Sources: US FTC is probing Instacart's AI pricing tool, after a study showed different prices for the same items at the same stores; CART drops 8%+ after hours (Jody Godoy/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ftc-investigating-instacarts-ai-pricing-tool-source-says-2025-12-17/
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Sources: the US FTC is investigating Instacart
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Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discussed-raising-tens-billions-valuation-around-750-billion
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Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B
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Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and more, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
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Coinbase adds prediction markets and stock trading in push to be one-stop trading app
Coinbase is expanding into stocks, advanced trading, prediction markets and new tools for businesses, developers and automated financial guidance.
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Coinbase rolls out stock trading, more advanced trading tools, prediction markets via Kalshi, and other features, amid a push to be a one-stop financial app
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Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
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Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified
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Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines (Fanny Potkin/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/
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Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company
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Micron reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to $13.64B, vs. $12.84B est., net income up 180% to $5.24B, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; MU jumps 5%+ after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Micron forecasts surging revenue as computer memory demand for AI remains high
The high demand for memory has driven Micron shares higher and they are up 168% in 2025.
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Micron reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to $13.64B, above $12.84B est., net income up 180% YoY to $5.24B, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; MU jumps 5%+
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A UK family and a US family sue Meta for the alleged wrongful deaths of their teenage sons, who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion on Instagram (Libby Brooks/The Guardian)
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Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death
Exclusive: Lawsuit is the first UK case of its kind, with Ros and Mark Dowey accusing Meta of β€˜putting profit before our young people’
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A UK family and a US family sue Meta for the alleged wrongful deaths of their teenage sons, who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion on Instagram
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Pornhub is being extorted by ShinyHunters after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
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PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data
Adult video platform PornHub is being extorted by the ShinyHunters extortion gang after the search and watch history of its Premium members was rep...
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Pornhub is being extorted by ShinyHunters after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach
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In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (Connor Jones/The Register)
Nomad settles with the FTC over $186M cyberattack
: Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings
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In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay the victims of a July 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen
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Amazon's AGI team lead Rohit Prasad is leaving at the end of 2025; AWS SVP Peter DeSantis will lead a group combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing teams (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad leaving; Infrastructure exec Peter DeSantis to lead unified AI group
Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad is leaving at year's end, according to a memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Peter DeSantis, a 27-year veteran who h...
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