Re/code Daily - For Google, a 2016 War Over Artificial Intelligence Lies Ahead

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•	The Wall Street Journal's John Carreyrou, who first reported about the tech setbacks at blood-testing unicorn Theranos back in October, has more sordid details in a new piece. He writes that Theranos effectively hid its proprietary tech from FDA inspectors, and that executives quashed internal criticism of the company's practices. [John Carreyrou \| The Wall Street Journal]
•	Google had the first well-received intelligent assistant app with Google Now, but Facebook turned a lot of heads with its flashy AI-powered and human-"trained" Messenger chatbot, M. Google has raised the stakes with its significant investment in Now and AI technology and will go to war in 2016 against Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and a whole industry that's increasingly obsessed with more "intelligent" software. [Mark Bergen \| Re/code]
•	The Chinese legislature has approved an antiterrorism measure that's loathed by U.S. tech companies and government, a bill long-criticized for requiring businesses to let Chinese authorities decrypt user information. [Chris Buckley \| The New York Times]
•	The FAA's drone regulations, which include mandatory registration for consumers, seem too strict to much of the tech industry. But they pale in comparison to many local ordinances, which is awkwardly putting the FAA on the side of Silicon Valley companies. [Cecilia Kang \| The New York Times]
•	On this week's "Re/code Decode" podcast interview with Kara Swisher, Glu Mobile CEO Niccolo de Masi explains why the Kardashian family is "living and breathing intellectual property." He would know: His company is responsible for a number of mobile gaming hits, such as "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood." [Eric Johnson \| Re/code]