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Google is rolling out new Gemini-assisted functionality to Search and its Translate app. It says its AI can now provide more natural and accurate text translations for phrases that have more "nuanced meanings."  Translate will now take slang terms and colloquial expressions into consideration rather than provide sometimes unhelpful direct translations. The latest update to its text... View Source

Hisense’s S7N CanvasTV is nearly $600 off. Samsung’s Frame TV is one of the coolest-looking TVs you can buy, doubling as wall art when you’re not watching —  but it’s pricey. If you like the idea of a TV that displays art when not in use but is far more affordable, Hisense’s S7N CanvasTV delivers a similar vibe for a lot less, especially now that the 65-inch model has dropped to an all-time l... View Source

Building Trump’s proposed missile and air defense system would be an enormous task — and the president’s spending target is likely just a fraction of the final price. Bloomberg's Becca Wasser joins to discuss on Bloomberg Intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Geminid meteor shower peaks Dec. 13–14, and the U.S. weather forecast will play a key role in what you'll see... View Source

When Bryan Fuller set out to make his first feature film, his goal was to make the kind of family-friendly scares that he loved as a kid. Think Gremlins or Ghostbusters. The creator of Hannibal and Pushing Daisies ended up crafting a story called Dust Bunny, about a young girl named Aurora who hires a hitman to kill the monster under her bed. It has all of the hallmarks of those films that inspire... View Source

Wealthfront is set to raise $484.6 million as it goes public. The fintech—best known for its automated investing tools and a platform popular with younger investors—will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker "WLTH". CEO David Fortunato joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about its debut. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Id Software, the company behind Doom, has voted in favor of forming a "wall-to-wall" union. The term "wall-to-wall" refers to a union that includes every employee, regardless of duties. The vote wasn't unanimous, with 165 of 185 total employees in favor of the union. The union will work in conjunction with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), which is the same orga... View Source

TCL has been a solid competitor in the midrange TV market for years, going head-to-head with Hisense. Not only are TVs from both manufacturers competitive on features, they even use similar nomenclature to categorize their TV lines - the TCL QM8 and Hisense U8, QM7 and U7, and QM6 and U6. But with TCL's new flagship QM9K, its sights are set higher, toward Sony and its flagship Bravia 9. This year,... View Source

Oracle Corp. has pushed back the completion dates for some of the data centers it’s developing for the artificial intelligence model developer OpenAI to 2028 from 2027, according to people familiar with the work... View Source

If you didn't stay up to watch The Game Awards 2025, here's the complete rundown of the hottest sci-fi and space games that appeared at the show... View Source

Every week at The Verge, we’re tracking what’s happening with Trump Mobile’s promised and yet undelivered Android phone. Why? Because we cover phones. We also cover vaporware, which the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version) very well may be. The smartphone has now been delayed for months. Trump Mobile no longer claims that it will be made in USA, but “designed with American values in mind... View Source

JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF Portfolio Manager Priya Misra says it's too soon to say who the winners and losers are yet when it comes to artificial intelligence stocks. That's why she says it's so important to have a diverse portfolio that includes fixed income. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which it blows its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surroundi... View Source

Amazon is continuing to celebrate The Game Awards, which took place on December 11th, with a big sale on titles that were nominated in their respective categories. The deals include a discount that brings the PC version of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which ended up taking home nine awards (including game of the year), back down to its all-time low of $39.99 ($10 off). If you’ve somehow made it th... View Source

President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to turn to private businesses to help mount offensive cyberattacks against foreign adversaries, according to people familiar with the matter, potentially expanding a shadowy electronic conflict typically conducted by secretive intelligence agencies... View Source

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations spread across two years, the survey will unveil tens of billions of stars and explore previously uncharted structures. This video begins with a view of the Carina Nebula — a giant, relatively nearby star-... View Source

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The U.S. Space Force is boosting its ability to deter and defeat drones and other uncrewed aerial systems near Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and the Eastern Range... View Source

AI sure does use a lot of words to say very little. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. This time last year, I'd cut 16 min... View Source

US equities fluctuated Friday as megacap technology shares slumped while investors gravitated toward other corners of the stock market, including old-economy and small-cap companies... View Source

Reddit has filed a lawsuit in Australia's High Court aiming to overturn the country's under-16 social media ban, Reuters reported. The forum platform called the law contrary to Australia's constitution as it intrudes on free political discourse. It also argued that Reddit shouldn't have been included in the ban since it isn't a social media site, based on the law's de... View Source

Next-gen wireless technology for dummies. Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, we're publishing a little reminder of some wireless tech terms. You know, in case you forgot. 6G? 4K? 3D? Whether you're a layperson or the leader o... View Source

Ireland has lifted a de facto ban on connecting new data centers to the electricity grid around Dublin — a move that gives the industry long-awaited clarity on the requirements for building new facilities... View Source

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is likely to diminish no matter what happens. The International Energy Agency believes electricity’s share of global energy consumption is going to double in the next decade alone. You all know the causes... View Source

Like a mood ring, clothing could let future space travelers know when they've been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation... View Source

You may not even know it, but you've almost certainly encountered songs made mostly or even entirely with AI. If you've scrolled on TikTok the last few weeks, you've probably heard "I Run" a few times, but there are countless others making their way around social and music platforms. AI tools in general, and Suno in particular, are becoming a big part of the music-making process. And nowhere is th... View Source

The dueling suitors for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. have had a rough week. Will this rule out an auction? Don’t count on it... View Source

F1: The Movie, the cinematic love letter to Formula One and — quite possibly even more so — consumer products made by Apple, is finally available to stream on Apple TV if you’re a subscriber. It follows the sports thriller’s long theatrical run, during which it raked in more than $630 million globally, comfortably making it Apple’s most successful original film. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gu... View Source

The Tetris: My Play Watch may look like an Apple Watch, but it eschews most of the functionality you'll typically find on a smartwatch to focus on two things: playing Tetris and celebrating the game through a UI that's thoroughly Tetris-themed. It's very good at making you want to play Alexey Pajitnov's iconic tetromino-stacking puzzler, just not on the watch because of frustrating touchscreen con... View Source

Germany’s foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin and made it clear there’ll be consequences for hybrid attacks backed by the government in Moscow aimed at undermining democracy... View Source

Last week, Netflix surprised us all when it announced plans for an $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., a move that would fundamentally reshape the world of streaming video and Hollywood. But Paramount isn't giving up on WB — this week it launched a $108 billion hostile takeover effort. In this episode, we discuss why everyone is fighting for WB, and why Netflix may be the best worst op... View Source

Hawaiian stargazers got a particularly special treat recently... View Source

If you’re not already seeing it, this is how the redesigned watch page is laid out. The YouTube watch screen has been given a new look on TVs. The redesign aims to provide a "more intuitive experience with easier navigation," according to YouTube's announcement, relocating the video title and several controls, and adding a new "Description" button to access creator information and other video feat... View Source

Google Gemini has the entire internet at its fingertips for training. OpenAI has to pay. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.22 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week concerns the decision by SpaceX founder Elon Musk to take the company public, via IPO, sometime within the next 12 to 18 months. Musk confirmed this after Ars published a story on Wednesday evening. This understandably raises questions about whether a future SpaceX will be committed more to AI data centers in space or Mars settle... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King revisits one of Nvidia’s earlier-generation AI chips that has returned to the spotlight... View Source

Honestly, compiling the biggest losers for Engadget is more fun than talking up the winners. While we reviewed nothing as atrocious as those ill-fated AI assistant gadgets from 2024, AI companies and services straddled both the winner and loser podiums. The losers might be you, the American consumer. (Sorry.) In the US, anyone wanting a drone will have to find something that isn’t made by DJI. The... View Source

UBS shares hit their highest in 17 years after a group of influential Swiss lawmakers proposed watering down the government's capital demands. They've presented recommendations that would allow UBS to use a kind of junior debt known as AT1 bonds, instead of equity, to meet potentially fresh capital requirements envisioned by the Swiss government. The Nvidia-rival Broadcom has disappointed with a s... View Source

Native Union’s Weighter managing one of up to three cables. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Warning: I'm going to make an attempt to justify a $40 paperweight for cable management. I'm not sure how I ended up in this position, or who hurt me. All I can say is that I'm not proud of myself, so please, take pity. I've been using Native Union's 3-cable Weighter for about a week. It sits on my kit... View Source

Retatrutide, originally developed by Eli Lilly, has found a loyal fan base—even though clinical trials of the drug still haven’t finished... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is looking at potential acquisitions including data center operator Switch Inc., as billionaire founder Masayoshi Son seeks to ride an AI-fueled boom in digital infrastructure. Matt Bloxham on Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are launched?"... View Source

Dealmaking activity in the Asia-Pacific technology sector is likely to continue its strong momentum into the first half of next year, according to UBS Group AG... View Source

China is considering a package of incentives worth as much as $70 billion to bankroll and support its chipmaking industry, pouring more state money into a sector it deems pivotal to its technological conflict with the US... View Source

In this episode of "Bloomberg Tech: Europe," Tom Mackenzie takes a deep dive into ASML - the hidden powerhouse of the AI revolution. The Dutch company's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines underpin major artificial intelligence breakthroughs, from Nvidia's cutting-edge semiconductors to ChatGPT. Bloomberg travels to Veldhoven, the Netherlands, for an exclusive interview with ASML CEO Christop... View Source

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says artificial intelligence investing now resembles an “arms race,” but that he sees no bubble in the industry. The Dutch company is Europe’s most valuable company, and one of the most important cogs in the global AI supply chain. ASML has a near-monopoly on extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, which are vital for manufacturing advanced chips. Bloomberg’s Tom Mack... View Source

A lot of trailers drop during The Game Awards, but the comedy of Bradley the Badger stood out from the pack. The conceit is similar to Wreck-It Ralph. Bradley, the protagonist of a fictional platforming series, is suddenly transported into the worlds of other unfinished video games; the trailer shows a badger-ified Bloodborne, Cyberpunk 2077 and The Last of Us. He also has access to a kit of dev t... View Source

ASML's chipmaking machines are so indispensable to the world's tech ecosystem, it's now Europe's most valuable company. Tom Mackenzie explains why they are such a vital piece of the global AI supply chain. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Capcom’s long, long-delayed sci-fi shooter Pragmata finally has a release date. It’s headed your way on April 24, 2026 on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and — as Capcom confirmed in a trailer at The Game Awards — Nintendo Switch 2. You don’t have to wait another four months to try it out, though. A gameplay demo is out now on Steam. It will be available for consoles at a later date.Pragmata first eme... View Source

BBVA is giving almost all of its staff access to OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools after expanding its partnership with the technology firm... View Source

Coven of the Chicken Foot has a lot of things going for it already, in my book. It stars a hero rarely seen in video games, an elderly woman, and it has gorgeous storybook-style art in a lush fantasy setting. It’s a single-player puzzle platformer, it relies on wordless storytelling and the woman, a witch named Gertie, travels with a creepy-cute companion. Plus, Gertie has chicken feet. I love her... View Source

Without ASML, there would be no ChatGPT, no new iPhone models and no cutting edge AI innovation. The chipmaking machines ASML produces are so indispensable to the world's tech ecosystem, it's now Europe's most valuable company. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie explains why the Dutch company is such a vital piece of the global AI supply chain. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Larian Studios didn’t rest on its laurels for long. Two years after taking home the Game of the Year prize for Baldur’s Gate III at The Game Awards, the developer popped up again at the 2025 edition of the ceremony to announce its upcoming project, which is the next entry in the Divinity series. Simply called Divinity, this will be the studio’s biggest game to date with “more breadth and depth tha... View Source

Christophe Fouquet, the CEO of ASML, tells Bloomberg Television that China will not accept being cutoff from Western chips, artificial intelligence and technology. ASML is the only company in the world making extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, which are vital for manufacturing advanced AI chips used by the likes of Nvidia and Apple. Fouquet spoke with Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie in an exclusi... View Source

Remedy Entertainment's Control is a bizarre yet totally captivating action game that feels like Die Hard by way of David Lynch. InControl: Resonant, players step into the role of the original game's most enigmatic and unsettling characters for their own jaunt through a 'new-weird' world outside The Oldest House.Just ahead of the reveal at The Game Awards, we got an early look a... View Source

Chip-design software maker Synopsys gave an upbeat first quarter forecast, following a significant equity investment from Nvidia earlier this month. Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a single, nationwide regulatory framework governing artificial intelligence at the expense of the ability of different states to regulate the nascent technology. “To win, United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation,” the order states. “But excessive State regulation thwarts this... View Source

Netskope Inc. initiated a better-than-expected full year revenue outlook in its first earnings release since going public... View Source

South of Midnight is heading to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 in Spring 2026, developer Compulsion Games announced on X. The third-person action-adventure game launched as an Xbox and PC exclusive, but like plenty of Microsoft's other first-party games, it's heading to competitors' consoles.Mixing platforming with magic-infused combat in a unique setting inspired by the folklore of the... View Source

Axel Granger, Co-Head of TMT in APAC, gives his outlook for capital market activities after a robust year in the technology, media and telecom sector in the region. He speaks with Annabelle Droulers and Stephen Engle on "Bloomberg: The China Show." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It didn't take too long for a game that a whole bunch of people are excited about to swoop into Grand Theft Auto VI's old release week. Or maybe Rockstar had an idea of was what was coming and delayed its blockbuster by six months to get out of the way of Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.  Either way, TT Games and Warner Bros. Games brought a new trailer to The Game Awards and... View Source

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"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Singapore with Shery Ahn and Avril Hong, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Why have one Star Wars game announcement at an edition of The Game Awards when you can have two? Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a podracing (and speeder racing) game from Fuse Games, a studio established in 2023 by former Burnout and Need for Speed developers. It's scheduled to hit PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC in 2026. The action here is set after the fall of the Empire. With the galaxy in rebui... View Source

The operator of AirAsia and the Malaysian unit of Standard Chartered have inked a deal to explore a ringgit-backed stablecoin in the Southeast Asian country, days after a Malaysian royal announced the launch of a similar token... View Source

This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn’t melodramatic, mechanically innovative, beautifully presented and aggressively French, it didn’t stand a chance. The Game Awards 2025 wrapped up on the evening of Thursday, December 11 with a record-breaking showing by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive. The game received the most nominations and wins in the show’s 12-year history... View Source

Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, has raised $52 million to build what it says will be one of the largest autonomous labs in the United States. Medra CEO Michelle Lee joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

PlayStation had said on X that it would have news about Saros at The Game Awards, and unfortunately, fans excited for the new Housemarque project will need to wait a little longer to get their hands on it. The game has been delayed from its planned March release. But there's only a short time until the new date of April 30, and pre-orders are open now. Star Rahul Kohli appeared at The Game Aw... View Source

Until he was named South Korea’s new science minister in July, Bae Kyung-Hoon was largely unknown in political circles, having spent his career focused on computer science... View Source

The next game from Left 4 Dead designer Mike Booth is putting a sci-fi spin on his last game's co-op action, based on a trailer Booth and producer JJ Abrams shared at The Game Awards 2025. The new game is called 4:LOOP, and it's the first project entirely developed by Bad Robot Games, film production company Bad Robot's game studio. 4:LOOP combines the four-player co-op action of Le... View Source

Shortly after appeals court judges ruled against Apple's contempt appeal in a years-long antitrust dispute against the makers of Fortnite, I got to talk to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in an interview. According to Sweeney, today's ruling "completely shuts down" Apple's App Store rules that allow it to collect "junk fees." The three-judge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel largely affirmed an Apri... View Source

From Pop Mart’s Labubus to Shein, Temu and Luckin, Chinese brands have become global consumer favorites and cultural ambassadors. With much of the credit going to TikTok, shoppers are hungry for more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

So there's good news and bad news about the highly anticipated Exodus coming out of The Game Awards this year. The good news is that there's a fresh trailer showcasing more of the game. The bad news is that the game won't be out until early 2027. The game was originally announced two years ago (also at The Game Awards) and had been pegged for release in 2026. We may be waiting longe... View Source

While Geoff Keighley had already announced that Tomb Raider would be making a Game Awards appearance, the surprise was that instead of one game announcement there's two. Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Game Studios are releasing two Tomb Raider games back-to-back in 2026 and 2027. First up, coming in 2026 is Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. Don't let the fancy name fool you though, Legacy of Atlantis... View Source

Oracle falls after reporting a jump in spending on AI data centers and other equipment. Plus, Disney agrees to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license characters for use on the Sora generative video platform, and the CEO of chip-design software maker Synopsys joins to break down the company's earnings following a significant equity investment from Nvidia earlier this month. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The last mainline Tomb Raider game was 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and after spending a few years in video game purgatory, Lara Croft is coming back in two new games. At The Game Awards 2025, Amazon Game Studios announced that Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis will reimagine of one of the hero’s early adventures in 2026, and Tomb Raider: Catalyst will continue the series in 2027.Catalyst is de... View Source

One of the easiest things to do during the holidays is spend too much money. It happens to many of us, even when we swear that things are going to be different this year. We want to help you stay true to your intentions to save money when possible, and we're doing that with a gift guide focused on products that cost no more than $50. We've already posted a guide to the best gifts under $100, but y... View Source

Igneo Infrastructure Partners and Japan’s Orix Corp. are among those in the next round of bidding for Macquarie Asset Management’s majority stake in a Dutch hyperscale data center, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Frictional Games is back with a new game that looks primed to carry on the studio's tradition of excellence in horror. It's called Ontos, and it's slated to launch on PC, PlayStation and Xbox next year. The trailer debuted during The Game Awards 2025.The company's past projects include Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SOMA, and this new title is also looking pretty dang creepy. It... View Source

Remedy Entertainment is finally showing off the much-anticipated sequel to Control. The new game, dubbed Control Resonant, expands on the original with a new action-RPG framework. It takes place seven years later and shifts the setting from the unsettling Oldest House of the original to a more open Manhattan, while putting players in the role of Dylan Faden, brother of Control protagonist Jesse. I... View Source

China’s internet search leader Baidu Inc. is seeing a fresh wave of bullish calls from analysts thanks to the possible listing of its chip unit Kunlunxin... View Source

Many of the big announcements at The Game Awards are for completely new projects, some of which are total surprises (if you had an Okami sequel on your bingo card last year, you're either in the know or probably used up all your luck for the next few years). We'll often get updates on games that were previously announced too. The trailer for Order of the Sinking Star is something a littl... View Source

The next Star Wars game is coming from the director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was revealed during The Game Awards with a brief trailer that got Geoff Keighley so excited his voice started cracking. Like any announcement trailer, it was brief, featuring a spaceship landing on a rainy planet and a woman in white robes staring into the camera... View Source

China’s exports are putting it on a collision course with Europe... View Source

The Game Awards kicked off with a bang, showing the world premiere of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. It's a brand new action role-playing game that will be directed by Casey Hudson, who previously headed up several notable BioWare games you probably know like Mass Effect and Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic.There’s not much to go on in the trailer, but the game simply existing... View Source

President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks speaks On Thursday evening, with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks looking over his shoulder, Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to grab unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence for the federal government. The order can't b... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Blackrock’s Russ Brownback, 42 Macro’s Darius Dale, Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co’s Brian White, New York City Economic Development Corporation’s Andrew Kimball, Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg News, Interactive Brokers’ Steve Sosn... View Source

The Game Awards are back once again to showcase a metric ton of commercials, provide the gaming public with their monthly dose of Muppets, and validate gamers’ opinions on which title should be named the Game of the Year. I don’t wanna say it’s a foregone conclusion what this year’s GOTY will be — Silksong may surprise us — but it’s pretty obvious that Clair Obscur: E... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is studying potential acquisitions including data center operator Switch Inc., as billionaire founder Masayoshi Son ramps up the search for deals that can help it ride the AI-fueled boom in digital infrastructure, people with knowledge of the matter said... View Source

Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps last month, and now they're missing from the shows included in the test, including Fallout, The Rig, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Upload, and Bosch. The feature is supposed to use AI to analyze a show's key plot points and s... View Source

Record rainfall prompted evacuation orders for about 100,000 people as the Skagit River north of Seattle is forecast to crest almost two feet (0.6 meter) above its historic record Thursday evening... View Source

Apple has clawed back a bit of ground in its legal fight with Epic Games that could have wide-reaching consequences for all app developers. Today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals mostly upheld a previous contempt ruling regarding fees Apple levied on third-party payment systems. However, the judges did decide to reverse the order that Apple cannot charge any commissions on those external pay... View Source

At a congressional meeting to vote on the future of kids online safety, the most spirited debate of the day was about a bill that wasn't even on the agenda and Apple CEO Tim Cook. 18 bills that aim to regulate the internet to protect children are now headed for a vote before the full Energy and Commerce Committee, possibly as soon as next month. From there, the bills could get a vote on the floor... View Source

Reddit Inc. has lodged a suit with Australia’s High Court seeking to overturn the nation’s ban on under-16s holding social media accounts... View Source

Blue Origin is targeting Dec. 18 for its NS-37 suborbital launch, which will fly a wheelchair user to space for the first time ever... View Source

Disney and OpenAI's new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we're living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm's APIs and tools like ChatGPT, the studio plans to let users of OpenAI's Sora AI video generator create clips featuring hundreds of Disney-owned characters. Sora AI users will be able to generate as much uncanny Pixar / Marvel / Star Wars slop... View Source

Sam Altman sold a $1 billion stake in OpenAI to get Mickey Mouse on Sora. Bob Iger got him good, says Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A novel "X-arithmetic" technique reveals how black holes shape the universe's largest structures... View Source

Built-in Gemini AI features in Chrome are now becoming more widely available on the iOS version of Google's browser, as reported by 9to5Google and Engadget. They're popping up several months after the features' rollout on the desktop version started in September. Once the new Gemini features are active on your iPhone or iPad, Chrome users will see a new icon in the left corner of the address bar (... View Source

Australia will allow South Korea’s top defense firm Hanwha Aerospace to increase its stake in shipbuilder Austal Ltd. to 19.9%, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said after agreeing to a recommendation from the Foreign Investment Review Board... View Source

Amazon's plan to offer AI-generated recaps of Prime Video shows isn't off to a great start. The company's recap of the first season of Fallout features multiple errors, GamesRadar+ writes, including basic facts about the plot of the show.You can watch the recap yourself in the "Extras" section of Amazon's Fallout season two listing in Prime Video. Besides being somewh... View Source

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Dec. 11, 2025. It was the 300th worldwide orbital launch attempt of 2025... View Source

At an FDA discussion of testosterone replacement therapy, a top official called for special health centers to address a “men’s health crisis.” Others called to ease men’s access to hormones... View Source

Beth Kindig, lead tech analyst at the I/O fund, says investors should keep an eye on the moment when there is an inflexion - which hasn't happened yet, but which is what tech CEOs are "banking on." She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This morning Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing agreement: Starting in 2026, ChatGPT and Sora can generate images and videos incorporating Disney IP, including more than 200 characters from the company's stable of Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel brands. To say these companies make for strange bedfellows is an understatement.  The agreement brings together two parties with ver... View Source

NASA NASA has selected one small explorer mission concept to advance toward flight design and another for an extended period of concept development. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Science Management Council selected CINEMA (Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora) to enter Phase B of development, which includes planning and design for flight and mission operations. The prin... View Source

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that will require advertisers to identify if an ad includes AI-generated people. Hochul's announcement said the bill, S.8420-A/A.8887-B, was the first of its kind in the US, describing it as a "common sense" law that would bring increased transparency and protect consumers. A separate bill also signed by Hochul requires that entities get consent fr... View Source

Broadcom Inc., a chip company seeking to compete with Nvidia Corp. in the AI market, gave a strong revenue forecast for the current quarter, signaling that demand for AI data center equipment is fueling growth... View Source

New York is taking steps to regulate the use of AI in the state's entertainment industry. NY State Governor Kathy Hochul passed two pieces of legislation on Thursday that forces certain productions to disclose the use of AI-generated performers, and defines rules around how someone's likeness can be used after their death.Assembly Bill A8887B, now known as S.8420-A, specifically covers t... View Source

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The nova eruptions come about when a white dwarf steals too much matter from a close red giant companion... View Source

Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is coming to cable boxes from Comcast and Rogers. The Luna app is already available via web browsers, Fire TV devices, Fire tablets, and many smart TVs from Samsung and LG, and this new expansion will bring the service to "millions" more devices, according to Amazon. Starting Thursday, Luna will be available on "eligible" X1 and Xfinity Xumo Stream Box devices in... View Source

Caleb Hammer, the host of Financial Audit, a top podcast on YouTube, is one of the online upstarts filling the void left by the decline of combative daytime TV... View Source

A director who was charged with defrauding Netflix out of millions of dollars has been found guilty, Business Insider reports. Carl Rinsch, director of the 2013 Keanu Reeves movie 47 Ronin, now faces up to 90 years in prison.Rinsch began filming the project, White Horse (later renamed Conquest), around 2017. (Its premise: A scientist creates an organic humanoid species that turns on its creators.)... View Source

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GPT-5.2 is here, and with it, OpenAI wants "to unlock even more economic value for people," Fidji Simo, the company's CEO of Applications, told reporters in a Thursday briefing. She said it's been in the works for "many, many months." The company calls GPT-5.2 its "best model yet for everyday professional use" in a release, clearly coming for Gemini 3's current reputation as a premier general-purp... View Source

A federal appeals court sided with Epic Games Inc. in its long-running dispute with Apple Inc., upholding a lower-court contempt ruling against the iPhone maker and directing a judge to decide what commission the company can charge developers on transactions that are made outside of the App Store... View Source

5 min read NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind ‘U-Turn’ Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the Sun — and how sometimes they don’t. Like a toddler, our Sun occasionally has disruptive outburst... View Source

SpaceX plans to go public in 2026 and will seek a valuation of $1.5 trillion, according to media reports... View Source

Fortnite players on Android devices in the US can once again download the game directly from the Google Play Store, not long after it returned to Apple's App Store in May. Its return comes five years after it was removed from Google's app store as Epic Games pushed back against Apple and Google's app store policies, forcing players to manually sideload it on Android devices. An Epic tweet confirmi... View Source

"Bloomberg Markets" follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today's guests: Ardian Executive President Mark Benedetti, ComScore head of Marketplace Trends Dergarabedian, Bloomberg's Anurag Rana, Kunjan Sobhani, Ed Ludlow, Emily Graffeo and Erin Hudson. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Epic Games has spent a lot of time in court over the past several years, but it seems the company's litigious era may be winding down. The company announced today that its game Fortnite is back on the Google Play mobile store in the US. Fortnite's return to Android devices means Epic's popular hit is now available on just about every gaming platform following five years of arguing a... View Source

NGC 6278 and PGC 039620 are two galaxies from a sample of 1,600 that were searched for the presence of supermassive black holes. These images represent the results of a study that suggests that smaller galaxies do not contain supermassive black holes nearly as often as larger galaxies do. The study analyzed over 1,600 galaxies that have been observed with Chandra over two decades. Certain X-ray si... View Source

SpaceX IPO confirmed for 2026 Elon personally confirmed SpaceX will go public in 2026. Raiing massive capital for space-based AI data centers. Expected to be one of the largest IPOs ever ($1.5 to $2 trillion) Space-based AI data centers are now the main mission. Earth CANNOT build power or chips fast enough → move AI ... Read more... View Source

We've seen NSFW offerings from Grok and other chatbots, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been teasing adult content within ChatGPT for a while. Now, we have a timeline. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, told reporters during a Thursday briefing about GPT-5.2 that she expects "adult mode" to debut within ChatGPT in the first quarter of 2026, adding that the company wants to get better at age p... View Source

Disney licenses iconic characters including Mickey Mouse and Cinderella to OpenAI for use on its artificial intelligence video platform and has agreed to take a $1 billion stake in the startup. Paul Dergarabedian, Head of Marketplace Trends at Comscore says the deal highlights the ‘inevitability’ of AI in entertainment, and studios will need to embrace the technology while protecting actors’ and c... View Source

OpenAI has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit after a man killed his mother and took his own life back in August, according to a report by The Verge. The suit names CEO Sam Altman and accuses ChatGPT of putting a "target" on the back of victim Suzanne Adams, an 83-year-old woman who was killed in her home. The victim's estate claims the killer, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg, e... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 Boeing ecoDemonstrator Explorer, a United Airlines 737-8, sits outside a United hangar in Houston.Boeing / Paul Weatherman Picture this: You’re just about done with a transoceanic flight, and the tracker in your seat-back screen shows you approaching your destination airport. And then … you notice your plane is... View Source

AI data centers in space will supercharge the AI Singularity to a Solar System Scale Technological Singularity. It is a 17 Singularity Richter Scale Technological Earthquake. It is well beyond Optimus and just replacing labor. The energy on earth CANNOT be built to match the energy in space. Space AI data centers will beat Optimus ... Read more... View Source

The Google Stadia Controller. December 31st, 2025 is the deadline to save the Google Stadia controller. That's less than three weeks from today - but there's never been a better time. Last month, I discovered the controller is finally a first-class citizen in Steam and SteamOS. The Stadia controller was originally designed to connect to your Wi-Fi network and remotely control games from Google's c... View Source

Ardian's Executive President Mark Benedetti tells Bloomberg the private markets remain a ‘two-speed economy,’ with AI-driven portfolio companies posting strong growth while legacy retail and consumer segments struggle. He also sees more regulation ahead as private capital reaches a broader set of investors on "Bloomberg Markets" with Dani Burger. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI's "code red" response to Google's Gemini 3 Pro has arrived. On the same day the company announced a Sora licensing pact with Disney, it took the wraps off GPT-5.2. OpenAI is touting the new model as its best yet for real-world, professional use. “It’s better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long context... View Source

The Chrome team at Google recently built a new browser. It takes a query or prompt, opens a bunch of related tabs for you, and then builds you a custom app for whatever you're trying to do. Ask it for travel tips and it'll build you a planner app; ask it for study help and it'll build you a flashcard system. It's Googling meets vibe coding. The concept is called GenTabs, and the browser is called... View Source

OpenAI is rolling out a new artificial intelligence model designed to make ChatGPT better at coding, science and a wide range of work tasks, weeks after Alphabet Inc.’s Google put the startup on defense with the well-received launch of Gemini 3... View Source

The latest experiment emerging out of Google Labs is Disco, which is the company's AI-driven approach to web browsing. The first feature for Disco is called GenTabs, built on Google's Gemini 3 model. GenTabs are interactive widgets created from a mix of user prompts, open tabs and chat history. The preview examples demonstrate how GenTabs can create a model to demonstrate entropy as... View Source

"With ALMA, we can now see the atmosphere of a dying star with a level of clarity in a similar way to what we do for the sun."... View Source

Hoto’s PixelDrive is $20 off. | Image: Hoto Hoto’s PixelDrive electric screwdriver is designed to make everyday fixes a lot easier, and now it’s seeing its first discount. You can currently buy the sleek electric screwdriver for just $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazon. Hoto PixelDrive Where to Buy: $79.99 $59.99 at Amazon Despite its small size, the cordless PixelDrive delivers an adjustable 0.5–6Nm of to... View Source

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Epic Systems Corp. for antitrust violations, accusing the healthcare software company of leveraging its control over patient medical records to maintain dominance in the market... View Source

Hamlet is having something of a renaissance in 2025. This year's edition of the Toronto International Film Festival featured three different takes on the idea, including Chloé Zhao's adaptation of the play's inspiration and Aneil Karia's rendition set in modern-day London. But the most out-there version came from Belle director Mamoru Hosoda, who transformed Shakespeare's revenge story into... View Source

Rivian Automotive Inc. has developed its own artificial intelligence chip, replacing Nvidia Corp. technology as part of a broader push to add and enhance automated-driving features in future vehicles... View Source

EV automaker Rivian just held its inaugural Autonomy and AI day which, unsurprisingly, focused extensively on hands-free driving. An upcoming software update promises the introduction of "universal hands-free" driving. The company says its vehicles will be able to autonomously navigate more than 3.5 million miles of roads in North America, "covering the vast majority of marked roads... View Source

When you manage a fleet, costs always have a way of creeping upward. And while you can’t control every variable, you can influence how efficiently your fleet runs and how much value you get out of every mile, vehicle, and dollar you invest. That’s what ROI really means in fleet management. To put it another ... Read more... View Source

The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms... View Source

Rivian announced that it was designing its own AI chips for fully autonomous driving, in a bold - if belated - move to catch up with Tesla and other automakers that have working on the technology for far longer. At an "AI and Autonomy" event at the company's office in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Rivian unveiled its own proprietary silicon chip, as well as a number of forthcoming autonomous feature... View Source

To buy into SpaceX’s audacious $1.5 trillion valuation in a listing next year, investors will need to have faith in Elon Musk’s equally galactic vision for his rocket and satellite maker, from orbital data centers to lunar factories to human settlements on Mars... View Source

Disney has accused Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale," alleging that the tech giant is training its AI tools on protected materials as well as allowing those tools to generate infringing images and videos. Variety reports that Disney attorneys sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday. “Google is infringing Disney’s copyrights on a massive scale, by copying... View Source

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When news broke last week that Meta may cut the budget of its Meta Reality Labs unit by as much as 30 percent, followed by reports that the company is delaying the release of future headsets, pundits immediately jumped on this to procl... View Source

Germany’s power security will deteriorate over the coming years, with potential shortfalls from 2031, grid operator Amprion GmbH warned... View Source

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Yu Cheng (NAOJ); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star in this image released on Sept. 10, 2025. Stellar jets, which are powered by the gravitational energy released as a star grows in mass, encode the formation history of the protostar. This... View Source

"This is the first time AI has been used to help control a robot on the ISS."... View Source

OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a 56-year-old man killed his mother and took his own life after delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed in a California court on Thursday, accuses ChatGPT of putting a "target" on the back of 83-year-old Suzanne Adams, who was killed at her Connecticut home in August. The victim's estate claims ChatGPT "validated and magnified"... View Source

European software stocks opened lower today after Oracle fell in late trading as it reported a jump in spending on AI data centers and other equipment, rising outlays that are taking longer to translate into cloud revenue than investors want. The Oracle share drop countered earlier positive sentiment across equities after Fed Chair Jerome Powell cut rates by 25 basis points, amid dissenting votes... View Source

With a new year just around the corner, now is the perfect time to take stock of your finances. A budgeting app can help with that, and right now you can get 50 percent off your first year of a Monarch Money plan. All you need to do is enter the code MONARCHVIP at checkout and you’ll pay $50 for the initial 12 months instead of the regular price of $100. Note that the offer only applies to new use... View Source

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and you’ll hear me start with the only question I think anyone should be asking any politician in the federal government right now: What the hell is going on here? Sen. Markey didn’t mince words with his answer. You’ll hear him compare the Trump administration to the fascist dystopia in Orwell’s 1984 and say that democracy itself is on... View Source

Oaktree Capital Management LP co-founder Howard Marks says interest rates don't need to go much lower than they are now. “I believe that the Fed should be passive most of the time and only come to the rescue if the economy is seriously overheated and tending toward hyperinflation or seriously underactive and not creating jobs,” Marks said on Bloomberg Surveillance. “I don’t think that’s the case r... View Source

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together."... View Source

Do you recognize this power bank? It might be recalled. | Image: INIU A company called INIU has issued a recall for its BI-B41 10,000mAh power banks because the lithium-ion batteries they use "can overheat and ignite, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers." The company has received 15 reports of the power banks overheating resulting in 11 fires causing over $380,000 in property damage and thre... View Source

Walt Disney Co. agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license iconic characters like Mickey Mouse and Cinderella to Sora, OpenAI’s short-form, artificial intelligence video platform... View Source

It looks like Disney wasted no time delivering on CEO Bob Iger’s promise to bring AI-generated content to Disney+. On Thursday, the company announced the start of a three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 of its beloved characters, including those from Star Wars and Pixar, to the Sora app and ChatGPT. With the deal in place, OpenAI users will be able to prompt ChatGPT to... View Source

The Nex Playground is a motion-controlled, cube-shaped console for ages five and up that’s selling like hotcakes. It came in third for home console sales during Black Friday week, according to sales data shared on Bluesky from Mat Piscatella of Circana, falling behind only Nintendo’s Switch 2 and Sony’s PlayStation 5. That’s an impressive feat for Nex, and not a great look for Microsoft’s Xbox con... View Source

Disney agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license iconic characters for use on the Sora generative video platform. Caroline Hyde reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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This stunning image is full of young star clusters... View Source

Andy Piazza, Senior Director, Threat Intelligence, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, joins Bloomberg’s Margi Murphy to discuss how businesses can safeguard customer finances and data amid increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and the rise of AI-driven threats at the Empowering Business Growth in the Digital Economy event in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nintendo has been slowly drip-feeding us GameCube games since the console joined its Nintendo Classics offering when the Switch 2 launched in June, and we just got another one. Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers can now play Wario’s one and only 3D platformer on the service. Wario World launched in 2003 and was developed by Treasure (Gunstar Heroes, Ikaruga). You play as Wario, the flatule... View Source

It's Game Awards season, y'all. That special time of the year when we gather together to celebrate video games and the people who make them… by watching expensive commercials briefly punctuated by the odd awards speech or musical performance. For better or worse, The Game Awards is the biggest night on the video game event calendar. But with the way things have been going, lately it's been more "w... View Source

The US Federal Reserve cut rates by a quarter percentage point for the third consecutive time. The vote was split 9-3 and details from the meeting show growing division among policymakers. The Fed maintained its outlook for just one cut in 2026, but the wording of its statement was subtly altered to suggest greater uncertainty around the timing. The US military seized an oil tanker off the coast o... View Source

After rolling it out on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, Google is finally bringing its built-in Gemini AI experience to iPhone and iPad. It offers new features like summarizing pages and helping you test your knowledge about a subject you're learning. As with any AI tool, though, it shouldn't be trusted for anything important given the possibility of hallucinations and other errors... View Source

JUICE and the Hubble Space Telescope turned their gazes towards the interstellar visitor in November... View Source

Medra, which programs robots with artificial intelligence to conduct and improve biological experiments, has raised $52 million to build what it says will be one of the largest autonomous labs in the United States... View Source

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports on the pressure Meta’s artificial intelligence researchers are under to deliver products that make money for the company... View Source

French insurer Axa SA said it’s exercising greater caution on the artificial intelligence build-out when backing financing for the sector, amid growing awareness of emerging risks in private markets... View Source

There are early signs that artificial intelligence is starting to deliver on its promise as a technology that boosts productivity, according to the Bank of England Governor... View Source

"We are only beginning to discover the true complexity of these worlds."... View Source

Entrenching generative AI into Adobe's creative software ecosystem is paying off, according to the company's latest earnings. While its share price has fallen by more than 37 percent this year at the time of writing, Adobe is reporting a bump in annual profits driven by record revenue of $23.77 billion for 2025 - an 11 percent increase year-over-year that it's largely attributing to AI. "Adobe's r... View Source

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tourists from Europe and other regions could be asked to provide a five-year social media history before given entry to the United States, according to a new proposal from the US Customs and Border Protection service (CBP). The new rule would affect visitors from countries who normally enjoy relatively easy entry to the US via the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). The new proposal... View Source

Retro gaming handheld manufacturer Ayaneo has finally revealed the design of its first Android phone, which has been teased since August. Fittingly, it too is a throwback - to 2011's Sony Ericcson Xperia Play. The Pocket Play has a screen that slides up to reveal a full set of inset physical controls, including a D-pad, ABXY fact buttons, and two circular touch pads. There are twin sets of shoulde... View Source

At least two fistfights broke out last week between PDD Holdings Inc. employees and Chinese regulators who were performing checks at the e-commerce company’s Shanghai premises, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Schneider Electric SE announced a share buyback program of as much as €3.5 billion ($4.1 billion) through 2030 as it targets growing profitability over the next five years, driven by artificial intelligence and electrification... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are intensifying their India push with a combined $52 billion in fresh investment, underscoring the country’s rising status as a key growth market for artificial intelligence, cloud services and online retail... View Source

With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea... View Source

Oracle Corp. reported a jump in spending on artificial intelligence data centers and other equipment. Fiscal second-quarter cloud sales increased 34% to $7.98 billion, while revenue in the company’s closely watched infrastructure business gained 68% to $4.08 billion. Both numbers fell just short of analysts’ estimates. Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matthew Bloxham breaks down the numbers... View Source

Deep inside a Singaporean vault that’s been dubbed “Asia’s Fort Knox,” nestled alongside fine wines and priceless paintings, is a fully-formed, 69-million-year-old triceratops skeleton — one of only 24 known specimens... View Source

Cisco Systems Inc., a bellwether stock of the dot-com technological revolution, has returned to a record after a quarter century, thanks in part to the artificial intelligence spending boom... View Source

Planet Labs PBC forecast fourth-quarter revenue growth ahead of estimates on several new and expanded contracts, momentum the company sees continuing into fiscal 2027... View Source

"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Singapore with Shery Ahn and Avril Hong, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two Chinese artificial-intelligence startups seen as possible rivals to OpenAI aim to complete their Hong Kong initial public offerings in the coming weeks... View Source

Adobe Inc. delivered an upbeat annual forecast but still drew a lukewarm reaction from investors, who have been seeking clearer signs that the software maker can thrive in an era of artificial intelligence... View Source

Oracle Corp. shares fell more than 10% in extended trading after the company reported a jump in spending on AI data centers and other equipment, rising outlays that are taking longer to translate into cloud revenue than investors want... View Source

Paramount Skydance Corp. released a letter to Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. investors Wednesday asking them to support its tender offer for the entertainment company’s shares and not the rival Netflix Inc. merger... View Source

Laura Martin, senior entertainment analyst at Needham & Co., discusses Paramount's and Netflix's competing bids for Warner Bros. Discovery, which company is more likely to win the regulatory approval for the bid, and what it means for the entertainment industry and for consumers. She joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For many of us at Engadget, a big part of our jobs is testing out new tech on a regular basis. Our desks are cluttered with new smartphones, power banks, gaming accessories and more pretty much all the time, and there are plenty of winners and losers amongst them. Similarly, there are winners and losers in the things we buy for ourselves throughout the year, and we like to sing their praises just... View Source

Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron rocket on a test flight that will advance the U.S. Air Force's point-to-point cargo transportation concept... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses how SpaceX is targeting an IPO next year, with the goal of raising far beyond $30 billion, the most in history. Plus, Meta makes a pivot on open-source models, and Nvidia pushes back on reports that DeepSeek smuggled thousands of banned Blackwell chips into China. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Back in October, OpenAI announced apps like Spotify and Canva would be accessible in ChatGPT. At the time, the company said more software was on the way, and now one of the most popular professional applications is available through the chatbot.    Starting today, you can access Photoshop, Acrobat and Adobe Express inside of ChatGPT. All the apps are free to use through OpenAI’... View Source