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Sources: Intel tested chipmaking tools this year from CA-based ACM Research, which has deep China ties; ACM's two overseas units were targeted by US sanctions (Reuters) - 2025-12-12T02:30:00-05:00

GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter) - 2025-12-12T02:00:34-05:00

An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (Alex Heath/Sources) - 2025-12-12T00:55:01-05:00

Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal "completely shuts down" App Store rules allowing Apple to collect "junk fees" (Jay Peters/The Verge) - 2025-12-11T23:15:00-05:00

Reddit files a lawsuit against Australia over its social media ban for under-16s, saying the ban "infringes the implied freedom of political communication" (Reuters) - 2025-12-11T22:55:21-05:00

In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an "AI Litigation Task Force" that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge "inconsistent" state AI laws (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget) - 2025-12-11T22:35:01-05:00

A look at French indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 5M+ copies with a budget of less than $10M (Zachary Small/New York Times) - 2025-12-11T21:55:01-05:00

xAI partners with El Salvador to deploy Grok across 5,000+ public schools, reaching 1M+ students in an "AI-powered education program" over the next two years (Dara Kerr/The Guardian) - 2025-12-11T20:50:01-05:00

On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity" (OpenAI) - 2025-12-11T19:55:02-05:00

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says it placed an additional $11B order in Q4 (CNBC) - 2025-12-11T19:35:14-05:00

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying "we want to have one central source of approval" (Reuters) - 2025-12-11T18:55:01-05:00

New US OMB guidance states that LLMs procured by federal agencies must comply with two "unbiased AI principles": "truth-seeking" and "ideological neutrality" (Maria Curi/Axios) - 2025-12-11T18:05:01-05:00

A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk) - 2025-12-11T17:15:01-05:00

Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, with AI chip sales doubling to $8.2B (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - 2025-12-11T16:25:02-05:00

Sources: the NY governor proposes a rewrite of the RAISE Act, the AI bill that recently passed NY legislature, with text copied verbatim from California's SB 53 (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer) - 2025-12-11T16:20:00-05:00