Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
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Google Photos launches new video editing tools | TechCrunch
Google Photos' new update helps make editing video reels in the app quicker, such as new templates that already add music and text to clips.
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Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor
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Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only...
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Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI
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Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)
Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers
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Spanish police arrest a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona over allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64M records from breaches at nine companies (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
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Spain arrests teen who stole 64 million personal data records
The National Police in Spain have arrested a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona, for allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64 million re...
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Spanish police arrest a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona over allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64M records from breaches at nine companies
By Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users "banking-level privacy" with a "compliance record" (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Circle stablecoin for ‘banking-level privacy’ to launch on Aleo blockchain | Fortune
Blockchains make data public, but Aleo founder Howard Wu hopes to lure big banks and institutions to crypto through semi-private stablecoins.
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Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record”
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An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an "at least 3%" stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/essilorluxottica-director-says-metas-stake-ray-ban-maker-at-least-3-2025-12-09/
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An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an “at least 3%” stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports
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Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China's AI companies buy time while China's chip makers improve their chips' performance (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
China’s Access to Powerful Nvidia Chips Comes at ‘Critical Moment’
President Trump said Nvidia can export some chips. But years of U.S. restrictions have propelled China to make everything it needs for advanced A.I.
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Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China
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Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/stripe-and-paradigm-open-tempo-blockchain-to-public-add-kalshi-ubs-as-partners
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Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners
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Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
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Mistral AI surfs vibe-coding tailwinds with new coding models | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks to catch up to bigg...
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Mistral launches Devstral 2, an AI coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and Devstral Small, a 24B-parameter model for local use
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Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/wikipedia-operator-taps-former-us-ambassador-chile-ceo-role-2025-12-09/
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Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO
By Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.