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Techmeme - 2025-12-25T19:05:28-05:00

A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times) - 2025-12-25T19:05:00-05:00

An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review) - 2025-12-25T18:00:01-05:00

Apple settles with a Brazilian regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store link-outs (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors) - 2025-12-25T16:20:00-05:00

Xiaomi unveils $999+ 17 Ultra in China with three rear cameras, including a 50MP 1" sensor and a 200MP periscope lens; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring (Siddharth/GSMArena.com) - 2025-12-25T14:40:01-05:00

AI sector minted 50+ new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B+ into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024 (Alicia Park/Forbes) - 2025-12-25T12:50:01-05:00

Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times) - 2025-12-25T10:30:01-05:00

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post) - 2025-12-25T08:25:01-05:00

A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges (Paresh Dave/Wired) - 2025-12-25T06:50:03-05:00

PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times) - 2025-12-25T04:05:01-05:00

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times) - 2025-12-25T02:00:37-05:00

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information) - 2025-12-25T01:00:01-05:00

A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components (Takehiro Hasegawa/Nikkei Asia) - 2025-12-25T00:05:01-05:00

Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an "AI co-scientist", and more (Sandro Iannaccone/Wired) - 2025-12-24T21:40:00-05:00

Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia) - 2025-12-24T19:50:07-05:00

Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently (Ian King/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-24T17:15:01-05:00