Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-ai-chips-to-undergo-unusual-u-s-security-review-before-export-to-china-5e73cd55?st=idyxwL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Source: Trump allowed Nvidia to sell H200s to China after concluding the move carried a lower security risk as Huawei offers systems with comparable performance (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/trump-s-reprieve-for-nvidia-s-h200-spurred-by-huawei-s-ai-gains
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Source: Trump allowed Nvidia to sell H200s to China after concluding the move carried a lower security risk as Huawei offers systems with comparable performance
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Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
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Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Th...
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Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/spacex-said-to-pursue-2026-ipo-raising-far-above-30-billion
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Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, which would make it the largest IPO to date
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Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)
Substack is launching native sponsorships.
"During the pilot, Substack is simply facilitating payments and is not taking a cut."
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Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won
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Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
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Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
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Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users
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Duve, which offers AI-powered guest management tools for hotels, raised a $60M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth, bringing its total funding to $85M (Adriana Lee/Skift)
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Duve Raises $60 Million to Expand AI Guest Management Platform for Hotels
Duve raised a $60 million Series B to expand its AI-powered guest management platform for hotels worldwide, the company announced Tuesday, bringing...
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Duve, which offers AI-powered guest management tools for hotels, raised a $60M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth, bringing its total funding to $85M
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Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom's supersonic engine, to power AI data centers (Boom)
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Boom - FlyBy - AI Needs More Power Than the Grid Can Deliver. Supersonic Tech Can Fix That.
Today, we’re announcing Superpower, our new 42 MW natural gas turbine, along with a $300M funding round and Crusoe as our launch customer.
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Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom
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Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer (Wired)
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OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer
A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser's departure from Slack. She is now headed to OpenAI.
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Slack CEO Denise Dresser, who has been in the role since November 2023, is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the startup
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Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)
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2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise | Menlo Ventures
For all the fears of over-investment, AI is spreading across enterprises at a pace with no precedent in modern software history.
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Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic
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