In recent months, DDR4 and DDR5 RAM and SSD prices surged dramatically due to an ongoing AI chip shortage and panic buying; some RAM kits now cost 3x as much
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago. — It's not a bad time to upgrade your gaming PC.
Nvidia says it is “delighted by Google's success” but “Nvidia is a generation ahead”, after a report that Meta could use Google's TPUs in its data centers
Nvidia on Tuesday said its tech remains a generation ahead of the industry, in response to Wall Street's concerns … Source: @nvidianewsroom .
Counterpoint: Apple is set to overtake Samsung as the world's largest smartphone maker for the first time since 2011, lifted by the success of iPhone 17 models
Apple Inc. will retake its crown as the world's largest smartphone maker for the first time in more than a decade …
Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT gave a teen who died by suicide information about suicide methods, arguing that he misused ChatGPT
The family of Adam Raine filed a lawsuit against the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that is not responsible for the teen's death.
EU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers
A web camera is seen in front of the displayed words “Child Pornography” in this illustration t - EU says big tech must tackle online child abuse
The EU says its regulators asked Shein for documents on measures to prevent the exposure of minors to inappropriate content and the circulation of illegal items
Shein is under pressure from the European Union to curb sales of childlike sex dolls and weapons on its third-party marketplace …
Aggressive traders on Robinhood, whose stock has more than tripled in 2025, are central to the company's success, as critics liken the environment to a casino
Brokerage co-founded by Vlad Tenev makes exotic investments available to ordinary investors, seeing aggressive traders as key to company's success
Robinhood plans to launch a futures and derivatives exchange with Susquehanna in 2026 and acquires MIAXdx, which clears and executes derivatives trades
Crypto Derivatives Angle for Traders X: @robinhoodapp : Robinhood is introducing a new futures and derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, deepening our investment in Prediction Markets and better pos...
Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick
Warner Music Group and AI music generator Suno have struck what they call a “first-of-its-kind partnership”.
France says it plans legal complaints against AliExpress and Joom over the sales of childlike sex dolls; Temu, Wish, eBay, and more are also under investigation
Financial Times :
As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site
The village of Caledonia, Wisconsin, sandwiched between Chicago and Milwaukee along Lake Michigan, is dotted with corn and soybean fields … X: @emilyjashinsky and @veracityalways Bluesky: @jordannovet...
Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pictures are burying their real, tested recipes, setting home cooks up for disaster this Thanksgiving
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures — Eb Gargano has been writing recipes …
Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its AI server manufacturing site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, adding to $717M invested through 2024
Taiwanese company gets approval for more AI data center industry in Racine County TechPowerUp : Foxconn Wisconsin Plant Gets $569 Million Investment Approved Focus Taiwan : Foxconn to invest US$569 mi...
Naver agrees to acquire Dunamu, which runs South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in a $10.3B all-stock deal; Upbit has 80%+ market share in South Korea
Naver Corp. agreed to acquire Dunamu Inc., operator of South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in an all-stock deal valued …
MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first
Beijing-backed technology gains ground as American giants hold fast to ‘closed’ AI strategies — China has overtaken the US …
watchTowr: 80K+ sensitive credentials were found via publicly accessible “Recent Links” pages on online code formatting tools JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors …
Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000+ global robotaxi fleet in 2026
Pony AI Inc. shares rose for a third day in Hong Kong trading, arresting a steep decline since listing three weeks ago …
Michael Saylor-led Strategy is down 50%+ in the past three months after crypto loses $1T+ in value, as the “digital asset treasury” craze at companies unravels
‘Digital asset treasury’ craze sours amid $1tn rout in cryptocurrency market — Crypto-hoarding companies …
The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage
The House Homeland Security Committee has asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify at a Dec. 17 hearing on how Chinese state …
Malaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption
JOHOR will stop approving applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres due to their massive water consumption, which can reach up to 50 million litres a day.
Sources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry's influence.
Sources: ByteDance bought more Nvidia chips than any other Chinese company in 2025, but Chinese regulators now block it from using the chips in new data centers
ByteDance bought more Nvidia chips than any other Chinese company in 2025, according to three people with direct knowledge of its purchases.
How an indirect prompt injection can manipulate Google's Antigravity IDE to invoke a malicious browser subagent and exfiltrate data; Google is working on a fix
even when explicitly prohibited by user settings! [image] Bluesky: Ramon Astudillo / @ramon-astudillo : Two things — 1) Adding cl tools, piping, etc as tool methods to agents give you a huge number ...
OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode
here's how Aman Kumar / PhoneArena : OpenAI has finally addressed a major problem with ChatGPT's voice mode feature NDTV Profit : ChatGPT Voice Now Built Into Main Interface: What's New For Users? Sar...
Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and just $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024
Kristin Robinson / Billboard :
Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7
Now Binance Faces $1 Billion Terror Allegations Israpundit : October 7 Victims Sue Crypto Exchange Binance for Allegedly Facilitating Payments to Terror Groups Mike Heuer / UPI : Hamas attack victims'...
Polymarket says it received an amended US CFTC designation, letting it operate a prediction market in the US with a fully regulated exchange structure
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
HP reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $14.6B, vs. $14.5B est., forecasts FY 2026 profit below est., plans to cut 4,000 to 6,000 jobs through FY 2028
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Dell reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $27.01B, vs. $27.13B est., Infrastructure Solutions revenue up 24% to $14.1B, and Client Solutions revenue up 3% to $12.5B
Kif Leswing / CNBC :
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output
here's why Anthropic and Gemini are pulling ahead Ludwig Makhyan / Search Engine Journal : ChatGPT Vs. Gemini Vs. Claude: What Are The Differences? Amina Ali / Daily Sabah : Reset in AI race: Google's...
A US judge rules Kalshi's sports-betting contracts are subject to Nevada Gaming Commission enforcement; Kalshi argues they should be regulated only by the CFTC
and Congress Is Sitting on It X: Daniel Wallach / @wallachlegal : Nevada “suggested reasonable options to Kalshi to avoid the possibility of enforcement pending appeal, including the same option accep...
Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B+ in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's
When we first launched the Luxury Resale vertical on TikTok Shop, there was real doubt that high-value buyers would shop this way. … Alexandra Levine : You can now buy Birkin bags and Rolex watches on...
Q&A with Sportable co-founders Dugald Macdonald and Peter Husemeyer on their sensor-based sports tech that generates data for teams, leagues, and broadcasters
The founders of Sportable are using sensors to provide a wealth of information for athletes, teams and fans
PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B+ so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B+, up from $9.24B in 2023
The big story — Sitting in his new Beijing office, AI2 Robotics Founder and CEO Eric Guo wistfully reflected on fundraising challenges …
Character.AI launches Stories, which lets users create interactive fiction and is the company's “first new format created specifically” for users under 18
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch :
Didi reports Q3 revenue up 8.6% YoY to ~$8.28B and a ~$211M net income, up from ~$127M in Q3 2024; international revenue up 35% YoY to ~$558M with a ~$240M loss
Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, raised a $120M Series C led by Ribbit at a $1.45B valuation, bringing its total funding to $295M
Krystal Hu / Reuters :
A profile of Chen Tao, founder of Chinese AI circuit board company Victory Giant, which is up 530%+ in 2025 so far, giving Chen and his wife a $9.1B net worth
Bloomberg : Forums: r/artificial Forums: r/artificial : Couple Rakes in $9 Billion as AI Circuit Board Shares Soar 530%
Sources: ByteDance is in talks to sell game studio Moonton, which it acquired for ~$4B in 2021, to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games; Moonton makes Mobile Legends
Bloomberg :
Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia's stock falls 14%+ after a Bain Capital-backed entity sold $2.1B worth of shares at a discount, stoking AI valuation concerns
Bloomberg :
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