Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.
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Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing via Cursor
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LI.FI, which provides businesses with price comparisons of crypto exchange rates and bridging fees, raised $29M, bringing its total funding to ~$52M (Carlos Garcia/Fortune)
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Exclusive: Crypto startup LI.FI raises $29 million for cross-blockchain price discovery tool | Fortune
The company aims to make moving across blockchains more efficient.
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Berlin-based LI.FI, which provides businesses with price comparisons of crypto exchange rates and bridging fees, raised $29M, taking its total funding to ~$52M
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AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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AT&T’s new home security system is powered by Google Home and Abode
AT&T shut down its previous security system in 2022.
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AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages
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Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" and using AI to "exploit and distribute" the content (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Disney Accuses Google of Using AI to Engage in Copyright Infringement on 'Massive Scale'
Disney is accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" using AI models and services to "commercially exploit and distribute" infr...
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Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist letter, accusing Google of “massive scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” its content
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Stanford researchers develop AI hacking bot Artemis and say it surpassed nine out of 10 penetration testers by rapidly finding bugs in the university's network (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-hackers-are-coming-dangerously-close-to-beating-humans-4afc3ad6?st=eAaMxi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Stanford researchers develop AI hacking bot Artemis and say it surpassed nine out of 10 penetration testers by rapidly finding bugs in the university
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Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer (OpenAI) https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/
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Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer
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Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M+ likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN) http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report
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Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers; TikTok says that 14 of the accounts don
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Google launches Gemini AI features in Chrome for iPhone and iPad, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English (Steve Dent/Engadget)
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Google's Gemini AI comes to Chrome on iPhone and iPad
After rolling it out on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, Google is finally bringing its built-in Gemini AI experience to iPhone and iPad.
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Google brings Gemini to Chrome for iOS and iPadOS, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English for signed-in users
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Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 (Financial Times)
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Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022
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Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-poaches-bytedance-researchers-china-ai-race-heats
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Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including by offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team
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