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The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
2025-12-23 03:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US FCC bans imports, marketing, and sales of new foreign-made drones and components, including from China's DJI and Autel, citing national security concerns (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-23 02:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (Colin Campbell/Axios)
2025-12-23 01:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: ByteDance has made preliminary plans to spend ¥160B, or ~$23B, in AI capex in 2026, up from ¥150B in 2025, and has budgeted ~$12.07B for AI processors (Financial Times)
2025-12-23 02:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an "LLM-based automated attacker" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
2025-12-23 00:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Coinbase agrees to acquire prediction markets startup The Clearing Company for an undisclosed sum; the startup was founded in 2025 and raised a $15M seed (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
2025-12-22 23:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development (The Information)
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Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty, died Sunday at 55 in a single-car crash in Southern California (NBC Los Angeles)
2025-12-22 20:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight model that Z.ai says delivers significant improvements in coding performance compared to GLM-4.6 (Z.ai)
2025-12-22 20:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-12-22 19:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
FanDuel and CME Group launch a prediction market app called FanDuel Predicts in five US states, just days after DraftKings rolled out a similar product (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)
2025-12-22 18:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Italy's competition watchdog fines Apple €98.6M, saying the company's ATT rules are "disproportionate" and "harmful" to app developers and advertisers (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
2025-12-22 18:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Erebor, Palmer Luckey's digital bank, raised $350M led by Lux Capital at a $4.35B post-money valuation; it secured FDIC approval last week (Axios)
2025-12-22 17:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Alphabet agrees to acquire clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75B in cash, and existing debt, as part of its push to expand its AI data center footprint (Bloomberg)
2025-12-22 16:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Instacart says it is ending all item price tests effective immediately, and won't charge different prices for the same items, after a report into the practice (Chris Wack/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-22 14:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Paramount says Larry Ellison "agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4B" for its WBD bid, after WBD's board raised concerns about the offer (Sara Salinas/CNBC)
2025-12-22 13:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Nvidia plans to begin shipping its H200 chips to China before mid-February 2026 and expects initial shipments to be ~40,000 to 80,000 H200 units (Reuters)
2025-12-22 12:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Investigation: in 22 US states, Uber approves drivers with many types of convictions, such as violent felonies, that are over seven years old to keep costs low (Emily Steel/New York Times)
2025-12-22 13:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI chipmaker Biren Technology plans to raise up to ~$623M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$2.19 to ~$2.52, and expects trading to start January 2 (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-22 12:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal (Financial Times)
2025-12-22 12:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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