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Bandai Namco's strategy for Tales remasters misses the point

Polygon - All

AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)

Techmeme

Doppel, which makes an AI social engineering detection service, raised a $70M Series C led by Bessemer at a $600M+ valuation, up from $205M in May (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids

THE CITY - All

How to travel distance under the effect of tomatoes in Fortnite

Polygon - All

Warner Music settles its lawsuit with AI music startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Techmeme

Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product in the US next week in partnership with PayPal, eventually letting users buy from 5,000+ merchants (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Look inside the 2025 L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Awards dinner

Vox - All

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Explains, in Detail, and Apologizes for Yesterday’s Global Outage

Daring Fireball

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Stargate is coming back to TV at just the right time

Polygon - All

Meta release SAM 3, a model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Techmeme

Black Ops 7 multiplayer review: the game Black Ops 6 should've been

Polygon - All

Alphabet's stock rose as much as 6.9% on Wednesday, its biggest gain since early September, amid a wave of glowing reviews for Gemini 3 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

The DCU won't make room for Pierce Brosnan's Doctor Fate and I'm crushed

Polygon - All

Tim Cook Among Attendees of Last Night’s Black-Tie White House Dinner Honoring Journalist-Murdering Tyrant Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia

Daring Fireball

A new bipartisan Senate bill amends Section 230 to make commercial social media platforms responsible if their recommendation systems cause foreseeable harms (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Techmeme

Vivienne Medrano unpacks Hazbin Hotel's s2 finale, teases season 3

Polygon - All

The Verge’s 2025 holiday gift guide for tinkerers

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Lawmakers want to let users sue over harmful social media algorithms

The Verge - All Posts