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A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems (Reuters)

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Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgera...

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After a report that Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2% (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

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Google ships the first developer preview of Android 16, far ahead of schedule vs. the past few years, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving partners more time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Source: Microsoft reaches a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train AI models; HarperCollins says authors can opt out (Bloomberg)

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Google rolls out a "memory" feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Meta is forming a new product group to build AI tools for businesses, led by Clara Shih, most recently the CEO of Salesforce AI (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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Meta is forming a new product group to build AI tools for businesses, led by Clara Shih, most recently the CEO of Salesforce AI (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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CrowdStrike finds another China-linked group breaching telecommunications networks, in SEA and Africa, since at least 2020, to spy on texts and call metadata (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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Robinhood agrees to buy TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a $300M deal expected to close in H1 2025 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

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Kong, which helps customers manage APIs, raised a $175M Series E co-led by Tiger Global and Balderton at a $2B valuation, taking its total raised to $345M (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

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Bluesky has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on Nov. 13; Appfigures: it's been #1 in US App Store since Nov. 13; Similarweb: its DAU gap with Threads is narrowing (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on Nov. 1...

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Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a large geospatial model, or LGM, that can navigate the real world and power robots (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

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Sources: Apple has started selling its own ad inventory for Apple News; publishers will get a 70% cut of the ad revenue generated by Apple within their articles (Sara Fischer/Axios)

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Microsoft says it has the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with 100K+ orgs making or editing AI agents in Copilot Studio and "2x growth in just a quarter" (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)

Microsoft says it has the largest enterprise AI ag...

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Smart ring maker Oura raised a $75M Series D from medical device company Dexcom at a $5B+ valuation, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople, raised $50M across seed led by Sequoia and Series A led by General Catalyst (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

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Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M S...

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