Samsung and ASML collaborate to develop next-generation EUV lithography photomasks.

According to Bloomberg, the latest financial disclosure documents show that Steve Witkoff, special envoy to U.S. President Donald Trump, received $107 million in income from a holding company in 2025. The documents did not disclose the specific value and returns of the holding company’s underlying assets.

According to Bloomberg, the top executive of Kioxia Holdings denied the possibility of forging closer cooperation with rival and shareholder SK Hynix, noting that it will curb the rapid rise in memory chip prices to avoid hurting long-term demand in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Currently, memory chip makers are expanding production capacity to meet surging orders from AI service providers, which has driven a sharp increase in prices of related chips. Some investors argue that forming a manufacturing partnership could help reduce the risks associated with large-scale capital expenditures.

Beating AI Insight News Brief: The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a joint report naming DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Zhipu AI. The U.S. accuses these entities of mass-calling outputs from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok to train their own models since at least the end of 2024, involving millions of requests and billions of tokens in total. The report also lists specific models: DeepSeek is accused of using multiple Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok models to generate training data for its R1 and V3; Moonshot AI is accused of using Claude Fable 5 data to train its Kimi K3 and GPT-4o data to train Kimi K2. The U.S. alleges these companies also bypassed regional restrictions via numerous accounts, third-party API aggregators, and unregulated "middlemen", and used prompts to try to extract the models' hidden reasoning processes. The report terms such behavior "malicious distillation". Distillation is a common model training method, but the U.S. targeted unauthorized large-scale calls and access restriction circumvention in this case.

According to official announcements, Coinbase’s token listing roadmap currently includes two assets: Dolphin (POD) and Concrete (CT). Dolphin is deployed on Base, while Concrete is an Ethereum ERC-20 token.

Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT.US) has teamed up with New Jersey-based investment firm Yorkville America to officially launch seven exchange-traded funds (ETFs) under the "Truth Social" brand, which are listed on the New York Stock Exchange as of December 30, 2025. The seven ETFs have a combined assets under management (AUM) of approximately $150 million. Five of the funds are newly created, each focusing on defense security, space and AI, leading U.S. brands, energy security, and "red state" real estate trusts respectively, with stock codes TSSD, TSFN, TSIC, TSES, and TSRS in sequence. The other two were renamed from established conservative ETFs, namely the America First ETF (ticker: MAGA) and the God Bless America ETF (ticker: YALL). In terms of investment strategy, the funds prioritize allocating to companies that benefit core U.S. economic sectors, while deliberately avoiding firms perceived as overly promoting social activism. Their holdings include leading enterprises such as Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, The Home Depot, and Walmart. Trump Media itself does not participate in the funds' management or stock selection; it only licenses the brand to Yorkville America and generates revenue through brand licensing fees. Each of the five new funds currently has an AUM of less than $10 million, and their market popularity remains to be seen.

Beating AI News Brief: Meta launches personal agent Muse. Its key differentiators from OpenClaw and Hermes are that it requires no self-deployment and eliminates the hassle of managing models, servers or skills. Meta provides a standalone cloud environment for Muse, accessible via its app, web interface or WhatsApp. Compared to Grok Bot, Muse does not prioritize managing multiple agents at once, positioning itself as a long-term personal assistant instead. It is most similar to Instinct, but Muse integrates directly with Meta’s own accounts, apps and upcoming AI glasses. Another core focus of Muse is security: sensitive data such as passwords and bank card details are not directly shared with the agent, while payments and high-risk operations require separate confirmation.