”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cyrus Farivar / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</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=677d33ab78&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers; TikTok says that 14 of the accounts don't violate its rules</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Clare Duffy / </span><span class="pub_name">CNN</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=c56b8fd8be&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Palantir expands its Percepta lawsuit, accusing Percepta's co-founders of poaching its workers and customers, and another employee of stealing confidential docs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Victoria Albert / </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=17a0891921&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B+ over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval</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=0fee533d79&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sei partners with Xiaomi to preinstall its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Francisco Rodrigues / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</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=e60797c653&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">a16z crypto expands to Asia, opens a Seoul office, hires Monad's Sungmo Park as its Asia head, and calls South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sam Reynolds / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</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=0b51628eeb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022</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=3bf47e9d45&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jagmeet Singh / </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=bc054bfcb7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jagmeet Singh / </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=594a8c38ef&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Julie Bort / </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=1d2a0cf21c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic-Madori Davis / </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=e97f2369e1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Agnee Ghosh / </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=7fb5d5ca7f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aisha Malik / </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=2ae3b95c88&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Berlin-based LI.FI, which provides businesses with price comparisons of crypto exchange rates and bridging fees, raised $29M, taking its total funding to ~$52M</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=bccaba77dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Worktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and releases a workflow automation agent</a></span>
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