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Snapchat rolls out its end-of-year Recaps

The Recap is a short video that offers a personalized look at highlights from Snaps, Stories, and Chats, showing how users connected and expressed themselves throughout the year.

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Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3

The world’s top chipmaker wants open source AI to succeed—perhaps because closed models increasingly run on its rivals’ silicon.

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Google Search Live Gets a Gemini Audio Upgrade for Smoother Replies

Search Live gets an upgrade with Gemini 2.5 native audio, delivering faster, more natural voice conversations and hands-free help in the Google app. The post Google Search Live Gets a Gemini Audio Upgrade for Smoother Replies appeared first on TechRepublic.

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First Voyage raises $2.5M for its AI companion helps you build habits

First Voyage has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round from a16z speed run, SignalFire, True Global, and other investors.

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Nvidia reportedly weighs ramping up H200 production to meet surging demand in China

After successfully lobbying the Trump administration to approve the sales of its H200 chips to China, Nvidia is now thinking of adding capacity to produce more of the chips.

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Palantir CIO Jim Siders leaves to become head of Thrive Capital’s new IT services business

Siders spent more than 12 years at Palantir, recently overseeing its global IT operations, business applications and infrastructure.

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Market rotation, the Fed’s Kevins, Netflix’s ‘Star Wars’ moment and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

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Amazon apologises after showing 15-rated film to child who rented PG movie

The child’s was trying to watch Diary of a Wimpy Kid – but a film with “strong sex and sex references” played instead.

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Google‘s Data Center Dreams Get UK Boost

This marks a significant victory for the company‘s European expansion plans, but unsurprisingly there is local resistance. The post Google‘s Data Center Dreams Get UK Boost appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video’s silent problem

Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

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