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Sources: Morgan Stanley's E-Trade explores adding crypto trading, if the Federal Reserve and others approve, anticipating more favorable regulation under Trump (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

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Telegram rolls out a new account verification method powered by third-parties, new search filters for private chats, and the ability to turn gifts into NFTs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Asus, Samsung, and MSI separately unveil the world's first 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitors, offering 4K OLED at 240Hz, without sharing release dates or pricing (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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While the crypto industry anticipates lighter regulation and wider adoption under Donald Trump, some worry about systemic risks, particularly from stablecoins (Financial Times)

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Rembrand, which offers AI tools to add product placements in social media videos, raised a $23M Series A and plans to expand to CTV content and add a free tier (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

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In 2024, the tech industry promoting a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI drowned out warnings of AI tools potentially causing catastrophic damage (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Fintech themes to watch in 2025: relaxed regulation under the second Trump administration, more IPOs, acquisitions, and VC funding, and more stablecoin use (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

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Experts warn of a rise in personalized phishing emails targeting corporate executives with personal details probably obtained via AI analysis of online profiles (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

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Q&A with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about the company's aggressive plans for 2025, including competing with prediction market startups like Kalshi and Polymarket (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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Malaysia says X and Google haven't applied for a new social media license; X cites under 8M Malaysian users, while Google disputes YouTube's classification (Ram Anand/Bloomberg)

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China's Wingtech, supplier to Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, and others, plans to sell its contract manufacturing business to Luxshare after being sanctioned by the US (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

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Nvidia invested $1B across 50 funding rounds and several corporate deals in 2024, up from $872M in 2023; the majority of the deals were with "core AI" companies (Financial Times)

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Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury Department's OFAC, which administers economic sanctions, and two other Treasury offices (Washington Post)

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Pornhub now blocks users in 17 US states, including almost all of the South, after blocking Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina due to age verification laws (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

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Huawei Rotating Chair Meng Wanzhou says the company is helping train 300,000+ tech students per year, in cooperation with 3,000+ universities in 110 countries (Nikkei Asia)

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Meta saying it expects AI characters to populate its apps is its friendly rebrand of an effective but alienating effort to automate social interactions (John Herrman/New York Magazine)

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The defense industry is poised for a deal surge as firms expand in AI, drones, and space systems; Bain: VC deal value in the sector has risen 18x in a decade (Sylvia Pfeifer/Financial Times)

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Elon Musk got new support for his OpenAI lawsuit in filings last week, including from tech advocacy group Encode, backed by AI researchers like Geoffrey Hinton (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

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A US judge blocks parts of California's SB 976, a law to protect kids from social media, citing 1A concerns, but allows a ban on "addictive feeds" for minors (Matt Simons/Courthouse News Service)

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OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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