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Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using a novel reading of a federal anti-fraud law to probe contractors, including Google and Verizon, over their DEI programs (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-29 Google

How executives at humanoid robot startups like Agility Robotics and Weave Robotics are managing safety risks and tempering expectations for the technology (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-29 Startup Robot

Bitcoin miners retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up about 90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-24 Bitcoin ETF AI

Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-24 China AI chatbot

The US FCC bans imports, marketing, and sales of new foreign-made drones and components, including from China's DJI and Autel, citing national security concerns (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-23 China Drone

Instacart says it is ending all item price tests effective immediately, and won't charge different prices for the same items, after a report into the practice (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-23

Chinese AI chipmaker Biren Technology plans to raise up to ~$623M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$2.19 to ~$2.52, and expects trading to start January 2 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-22 China Hong Kong IPO AI

The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M+ in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-21 AI

Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000+ attendees, yacht parties, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-21

Micron projects FY Q2 sales to grow over 2x YoY to $18.7B and adjusted operating income to rise over 5x to $11.3B, signaling higher memory chip prices in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-20

The administrator winding down Do Kwon's Terraform Labs sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging it unlawfully profited from and contributed to Terraform's collapse (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tech companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19 Trump China

Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19 AI

In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Sources: Armadin, launched by Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia to fight AI hacking, raised a $24M seed and is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $600M+ valuation (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M+ in bookings in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

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

Sources: New York-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone, valuing the company at $9B, up from $6B in June (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-17 Startup New York

Databricks is raising a $4B Series L at a $134B valuation, up from $100B in August and $62B in December 2024, and had a $4.8B annual revenue run rate in October (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-17

CoreWeave's market value fell $33B in six weeks amid construction delays at its Denton, Texas AI data center, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-16 AI Texas

CoreWeave's market value fell $33B in six weeks amid construction delays at its Denton, TX AI data center, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-16 AI

PayPal says it has filed applications to establish PayPal Bank to provide loans more efficiently to US small businesses and reduce its reliance on third parties (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-16

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)
2025-12-15 AI

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

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)
2025-12-15

Stocks of private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX are being sold via invitation-only markets to the ultrawealthy before their IPOs, creating a two-tier system (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-15 IPO SpaceX

Sources: OpenAI told staff it was ending the six-month “vesting cliff” that required new employees to work for at least six months before their equity vests (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-14 Equity

A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids and projects more than $150M of sales this year (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-13

Palantir expands its Percepta lawsuit, accusing its CEO and two co-founders of poaching staff, and another employee of stealing confidential documents (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-12

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