Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, adding features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, a Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options after Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/uber-teams-with-avride-to-offer-robotaxi-rides-in-dallas-in-latest-expansion
Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made "no sense" (Eva Dou/Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/03/palantir-immigration-ice/
Some YouTube creators are using AI video tools to make content for kids and babies, causing concern that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/ai-slop-youtube-videos-for-kids-pretend-to-be-educational
AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
Vinci, which uses AI simulations to accelerate chip and other hardware design, raised a $36M Series A led by Xora Innovation, taking its total funding to $46M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/software-firm-vinci-which-speeds-up-hardware-simulation-raises-36-million-2025-12-02/
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025 (George Steer/Financial Times)
HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)