Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Coinbase reopens app registrations in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026  —  After a pause of more than two years, crypto exchange Coinbase has opened its app for registration in India.

Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:
Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly  —  How the human behind Tilly Norwood brought her to digital life  —  Tilly Norwood, an “actress” built with artificial intelligence …

Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:
How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems  —  The architecture underlying large language models revolutionized AI.  Pathway's Dragon Hatchling is designed to do more.

Aaron Krolik / New York Times:
How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert national currencies to stablecoins and then debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions  —  Smugglers, money launderers and people facing sanctions once relied on diamonds, gold and artwork to store illicit fortunes.

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close  —  Deal for data-infrastructure company could come as soon as Monday  —  International Business Machines is in advanced talks …