President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, on the condition that the US gets a 25% cut
President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to …
The US DOJ detains two men for allegedly violating export controls by trying to smuggle $160M+ of Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China; a third man pleads guilty
DOJ says H100 and H200 shipments were relabelled with a fictional brand to dodge export controls Institute for Progress : Should the US Sell Hopper Chips to China? Jasper Ward / Reuters : US Justice D...
Trump says the Commerce Department is working on “the same approach” for “AMD, Intel, and other GREAT American Companies” as Nvidia shipping H200 chips to China
and now we're letting China close the gap. For what? Forums: r/NBIS_Stock : Trump's NVDA/China deal is a positive catalyst r/neoliberal : US to allow Nvidia H200 chip shipments to China, Trump says r/...
Reddit launches new safety features globally for under-18s, like stricter chat settings, ahead of Australia's social media ban for under-16s from December 10
Reddit Inc. is launching new safety features globally for all under-18s on its popular online forums ahead of Australia's groundbreaking social media ban.
Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency
but will Beijing want them? Taylor Herzlich / New York Post : China to restrict access to Nvidia's advanced H200 chips — as Trump looks to lift export curbs: report Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder ...
Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.
Sources: after Netflix announced its WBD deal, Larry Ellison called Trump to argue it would hurt competition; Paramount CEO David Ellison promised CNN changes
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal
As Australia prepares to enact the world's first under-16 social media ban on December 10, a look at the implications, reaction from parents and teens, and more
Under-16s will no longer be able to subscribe to popular apps under Australian groundbreaking law
The European Commission opens an investigation into whether Google used publishers' content to provide AI services and YouTube content to train its AI models
Investigation is bloc's latest challenge to US big tech companies — Brussels has launched an investigation into whether Google …
Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China's AI companies buy time while China's chip makers improve their chips' performance
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times :
Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment
French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks …
Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest Asia investment yet, after meeting with Modi
Microsoft Corp. pledged to invest $17.5 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing in India over four years …
Source: as soon as this week, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards
For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running …
Sources: Sam Altman said OpenAI plans to end its “code red” after releasing a model in January 2026 with improved image generation, speed, and personality
The CEO is prioritizing achieving mass popularity through ChatGPT versus moonshot projects like artificial general intelligence
Sources: Meta is pursuing a Llama successor and new frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, set for release in Q1 2026 and that could be a proprietary model
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last year about his company's Llama family of artificial intelligence models that he predicted …
Spotify rolls out music videos to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following a beta launch in nearly 100 markets last year
Spotify (SPOT.N) said on Tuesday it is making music videos available to premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada, as the Swedish streaming giant challenges YouTube for market share.
Microsoft plans to invest CA$7.5B in Canada over two years to build AI infrastructure, coming online in 2026, taking its investment to CA$19B from 2023 to 2027
Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday it was investing more than C$7.5 billion ($5.42 billion) in Canada over the next two years …
Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investing boom, after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto
Robinhood Markets Inc. is set to enter the Indonesian market after signing deals to acquire two local brokerages …
AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete, are forcing web developers to rethink whether they are designing websites for humans or crawlers
A crop of under-baked new products is splitting the internet into two lanes, forcing website developers to rethink who their pages are for.
Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO
Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia, on Tuesday named Bernadette Meehan its chief executive officer, tapping an administrator with deep policy expertise …
Source: ChatGPT has nearly 900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini's MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M
The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up, with Google's Gemini nipping at OpenAI's heels.
Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic's top three enterprise customers
The artificial-intelligence model maker and consulting firm say they can help businesses see a positive return on their AI investments
The US CFTC launches a pilot program that allows bitcoin, ether, USDC, or other payment stablecoins to be used as margin collateral in US derivatives markets
So Why's BTC Stuck At $90,000? Ronaldo Marquez / Bitcoinist.com : New CFTC Crypto Initiative: Bitcoin, Ethereum, To Serve As Collateral In Derivatives Trading Oluwapelumi Adejumo / CryptoSlate : The C...
South Korean media: police raided Coupang's HQ, searching for evidence related to a historic data breach that compromised 30M+ people's personal information
Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg :
Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners
Stripe Inc. and crypto venture firm Paradigm have launched a public trial for their joint blockchain project, Tempo …
Italy-based humanoid robotics startup Generative Bionics raised €70M led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Tether, AMD Ventures, and others
Stablecoin giant Tether has joined a €70 million ($81.6 million) funding round for Italy-based Generative Bionics …
Saviynt, an identity and access management service focused on “human and nonhuman” identity controls, raised a $700M Series B led by KKR at a $3B valuation
AI has businesses scrambling to ensure workers and software robots are who they say they are
Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record”
Blockchains are public databases. That's an immediate roadblock for large institutions like banks …
US lawmakers remove provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 that would have ensured military members' right to repair their own equipment
Boone Ashworth / Wired :
Anthropic debuts a Slack integration for Claude Code in beta, expanding on the existing Claude app for Slack that can now relay tasks to Claude Code on the web
here's how to use it, what it can do, and how to get access eWeek : Anthropic Unveils Claude Code Integration With Slack Stevie Bonifield / The Verge : Anthropic is bringing Claude Code to Slack Mike ...
The US DOD says it has chosen Google's new GenAI.mil platform to help the US military quickly analyze video and imagery, as part of a $200M contract from July
The Defense Department said it has chosen Alphabet Inc.'s Gemini for Government system to deliver artificial intelligence capability …
Dutch media: ASML has sold parts to a subsidiary of a Chinese army supplier, per Chinese import and export data; ASML says it can't confirm the report
Customers of chip equipment maker ASML (ASML.AS) include at least one firm with links to the Chinese military, Dutch television program Nieuwsuur reported on Tuesday.
An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an “at least 3%” stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports
Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) holds at least a 3% stake in EssilorLuxottica (ESLX.PA), a board director …
Google details the steps it is taking to secure Chrome's upcoming agentic browsing features, like a “User Alignment Critic” model that vets each AI agent action
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
OpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch :
Filing: HashKey, Hong Kong's largest licensed crypto exchange, is aiming to raise up to ~$215M in its IPO in the city
Kumar Tanishk / Reuters :
David Sacks says “AI preemption” won't apply to US state laws on child safety, communities won't be forced to host data centers they don't want, and more
David Sacks / @davidsacks :
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which runs major research archives, warned that AI models are fabricating research papers, journals, and archives
Dan Vergano / Scientific American :
Mercedes partners with Chinese software developer Momenta to deploy Level 4 self-driving cars for Lumo Mobility in Abu Dhabi, its first foray into robotaxis
William Wilkes / Bloomberg :
An overview of AI in 2025, including arguments for and against above-trend model capabilities growth, the state of evals, and the safety of reasoning models
Gavin Leech / LessWrong : X: @g_leech_ , @g_leech_ , and @patrick_oshag X: Gavin Leech / @g_leech_ : My summary of the year in AI [image] Gavin Leech / @g_leech_ : ADeLe really is an amazing eval [im...
Scientists at NeurIPS 2025, which had a record 26K attendees, say questions about how AI models work and how to measure them remain unresolved, despite progress
Google pivoted toward pragmatic methods, OpenAI doubled down—and Martian launched a $1 million interpretability prize.
Fal, which hosts generative AI models for developers, raised a $140M Series D led by Sequoia, a source says at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in July
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg :
The future of AI development could resemble the rivalry between iOS and Android, with China's AI approach closer to Google's open and customizable Android OS
The effect is akin to studying together to ace a test, rather than relying on individual intelligence. — www.ft.com/content/b1f9...
The US FDA qualifies the first AI drug development tool, AIM-NASH, to help doctors assess MASH, a fatty liver disease that can lead to liver failure or cancer
Sahil Pandey / Reuters :
Q&A with Square Head of Product Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, Lightning, working for Jack Dorsey, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
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