Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas (Financial Times)
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Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas
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Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/sports/tether-submits-offer-buy-italian-soccer-club-juventus-2025-12-12/
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Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed
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Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-doctors-startup-doubles-valuation-12-billion-revenue-surges
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Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue
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Zoom says its "federated AI" model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools (Xuedong Huang/Zoom) https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/humanitys-last-exam-zoom-ai-breakthrough/
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Zoom says its “federated AI” model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity
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David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants "semiconductor independence" and to "prop up and subsidize Huawei" (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
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China Is β€˜Rejecting’ H200s, Outfoxing US Strategy, Sacks Says
China has figured out the US strategy for allowing it to buy Nvidia Corp.’s H200 and is rejecting the AI chip in favor of domestically developed ...
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David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia
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Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub
Fallout from Fallout.
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Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more (Thinking Machines Lab)
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Tinker: General Availability and Vision Input
Today we are announcing four updates to Tinker: No more waitlist New reasoning model: Kimi K2 Thinking New inference interface that is compatible ...
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David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard (Bloomberg)
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White House AI Czar Defends Trump Push to Rein in State Rules
White House AI czar David Sacks defended President Donald Trump’s push to rein in state-level regulation of artificial intelligence over objectio...
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David Sacks says Trump
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Google expands Google Translate's live speech translation from Pixel Buds to any headphones, supporting 70+ languages, in beta on compatible Android phones (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
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Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones
Live translation, no Pixel Buds required
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Google expands Google Translate
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Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-states-defiant-ai-executive-order
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Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump
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