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Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (www.nytimes.com)
11 minutes ago Startup AI

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes (venturebeat.com)
37 minutes ago AI Nvidia

Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD case, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid (www.bloomberg.com)
1 hour ago Netflix

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (techcrunch.com)
1 hour ago Germany AI

Google links more Chinese hacking groups to React2Shell attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
1 hour ago China Google

French Interior Ministry confirms cyberattack on email servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 hours ago France

Get a private, offline AI assistant with Pansophy for 60% off (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 hours ago AI

Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (www.washingtonpost.com)
2 hours ago

Teneo survey of 350 public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than their cost, and more (www.wsj.com)
2 hours ago AI

AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (www.bloomberg.com)
2 hours ago Startup AI

Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages (www.ft.com)
2 hours ago Google Apple

Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (www.bloomberg.com)
2 hours ago Trump H1B

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (www.wsj.com)
3 hours ago Mobile AT&T

DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (www.ft.com)
3 hours ago AI

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (tech.eu)
3 hours ago AI London

Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is “a collection of public fora” and social interaction isn't its “sole purpose” (www.businessinsider.com)
4 hours ago Australia Ban Reddit

US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (www.nytimes.com)
4 hours ago Equity

AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (www.theverge.com)
5 hours ago AI

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
5 hours ago AI Freelance

How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (www.washingtonpost.com)
5 hours ago Trump AI

Microsoft: December security updates cause Message Queuing failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 hours ago Microsoft

Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power? (slashdot.org)
5 hours ago

How Nvidia's lobbying efforts grew after Howard Lutnick brokered Jensen Huang's access to Trump, ending with the president's approval of the H200 sales to China (t.co)
7 hours ago Trump China Nvidia

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (www.theinformation.com)
7 hours ago Oracle

SpaceX Alleges a Chinese-Deployed Satellite Risked Colliding with Starlink (science.slashdot.org)
9 hours ago China SpaceX

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (techcrunch.com)
10 hours ago China Amazon

Roomba Maker 'iRobot' Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years (hardware.slashdot.org)
10 hours ago

Investigation: after Trump's return to office, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones involving Trump-linked companies (www.nytimes.com)
10 hours ago Trump

How UAE's growing interest in crypto drew Michael Saylor, Changpeng Zhao and other crypto executives to Abu Dhabi, hoping to secure deals with Emirati investors (www.wsj.com)
11 hours ago

Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers (tech.slashdot.org)
13 hours ago Australia Social Media

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