Tech

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)
23 hours ago 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)
23 hours ago 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)
23 hours ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago Germany France

RoboCrop: Teaching Robots How To Pick Tomatoes (hardware.slashdot.org)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago Australia Google Facebook YouTube WhatsApp Ban GitHub

10 Everyday Human Behaviors That Are Actually Survival Instincts (listverse.com)
1 day ago

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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago Interview Tencent

In a Major New Report, Scientists Build Rationale For Sending Astronauts To Mars (science.slashdot.org)
1 day ago

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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
1 day ago Microsoft AI

'Food and Fossil Fuel Production Causing $5 Billion of Environmental Damage an Hour' (news.slashdot.org)
1 day ago

DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (www.scmp.com)
1 day ago Startup Robot

Stellantis partners with Estonian ride-hailing service Bolt, which serves 200M+ riders, to test Level 4 driverless vans across Europe in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago Europe

Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago AI

Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers across four cities saw different prices for the same item from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it's running tests (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago

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