Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (Dan Primack/Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/merger-deals/2025/12/15/cvent-300m-goldcast-buy
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Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M
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DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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DoorDash Tests AI Social App to Help Users Find Restaurants
DoorDash Inc. is experimenting with a standalone artificial intelligence-powered app for users to find new restaurants, expanding its reach beyond ...
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DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York
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OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model (OpenAI) https://openai.com/index/frontierscience/
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OpenAI debuts FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models
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A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apples-iphone-road-map-foldable-screens-curved-glass-cases
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A look at Apple
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Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE
Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE
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Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings
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Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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Instagram Debuts Dedicated Television App for Amazon Fire TV
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram unveiled its first dedicated TV app, which lets users watch the short-form video feature Reels on a larger screen.
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Instagram unveils its first TV app, for watching Reels and initially available on Amazon
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The cost-per-watt of compute for orbital solar data centers is $51.10/W vs. just $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital (Andrew McCalip)
Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers
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Orbital solar data centers
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Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M (Ryan Lawler/Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/12/16/sequence-20-million-revenue-ops
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Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies
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Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
An Interview with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe About Building a Car Company and Autonomy – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more
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Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch
Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new thi...
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Adobe adds a prompt-based video editor to its Firefly app that uses Runway
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