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Warner Bros Discovery Board Rejects Rival Bid From Paramount (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18

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 (punchbowl.news)
2025-12-18 AI

Oracle says final negotiations on an equity deal for its Michigan data center project are “on schedule” and Related Digital will be its development partner (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 Oracle Equity

OpenAI in Talks With Amazon About Investment That Could Exceed $10 Billion (slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 Amazon

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 Startup AI Nvidia

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 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-18 Education

Sources: Blue Owl Capital will not invest in Oracle's $10B, 1GW data center in Michigan after funding talks stalled due to concerns over debt terms and delays (www.ft.com)
2025-12-18 Oracle

Uber and DoorDash Try To Halt NYC Law That Encourages Tipping (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 Uber

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 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-18 AI

WBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited cash bid, calling the offer “illusory” and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is still superior (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-17 Netflix

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 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-17 AI Tencent

Sources: 6+ Chinese AI companies, including chip firms Montage and GigaDevice, are set to go public in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, aiming to raise up to $1B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 China Hong Kong AI

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 India IPO

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 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-17 India Sensor

Senators Count the Shady Ways Data Centers Pass Energy Costs On To Americans (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 U.S. Energy

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 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-17 Hong Kong Asset

Monzo receives an Irish banking license, allowing the London-based digital lender to offer current and savings accounts across the EU (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 London

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 (fortune.com)
2025-12-17 AI

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Fintech

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 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17

Bhutan unveils a pledge of up to 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham says Bhutan holds 5,984 bitcoin, ranking 7th among sovereign holders (decrypt.co)
2025-12-17 Bitcoin

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 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Germany Startup

The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-17

More than 500 writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for how AI is trained and used across creative industries (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-12-17 AI

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 (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2025-12-17 India

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 (variety.com)
2025-12-17 Netflix

The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

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 (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17

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