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Techmeme - 2025-12-12T10:25:46-05:00

Sam Altman's World updates its app to make it a "super app" with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) - 2025-12-12T10:25:02-05:00

Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing "the most onerous and excessive laws" around AI (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) - 2025-12-12T09:50:21-05:00

[Thread] Substack quietly added a feature that forced subscribers to download the app to read full newsletters but say they've rolled it back after complaints (Gergely Orosz/@gergelyorosz) - 2025-12-12T09:40:01-05:00

Serval, which offers an AI assistant for IT, HR, legal, and finance, raised a $75M Series B led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $127M (Reuters) - 2025-12-12T09:15:00-05:00

Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors) - 2025-12-12T08:55:26-05:00

Sources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is considering adding production capacity for its H200 chips in response to robust demand (Reuters) - 2025-12-12T08:45:07-05:00

TechInsights: Huawei's Kirin 9030 processor, used in its Mate 80 Pro Max phone, is China's most advanced chip to date and produced with SMIC's updated 7nm tech (Ian King/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-12T08:35:16-05:00

Sources: China is considering a $28B to $70B incentives package, which will operate separately from the $50B Big Fund III, to support its chipmaking industry (John Liu/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-12T07:55:00-05:00

EU finance ministers agreed to set a €3 customs duty on low-value parcels from July 2026, aiming to crack down on cheap Chinese imports from brands like Shein (Reuters) - 2025-12-12T07:50:00-05:00

Papua New Guinea says Google will build three subsea cables for the country, a $120M effort funded by Australia, amid China's rising influence in the region (Kirsty Needham/Reuters) - 2025-12-12T06:50:02-05:00

Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center using Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation (Nikkei Asia) - 2025-12-12T04:55:01-05:00

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 have a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, like GPT-5 and 5.1, but have an August 31, 2025, knowledge cutoff, vs. September 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 the Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal "completely shuts down" App Store rules letting Apple collect "junk fees" (Jay Peters/The Verge) - 2025-12-11T23:15:00-05:00