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- Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg) [35m]
- Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic) [2h]
- Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC) [2h]
- Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [3h]
- Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune) [3h]
- Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (Alfred Ng/Politico) [4h]
- Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors (Robert Hart/The Verge) [4h]
- Sources: Datadog offered to acquire Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M round at a ~$3.8B valuation (The Information) [4h]
- Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI (Maria Diaz/ZDNET) [4h]
- Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public in December or possibly waiting until next year as it monitors Anthropic's IPO, expected next month (The Information) [4h]
- US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds (Wall Street Journal) [4h]
- Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios) [5h]
- The Browser Company plans to shut down its Arc browser on December 22, as it shifts attention to the AI-focused Dia browser (Jay Peters/The Verge) [5h]
- Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) [5h]
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