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Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/china-autonomous-cars-dr…

China Delays Plans for Mass Production of Self-Driving Cars After Accident
After years of planning for cars that would let drivers take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, China’s regulators have become more cautious.

Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T , the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's TMTG stake fell by ~$800M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Bitcoin Crash Hits Crypto Wealth of Donald Trump’s Family and Followers
In President Donald Trump’s second term, crypto assets transformed his family’s wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers — are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital currencies.

President Trump signs an EO establishing the "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research and shorten discovery timelines "from years to days or even hours" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/trump-ai-genesis-mission-doe-chris-wright<…

Trump orders wide-ranging "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research
It seeks to encourage government data sharing with industry, academia and other scientific institutions.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process for connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/trump-a…

Data center startup Crusoe raised $1.4B led by Mubadala and Valor, more than tripling its valuation to $10B in one year and taking its total funding to $3.9B (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/26b20375-8f2d-425d-aefc-75ddbfa64716

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/1…

Exclusive: Bedrock Data raises $25M to secure enterprise AI
Greylock Partners led the Series A.

NYC-based Opti, an enterprise identity security service that uses AI to analyze user, system, and access relationships, raised a $20M seed led by YL Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/…

Exclusive: Identity security startup Opti raises $20M
YL Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Hetz Ventures led the seed round.

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…

Exclusive: UnifyApps raises $50M Series B led by WestBridge Capital
Siloed systems of record and data make it harder for enterprises to adopt AI.

Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty, died Sunday at 55 in a single-car crash in Southern California (NBC Los Angeles)
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-…

Vince Zampella, video game developer behind ‘Call of Duty,' killed in Ferrari crash
Vince Zampella, former CEO of the studio behind the wildly successful Call of Duty franchise, was killed in a Ferrari crash in the LA mountains.

Instacart says it is ending all item price tests effective immediately, and won't charge different prices for the same items, after a report into the practice (Chris Wack/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business…