Vanguard will allow ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold cryptocurrencies to be traded on its platform starting Tuesday, reversing a longstanding position (Emily Graffeo/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-01/vanguard-relents-on-crypto-etfs-will-allow-them-on-its-platform
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Vanguard now allows ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold select cryptocurrencies, like BTC, to be traded on its platform, reversing a longstanding position
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Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
College Students Flock to a New Major: A.I.
At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.
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Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the past two years; an AI program is now MIT
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Shopify suffers an outage, leaving some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems, and says it has fixed an issue and is seeing signs of recovery (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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Shopify hit with hours-long outage on Cyber Monday
Select merchants were unable to log in to Shopify, while others couldn't access their point-of-sale systems, the company said.
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Shopify suffers an outage, leaving some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems, and says it has fixed an issue and is seeing signs of recovery
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Memo: Adam Mosseri asks Instagram US staff to return to office five days a week, starting February; sources: it's the first such RTO mandate for a big Meta unit (Alex Heath/Sources)
Instagram's return to office mandate
Read Adam Mosseri’s internal memo announcing a full return to the office five days a week, fewer meetings, and fewer decks.
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Adam Mosseri memo: Instagram US staff must return to the office five days per week from February 2026; sources: it is the first such mandate for a big Meta unit
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A look at ElevenLabs, as ~50% of its $193M in trailing 12-month revenue now comes from corporates, like Cisco, and ~50% from YouTubers, podcasters, and authors (Iain Martin/Forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/12/01/how-a-tiny-polish-startup-became-the-multi-billion-dollar-voice-of-ai/
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A look at ElevenLabs, as ~50% of its $193M in trailing 12-month revenue now comes from corporates, like Cisco, and ~50% from YouTubers, podcasters, and authors
By Iain Martin / Forbes. View the full context on Techmeme.
Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
Michael Saylor and Strategy (MSTR) Raise Cash to Fund Preferred Dividends
Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company also added to its bitcoin holdings last week, bringing its total stack to 650,000 BTC.
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Michael Saylor
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Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023 (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)
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Zipcar to quit UK ahead of new London EV Congestion Charge
Zipcar has begun a formal consultation with employees in the UK, and will stop taking new bookings beyond the end of the year.
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Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023
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Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
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Tutor Intelligence raises $34M to scale fleet of AI-powered warehouse robots - SiliconANGLE
Tutor Intelligence raises $34M to scale fleet of AI-powered warehouse robots - SiliconANGLE
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Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M
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Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/swiss-german-authorities-shut-down-cryptomixerio-money-laundering-crackdown-2025-12-01/
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Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities
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The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes (Dan Primack/Axios) https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-1d32bd61-9974-4088-adc9-11b8f668d324.html
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The reaction to NYT
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