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Sources: Lip-Bu Tan's dual roles as Intel CEO and tech investor cause consternation in the industry and at Intel; four ex-Intel execs say it caused them to exit (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technology/lip-bu-tan-intel-ceo-investor.h…

Does the Job of C.E.O. or Private Investor Come First? Intel’s Chief Is Juggling That Question.
Lip-Bu Tan, who was appointed chief executive of Intel in March, is also a longtime venture capitalist. His dual roles have caused some consternation.

EU-Gericht senkt Strafe gegen Intel erneut
Die ursprünglich über 1 Milliarde Euro hohe Strafe gegen Intel wegen Missbrauch seiner marktbeherrschenden Stellung wurde vom EU-Gericht erneut gesenkt.
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2026 KREMLIN COLLAPSE! Ukraine intelligence scams FSB $500K sting as Trump seizes Russian tankers: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/kremlin-collapse-ukraine-intelligence-scams.html

Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving the company to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts (CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2025/intel-ai-leader-sachin-katti-dec…

Intel AI Leader Sachin Katti Decamps To OpenAI
Intel Chief Technology Officer Sachin Katti is headed to OpenAI.

The Public Media Bridge Fund awards $26M across 74 organizations that operate more than 180 public radio and TV stations (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/public-media-bridge-fund-announces-initial-round-of-grants/

Public Media Bridge Fund announces initial round of grants
The fund will provide $26 million to 74 public media organizations.

Despite worries by some that vendor reports on AI cyber threats are merely hype to sell new defensive tools, most cyber defenders and threat intel experts say CISOs who dismiss AI in the attack chain do so at their own risk.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Marcus Hutchins, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Billy Leonard of Google Threat Intelligence Group, the folks at Anthropic, Rob T. Lee of SANS Institute, Morgan Adamski of PwC, Joe Levy and Alexandra Rose of Sophos, …

Ignoring AI in the threat chain could be a costly mistake, experts warn
While some researchers dismiss reports of AI-driven cyberattacks as merely marketing messages, threat intel experts counter that CISOs ignore mounting evidence of AI use in the threat chain at their own peril.

McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

The EU's General Court reduces a 2023 EU antitrust fine on Intel to €237.1M, down from €376.36M; the EU fined Intel a record €1.06B in 2009, then overturned (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/intel…

McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company Sweetshop, after backlash that the ad is distasteful (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.