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Seagate and Western Digital, with stocks each up 200%+ in 2025, will join Nasdaq 100 before the December 22 market open; GlobalFoundries will leave the index (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)
Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: Seagate and Western Digital, with stocks each up 200%+ in 2025, will join Nasdaq 100 before the December 22 market open; GlobalFoundries will leave the index — Six firms are set to join the Nasdaq 100 Index as part of its annual reconstitution, the benchmark's overseer said Friday.
In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises "significant antitrust problems" (Semafor)
Semafor: In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises “significant antitrust problems” — THE SCOOP — A key Republican senator Friday joined the mounting opposition in Washington to Netflix's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
Gene Maddaus / Variety: Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links — Disney flagged the YouTube links to the videos in its letter, and demanded that Google remove them immediately.
Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical vulnerability, including in third-party code, impacting its online services is eligible for awards (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft expands its bug bounty program so that any critical vulnerability, including in third-party code, impacting its online services is eligible for awards — Microsoft Corp. announced today that it is expanding its bug bounty program with a new policy that brings all of its online services …
OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “skills” mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs — One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic's new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement.
Internal message: SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale at $421/share, valuing the company at ~$800B, and said it's preparing for a possible IPO in 2026 (Loren Grush/Bloomberg)
Loren Grush / Bloomberg: Internal message: SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale at $421/share, valuing the company at ~$800B, and said it's preparing for a possible IPO in 2026 — SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale that values Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker at about $800 billion …
Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
Rachyl Jones / Semafor: Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery — Singapore-based ChemLex raised $45 million to build out its autonomous chemistry lab with hopes it can speed drug discovery and therapy development …
Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month — Intel Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. for about $1.6 billion including debt …
Automated digital wealth management company Wealthfront's stock closed up 1.36% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at ~$2.7B, after raising $486M in its IPO (Andrew Welsch/Barron's Online)
Andrew Welsch / Barron's Online: Automated digital wealth management company Wealthfront's stock closed up 1.36% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at ~$2.7B, after raising $486M in its IPO — Wealthfront stock trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol WLTH. Its IPO priced at the top of its expected range.
Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas — Stock price of company co-founded by ex-US energy secretary Rick Perry fell as much as 46% — Shares in data centre real estate group Fermi almost halved …
Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed (Reuters)
Reuters: Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed — Crypto group Tether said on Friday it has submitted an all-cash proposal to the holding company of the Agnelli family to buy …
Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue — OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information from medical journals and other trusted sources …
Zoom says its "federated AI" model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools (Xuedong Huang/Zoom)
Xuedong Huang / Zoom: Zoom says its “federated AI” model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools — Federated innovation driving breakthrough results in complex AI testing — In this blog — 01 Understanding the HLE challenge
David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants "semiconductor independence" and to "prop up and subsidize Huawei" (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants “semiconductor independence” and to “prop up and subsidize Huawei” — China has figured out the US strategy for allowing it to buy Nvidia Corp.'s H200 and is rejecting the AI chip …
Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge: Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps — Fallout's season one recap wrongly stated that The Ghoul's flashback takes place in the 1950s, rather than the year 2077.
Why your real estate email campaigns aren’t converting (yet)
If your database feels cold or your emails aren’t converting, try one or more of these five strategy shifts from Josh Ries. The results might surprise you.
Rate cuts, podcasts, buyer’s agents: Inman’s Top 5
Looking for a quick catch-up on the buzziest stories of the week? Here’s Inman Top 5, the most essential stories, according to Inman readers.
Interactive: A reversal in this major region stalled the inventory rally
Real estate's Great Rebalancing has entered a new chapter — one in which this summer's biggest inventory engines have become a drag on active-listing growth in the fall.
$200K per year by Year 3: From part-time agent to powerhouse
If you’re looking to go full-time in real estate, Josh Ries writes, take a page out of Emily Nguyen’s playbook: Start with service, show up with value and when the time is right, jump in all the way.
Transforming agent marketing: Task-bound to scalable systems
Troy Palmquist talks with marketing directors about the evolving role of martech and how it can empower agents to build their brand within the brokerage.