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European Commission plans to simplify some of its privacy rules, including GDPR, to boost AI growth and slash red tape for businesses in Europe

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Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from “higher risk” ads

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OpenAI releases a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, with five suggestions for AI companies

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Microsoft forms superintelligence team under AI chief Suleyman 'to serve humanity'

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Netflix rolls out a new ad metric called monthly active viewers, or MAV, and says it has 190M such viewers in the 12 countries where it offers an ad tier

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Apple plans to use a custom 1.2T-parameter Google Gemini model to help power the new Siri as early as 2026 and will pay Google ~$1B annually for it

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Apple is planning to use a custom version of Google Gemini for Apple Intelligence

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OpenAI says it now has 1M+ business customers globally, with ChatGPT for Work seats up 40% in two months to 7M+ and ChatGPT Enterprise seats up 9x YoY

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WhatsApp launches an Apple Watch companion app, letting users get call notifications, read full messages, and record and send voice messages

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Apple plans to launch a low-cost laptop powered by an iPhone chip in H1 2026 to rival Chromebooks, aimed at students and casual users, codenamed J700

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Apple refreshes the web version of the App Store, letting users view and search for apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro

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AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead

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Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch “dislikes” in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings

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Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries

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Google releases its first AI-generated ad, promoting Search's AI mode, but chooses not to include a label disclosing it was made with Veo 3 and other tools

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YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff

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OpenAI says it has “completed our recapitalization”, the OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B, and it continues to control the OpenAI for-profit

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Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia

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OpenAI estimates that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a week show “severe mental health symptoms” like mania, and details its safety improvements

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Threads adds 'ghost posts' that disappear after 24 hours

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Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will “consummate” a TikTok deal on Thursday in South Korea, confirming a final US-China agreement on the sale

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OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks

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Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark

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The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platforms under the DSA

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OpenAI launches a “company knowledge” ChatGPT update to let Business, Enterprise, and Education users search for data in connected apps like Slack and GitHub

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Anthropic and Google announce their cloud partnership worth tens of billions of dollars, giving Anthropic access to 1M TPUs and 1GW of capacity in 2026

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Amazon blames a rare software bug and “faulty automation” for this week's massive AWS glitch, and says it has turned off the flawed automation worldwide

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Meta cuts roles in its Risk unit citing a shift from manual reviews to a “consistent and automated process” that is delivering “reliable compliance outcomes”

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OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others

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Microsoft unveils Mico, a character that responds with real-time expressions when talked to, now on by default in Copilot's voice mode in the US, UK, and Canada

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Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data

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TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants

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GM plans to roll out Google Gemini in its vehicles starting in 2026 and plans an advanced driver-assistance system with eyes-off driving capabilities in 2028

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Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin's Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban

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YouTube now lets mobile users set a customizable daily limit to restrict how long they can scroll Shorts feeds; the limit notifications are dismissible

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Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research

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Meta is cutting roughly 600 jobs out of several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to create a more agile operation

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OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair says the platform has paid out $25B to creators since its founding in 2016; OnlyFans takes a 20% fee on subscriptions and content sales

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AWS says “the underlying DNS issue” is mitigated and most “operations are succeeding normally” after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still “impacted”

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OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming that GPT-5 solved Erdos math problems, after pushback from Demis Hassabis and others; Yann LeCun ridicules OpenAI

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Microsoft launches new Windows features to help weave AI into regular Windows 11 PCs, including rolling out a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word and Copilot Vision

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OpenAI is proposing a “sign in with ChatGPT” feature for websites, letting startups charge OpenAI model usage costs to users' ChatGPT capacity limits

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Anthropic announces Skills for Claude, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve performance on some tasks

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Apple debuts its M5 chip, with a 10-core GPU, a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling 4x+ the performance of M4, and a 10-core CPU with six efficiency cores

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The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin held in wallets owned by a man who oversaw a “pig butchering” operation in Cambodia, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture

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Netflix and Spotify partner to bring podcasts by The Ringer to the video platform

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Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a “personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o” and will add “erotica for verified adults”

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Walmart partners with OpenAI to let shoppers browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, including apparel, entertainment, packaged food, and third-party goods

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OpenAI and Broadcom agree to co-develop and deploy 10GW of custom AI chips to run OpenAI's models over four years; sources: the deal is worth multiple billions

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Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired with Mac, or a lighter UI with iPhone; Apple may unveil M5 iPad, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro this week

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UK slaps Google Search with special market status, making way for stricter regulations

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OpenAI's Sora hit 1 million downloads in less than five days

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AWS launches Quick Suite, a chatbot and set of AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, set to replace Q Business

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New York City sues Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance, accusing them of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media

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Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands

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OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT feature that lets users connect to third-party apps like Spotify and Zillow directly within the chatbot

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Meta says it will use users' AI chatbot conversations to help personalize ads and content, starting on December 16, but not in the UK, South Korea, or the EU

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OpenAI releases an invitation-only Sora app on iOS, powered by Sora 2, to let people create and share AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends

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Spotify says Daniel Ek will step down as CEO and become executive chairman in January 2026, and names CPTO Gustav Söderström and CBO Alex Norström as co-CEOs

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YouTube to pay Trump $22 million for suspending his account after Jan. 6 riot

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OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants

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Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 4.5, claims it is the world's best coding model, the strongest for building complex agents, and its “most aligned” frontier model

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Apple's internal chatbot deserves a public release; sources: Apple nears production of M5 MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and two monitors for Q4 2025 or Q1 2026

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A look at AI-powered “nudify” tools, which make it fast and easy to make nonconsensual, deepfake porn, and the limited legal options available to their victims

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Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion

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Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock

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Meta says Instagram has hit 3B monthly users and is changing its home screen to prioritize DMs and Reels; it is testing opening directly into Reels in India

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Meta starts rolling out built-in message translation in WhatsApp, with support for 19+ languages on iOS and six on Android

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Nvidia plans to invest $100B in OpenAI progressively as part of a deal to deploy at least 10 GW of Nvidia systems for OpenAI's infrastructure

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White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle would retrain; US users wouldn't need to re-download the app

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The European Commission considers simplifying the 2009 rule that plastered the internet with cookie consent banners, as it seeks to reduce regulatory burdens

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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US

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White House Press Secretary says the $100K H-1B fee is not an annual fee and it is a “one-time fee that applies only to the petition” in the upcoming lottery

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Trump says Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch “is involved” in the ownership group for TikTok US and “Rupert is probably going to be in the group” along with Michael Dell

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Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Americans would hold six of the seven board seats for TikTok US and its algorithm would be US-controlled

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Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web

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OpenAI is recruiting from Apple's hardware, design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams, as it targets late 2026 or early 2027 for its first devices

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Nvidia and Intel partner to develop multiple generations of x86 products; Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel's stock at $23.28 per share, a ~5% stake; INTC jumps 25%+

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Google is rolling out a Gemini button in Chrome for all desktop users in the US browsing in English, and other AI features, including AI Mode in the address bar

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Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30

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Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition; only four out of 139 human teams won gold medals

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How xAI is building Colossus 2, which is on track to be the world's first gigawatt-scale AI datacenter after reaching 200MW in six months

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China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, going beyond earlier guidance focused on Nvidia's H20

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OpenAI says it is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction tech to bar kids under 18 from the standard version

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China says the US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the US-agreed framework includes “licensing the algorithm and other IP rights”

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YouTube unveils new generative AI tools for Shorts, including a custom version of Veo 3 called Veo 3 Fast, which includes sound, and an Edit with AI feature

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OpenAI hires former xAI CFO as Altman-Musk rivalry escalates

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PayPal adds new one-to-one payment links that will soon support crypto

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Apple launches iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, featuring Liquid Glass design, new Apple Intelligence features, and more

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US has reached a TikTok deal with China, as Trump cites “a ‘certain’ company that young people” in the US wanted saved

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OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models

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Is the humanoid robot industry ready for its ChatGPT moment?

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How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the government builds a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west

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A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage

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Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, driven by its Nano Banana model, which has been used to edit 500M+ images since its August 26 launch

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Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024

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Strong appetite for new iPhone in China as pre-orders break record

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