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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)
2025-12-15 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)
2025-12-15 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)
2025-12-15 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)
2025-12-15 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)
2025-12-15 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)
2025-12-15 AI London

US sets out condition for Ukraine security guarantees – Axios (www.rt.com)
2025-12-15 Ukraine

Regional leaders reject Guinea-Bissau military transition plan (www.rt.com)
2025-12-15

Meeting the challenge of violent extremism (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-15

What we know about the Bondi attack (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-15

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)
2025-12-15 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)
2025-12-15 Equity

‘No candidates' for key Ukrainian cabinet posts – Reuters (www.rt.com)
2025-12-15 Ukraine

Western officials ‘alarmed' over secret FBI-Ukraine meetings – WaPo (www.rt.com)
2025-12-15 FBI Ukraine

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)
2025-12-15 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)
2025-12-15 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)
2025-12-15 Trump AI

EU's use of emergency powers on Russian assets will backfire – MEP (www.rt.com)
2025-12-15 Russia Europe Asset

Russia offers world-class engineering and technical education (www.rt.com)
2025-12-15 Russia

Microsoft: December security updates cause Message Queuing failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-15 Microsoft

Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power? (slashdot.org)
2025-12-15

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)
2025-12-15 Trump China Nvidia

“Identity is never fixed:” Interview with Iranian-American Artist Soraya Sharghi (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-15 U.S. Interview Iran

“Into this Universe:” Heidegger and FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:29 (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-15

Conflict in Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and Soft Power (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-15

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)
2025-12-15 Oracle

SpaceX Alleges a Chinese-Deployed Satellite Risked Colliding with Starlink (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-15 China SpaceX

Two dead in shooting rampage at elite US university (www.rt.com)
2025-12-15

Bondi terror: sometimes we just need to pause and reflect (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-12-15 Terrorism

EU state jails anti-NATO politicians for ‘treason' (www.rt.com)
2025-12-15 Europe

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