Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD case, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/netflix-ceos-make-their-case-for-warner-bros-acquisition
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Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix
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Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
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Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem | TechCrunch
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and A...
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Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret videos to add synced sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index Ventures and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed
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Tech whistleblowers like YaΓ«l Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whistleblowers-speak-out/
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Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams
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AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI-Backed Chai Discovery Raises $130 Million for AI-Designed Molecules
Chai Discovery, an artificial intelligence drug-discovery company backed by OpenAI, has raised $130 million to build a β€œcomputer-aided design sui...
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AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M
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Teneo survey of 350 public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than their cost, and more (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ceos-to-keep-spending-on-ai-despite-spotty-returns-2eaeb6b9?st=wrHzYo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Teneo survey of 350+ public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than they cost, and more
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Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/tata-infosys-to-bear-brunt-of-trump-s-100-000-h-1b-worker-fee
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Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump
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Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages (Financial Times)
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Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages
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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/att-tmobile-verizon-wireless-customers-08140147?st=RHG1oT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
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DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (Financial Times)
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DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust
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London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu) https://tech.eu/2025/12/15/polyai-raises-86m/
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London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024
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