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Netflix announces a partnership with iHeartMedia to exclusively publish at least 15 video podcasts beginning in early 2026, including The Breakfast Club (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-17 Netflix

Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails and calendar (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-17 Google AI

US Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Europe

Grab a 2-in-1 open-box ASUS Chromebook for $160 + free shipping (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 AI WhatsApp

The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-17 Europe Spotify

OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17

Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-17

Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (www.wired.com)
2025-12-17

OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17

DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 AI San Francisco New York

McKinsey Plots Thousands of Job Cuts in Slowdown for Consulting Industry (slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17 Texas

OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model (openai.com)
2025-12-17

High-Speed Traders Are Feuding Over a Way To Save 3.2 Billionths of a Second (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (siliconangle.com)
2025-12-17

A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-17 iPhone Apple Face ID

Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Amazon Instagram

The cost-per-watt of compute for orbital solar data centers is $51.10/W vs. just $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital (andrewmccalip.com)
2025-12-17 Solar SpaceX

Tech Giants Can't Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 AI

Hackers exploit newly patched Fortinet auth bypass flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17

The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

Cyberattack disrupts Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA's operations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17

The Hidden Risk in Virtualization: Why Hypervisors are a Ransomware Magnet (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17

Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-17 AI

Mozilla's New CEO Bets Firefox's Future on AI (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 AI Firefox Mozilla

Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more (stratechery.com)
2025-12-17 AI

Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-17 Google Layoffs Mozilla

Google's Real Estate Listings 'Experiment' Sends Zillow Shares Down More Than 8% (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Google

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 Adobe

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