Sources: Meta's new AI model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in spring 2026 as a "closed" model, and was trained using Google's Gemma, OpenAI's gpt-oss, and Qwen (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/inside-meta-s-pivot-from-open-source-to-money-making-ai-model
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YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
YouTube TV Plans Launching in 2026 With 10+ Genre-Specific Packages
In early 2026, YouTube plans to launch YouTube TV Plans, over 10 genre-specific packages including a sports tier with ESPN, FS1 and NBC Sports Netw...
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YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1
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Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek) https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/
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Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants
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Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017 (Benoît Morenne/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/finance/fervo-energy-raises-462-million-lands-google-as-investor-27a06c13?st=Tk1GJ2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017
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Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma (Pia Singh/CNBC)
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‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up
The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in ...
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Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google
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In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/intel-amd-accused-of-failing-to-block-chips-in-russian-missiles
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In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine
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Nvidia says that it hasn't seen "substantiation or received tips" about chip smuggling via data centers outside of China, after The Information's DeepSeek story (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
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China’s DeepSeek Uses Banned Nvidia Chips for AI Model, Report Says
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has relied on Nvidia Corp. chips that are banned in the country to develop an upcoming AI model, a...
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Nvidia says that it hasn
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Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11" display and productivity features (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-10/amazon-kindle-scribe-colorsoft-review-630-device-bets-big-on-ai-color-screen
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Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11
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The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web.
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The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, which lets publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers
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Sources: Meta's new model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in 2026 as a "closed" model, a move Alexandr Wang advocates, shifting from Meta's open-source strategy (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/inside-meta-s-pivot-from-open-source-to-money-making-ai-model
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