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An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources)

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Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on the Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal "completely shuts down" App Store rules letting Apple collect "junk fees" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Reddit files a lawsuit against Australia to overturn its social media ban for under-16s, saying it "infringes the implied freedom of political communication" (Reuters)

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In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an "AI Litigation Task Force" that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge "inconsistent" state AI laws (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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A look at French indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 5M+ copies with a budget of less than $10M (Zachary Small/New York Times)

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xAI partners with El Salvador to deploy Grok across 5,000+ public schools, reaching 1M+ students in an "AI-powered education program" over the next two years (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)

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On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity" (OpenAI)

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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 (CNBC)

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President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying "we want to have one central source of approval" (Reuters)

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New US OMB guidance states that LLMs procured by federal agencies must comply with two "unbiased AI principles": "truth-seeking" and "ideological neutrality" (Maria Curi/Axios)

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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 (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

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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 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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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 (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)

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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 (Bloomberg)

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Fortnite returns to the Google Play Store in the US following a US district court injunction; Google and Epic announced a settlement last week (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

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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 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

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[Thread] GPT-5.2 is now available in the API, priced at $1.75/1M input and $14/1M output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro is priced at $21/1M input and $168/1M output tokens (@openaidevs)

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NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

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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 (OpenAI)

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Time names "the Architects of AI" as its 2025 Person of the Year; Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk are among those depicted on the magazine's cover (Time)

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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 (The Verge)

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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 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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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 (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its "best model yet," in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark (The Keyword)

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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 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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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 (TechCrunch)

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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 (Axios)

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Palantir expands its Percepta lawsuit, accusing Percepta's co-founders of poaching its workers and customers, and another employee of stealing confidential docs (Victoria Albert/Wall Street Journal)

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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 (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

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Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing via Cursor's agent (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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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 (Carlos Garcia/Fortune)

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AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist letter, accusing Google of "massive scale" copyright infringement and using AI to "exploit and distribute" the content (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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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 (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client (OpenAI)

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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 (Clare Duffy/CNN)

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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 (Steve Dent/Engadget)

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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 (Financial Times)

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Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including by offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (The Information)

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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 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)

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The EU opens investigations into Temu and airport scanner maker Nuctech to assess whether they unfairly penetrated the EU market thanks to Beijing subsidies (Francesca Micheletti/Politico)

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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 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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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 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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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 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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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 (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

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An Ai2 research scientist argues that AGI, as commonly conceived, will not emerge because it ignores, among other things, the physical realities of computation (Tim Dettmers)

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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 (Patrick O'Shaughnessy/Invest Like The Best on YouTube)

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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 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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