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SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 2025

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: The SMART USA Institute, funded by the US CHIPS Act and focused on digital…

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Trump signs annual defense bill with provisions allowing the president to screen and restrict U.S. funding for Chinese technology companies (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 19, 2025

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Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than Solana, the first full U.S. deployment of stablecoin settlement (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 16, 2025

Émilie Mason / Bloomberg: Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than…

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Intel this year tested chipmaking tools from California-based ACM Research, which has deep ties to China; ACM’s two overseas units were targeted by U.S. sanctions (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 12, 2025

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U.S. judge rules that Google must renegotiate every year any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 5, 2025

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Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in U.S. sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: U.S. online sales increased 9.1% to $11.8 billion (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 29, 2025

Jeanne Verdon / Forbes: Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in…

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SEC Filing: CoinShares Deregisters Its XRP, Solana Staking and Litecoin ETFs to Focus on Higher Margin Opportunities Ahead of a U.S. Listing (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 28, 2025

Basil Arasu Kannagi / Reuters: SEC Filing: CoinShares Deregisters Its XRP, Solana Staking and Litecoin ETFs to Focus on Higher…

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TikTok Shop reached more than $10 billion in U.S. sales from 600,000 creators between January and October, up from $5 billion year-over-year; global sales are comparable to eBay (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 26, 2025

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The U.S. DOD and intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year data labeling contract worth up to $708 million in September, beating out Scale AI (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 24, 2025

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Major insurers recently asked U.S. regulators for permission to offer policies excluding liabilities related to companies deploying chatbots and AI agents (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 23, 2025

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Uyghur human rights activist condemns death sentences in Bangkok attack – Radio Free Asia

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

JetBlue is betting big on Fort Lauderdale airport

Lilly, Novo and Pfizer look to new weight loss drugs

Rivian CEO takes different approach to humanoid robots than Elon Musk

Paramount-WBD Merger Gets DOJ Approval

Elon Musk becomes world’s first billionaire as SpaceX begins commercial operations

Trump attacks Weather Channel as storm threatens to wipe out his UFC event at White House

Pete Hegseth Tried to Defend the Iran War and It Was a Complete Disaster

Trump has been officially removed from the Kennedy Center

American households are paying a $3,100 Trump tax and they don’t know it

Trump has lied dozens of times about a deal with Iran that isn’t even a deal.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK would ban social media for under-16s and restrict gaming and live streaming platforms, aiming for regulation by the end of 2026 (Reuters)

Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh food delivery platform Pupu for $1.5 billion, aiming to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)

Rylo, which develops real-time voice and sign language translation tools for deaf and hard of hearing users, has raised $85 million led by General Catalyst and Canaan (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Frank founder Charlie Javice, sentenced in September 2025 to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase, requested presidential pardon from Trump (Wall Street Journal)

Satya Nadella argues that companies must develop both human capital and symbolic capital, with human judgment guiding AI systems that learn and improve over time (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)

Browsing: U.S

SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

Trump signs annual defense bill with provisions allowing the president to screen and restrict U.S. funding for Chinese technology companies (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)

Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than Solana, the first full U.S. deployment of stablecoin settlement (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Intel this year tested chipmaking tools from California-based ACM Research, which has deep ties to China; ACM’s two overseas units were targeted by U.S. sanctions (Reuters)

U.S. judge rules that Google must renegotiate every year any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)

Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in U.S. sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: U.S. online sales increased 9.1% to $11.8 billion (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

SEC Filing: CoinShares Deregisters Its XRP, Solana Staking and Litecoin ETFs to Focus on Higher Margin Opportunities Ahead of a U.S. Listing (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

TikTok Shop reached more than $10 billion in U.S. sales from 600,000 creators between January and October, up from $5 billion year-over-year; global sales are comparable to eBay (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)

The U.S. DOD and intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year data labeling contract worth up to $708 million in September, beating out Scale AI (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Major insurers recently asked U.S. regulators for permission to offer policies excluding liabilities related to companies deploying chatbots and AI agents (Financial Times)