US investors are boosting Chinese AI-related tech stocks and adding cash to ETFs tracking China's tech sector, as US lawmakers push for tighter capital curbs (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/u-s-investors-are-going-big-on-china-ai-despite-concerns-in-congress-cb9a71c5?st=nbBxHB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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US investors are boosting Chinese AI-related tech stocks and adding cash to ETFs tracking China
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Uber discontinues monthly EV bonuses as it scales back key climate efforts after embracing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which slashed clean-energy incentives (Ben Elgin/Bloomberg)
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Uber Pulls Back From Electric Cars, Slashing Incentives for Drivers
After long pushing for government policies to speed adoption of electric cars, Uber embraced Trump's EV-battering legislation.
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Uber discontinues its monthly EV bonuses as it scales back key climate efforts after embracing Trump
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Shares of JD.com's JingDong Industrials, a supply chain tech and services provider, opened down 7.8% after the company raised ~$383M in its Hong Kong IPO (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/jingdong-industrials-set-open-down-78-hong-kong-trading-debut-2025-12-11/
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A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January-September 2025 finds health-related topics dominated users' questions, and more (Megan Morrone/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/microsoft-copilot-personal-productivity
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A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 finds that health, career, and relationship topics dominated users
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Google DeepMind plans to open its "first automated science laboratory" in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
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Google DeepMind plans to open its first “automated science laboratory” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more
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Sources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B+ over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/chinas-zte-may-pay-more-than-1-billion-us-over-foreign-bribery-allegations-2025-12-11/
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Sources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B+ over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China
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Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.
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Sei partners with Xiaomi to preinstall its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026
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A group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws (Courtney Rozen/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/microsoft-meta-google-apple-warned-over-ai-outputs-by-us-attorneys-general-2025-12-10/
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US state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and nine others, warning that their chatbots
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The US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a DCM license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets platform Gemini Titan (Daniel Kuhn/The Block) https://www.theblock.co/post/382142/gemini-cftc-approval-prediction-market-crypto-futures-options-perps
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The US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a Designated Contract Market license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets betting platform Gemini Titan
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Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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By adding AI-powered article overviews, Google says users will get more context before they click through to read an article.
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Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications
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