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A pirate activist group extracted Spotify’s entire music catalog and released approximately 300 terabytes of audio files and metadata across peer-to-peer networks. Anna’s Archive documented the leak on Thursday, covering 86 million audio files and 256 million rows of track metadata that represent roughly 99.6 percent of all listening activity on the platform.
Spotify conducted an investigation...
Jacobio Pharma granted AstraZeneca exclusive global development and commercialization rights to its experimental pan-KRAS inhibitor JAB-23E73 in a licensing agreement announced December 21 with a potential total value of up to $2.015 billion.
The Hong Kong-listed biotech firm detailed the agreement terms on December 21. Jacobio will receive a $100 million upfront payment. The company remains...
Google announced an extension to its timeline for retiring Assistant from most Android phones beyond the end of 2025, replacing it with Gemini to ensure a seamless transition for users.
The company originally planned to remove Assistant from most Android phones by the end of 2025. This change followed the launch of Gemini, which incorporates capabilities previously handled by Assistant. Google...
Sony Honda Mobility, a joint venture between Sony and Honda formed to produce electric vehicles, announced that its Afeela model will integrate PS Remote Play functionality. This feature enables drivers while parked and passengers to access PlayStation games streamed from PS5 and PS4 consoles directly to the vehicle’s infotainment system display.
The system supports seamless resumption of...
There’s a hidden fault line running through the AI industry that determines which products succeed and which fail, which companies capture value and which get disrupted, which use cases transform workflows and which languish in pilot purgatory. This fault line isn’t about model architecture or training data — it’s about a fundamental design choice that often goes unnamed: intelligence-first vs....
SpaceX has lost control of Starlink satellite 35956 in low Earth orbit at 418 km (260 miles) altitude following an anomaly that caused it to fall back to Earth. The incident involved sudden loss of communications, a drop in altitude, venting of the propulsion tank, and release of a small number of trackable low-relative-velocity objects.
SpaceX described the sequence of events, stating the...
A Tel Aviv-based security firm, Koi, investigated Urban VPN Proxy, a Google Chrome extension with six million users and a featured badge from Google. The probe revealed executor scripts harvesting user conversations from AI platforms for sale to data brokers.
Koi researcher Idan Dardikman detailed the extension’s operations beyond standard VPN functions. Urban VPN Proxy, published by Urban Cyber...
Samsung Foundry finalized a contract with Elon Musk’s xAI to manufacture custom AI chips at its Taylor, Texas fabrication facility, sources familiar with the matter report. The agreement follows a $16.5 billion chip-manufacturing deal with Tesla announced in July.
Samsung ordered three advanced extreme ultraviolet lithography machines from Dutch equipment maker ASML for the Taylor plant. Each...
Honda announced production suspensions at several Japanese sites on January 5 and 6, with reduced operations until January 9, due to a shortage of legacy chips from Nexperia, stemming from a Dutch government seizure of the company from its Chinese owner Wingtech over illegal technology transfer concerns.
The Japanese automaker specified that three factories in China would close from December 29...
Tesla is preparing for a convergence of automotive and space technology. According to a recent patent filing published on December 4, 2025, the electric vehicle giant is exploring ways to integrate satellite antennas—likely for SpaceX’s Starlink—directly into the roofs of its cars. The patent, titled “Vehicle Roof Assembly with Radio Frequency Transparent Material,” outlines a method to hide...