Arizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers' data, including their physical location, and counterfeiting local brands (Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press)
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Arizona attorney general sues Chinese online retailer Temu over data theft claims
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealin...
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Arizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers
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Marvell announces a deal to buy Celestial AI for at least $3.25B, expected to close in Q1 2026; the price can rise to $5.5B if Celestial hits revenue targets (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Marvell to acquire Celestial AI for as much as $5.5 billion
The deal is an aggressive move for Marvell to acquire complimentary technology to its semiconductor networking business.
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Marvell says it will acquire Celestial AI for $3.25B+ in cash and stock, set to close in Q1 2026; the price can rise to $5.5B if Celestial hits revenue targets
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Sources say President Trump's efforts to block state-level AI regulations through a preemption proposal are facing significant opposition on Capitol Hill (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/ai-preemption-push-stalls-trump-pressure
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Sources: President Trump
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Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic) https://anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-work-at-anthropic/
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CNN partners with Kalshi to use the company's real-time prediction data in its reporting, for on-air data tickers, fact-checking, and more (Sara Fischer/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalshi-prediction-market-data
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CNN partners with Kalshi to use its real-time prediction data in TV, digital, and social channel reporting, on-air data tickers, analysis, and fact-checking
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Instacart sues New York City to block enforcement of five laws, including rules governing minimum pay for app-based workers and tipping disclosures (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/instacart-sues-new-york-city-over-worker-pay-tipping-laws-2025-12-02/
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Instacart sues New York City to block enforcement of five laws, including rules governing minimum pay for app-based workers and tipping disclosures to customers
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Google launches Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google's annual OS release schedule as it shifts to more frequent updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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Android 16’s latest update ushers in a more frequent release schedule
Switching up the release schedule could bring new features to third-party Android phones much faster.
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Google debuts Android 16 QPR2, a minor update expanding features for notifications, icons, calling screens, and more, marking the end of annual Android releases
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Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu) https://tech.eu/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-to-acquire-eventbrite-in-500m-all-cash-deal/
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Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B acquisition of Vimeo in September and its pending acquisition of AOL
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Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps increased 28% year-over-year, says report | TechCrunch
ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps were up on Black Friday year-over-year, with Walmart and Amazon benefiting the most.
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Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps grew 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon
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Ireland investigates TikTok and LinkedIn over concerns that their illegal content reporting tools are hard to access and don't allow anonymous CSAM reporting (Padraic Halpin/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/irish-media-regulator-opens-investigations-into-tiktok-linkedin-2025-12-02/
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Ireland investigates TikTok and LinkedIn over concerns that their illegal content reporting tools are hard to access or don
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