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A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat — As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China's battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.
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YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even — At Nancy Ann Ling's house in Central Texas, the TV generally goes on around 5 a.m., and Mrs. Ling flips over to the same app each day: YouTube.
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Bitcoin miners retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up about 90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped — The pivot to AI has lifted a bitcoin-mining ETF by around 90% this year, even as bitcoin itself has slumped. — It's harder than ever to mine bitcoin.
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Over the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations — “It's telegraphing that we've looked at this deeply, we think there's a problem, we're looking at tools to address it and we're looking …
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Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass — Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don't misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S.
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Waymo, which paused its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20, says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages — Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause it driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company …
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HCLSoftware, a subsidiary of Indian IT company HCLTech, agrees to acquire business intelligence company Jaspersoft from Cloud Software Group for $240M in cash — The company also announced the acquisition of Belgium-based Wobby to boost agentic AI capabilities.
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South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who previously worked for Samsung — Prosecutors: “Hundreds of DRAM Process Steps Copied and Leaked” — Samsung Electronics' Sales Declined by 5 Trillion Won Last Year
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Starlink says it has reached 9M “active customers” across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 — - SpaceX says its Starlink internet has hit 9 million customers, just over a month after reaching 8 million. — The numbers close a year …
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The Trump administration says it will replace the lottery program used to grant H-1B visas with a “weighted” system that prioritizes higher-paid individuals — ‘Weighted’ selection process that prioritises higher-paid and more skilled applicants will begin in February
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Sources: Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe for around $1B; Observe has raised more than $470M — Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake's history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
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Fleet management software provider Motive files for a US IPO, reporting a $138.5M net loss on $327.3M in revenue for the nine months ended September 30 — AI-powered fleet management company Motive Technologies on Tuesday disclosed a rise in nine-month revenue in its U.S. initial public offering filing …
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The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints — The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
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Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building next-gen AI personal assistants, raised an $8M seed at a $35M valuation and plans to exit stealth in 2026 — The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution.
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A federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1 — The law was set to take effect next month. … A federal judge blocked a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1st.
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Xbox had a terrible 2025: Microsoft canceled games and raised console and Game Pass prices, Costco stopped selling Xbox, and Valve's Steam Machine upstaged it — But can it be resurrected in PC form? — Want to see a dead body? I present to you the Xbox.
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Lemon Slice, which launched a 20B-parameter model that creates digital avatars for AI agents, streaming video at 20 FPS on a single GPU, raised a $10.5M seed — Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they've mostly been restricted to text.
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France's La Poste says it has suffered a suspected DDoS attack in “a major network incident” on Monday, which disrupted its postal and banking services — France's national postal and baking services company La Poste was knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service …
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The US says China is engaging in unfair trade practices in the chip sector, but holds off on imposing additional tariffs on chip imports at least until mid-2027 — The US accused China of engaging in unfair trade practices in the semiconductor sector, but is declining to impose additional tariffs …
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The US says it will take action against China's chip industry, setting new tariffs on chips from China from June 23, 2026; they have 0% duties currently — The Trump administration on Tuesday said it would slap tariffs on Chinese semiconductor imports starting in June, 2027 at a rate to be announced at least a month in advance.
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ServiceNow agrees to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75B, set to close in H2 2026, pending approvals; Insight acquired Armis in a $1.1B deal in 2020 — ServiceNow Inc. has reached a deal to buy the cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal valued at $7.75 billion, representing its largest acquisition to date.
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Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, raised $35M for his new global exchange AX, which offers perpetual futures, a source says at a $187M valuation — Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, has raised $35 million for his startup Architect Financial Technologies, which offers a global perpetual futures exchange.
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Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak — Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.
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The Canada Pension Plan Board and Australia's Goodman agree to invest $2.6B+ in data centers in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Paris, starting to build in June 2026 — The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Australia's Goodman Group agreed to set up a multibillion dollar European data center business …
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China's MiniMax releases M2.1, an upgrade to its open-source M2 model that it says has “significantly enhanced” coding capabilities in Rust, Java, and others — MiniMax has been continuously transforming itself in a more AI-native way. The core driving forces of this process are models …
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Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern — After years of planning for cars that would let drivers take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, China's regulators have become more cautious.
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The European Commission says Apple will bring AirPods-like pairing and iPhone notification access to third-party devices under the DMA in iOS 26.3 in 2026 — The European Commission today praised the interoperability changes that Apple is introducing in iOS 26.3, once again crediting the Digital Markets Act …
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