Sources: China added AI chips from Chinese groups to its government-approved list of suppliers for the first time, before Trump's move to allow Nvidia exports (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
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Sources: China added AI chips from Chinese groups to its government-approved list of suppliers for the first time, before Trump
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Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-silicon-valley-campaign-to-win-trump-over-on-ai-regulation-214bd6bd?st=PXwc1g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race
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Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers in four US cities were shown different prices for the same 20 grocery items; Instacart confirms it is running short term "tests" (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushin...
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Study: 193 Instacart users across four US cities saw different prices for the same items from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it
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PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek) https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pubmatic-deal-kontext-ads-ai-chatbots-programmatic-auctions/
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PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they
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Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V series of vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) https://venturebeat.com/ai/z-ai-debuts-open-source-glm-4-6v-a-native-tool-calling-vision-model-for
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Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases its GLM-4.6V open-weight vision models, with support for native function calling, available in 106B- and 9B-parameter versions
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Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
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Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform wi...
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Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year
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Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Pixel Watch 4 adding pinch and wrist gestures, faster Smart Replies
After missing out on last month’s Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Watch 4 update this month that adds one-handed gestures.
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Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says the Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies
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Report: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink (Juby Babu/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/spacex-pursue-2026-ipo-raising-above-30-billion-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-12-09/
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Bloomberg: SpaceX is expected to make ~$15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority of sales coming from Starlink
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The US Navy and Palantir announce ShipOS, saying the software will speed up shipbuilding and improve supply chain visibility; the deal is valued at $448M (Colin Demarest/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/12/09/navy-phelan-palantir-karp-shipos
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The US Navy and Palantir announce ShipOS, saying the software will speed up shipbuilding and improve supply chain visibility; the deal is valued at $448M
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Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge, steps down to launch Overtone, an "AI-driven" dating service backed by Match; Hinge promotes CMO Jackie Jantos to CEO (Yasmin Gagne/Fast Company) https://www.fastcompany.com/91456495/hinge-ceo-justin-mcleod-steps-down-succeeded-by-jackie-jantos
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Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod steps down to launch Overtone, an “AI-driven” dating service backed by Match Group; Hinge promotes CMO Jackie Jantos to CEO
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