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Masayoshi Son's $100B AI investment pledge to Trump would require a massive fundraising effort, new debt, or selling some of SoftBank's holdings to raise cash (Eliot Brown/Wall Street Journal)

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A look at Reddit's growth in sports fan communities; internal data: Reddit recorded a 35% YoY increase in engagement in 1,000+ sports-themed Subreddits in 2024 (Sam Bradley/Digiday)

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Shares in MobiKwik surged as much as 82% on their trading debut, after the Indian digital payments firm, which claims to have 161M users, raised $69M in its IPO (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Shares of Kioxia rose 6%+ on its first day of trading in Tokyo, giving the chipmaker a ~$5.2B market cap; a group led by Bain had paid $18B for Kioxia in 2018 (Financial Times)

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NERC, overseen by FERC, warns soaring electricity demand from sources including data centers to power AI could strain US and Canadian grids, risking blackouts (Myles McCormick/Financial Times)

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India's commerce minister says that Shein will operate in India purely as a tech partner, with Reliance Retail having full ownership and control of operations (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Google introduces FACTS Grounding benchmark for evaluating the factuality of LLMs, and announces a leaderboard that ranks Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental on top (Google DeepMind)

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Bluesky's use of domains to verify users has led to cybersquatting and impersonation, as domains don't offer enough social proof for the average person (Ernie Smith/Tedium)

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Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews

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NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, a maker of brain-computer interfaces, raised a $102M Series C led by General Equity Holdings at a ~$500M post-money valuation (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

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The best fitness trackers to buy right now

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Nvidia unveils Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a $249 compact AI development board that promises 67 TOPS, compared to 40 TOPS of the $499 last-gen kit (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware)

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The Verge’s favorite holiday gifts under $50

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Apple Maps on the web adds support for Look Around, Apple's version of Google Street View (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

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The Verge’s 2024 holiday gift guide for dads

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Apple’s App Store is inviting me to ‘search the way you talk’

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How a tiff over tariffs exposed the Canadian government’s fragility

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Apple Maps on the web now has Look Around

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The Verge’s 2024 holiday gift guide

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