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Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure surged in 2025, with CATL up 45% and Sungrow up 130%, as exports boost margins despite Trump's tariffs (William Sandlund/Financial Times) - 2025-12-16T00:00:47-05:00

CoreWeave's market value fell $33B in six weeks amid construction delays at its Denton, TX AI data center, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-12-15T22:15:01-05:00

OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) - 2025-12-15T22:00:35-05:00

Sources: the US has paused a tech trade deal with the UK, signed in September, over disagreements about the UK's online safety rules and digital services taxes (New York Times) - 2025-12-15T20:20:00-05:00

Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are "the first fully open byte-level language models", built on its Olmo 3 models (Emilia David/VentureBeat) - 2025-12-15T20:05:00-05:00

Shares of Tesla closed at a 2025 high on Monday after the company confirmed it is testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) - 2025-12-15T19:05:01-05:00

PayPal says it has filed applications to establish PayPal Bank to provide loans more efficiently to US small businesses and reduce its reliance on third parties (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-12-15T18:45:01-05:00

Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (TechCrunch) - 2025-12-15T18:30:00-05:00

Shares of Broadcom, CoreWeave, and Oracle, companies tied to the AI infrastructure buildout, extend last week's decline; ORCL is down 46%+ since September 10 (Ari Levy/CNBC) - 2025-12-15T18:15:03-05:00

Intel names Robin Colwell, deputy assistant to President Trump, as its head of government affairs, and Pushkar Ranade, the CEO's chief of staff, as interim CTO (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) - 2025-12-15T17:40:01-05:00

Sources: Disney's Sora deal is entirely in OpenAI stock rather than a cash licensing fee; Disney has the option to buy additional stock beyond the $1B stake (Bloomberg) - 2025-12-15T17:00:01-05:00

Sources: Notion told staff it is doing a $300M tender offer at an $11B valuation, ahead of a potential IPO; it passed $600M in ARR, half of it from AI products (Anna Tong/Forbes) - 2025-12-15T16:20:01-05:00

How crypto entrepreneur Bill Zanker helped Trump and Melania launch memecoins; as of December 10, $TRUMP was down 92% since its peak and $MELANIA was down 99% (Bloomberg) - 2025-12-15T15:30:01-05:00

The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (Reuters) - 2025-12-15T14:55:01-05:00

Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular AI service, global traffic from Starlink grew 2.3x, and more (Cloudflare) - 2025-12-15T14:40:00-05:00