Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU's €120M X fine (Liv McMahon/BBC)
Elon Musk's X fined €120m over 'deceptive' blue ticks
The European Commission says the social media site is opening its users up to scams and impersonations.
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Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denounce the EU
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Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
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CloudFlare Says It Fixed Outage That Slowed Banking Sites, Zoom
Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down Friday.
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Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month
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Marc Benioff says it "would not shock" him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he might rename the company 'Agentforce'
The SaaS pioneer recently learned in focus groups that customers want to talk about AI agents now
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Marc Benioff says it “would not shock” him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings
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Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 (TrendForce)
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[Exclusive] Memory Crunch Hits PCs: Dell Hikes Prices 15-20% Mid-December, Lenovo from January 2026
Soaring AI-server memory demand is driving DRAM prices sharply higherβ€”and now PC and notebook makers are feeling the squeeze. Industry sources re...
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Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15% to 20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026
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Polish lawmakers fail to override the president's veto on a crypto assets regulation bill; Poland is the last EU country not to adopt EU's crypto regulation (Bloomberg)
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Polish Lawmakers Fail to Overturn Veto on Crypto Assets Bill
Polish lawmakers failed to overturn a veto on a bill regulating digital assets, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempts to regula...
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Polish lawmakers fail to override the president
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Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune LLMs using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more (Hugging Face)
We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune an LLM using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more
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The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using "io" as a trademark in some instances while an infringement suit against it proceeds (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)
Ban Against OpenAI Using β€˜io’ Trademark Backed by Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a temporary order blocking OpenAI Inc. from using β€œio” as a trademark in certain circumstances while an infringement...
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The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using “io” as a trademark in some instances while an infringement lawsuit against it proceeds
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The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (New York Times)
New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work
Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
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The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months
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Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BNP Paribas for its WBD deal, one of the largest ever unsecured bridge loans (Bloomberg)
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Netflix Lines Up $59 Billion of Debt for Warner Bros. Deal
Netflix Inc. has lined up $59 billion of financing from Wall Street banks to help support its planned $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Disco...
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Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC to support its WBD deal, one of the largest ever loans of its kind
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Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot (Sara Fischer/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-deals-news-publishers
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Meta strikes commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN, Fox News, and The Daily Caller, to provide real-time answers in its Meta AI chatbot
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