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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (therecord.media)
2025-12-19 Google

Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages (mistral.ai)
2025-12-19

Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-12-19 Oracle Algorithm

AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2025 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI

Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (www.axios.com)
2025-12-19 Oracle Silver

Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Judge Hints Vizio TV Buyers May Have Rights To Source Code Licensed Under GPL (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

Formula 1 is Deploying New Jargon for 2026 (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (deadline.com)
2025-12-19 AI YouTube

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI YouTube

Clop ransomware targets Gladinet CentreStack in data theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19

University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19 Sydney

Instacart will pay $60M to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and “satisfaction guarantee” advertising (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-19

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (fortune.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Mass Hacking of IP Cameras Leave Koreans Feeling Vulnerable in Homes, Businesses (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Amazon rolls out Alexa+ on the web to early access users, with chat functionality, smart home controls, file management, and cross-device conversations (www.geekwire.com)
2025-12-19 Amazon

Sources: Armadin, launched by Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia to fight AI hacking, raised a $24M seed and is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $600M+ valuation (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Tests Find AI Toys Parroting Chinese Communist Party Values (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 China AI

This $25 course bundle shows you better ways to use AI at work (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Anthropic's AI Lost Hundreds of Dollars Running a Vending Machine After Being Talked Into Giving Everything Away (slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI

OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more (openai.com)
2025-12-19

Twenty-four companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and AWS, join the US Genesis Mission to boost the use of AI for scientific discovery (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-19 Google Microsoft AI Nvidia

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at About $750 Billion Valuation (slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

Netflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air host for live sports and cultural events; she has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and more (variety.com)
2025-12-19 Netflix

Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-12-19 Insurance

New password spraying attacks target Cisco, PAN VPN gateways (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19 Cisco VPN

Anthropic launches Agent Skills, which let AI assistants perform specialized tasks using modular instructions, and says Microsoft, Cursor, and others use them (venturebeat.com)
2025-12-19 Microsoft AI

2026 Will Bring Heat More Than 1.4C Above Preindustrial Levels, UK Met Office Says (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

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