Paramount says Larry Ellison “agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4B” for its WBD bid, after WBD's board raised concerns about the offer
Paramount Skydance on Monday guaranteed the backing of billionaire Larry Ellison in an amended offer for Warner Bros. Discovery …
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files
The breach allegedly includes 86 million audio files.
Waymo resumes its robotaxi service in SF after suspending it during a blackout, and says most trips finished before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over
Alphabet-owned Waymo has resumed its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after a temporary pause during blackouts …
Sources: Nvidia plans to begin shipping its H200 chips to China before mid-February 2026 and expects initial shipments to be ~40,000 to 80,000 H200 units
Nvidia (NVDA.O) has told Chinese clients it aims to start shipping its second-most powerful AI chips to China before the Lunar …
Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75B in cash, plus its existing debt, as part of its push to expand its AI data center footprint
Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt …
Instacart scraps all item price tests after customer pushback, and won't charge different prices for the same items bought from the same store at the same time
Company says retailers will no longer be able to use Eversight technology to run item price tests on Instacart
Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal
Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags
Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them
I first noticed how charming ChatGPT could be last year when I turned all my decision-making over to generative A.I. for a week.
Sources: DHS is investigating whether six staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency
“At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency's acting director, Madhu Got...
Some US schools are deploying AI surveillance tech like facial recognition and listening devices; critics say there is little evidence they make school safer
Schools across the U.S. are rolling out AI-powered surveillance technology, including drones, facial recognition and even bathroom listening devices. Bluesky: @reset-america and @treekisser Forums: r/...
Investigation: in 22 US states, Uber approves drivers with many types of convictions, such as violent felonies, that are over seven years old to keep costs low
The ride-hailing giant's background check process was intended to speed drivers onto its network while keeping costs down, internal documents show.
A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more
Is GPU vs TPU the CISC vs RISC contest of the modern era? … All of a sudden, everyone is talking - and writing - about Google's TPUs (Tensor Processing Units). LinkedIn: Aditya Harit LinkedIn: Aditya ...
Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more
When iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Sunday, it marked the end of an era for one of America's most beloved robotics companies.
Filings: Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax report 2024 revenue of $44.4M and $30.5M, respectively, as both prepare for Hong Kong IPOs in the coming weeks
Chinese OpenAI contenders MiniMax and Zhipu AI offered the first look into their business models and profit prospects in listing filings …
Chinese AI chipmaker Biren Technology plans to raise up to ~$623M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$2.19 to ~$2.52, and expects trading to start January 2
GPU startups vying for Nvidia's crown race to fund AI chip development
Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026
plus more than 250,000 [image] Bluesky: @chrisinparis : I'm less surprised when cities in the US allow this insanity but am surprised to see London allowing this. Hoping it doesn't come to Paris. bsk...
METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year
just careful, meticulous rigor. Nikola Jurkovic / @nikolaj2030 : This result updates me towards 4 month doubling times being my median estimate for the next two years. That means by EOY 2026 the time ...
Google's TPUs and Gemini are competitive but Nvidia's and OpenAI's first-mover advantage makes their lead seem durable, and Google faces the innovator's dilemma
This is strange logic as Google is competing hard in this space with AI overviews & Gemini while the core business is still growing. …
Adam Mosseri says “maybe we'll need” premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms
A day before Instagram's new integration for Amazon Fire smart TVs was set to roll out, Adam Mosseri, who runs the platform for Meta …
Private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agree to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt
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How the global AI boom is driven by thousands of newcomers, diluting Big Tech's infrastructure dominance; US data center credit deals hit $178.5B in 2025 so far
In the golden hills of Puglia, a southern region of Italy known today for its olive trees, white cliffs and turquoise mediterranean coves …
Source: Erebor, a digital bank co-founded by Palmer Luckey, raised $350M led by Lux Capital at a $4.35B post-money valuation; it secured FDIC approval last week
Erebor, a new digital bank co-founded by Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey, has quietly raised $350 million at a $4.35 billion post-money valuation, Axios has learned.
A look at stablecoin-powered neobanks like Rizon and Dakota that are offering dollar-denominated digital banking services to customers worldwide
startups that offer dollar-denominated digital banking services to customers based anywhere in the world. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028
Jessica Mathews spent months reporting this 4,000-word feature for Fortune, tracing how Shield AI has been building AI … Ian Winer : An excellent feature article on the Shield AI journey from past to ...
Sequoia, a16z, and other VC firms invested $1.2B+ into police and public safety tech startups over the past year, following the success of Palantir and others
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