Google unveils Gemini 3 Flash, which it says has Pro-grade reasoning with lower latency, outperforming 2.5 Pro “while being 3x faster at a fraction of the cost”
Following last month's launch of Gemini 3 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3 Flash for consumers and developers.
WBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited $108.4B cash bid, calling the offer “illusory” and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is superior
Warner raised concerns about the credibility of Paramount's ‘illusory’ offer and its backing from the Ellison family
Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B+ in OpenAI at a $500B+ valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium; Microsoft keeps the rights to sell OpenAI's models
Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
Gemini 3 Flash is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input and $2.5 per 1M output
Gemini 3 Flash is our latest model with frontier intelligence built for speed that helps everyone learn, build, and plan anything — faster.
Sources: Blue Owl Capital won't back Oracle's planned $10B, 1GW data center in Michigan, after funding talks stalled due to concerns over debt terms and delays
Investment firm concerned about tougher debt terms and the risk of delays to the vast project
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit uploads more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images
OpenAI is rolling out an update to ChatGPT that's intended to generate images better and faster, the latest move …
Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom AI-powered mini apps, called Gems, which can be reused later
Google's vibe-coding tool, Opal, is making its way to Gemini. The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool …
Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 3 Pro's 37.5%
Google today released its fast and cheap Gemini 3 Flash model, based on the Gemini 3 released last month, looking to steal OpenAI's thunder.
Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust Chair Gary Hoffman and retain CEO TS Anil, who is in the role until February
Investors including Accel and Iconiq are also pressing for greater board representation for shareholders
Bhutan pledges up to 10K bitcoin, valued at ~$1B, to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham: Bhutan holds 5,984 BTC, ranking seventh among sovereign holders
The 10,000 BTC will generate yields for GMC's growth while being held long-term, with Bhutan ruling out selling the reserves. — In brief
Oracle says final equity deal negotiations for its Michigan data center project are “on schedule” and Related Digital, not Blue Owl Capital, will be its partner
Oracle Corp. said final negotiations on an equity deal for a data center project in Michigan are “on schedule” …
Monzo receives an Irish banking license, letting the London-based digital lender offer its personal, business, children's, and savings accounts across the EU
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California's DMV says a California administrative law judge ruled that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” systems
A California administrative law judge recently ruled recently that Tesla's marketing around its “Autopilot” and …
Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating
A year of internal disorder, fluctuating priorities and colossal spending at Meta has rattled insiders and investors
Hut 8 partners with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, ~$7B lease, starting with 245MW of computing capacity
Hut 8 (HUT.O) has signed a deal valued at about $7 billion to lease a data center in Louisiana, it said on Wednesday …
OnePlus 15R review: the new $700+ device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support
The tradeoff is an even worse camera than the OnePlus 15. — I know what you're thinking, didn't OnePlus release a new phone just last month?
Sources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion
Changpeng Zhao has unfinished business. — The billionaire co-founder of Binance has stepped back into the spotlight …
Google sues the Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group known as Darcula, behind an alleged US text message phishing ring, in the US, seeking a restraining order
Google says the group's tools enabled scammers with little technical skill to impersonate agencies like the IRS and the USPS at a massive scale.
Coursera plans to acquire rival online education platform Udemy in an all-stock deal valued at $2.5B, combining two of the largest US learning platforms
Online education platform Coursera (COUR.N) said on Wednesday it would buy rival Udemy (UDMY.O) in an all-stock deal …
a16z releases a nine-pillar AI policy framework for Congress, including restricting AI use for under-13s without parental consent and keeping a role for states
Andreessen Horowitz is laying out a framework on Wednesday that it wants Congress to take up for artificial intelligence …
Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India-based CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone
Exploratory conversations have taken place between Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test …
The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency
Quarterly payments of $200 to be offered via stablecoin or traditional currency in a scheme designed to ease cost of living pressures in the Pacific nation
The US threatens penalties against European companies, like Mistral and Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants
bsky.app/profile/tech... [embedded post] Simonetta Vezzoso / @wavesblog : “With support from the U.S. tech industry, the Trump administration has taken an aggressive posture against other government'...
Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise $15B+ led by Alphabet at a ~$100B valuation, up from 45B+ in October 2024, and has a $350M+ annual revenue run rate
Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s autonomous driving unit, is in discussions to raise more than $15 billion at a valuation near $100 billion …
Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails, calendar, and docs
Say hello to CC, a new AI productivity agent that connects your Gmail … The Keyword : Help boost your daily productivity with CC, a new experimental AI agent from Google Labs. Aminu Abdullahi / eWeek ...
Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho is up 95% from its IPO offer price, valuing it at nearly $11B and making it India's best-performing major IPO of 2025
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Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares jumped as much as 755% in its Shanghai debut, after a heavily oversubscribed ~$585.8M IPO, pushing its market cap past ~$42B
All you need to know about the Chinese chipmaker Reuters : MetaX shares surge 700% on debut as China's AI chip push gathers speed Namrata Sen / Benzinga : Chinese GPU Maker MetaX Shares Surge Over 600...
Sources: at least six Chinese AI companies, like chip firms Montage and GigaDevice, are set to IPO in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, aiming to raise up to $1B
At least six Chinese companies related to artificial intelligence are set to go public in Hong Kong in the coming weeks …
Sources: Google is working on a new initiative to make its AI chips run PyTorch better and is working closely with Meta, as the two discuss Meta using more TPUs
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google is working on a new initiative to make its artificial intelligence chips better at running PyTorch …
Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico
The company, which just secured a $20 million Series A venture capital round, is using AI to streamline the process of obtaining …
Sources: Disney has been hesitant to license its IP to Roblox because it doesn't consider it a safe platform, bucking the trend followed by Netflix and others
Here's a stat that might shock anyone who isn't the parent of a Gen Alpha kid: As of October 2025, online gaming platform Roblox boasted …
Daniel Kwan and 500+ writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for AI training and use across creative industries
The organization, which published four distinct goals and a call to action while gathering hundreds of signatories …
Circana: US game console spending fell 27% in November to $695M, the lowest in the pivotal month for holiday shopping since 2005, after a tough year for makers
US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs.
Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% before falling 8.4% intraday, amid a weakness in digital assets
X updates its ToS to claim the rights to the “Twitter” trademark and countersues Operation Bluebird after the startup filed an application to trademark the term
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Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M
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Super Bank Indonesia, a Grab-backed digital lender, rose by 24% during its stock market debut in Jakarta, after the company raised ~$168M in its IPO
Ismi Damayanti / Nikkei Asia :
Meta partners with Singapore-based startup K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, and plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026
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TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies
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Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau
Juro Osawa / The Information :
AI chip startup Mythic, which develops “analog processing units” to perform AI computations within memory, raised $125M led by DCVC; its CEO is a Nvidia veteran
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Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B of shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany's most valuable startup
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Sources: NYC-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone at a $9B valuation, up from its $6B valuation in its $540M round in June
> AI cybersecurity startup Cyera valued at $9 billion: https://lnkd.in/...
Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures
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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs
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Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios
improve math, break coding. Enhance reasoning, hurt safety. ✅ Solution: Train specialized expert [image] Elie / @eliebakouch : wow, this looks like a very solid open model by Xiaomi, competing with K2...
Dune and Keyrock: bets placed on prediction markets rose from <$100M per month in early 2024 to $13B per month in November, as Polymarket and Kalshi compete
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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