Tech

McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company Sweetshop, after backlash that the ad is distasteful (futurism.com)
2025-12-10 AI Netherlands

TTP: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps linked to US-sanctioned foreign companies; Google removed 17 apps and Apple removed 35 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-10 Google Apple

Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-10 China AI Nvidia

How President Trump's tariffs ended China's monopoly on making US game consoles, boosting Vietnam, whose exports jumped from $30M/month in 2024 to $400M in May (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Trump China Vietnam

A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50%+ of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services (www.ofcom.org.uk)
2025-12-10 Google

Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-10 AI Instagram

As Australia bans under-16s from social media platforms, TikTok-powered video app Lemon8, friends-only photo app Yope, and others rise up the App Store charts (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Australia

President Trump letting Nvidia sell advanced AI chips to China reverses decades of US tech restrictions on its adversaries, giving China a boost in the AI race (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-10 Trump China AI Nvidia

The EU's General Court reduces a 2023 EU antitrust fine on Intel to €237.1M, down from €376.36M; the EU fined Intel a record €1.06B in 2009, then overturned (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Intel

The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-10 Germany France

RoboCrop: Teaching Robots How To Pick Tomatoes (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-10 Robot

Australia's under-16 social media ban excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Australia Google Facebook YouTube WhatsApp Ban GitHub

10 Everyday Human Behaviors That Are Actually Survival Instincts (listverse.com)
2025-12-10

Documents and former US government officials detail ICE's digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year (t.co)
2025-12-10 Trump

Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Quantum

An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-on dealmaking approach generated $10B in international gaming revenue over the past year (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Interview Tencent

In a Major New Report, Scientists Build Rationale For Sending Astronauts To Mars (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-10

Survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai (www.pewresearch.org)
2025-12-10 AI chatbot

Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite Trump allowing their export to China, as it pushes to achieve chip self-sufficiency (www.ft.com)
2025-12-10 Trump China Nvidia

Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be “booted off” the platforms in time (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-10 Australia Ban

The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA (9to5mac.com)
2025-12-10 Android Europe Google iPhone Apple

Nexperia's former CEO Frans Scheper says Wingtech, which bought the Dutch chipmaker in 2019, quickly plotted to send Nexperia's research and IP to China (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-10 China Netherlands

Amazon will invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the ~$40B it has invested in the country, and says the plan will create 1M more jobs (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-10 India Amazon AI

Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10 to their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rising memory chip prices will erode its profit (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Nintendo

Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-10 China

Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a “lower level” since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-10 VPN

Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M+ people was compromised (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Korea

Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-10 Nvidia

Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho opened up 54% in its stock market debut, giving the company a ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 India IPO

Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, aiming to perform tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods (www.geekwire.com)
2025-12-10 Microsoft AI

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