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Russia's Roskomnadzor says it has blocked FaceTime in Russia, claiming the service is being used to organise and "carry out terrorist attacks in the country" (Reuters) - 2025-12-04T12:45:03-05:00

Sources: Polymarket has recruited staff for a market making team that could face off against its customers; Kalshi's similar unit exposed Kalshi to criticism (Bloomberg) - 2025-12-04T12:35:01-05:00

Amazon plans to release its $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and $500 Kindle Scribe on December 10, after announcing them in September, but won't offer preorders (Jay Peters/The Verge) - 2025-12-04T12:15:00-05:00

Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, in its iOS and Android apps (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2025-12-04T12:10:01-05:00

Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2025-12-04T11:50:08-05:00

OnePlus launches US preorders for its $900+ OnePlus 15 a month late, after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown (Dominic Preston/The Verge) - 2025-12-04T11:20:04-05:00

A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other news outlets (Blake Brittain/Reuters) - 2025-12-04T10:45:00-05:00

7AI, which makes agents that analyze and triage info like cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, taking its total funding to $166M (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-12-04T10:25:13-05:00

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (Steven Levy/Wired) - 2025-12-04T09:55:02-05:00

Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $60M Series B led by Portage, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters) - 2025-12-04T09:25:01-05:00

Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-04T09:08:24-05:00

Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024 (Ben Blanchard/Reuters) - 2025-12-04T08:55:05-05:00

The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-12-04T08:40:14-05:00

AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) - 2025-12-04T08:25:01-05:00

Yann LeCun says Meta will not back his unnamed AI startup, which will focus on advanced machine intelligence and world models, and hints it will be Paris-based (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-04T08:15:02-05:00

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