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This could be big news: President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 AI chip to China, in exchange for the U.S. government getting a 25% cut of those sales. That could re-open the Chinese market to Nvidia—if the Chinese government allows its local companies to buy the chips. Chances of that are good. The H200s are for training AI models, and the Chinese government is more willing to let local companies buy those chips than those used for inference, when AI models generate answ
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Paramount has launched a $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, calling Netflix’s $83 billion arrangement to purchase the entertainment giant’s studios and streaming service “inferior.” The Paramount proposal, unlike Netflix’s, would also include the linear networks owned by WBD. Paramount says its deal offers a “superior alternative to the Netflix transaction,” citing […] Read more ›
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“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers. Read more ›
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A Slovenian security researcher has published an analysis of Sipeed’s NanoKVM that raises far-reaching concerns about the €30-€60 remote management device. Read more ›
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Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle. Read more ›
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In seeking to buy Warner Brothers for $108 billion, Paramount is making one of the top ten largest hostile takeover bids in history. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said the US would allow Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 chips to China. Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Since online genealogy services began operating, millions of people have sent them saliva samples in hopes of learning about their family roots and discovering far-flung relatives. These services also appeal to law enforcement authorities, who have used them to solve cold case murders and to investigate crimes like the 2022 killing of four University of Idaho students. Crime-scene DNA... Read more ›
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ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron claims that the removal is a suppression of free speech Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1633 on December 9 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the U.S., the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis. The green groups, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch and dozens of... Read more ›
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Google's new Extended Repair Program offers free display replacements for up to three years from the purchase date. Read more ›
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Katsuhiro Harada, has announced his departure from Bandai Namco having worked on the Tekken series for 30 years. Read more Read more ›
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Trump vows to sign AI executive order this week. Read more ›
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The late-night host has signed a one-year extension to stay on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" through May 2027. Read more ›
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Paramount's Larry and David Ellison are making a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Three of their partners are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. Read more ›
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 has launched and landed a record 32 times following a successful mission on Monday night. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster — listed as B1067 — lifted off at 5:26 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shortly after deploying 29 Starlink internet satellites to ... Read more ›
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The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure servicemembers’ ability to fix their own equipment. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has told investors and financial institution representatives that it is aiming for an initial public offering in the second half of next year, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The talks come as SpaceX considers holding a sale of shares held by investors and employees that would value the company at $800 billion, double its valuation in a sale this summer, in what would make... Read more ›
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Executives at Microsoft and other enterprise software firms heralded 2025 as the year artificial intelligence would be capable of automating tasks that involve multiple steps, such as generating dashboards based on company sales data. But as the year comes to a close, Microsoft has lowered expectations for how quickly it can get customers to spend money on these newer products, known as agents. Multiple Microsoft divisions, for instance, have lowered... Read more ›
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Google’s efforts to sell or lease its artificial intelligence server chips so they can run in any company’s data center—and not just in Google Cloud—have generated headlines, stock moves and a noteworthy response from AI chip leader Nvidia. It’s not lost on Nvidia that two of the world’s best AI models, from Google and Anthropic, were developed fully or partly using AI server chips made by Google rather than with... Read more ›
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Anthropic is in advanced discussions to buy Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The artificial intelligence company is in talks to pay in the low hundreds of millions of dollars for the startup, which would be Anthropic’s first acquisition, according to the person. The acquisition would give Anthropic, which already has been using Bun... Read more ›
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Meta is hiring one of Apple’s top designers, Alan Dye, who ran the company’s user interface design team, Bloomberg reported. Longtime designer Stephen Lemay will take his spot at Apple, the news outlet reported. Apple’s design team has suffered from regular bouts of turnover since the company’s ... Read more ›
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Last week, Gap Inc. launched a chatbot to field product-related questions from Gap.com visitors, but the chatbot ended up discussing topics that fell outside the scope of questions it was supposed to handle, including intimacy products, sex toys, and Nazi Germany, according to a person with ... Read more ›
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Step aside, young folks of tech. This week we hear from the industry’s, ah, elder statesmen—specifically Larry Ellison at Oracle and Hock Tan from Broadcom, whose combined age is about 150. Oracle and Broadcom are each reporting their latest quarterly earnings this week, when the status of their newish AI businesses will be in the spotlight. In the case of Oracle, we’ll be looking for an update on its AI-related... Read more ›
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OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.Last week, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen told some colleagues about the new model, which was performing well on the company’s evaluations, at least when compared to Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 in tasks involving coding and reasoning, according to a person with knowledge... Read more ›
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Chinese short-video company Kuaishou Technology on Tuesday launched a new artificial intelligence model that seeks to integrate different stages of video generation. Kuaishou said that its new model, Kling Video O1, not only creates videos but also offers various editing capabilities, such as ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell, another maker of custom chips, according to one person involved in the discussions. Those discussions come amid intense demand for such chips as companies like ... Read more ›
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