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Sources: Ted Sarandos met with Trump in November, arguing that Netflix wasn't a monopoly; Sarandos agreed with Trump that WBD should sell to the highest bidder (www.bloomberg.com)
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Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (www.cnbc.com)
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South Africa to crack down on illegal drinking spots after mass shooting (www.rt.com)
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President Trump says he will sign “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something” (www.bloomberg.com)
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India's Tata Electronics signs up Intel as the first prospective client for its upcoming chip facilities; Tata is investing ~$14B to build in Gujarat and Assam (www.reuters.com)
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IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (www.wsj.com)
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Western Europe fears full US exit from Ukraine conflict – Bloomberg (www.rt.com)
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Merz has filed 5,000 complaints against online critics – media (www.rt.com)
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Japan and China trade blame after jets square off over Pacific (www.rt.com)
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An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (www.bloomberg.com)
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Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case (stratechery.com)
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The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but “the case is not closed” (www.ft.com)
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Ukraine's top donor to nearly halve military aid in 2026 (www.rt.com)
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‘Catastrophic outcomes' could accompany rise of advanced AI – Google DeepMind CEO (www.rt.com)
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Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI “bubble” (ig.ft.com)
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Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (asia.nikkei.com)
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African state accuses rebels of cross-border bombing (www.rt.com)
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Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (www.ft.com)
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Kiev should drag out peace negotiations – senior Ukrainian MP (www.rt.com)
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Loyal soldiers foiled Benin coup attempt – president (www.rt.com)
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Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms (www.bloomberg.com)
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Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers (apnews.com)
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Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories (blog.google)
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An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (restofworld.org)
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Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly (www.wsj.com)
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Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
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India issues warning to largest airline after travel chaos (www.rt.com)
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A Path Away from Fossil Fuels already Exists, COP30 or No (www.juancole.com)
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Labeling dissent as Terrorism: Trump's NSPM-7 raises Constitutional Alarms (www.juancole.com)
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Several Countries to Boycott Eurovision Singing Contest over Israeli Participation (www.juancole.com)
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