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Daily Mail owner DMGT strikes a £500M deal with RedBird IMI to buy Telegraph titles, in a deal likely to trigger an in-depth investigation by Ofcom and the CMA (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/22…

Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-hume-ai-ceo-licensing-deal-gemini/

Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

heise | Vom Flügel zur Diele: Wo das Recycling von Windrädern steht
Alte Windräder sind ein Rohstoffschatz, für den Müll viel zu schade. Beim Recycling klemmt es. Materialmangel, Kosten und fehlende Daten bremsen den Kreislauf.

What is the Chagos deal?
Last year, Sir Keir agreed a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius,
while retaining control of the UK-US military base on the island of Diego Garcia.
In return, the UK has been promised a 99-year lease on the base,
in return for an average annual fee of £101m in current prices.
The government estimates this will mean a total cost of £3.4bn.
These islands are currently governed by the UK as the
"British India…

What is the UK’s Chagos Islands deal and why has Trump labelled it ‘great stupidity’?
The US president has appeared to change his view on the deal

Dit is de essentie "Groenland is deel van Noord-Amerika, het is ons grondgebied.” , dus geen compromis mogelijk, hooguit onderhandelen over het "hoe" volgens Trump.
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‘Groenland is deel van Noord-Amerika, het is ons grondgebied’, zegt Trump in Davos
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft tijdens zijn speech in Davos opnieuw gezinspeeld op het innemen van Groenland. Maar hij wil daarvoor geen geweld gebruiken, verzekerde hij. Groenland hoort nu eenmaal bij het continent Amerika, zei Trump bij het World Economic Forum in de Zwitserse wintersportplaats. „Groenland is deel van Noord-Amerika, het is ons grondgebied.” De president zei dat hij…

The BBC confirms a "strategic partnership" with YouTube to produce exclusive content, including news and kids shows, a landmark deal for the UK broadcaster (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/bbc-confirms-landmark-youtube-deal-…

BBC Confirms Landmark YouTube Deal
The arrangement includes new BBC channels on YouTube and Winter Olympics coverage

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
BIOS-Sicherheitslücke: Schadcode-Attacken auf Dell-Server möglich

Sources: Meta plans to test an AI-powered personalized daily briefing, designed to compete with ChatGPT's Pulse, with some Facebook users in NYC and SF (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/21/meta-ai-powered-daily…

Meta is building an AI-powered morning brief in push to compete with ChatGPT
Meta is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized, AI-powered briefing of information relevant to their daily lives.

Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/20/it-f

'It felt so wrong': Colin Angle on iRobot, the FTC, and the Amazon deal that never was | TechCrunch
The iRobot founder opens up about the 18-month regulatory process that he says doomed the Roomba maker -- and what it means for American innovation.

A look at Craig Federighi's approach to AI at Apple; sources say he led a push to use other companies' models to help launch a revamped Siri later in 2026 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-deal-apples-…

With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI
Last fall, Apple’s software chief, Craig Federighi, delivered a warm message to a meeting of the company’s combined software and AI groups. Federighi said he was excited about deeper collaboration between his software team and Apple’s AI group. But then came Federighi’s criticism. He added that ...