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Techmeme - 2025-12-10T06:50:51-05:00

Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI (Eli Tan/New York Times) - 2025-12-10T06:50:00-05:00

A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50%+ of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services (Ofcom) - 2025-12-10T06:40:01-05:00

As Australia bans under-16s from social media platforms, TikTok-powered video app Lemon8, friends-only photo app Yope, and others rise up the App Store charts (Nasteho Said/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-10T06:30:03-05:00

President Trump letting Nvidia sell advanced AI chips to China reverses decades of US tech restrictions on its adversaries, giving China a boost in the AI race (David E. Sanger/New York Times) - 2025-12-10T06:20:01-05:00

The EU's General Court reduces a 2023 EU antitrust fine on Intel to €237.1M, down from €376.36M; the EU fined Intel a record €1.06B in 2009, then overturned (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-10T06:10:01-05:00

The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info (Christine Chung/New York Times) - 2025-12-10T05:55:00-05:00

Australia's under-16 social media ban excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids (Bloomberg) - 2025-12-10T05:25:07-05:00

Documents and former US government officials detail ICE's digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year (Peter Andringa/Financial Times) - 2025-12-10T04:10:00-05:00

An interview with Tencent Games Global CEO Michelle Liu, whose hands-on dealmaking approach generated $10B in international gaming revenue over the past year (Bloomberg) - 2025-12-10T03:50:00-05:00

Cambridge, UK-based Nu Quantum, which builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised a $60M Series A led by National Grid Partners (Isabella Ward/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-10T03:40:00-05:00

A survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% use Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai (Pew Research Center) - 2025-12-10T02:40:03-05:00

Nexperia's former CEO Frans Scheper says Wingtech, which bought the Dutch chipmaker in 2019, quickly plotted to send Nexperia's research and IP to China (New York Times) - 2025-12-10T02:30:01-05:00

The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) - 2025-12-10T02:25:02-05:00

Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says under-16s slipping through the cracks of the social media ban will be "booted off" the platforms in time (The Guardian) - 2025-12-10T02:20:00-05:00

Amazon plans to invest $35B+ in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the ~$40B it has invested in India, and says the move will create 1M more jobs (Dylan Butts/CNBC) - 2025-12-10T02:10:01-05:00