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Sources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
2025-12-08 17:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5+ GW of clean energy contracts from Meta (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
2025-12-08 17:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Leaked letter: Tiger Global launches Private Investment Partners 17, a fund targeting raising ~$2B to $3B, signaling a pivot from megafunds to more discipline (CNBC)
2025-12-08 17:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Skild AI, which develops a foundational model for robots, is in talks to raise $1B+ from SoftBank and Nvidia at a $14B valuation, up from $4.7B in July (Reuters)
2025-12-08 16:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal memo: Johny Srouji, who oversees Apple's chip division, tells staff that "I don't plan on leaving anytime soon" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-12-08 16:26 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Unconventional AI raised a $475M seed led by a16z and Lightspeed at a $4.5B valuation to build a more energy-efficient AI computer, part of an up to $1B round (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
2025-12-08 15:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for First Amendment violations after Apple removed its app following White House pressure (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
2025-12-08 15:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An OpenAI survey of 9,000 workers at 100 companies: it saves workers ~40 to 60 minutes per day on average for professional tasks; OpenAI has 1M business clients (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
2025-12-08 13:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
2025-12-08 12:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump says he will sign "a ONE RULE" EO on AI "this week" and "you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something" (Bloomberg)
2025-12-08 14:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India's Tata Electronics signs up Intel as the first prospective client for its upcoming chip facilities; Tata is investing ~$14B to build in Gujarat and Assam (Nandan Mandayam/Reuters)
2025-12-08 14:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30/share in a $108B all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
2025-12-08 14:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Michael Saylor's Strategy acquired 10,624 bitcoin for $962.7M between December 1 and 7, its largest purchase since July; its stock is down ~40% in 2025 (James Hunt/The Block)
2025-12-08 15:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI "bubble" (Financial Times)
2025-12-08 11:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its "pay or consent" model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but "the case is not closed" (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
2025-12-08 12:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
2025-12-08 11:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
2025-12-08 11:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms (Alex Dooler/Bloomberg)
2025-12-08 10:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories (Rohan Doshi/The Keyword)
2025-12-08 10:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers (Associated Press)
2025-12-08 10:25 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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