Sources: Skild AI, which develops a foundational model for robots, is in talks to raise $1B+ from SoftBank and Nvidia at a $14B valuation, up from $4.7B in July (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/softbank-nvidia-looking-invest-skild-ai-14-billion-valuation-sources-say-2025-12-08/
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Sources: Skild AI, which develops a foundation model for robots, is in talks to raise $1B+ from SoftBank and Nvidia at a ~$14B valuation, up from $4.7B in July
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ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for First Amendment violations after Apple removed its app following White House pressure (Bobby Allyn/NPR) https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5631826/iceblock-app-lawsuit-trump-bondi
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Unconventional AI raised a $475M seed led by a16z and Lightspeed at a $4.5B valuation to build a more energy-efficient AI computer, part of an up to $1B round (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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AI Computer Startup Hits $4.5 Billion Valuation in Seed Round
Naveen Rao joins a rarified club of prominent tech founders to raise big funding rounds for very young companies.
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Unconventional AI raised a $475M seed led by a16z and Lightspeed at a $4.5B valuation to build a more energy-efficient AI computer, part of an up to $1B round
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Michael Saylor's Strategy acquired 10,624 bitcoin for $962.7M between December 1 and 7, its largest purchase since July; its stock is down ~40% in 2025 (James Hunt/The Block) https://www.theblock.co/post/381668/michael-saylors-strategy-buys-more-bitcoin
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Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
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Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD 'to finish what we started,' CEO Ellison tells CNBC
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
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Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108.4B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week
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India's Tata Electronics signs up Intel as the first prospective client for its upcoming chip facilities; Tata is investing ~$14B to build in Gujarat and Assam (Nandan Mandayam/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indias-tata-signs-up-intel-first-major-customer-14-billion-chip-foray-2025-12-08/
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President Trump says he will do "a ONE RULE" EO on AI "this week" and "you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something" (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/trump-says-he-ll-sign-executive-order-curbing-state-ai-rules
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President Trump says he will sign “a ONE RULE” EO on AI “this week” and “you can
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IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-roughly-11-billion-deal-for-confluent-276f52d8?st=QeirTf
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IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share
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An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/openai-finds-ai-saves-workers-nearly-an-hour-a-day-on-average
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OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: its tools save workers ~40-60 minutes daily on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M+ business clients
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Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
Netflix and the Hollywood End Game – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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Netflix changed movie distribution, and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix
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