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The UK CMA is testing an AI tool to help catch companies that collude when bidding for public contracts, amid a "significant risk of bid-rigging" in procurement (Suzi Ring/Financial Times)

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How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions, demonstrating the resilience of a company at the center of a worsening cold war between the US and China (Eva Dou/Washington Post)

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CrowdStrike, whose botched software update caused a global IT outage in July 2024, has more than recovered the $30B in market value it shed after the crisis (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

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Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms after China's three-month campaign from November 2024 to fix "typical issues with algorithms" (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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Sources: Reliance writes off its $200M investment in Bengaluru-based hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo, as CEO Kabeer Biswas looks to sell Dunzo for $25M-$30M (Bismah Malik/Inc42)

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Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tim Gill, who founded the publishing software startup Quark before becoming an influential LGBTQ+ activist (Max Levy/Denver Post)

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CES 2025 expectations: TVs with AI features, laptops built around Nvidia's new 50-series discrete GPUs, Matter smart home devices with real innovation, and more (The Verge)

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How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities and the US DOD's sensitive networks in Guam, a US territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

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Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity company Tenable, passed away after a battle with cancer; he was once RSA's president, NetWitness' CEO, and In-Q-Tel's CEO (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments, biographical details, and more suggests Adrian Dittmann is a German fan of Elon Musk living in Fiji (Jacqueline Sweet/The Spectator World)

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A look at India's draft DPDP Rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent when obtaining consent to process data of users under 18 (Kamya Pandey/MEDIANAMA)

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Industry insiders hope the success of Black Myth: Wukong, which earned ~$1.1B from nearly 25M copies, will rekindle Chinese gaming investments after a crackdown (Financial Times)

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Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)

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Religious leaders are experimenting with AI, spurring an industry of faith-based tech companies that offer AI tools to do theological research and write sermons (Eli Tan/New York Times)

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An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling out AI tools without upsetting creators, and more; YouTube has paid $70B to partners in the past three years (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

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The GMCI Meme index, which tracks leading memecoins by market cap, delivered 320% returns in 2024, outpacing AI at 91% and the top 30 cryptocurrencies at 88% (The Block)

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Alibaba Cloud partners with 01.AI, the Beijing-based AI unicorn founded by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee, to set up an "industrial large model laboratory" (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

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India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments (Aroon Deep/The Hindu)

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Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its Holographic eXtended Reality platform for smart glasses and heads-up displays, raised a $28.27M Series A (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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Samsung and Google plan to enable Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source 3D audio standard, on some YouTube videos later in 2025 via Samsung's 2025 TVs and soundbars (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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