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Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
2025-12-09 23:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V series of vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
2025-12-10 00:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
2025-12-10 00:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies (Abner Li/9to5Google)
2025-12-09 23:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Report: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink (Juby Babu/Reuters)
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Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-10 01:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge, steps down to launch Overtone, an "AI-driven" dating service backed by Match; Hinge promotes CMO Jackie Jantos to CEO (Yasmin Gagne/Fast Company)
2025-12-09 22:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US Navy and Palantir announce ShipOS, saying the software will speed up shipbuilding and improve supply chain visibility; the deal is valued at $448M (Colin Demarest/Axios)
2025-12-09 23:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Trump allowed Nvidia to sell H200s to China after concluding the move carried a lower security risk as Huawei offers systems with comparable performance (Bloomberg)
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Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever (Bloomberg)
2025-12-09 21:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
2025-12-09 21:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)
2025-12-09 21:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Duve, which offers AI-powered guest management tools for hotels, raised a $60M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth, bringing its total funding to $85M (Adriana Lee/Skift)
2025-12-09 20:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
2025-12-09 20:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Boom Aerospace, which is building a supersonic plane, announces Superpower, a 42MW natural gas turbine using Boom's supersonic engine, to power AI data centers (Boom)
2025-12-09 19:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Denise Dresser, Slack CEO since 2023, is stepping down to join OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer (Wired)
2025-12-09 19:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)
2025-12-09 18:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
2025-12-09 18:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Spanish police arrest a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona over allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64M records from breaches at nine companies (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
2025-12-09 17:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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