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Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (Alfred Ng/Politico)

Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, cred...

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Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orches...

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Sources: Datadog offered to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for ~$4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M funding round at a ~$3.8B valuation (The Information)

Sources: Datadog offered to buy Israeli cloud cybe...

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Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI (Maria Diaz/ZDNET)

Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ and ex...

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Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public in December or possibly waiting until next year as it monitors Anthropic's IPO, expected next month (The Information)

Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going...

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US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds (Wall Street Journal)

US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Sta...

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Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-s...

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The Browser Company plans to shut down its Arc browser on December 22, as it shifts attention to the AI-focused Dia browser (Jay Peters/The Verge)

The Browser Company plans to shut down its Arc bro...

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Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gav...

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Filings: Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, spending $2.2M, $2.1M, and $1.5M, respectively (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Filings: Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI had their h...

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Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors ...

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METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)

METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring syst...

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Sources: Elon Musk has invested roughly $1B in Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take X private (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)

Sources: Elon Musk has invested roughly $1B in Sky...

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Warp Sciences, founded by ex-OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil to speed up AI drug development, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Warp Sciences, founded by ex-OpenAI product chief ...

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Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of user instructions (Madison Mills/Axios)

Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI a...

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eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised (Abhirami G/Reuters)

eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate ...

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Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit attempts on its network rose from thousands in the 10 hours before the disclosure to millions afterward (Matthew Prince/@eastdakota)

Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit...

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Maxinsights, which creates training data for robots using first-person footage from cameras worn by 5,000+ contractors, raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV (John Koetsier/Forbes)

Maxinsights, which creates training data for robot...

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