Several social media platforms are now required to shut down the accounts of teens under 16 in Australia under a new law intended to shelter children from the mental-health risks of life online. These companies are now required to take reasonable steps to enforce the new rules under threat of penalty. Parents and children won't be fined. Australia isn't alone in its effort - Malaysia, the EU, New Zealand, Florida, and other regions are also discussing similar restrictions.
2025.12.12·links.tldrnewsletter.com·8 min read·TLDR Disney is investing $1 billion into OpenAI. The three-year licensing deal will allow OpenAI's users to generate videos with Disney's characters and properties in them. The agreement includes provisions that limit what Disney characters can do in generated videos. The partnership is the result of nearly two years of talks between the two companies.
2025.12.12·links.tldrnewsletter.com·7 min read·TLDR Coinbase plans to launch the prediction markets and tokenized equities at a showcase on December 17.
2025.12.12·links.tldrnewsletter.com·2 min read·TLDR Apple created an ecosystem where the tech got out of the way and let people create and work.
2025.12.12·danielmiessler.com·2 min read·TLDR Herasight is a startup that offers embryo forecasts on disease risk and IQ.
2025.12.12·nudgedice.substack.com·15 min read·TLDR Sponsored
Planning to improve visibility in AI+SEO in 2026? Don't miss out on Semrush's EoY offer. Track keywords, LLM mentions, and impact in one
Do Kwon's offense caused real people to lose $40 billion in real money.
Hardware is the nature layer, a firm base that creates room for freedom and experimentation at the higher layers.
2025.12.12·notboring.co·20 min read·TLDR There is evidence of a language network in the human brain with similarities to large language models.
2025.12.12·quantamagazine.org·15 min read·TLDR Sponsored
AI was meant to help you focus on strategy and creativity. Instead, it's devolved into a tedious chore of managing half a dozen GPT-wrapper tools. Ahrefs is doing things differently [4]. They built the world's #34 fastest supercomputer to power LLMs and enrich data - putting AI inside the product to power new and existing capabilities [4]:
2025.12.12·ahrefs.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI OpenAI's GPT‑5.2 is optimized for professional use and long-term agent workflows. It improves performance across knowledge work, long-context reasoning, tool use, and multimodal understanding.
2025.12.12·links.tldrnewsletter.com·8 min read·TLDR AI A three-year licensing deal will let Sora and ChatGPT Image users create content with over 200 characters across Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars starting next year.
2025.12.12·cnbc.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Tensor R-Fork is a zero-copy method for rapidly transferring model weights between running instances using GPU-to-GPU data transfer. It cuts loading time, reduces disk/DRAM usage, and keeps inference services uninterrupted.
2025.12.12·lmsys.org·8 min read·TLDR AI This post proposes different research problems in machine learning research. The ideas include design-based machine learning, a theory of competitive testing, going beyond average case evaluation certainty equivalence in LLM reasoning, and open source, open corpus language models. The research areas are all doable, there just needs to be a will to do it.
2025.12.12·argmin.net·6 min read·TLDR AI AI adoption held flat for 45% of businesses in November, and there were slight declines in the finance and technology sectors. Adoption rose in several industries with relatively low adoption rates, like retail, construction, and manufacturing. The slowdown comes after a rapid run-up in adoption rates in 2025. The effects of the latest advancements seem to have faded. Another run-up in adoption will likely require technological gains or implementation gains.
2025.12.12·econlab.substack.com·5 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
Nearly 28% of business calls go unanswered, and during the holidays, that number climbs even higher. With CallRail's 24/7 AI assistant, Voice Assist [11], you can answer, capture, and qualify every call so you can keep business moving while your team enjoys time off with family and friends. Listen to Voice Assist [11] in action and try it
2025.12.12·callrail.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI Cursor released a new visual editor that integrates design and code within the Cursor Browser. Users can drag UI elements, inspect props, and make changes interactively.
2025.12.12·cursor.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Gemini Deep Research is now available to developers via the new Interactions API. It is launching alongside DeepSearchQA, a benchmark for complex web search tasks. Gemini Deep Research is an agent optimized for running context gathering and synthesis tasks. It uses Gemini 3 Pro as its reasoning core. The agent autonomously navigates complex information landscapes with high accuracy by scaling multi-step reinforcement learning for search.
2025.12.12·blog.google·4 min read·TLDR AI The Collatz conjecture is one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. It asks whether repeating two simple arithmetic operations will eventually transform every positive integer into 1. This article looks at what happens when a transformer is trained on the unsolved puzzle to study how models fail.
2025.12.12·axiommath.ai·17 min read·TLDR AI Long context windows are overrated for agentic coding. Amp's team ships features using clusters of small threads averaging 80k tokens each rather than jamming everything into one million-token mega-thread.
2025.12.12·ampcode.com·4 min read·TLDR AI OpenAI's CEO of Applications recently told reporters that ChatGPT's 'adult mode' will debut during the first quarter of next year. The company had cut back on the chatbot's personality in response to growing concerns about user mental health. It has since added additional parental controls and new efforts to age-gate younger users. The company is still testing its age verification technology to ensure it can accurately identify teens and not misidentify adults before officially rolling out the split experience.
2025.12.12·gizmodo.com·2 min read·TLDR AI The customer Broadcom signed a $10 billion order for custom chips in September has been revealed to be Anthropic. Broadcom will deliver entire server racks to Anthropic, not just chips. Anthropic has placed an additional $11 billion order with Broadcom in the latest quarter. The deal has drawn significant investor attention amid the AI infrastructure boom.
2025.12.12·cnbc.com·4 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
Creators are using a Veo-powered game generator to turn ordinary videos into playable mini-games. Early users get unlimited free generations.
2025.12.12·beam.game·Sponsor·TLDR AI Runway's GWM worlds offers an interface for digital environment exploration with real-time user input that affects the generation of coming frames.
2025.12.12·arstechnica.com·7 min read·TLDR AI Trump created an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge “onerous” state AI regulations and potentially restrict federal funding to states with their own AI laws.
2025.12.12·nbcnews.com·2 min read·TLDR AI A look at the biggest model drops of the year, China's evolving AGI discussion, the biggest swings in the US-China chip war, China's answer to the US' AI Action plan, and robots.
2025.12.12·chinatalk.media·17 min read·TLDR AI Google is actively testing two new models on LM Arena, suggesting a potential Gemini 3 Flash or Gemini 3 Pro general availability launch.
2025.12.12·testingcatalog.com·1 min read·TLDR AI The Fed cut rates by 25 bps as expected, but paired it with cautious guidance as only one more cut is penciled in for 2026. The committee had its most dissents since 2018 (9-3 votes). Markets largely ignored the rate cut, with BTC dropping back to ~$90k and ETH below $3.2k as traders read the decision as a classic “hawkish cut” rather than the start of a dovish pivot. At the same time, the Fed will buy $40B in T-bills over the next month to keep reserves ample, adding a quiet liquidity tailwind even as Powell stresses data-dependence. Spot BTC ETFs continue to see healthy inflows (BlackRock added ~$193M on Tuesday), but retail selling and macro uncertainty are keeping price action range-bound instead of delivering the hoped-for Santa rally.
2025.12.12·links.tldrnewsletter.com·3 min read·TLDR Crypto Senate Democrats delivered a counteroffer on crypto market structure legislation outlining unresolved demands on financial stability protections, ethics rules preventing elected officials from profiting off crypto projects targeting Trump family ventures, and stablecoin yield limits reflecting deposit flight fears from community banks. The White House blocked ethics provisions and Democratic commissioner nominees, according to Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis, as divisions persist over long-term CFTC/SEC oversight splits and secondary-market protections, with Democrats rejecting markup calls despite GOP assurances that the bill is nearly ready. The Senate has days left in its 2025 calendar ending next week before slipping into midterm election pressures and January 30's expiring Continuing Resolution, risking another government shutdown, while progressive groups and Senator Elizabeth Warren criticize the effort as threatening financial stability despite being sidelined by Democrats negotiating directly with Republicans.
Surf AI solves crypto's education challenge as mainstream AI models, including GPT-5, Grok 4, and Claude Opus, achieve under 70% accuracy on specific crypto data queries versus Surf's multi-agent reasoning system combining social sentiment, technical analysis, and onchain tracking. The chatbot interface delivers verified research reports addressing crypto's fragmented workflow, requiring manual API writing and Dune queries, with transparent reasoning reducing hallucination risk in a high-stakes environment where single ticker mistakes could cost millions. Founded by serial entrepreneurs from BitTorrent, Instagram, and Google who previously built and sold DLive and Cyber, Surf attracted 80,000 registered users spanning institutional investors validating theses to grassroots communities understanding token markets.
2025.12.12·links.tldrnewsletter.com·6 min read·TLDR Crypto Celo activated its Jello Hardfork on mainnet, becoming the first chain to implement OP Succinct Lite in production and launch a fully auditable DA bridge for EigenDA, which introduces ZK-powered non-interactive fault proofs for efficient dispute resolution. The upgrade includes a six-member challenger set, including five independent ecosystem participants monitoring sequencer behavior and enforcing security guarantees as Celo moves toward L2 Beat's Stage 2 decentralization criteria. The backward-compatible activation required no action from full nodes or developers while deploying a new Rust-based Celo-Kona EVM client constructed using Succinct's SP1 framework. The foundation enables Celo's Layer 2 roadmap to target greater throughput, improved Ethereum interoperability, and enhanced finality guarantees for its mobile-friendly, low-fee payment network.
You can't value Ethereum like a company or a normal L1. Instead, you have to treat it like the internet's base protocols (TCP/IP, DNS). It is a public good, so its main value comes from enabling everyone else. Ethereum should be valued based on captured value, Ethereum-dependent economic flow, and trust surplus. Captured value is the current market cap of ETH + L2s + DeFi blue chips, which is ~$0.6-0.9T today. Ethereum-dependent economic flows are like digital GDP, which is the annual value of activity that actually relies on Ethereum (e.g., stablecoins, tokenized assets, DeFi, NFTs, etc. which is capitalized at ~$0.3-3T. Trust surplus is the invisible value from lower fraud, counterparty risk, and rent extraction. It is estimated to be around $0.15-0.6T.
Nic Carter responds to Ken Chang's "I wasted 8 years in crypto" post by acknowledging that crypto largely became a casino rather than the promised financial revolution, but argues pragmatic optimism remains justified as speculation is an inevitable externality of building permissionless infrastructure. Chang's disillusionment mirrors Mike Hearn's 2016 Bitcoin exit over centralization concerns, both stemming from tension between idealistic expectations and reality, though crypto's five teloi – sound money, smart contracts, digital property, capital market efficiency, and global financial access – are advancing more slowly and less dramatically than hoped. Real progress exists in Bitcoin, stablecoins, DEXes, and prediction markets, with increasing evidence of being on the right track, requiring acceptance that hyperbitcoinization won't happen, most value may accrue to corporations or consumer surplus, and the normalization of gambling among youth is a depressing but unavoidable cost of permissionless capital markets.
2025.12.12·links.tldrnewsletter.com·12 min read·TLDR Crypto Crypto natives are undervaluing how uniquely hard it would be to recreate Ethereum's politically neutral, globally shared settlement layer. The historical window that allowed Bitcoin and Ethereum to bootstrap legitimacy with open, general-purpose launches is closed, so new L1s are competing under very different, more financialized conditions. Meanwhile, institutional behavior is quietly confirming the thesis that when banks, fintechs, and tokenization projects pick a base chain, they increasingly default to Ethereum for its reliability, neutrality, and minimized counterparty risk. As more assets, rollups, and devs pile onto the EVM and rollup stack, its network effects compound, and with Fusaka as well as sharper EF execution, Ethereum's moat is widening rather than eroding.
Aave's governance proposal to deploy on MegaETH reveals new details about the chain's incentive design. Aave Labs is slated to receive 30M MegaETH “points” for liquidity mining, with accrual and redemption happening on MegaETH's own site at the end of each ~2-month “season,” and eligibility restricted to KYC-verified users. If mainnet and Season 1 incentives start around January 2026, that schedule implies a plausible MEGA token TGE window around March or April 2026, when Season 1 points can first be redeemed.
Ethereum should be cautious about adopting Reth, a full node client funded and controlled by a single venture-backed entity (Paradigm) that's also investing in competing infra.
Pendle's stablecoin markets are now dominated by Ethena's USDe, which accounts for ~50% of yield-bearing stablecoin TVL on the platform.
Phantom's CASH stablecoin surpassed $100 million in supply two months after its September 30 launch.
SpaceX moved 1,021 BTC worth $94.5 million to two unlabeled addresses on Wednesday via Coinbase Prime, marking the ninth transfer this year totaling 8,910 BTC ($924 million).
2025.12.12·links.tldrnewsletter.com·5 min read·TLDR Crypto Figma launched three AI-powered image editing tools—Erase object, Isolate object, and Expand image—alongside a unified toolbar that consolidates existing capabilities, such as Remove background and AI generation. These features enable designers to precisely remove or isolate objects, extend backgrounds to fit different aspect ratios, and perform detailed edits without leaving the Figma canvas. The tools are available now to Full seat users on Professional, Organization, and Enterprise plans with AI enabled. Broader platform availability has been planned for next year.
Apple's next Studio Display, expected in 2026, is rumored to include three big upgrades: an A19 chip, ProMotion 120Hz, and HDR support. HDR strongly suggests Apple will swap the current LCD for a Mini-LED panel to achieve higher brightness. Even without other changes, these additions would mark a substantial improvement over today's A13-powered, 60Hz, SDR Studio Display. The launch is expected to align with high-end M5 Macs in 2026. Leaks also point to a second upcoming Apple monitor and an iPad using the same A19 chip.
Grey Goose has completed its first major redesign since 1997, with Intertype Studio modernizing the brand while preserving its French elegance. The bottle is now slimmer and lighter. The logotype and mountain scene were redrawn, the number of geese was reduced, and a bespoke typeface was introduced. Flavour-range artwork was refreshed with new outdoor oil paintings, and the new premium vodka Altius received a sculptural, glacial-inspired bottle. The update aims to balance heritage with contemporary expectations. Early results indicate the subtle evolution is landing well.
Perfectionism masquerades as a virtue but actually hinders creative success by causing procrastination, preventing completion, and ironically degrading work quality through obsessive refinement that loses the original spark. The solution lies in shifting from pursuing perfection to becoming prolific—completing projects quickly and moving on to the next, which accelerates skill development and, paradoxically, improves overall quality. Embracing a "done for now" mindset and treating creativity like tending a garden rather than chiseling stone allows greatness to emerge naturally through abundant creation.
AI coding agents, already writing the majority of code at companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, offer designers new capabilities beyond traditional prototyping. Designers can now fix production bugs directly, learn system architecture by observing agent processes, and better determine when engineering collaboration is needed. These tools require a deep understanding of the codebase to work effectively, with context engines optimized for complex codebases being essential to success.
Designers are baffled after Marco Rubio ordered the US State Department to abandon Calibri and return to Times New Roman, framing the move as undoing a “wasteful DEIA program.” The design community sees the idea of a “woke font” as absurd, and many argue the switch is a backwards step—Times New Roman was made for old printing conditions, while Calibri was chosen for modern screen readability. Even Calibri's designer called the decision “amusing and regrettable,” and most observers note that what's truly wasteful is changing the default font twice in two years.
Generate amazing watermark-free AI videos from text or images with Dreamlux AI video generator.