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- We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher
- Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram
- LWiAI Podcast #228 - GPT 5.2, Scaling Agents, Weird Generalization
- Sam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs… With an Absolutely Hilarious Error
- AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun
- Terence Tao proposes "artificial general cleverness" as a more honest label for what AI actually does
- Flexible position encoding helps LLMs follow complex instructions and shifting states
- Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default for search and slashes reasoning costs
- Nvidia's Nemotron 3 swaps pure Transformers for a Mamba hybrid to run AI agents efficiently
- Gemini 3 Flash arrives with reduced costs and latency — a powerful combo for enterprises
- Fifa video game to return after four years in Netflix exclusive
- Technology M&A: AI infrastructure and regulation redefine the deal cycle
- OpenAI Updates ChatGPT Images Tool
- Robotic arm successfully learns 1,000 manipulation tasks in one day
- AI gets a private tutor for learning human preferences more accurately
- New analog computing method slashes AI training energy use
- AI-generated audio fills in the gaps for glitch-free music experiences
- The Real Cost of Inaction: How Silos Hurt Productivity for Data Scientists (Sponsored)
- The $10 billion loop: Amazon could pay OpenAI so OpenAI can pay Amazon
- Nvidia Aims to Bolster HPC With Acquisition
- ChatGPT gets a new image generator
- Joe Rogan Keeps Playing AI-Generated Music for Guests, But He’s Speechless When One of Them Points Out That Podcasts Can Be AI-Generated Too
- Building AppSec for the AI Development Era
- Radiant Logic Wins 2025 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award
- Valerie Health Secures $30M to Expand AI Front Office for Providers
- TetraScience and Organon Collaborate on QC Data Modernization
- How to Handle Large Datasets in Python Even If You’re a Beginner
- NVIDIA picks CloudThat as First Education Services Partner in India
- Why Branding Remains a Key Challenge for India’s Greenfield GCCs
- New memristor-based converter boosts energy efficiency in AI hardware
- Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
- Mistral launches OCR 3 to digitize enterprise documents, touts 74% win rate and $2-per-1,000-page pricing
- AI is moving to the edge – and network security needs to catch up
- Tech Life
- Skana Robotics helps fleets of underwater robots communicate with each other
- AI agents fail 63% of the time on complex tasks. Patronus AI says its new 'living' training worlds can fix that.
- Podcast: Is Wiping a Phone a Crime?
- 5 Data Privacy Stories from 2025 Every Analyst Should Know
- OpenAI's GPT-5 router rollback shows why AI requires unlearning old habits
- How Mumbai Keeps Winning India’s Data-Centre Race
- Google’s new AI agent ‘CC’ is here to take over your daily grind
- “I Guess They Used AI or Something”: Trump Says BBC Journalists Deepfaked “Words in My Mouth, Literally”
- 2026: The Year AI Rebuilds the Digital Ecosystem From the Inside Out
- Persistent, DigitalOcean Partner to Make AI Accessible, Scalable
- How Oracle Lost $400 Bn in Market Cap in Just 3 Months
- Boeing-Backed Wisk Tests its First Autonomous eVTOL for Passenger Flight
- This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
- ‘Music needs a human component to be of any value’: Guardian readers on the growing use of AI in music
- Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the bleak new age of job hunting | Eleanor Margolis
- AI toys are suddenly everywhere - but I suggest you don't give them to your children | Arwa Mahdawi
- Sycomp Data Storage Platform Now Available on Google Cloud Toolkit
- Lightbits Labs Unveils Intelligent Cluster Management
- Percona Launches Percona Packages
- The World’s First AI Orchestrator Data Platform for Healthcare Launches
- BCI Recognized as the 2025 Sherweb Ambassador Award Winner in the USA
- A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘human-made’
- OpenAI answers Google with major image upgrade
- OpenAI to Use Amazon’s AI Chips as Part of New $10 Bn Deal: Reports
- Zuppa Geo Navigation, IISc Bengaluru Set Up Drone Centre of Excellence
- This AI Startup Wants to Make Calls Inclusive With Sign Language Translation
- Bristol Myers Squibb, Accenture Launch AI-Powered Content Hub in Mumbai
- Coforge Launches ‘Data Cosmos’ to Accelerate Enterprise Data Transformation
- Apple in Early Talks with Indian Chipmakers to Assemble iPhone Chips
- Digantara Raises $50 Mn to Expand Space Surveillance
- Grok spews misinformation about deadly Australia shooting
- Bulletproof Achieves Fortinet Expert Partner Status, Expands Specializations
- Palo Alto Networks Warns AI Is Expanding Cloud Attack Surfaces
- Vectra AI Ushers Continuous Control Across the Hybrid Attack Lifecycle
- BrowserStack Announced the Launch of Test Failure Analysis Agent
- MemVerge Expands MemMachine Ecosystem and AI Memory System Capabilities
- Robots Don’t Get Smart in Labs
- Zepto Cafe Now Lets You Order via AI Models
- Google Launches CC, an AI Agent to Manage Email and Daily Tasks
- Evocative Raises Financing to Fuel Continued Growth
- LevelBlue Expands Tenable Partnership for Unlimited Vulnerability Scanning
- Reading Between the Lines of Chinese LLMs
- MachineCon GCC Summit 2026 Returns to Goa as the Most Outcome-Driven Gathering for Global Capability Center Leaders
- TCS plans to raise UP workforce to 30,000, proposes AI City
- Propel DesignHub Solves Multi-CAD Integration Challenges
- This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan
- OpenAI Launches GPT-Image-1.5 to Take on Google NanoBanana Pro
AI RESEARCH
- Custom AI Agent Development for Autonomous Business Intelligence
- CopilotKit: Building AI Assistants That Actually Live Inside Your App
- Your AI Agent Is Failing in Production — Here’s Why (And How Top Teams Fixed It)
- Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT
- Data Mesh in Healthcare and How It Can Support GenAI: Bridging Theory and Reality
- Quantum Machine Learning (QML): Bridging Quantum Physics and Intelligent Systems
- I Built 23 AI Projects Before Realizing None Of Them Solved Real Problems
- The Hidden Truth About AI That Nobody Tells You (And Why It Changes Everything)
- OpenAI at QCon AI NYC: Fine Tuning the Enterprise
- A “scientific sandbox” lets researchers explore the evolution of vision systems
- LLM fine-tuning: LoRA vs full fine-tuning — a comparison
- Using Simulations to Tame Everyday Life’s Uncertainties
- The Ethical Nightmare Era of AI: Why Organizations Need New Frameworks for Risk, Culture, and…
- Salesforce Built a Framework That Auto-Optimizes Your LLM Prompts
- A new way to increase the capabilities of large language models
- Building enterprise AI agents: Frontline lessons with TrueFoundry
- JSON Is Quietly Making Your LLM App Expensive. Now TOON is the Fix.
- How We Built Meta Ray-Ban Display: From Zero to Polish
- Introducing OpenAI Academy for News Organizations
- Text Summarization: 3 Powerful Techniques for Large Documents
- Deep Learning for Heritage Conservation: A Transfer Learning Framework for Detecting Structural…
- The World Model Minefield: A Guide for AI Teams
- The Open Evaluation Standard: Benchmarking NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo Evaluator
- Building an Agentic AI GitHub Investigator: Repo Intelligence with the OpenAI Agent SDK + GitHub…
- The Sequence AI of the Week #773: The Week Google Turned Gemini Into an Agent Runtime
- Article: NextGen Search - Where AI Meets OpenSearch Through MCP
- Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining
- TornadoVM 2.0 Brings Automatic GPU Acceleration and LLM support to Java
AI TOOLS
CLOUD AI
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Now generally available: Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances
- Amazon ECR Public now supports PrivateLink for US East (N. Virginia) SDK Endpoint
- AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) AWS Region
- AWS Marketplace now supports mandatory purchase orders and custom messaging
- AWS announces enhanced custom line item controls for AWS Billing Conductor
- Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announces additional health and performance metrics
- EC2 Auto Scaling now offers a synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
- AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Asia Pacific(Hyderabad) and Europe(Paris)
- AWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
- Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional regions
- Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions
- Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a new multi-tier storage
- AWS Security Incident Response is now available in ten additional AWS Regions
- Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
- Amazon Redshift Serverless announces the general availability of dual-stack mode supporting IPV6
- Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g, R8g instances now available in additional regions
- AWS Databases are now available on the Vercel Marketplace
- Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database preview environment
- Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in Europe (Zurich)
- Amazon OpenSearch Service announces new OI2 instances
CLOUD BUSINESS
- The OnePlus 15R sets a new record for battery at a price that's cheaper than Samsung and Google
- Get 50% off Samsung VXT digital signage cloud software - here's how
- Breaking Data Team Silos Is the Key To Getting AI to Production
- Run AI Agents in the Browser With the Hashbrown Framework
- Kubernetes 1.35 “Timbernetes” Introduces Vertical Scaling
- Can your shopping bot be trusted? How Visa will ensure scam-free AI transactions
- Hopping online at the airport? Cellular may be faster than Wi-Fi - here's why
- Comcast's new TV plans have no contracts and hidden fees - here's how they work
- I replaced my bedroom TV with this $170 Roku projector and don't regret it
- Async Programming in Rust: Understanding Futures and Tokio
- Let’s Make Hardened Images the Seatbelts of Software
- Google's latest AI tool briefs you on your day like a personal assistant - for free
- I was skeptical of this minimalist wallet, but this genius feature sold me
- How to Run OLAP and OLTP Together Without Resource Contention
- Google’s New Gemini 3 Flash Rivals Frontier Models at a Fraction of the Cost
- Do sleep earbuds actually work? This pair that I tested for weeks made the answer clear
- Google Maps just got its biggest upgrade in years, and it changes how you navigate (for the better)
- You can try Google's new Gemini 3 Flash AI model today for free - it's even in Search's AI Mode
- Why I reach for this budget Android tablet over my iPad for entertainment now
- I thought Bose had perfected noise canceling - then I listened to these headphones
- This $700 OnePlus phone just embarrassed my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra's battery
- AI Coding Tools in 2025: Welcome to the Agentic CLI Era
- Docker Sets Free the Hardened Container Images
- Own a Roku TV? My 20+ best shortcuts to get the most out of the system
- MacBook Pro vs. MacBook Air: Which Apple laptop you should buy, according to experts
- I tested the new ChatGPT Images - it's a stunning improvement, and enormously fun
- PC experts warn against using your router's USB port - here's what to do instead
- 5 ways to scour the dark web for your data after Google kills its free report
- Turning this tiny laptop into a Linux work machine was one of the best decisions I've made
- How to clear your MacBook cache (and wipe out lag for good)
- I compared the two best ANC earbuds by Apple and Bose, and there's a sonic difference
- Get 10% off new Squarespace plans right now - here's how
- These $50 earbuds have no business sounding this good for the price
- When is the best time to book a flight? Google has a new answer (and some spicy data)
- The 11 Microsoft apps I ditch on every new Windows install - and the 11 I keep
- Changing these 5 TV settings helped cut my electricity bill - and I didn't miss a thing
- I test AI for a living, and these 3 free tools are the ones I used most in 2025
- The tech products ZDNET staffers couldn't live without this year
- These are the longest-lasting earbuds I've tested - and they're only $30
CLOUD SECURITY
- Why Venture Capital Is Betting Against Traditional SIEMs
- The Hidden Cost of “AI on Every Alert” (And How to Fix It)
- Security Hub CSPM automation rule migration to Security Hub
- Complying with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Cloud Advisory: How Tenable Can Help
- Inside the Global Airline that Eliminated 14,600 SaaS Security Issues with AppOmni
- Cybersecurity Crossed the AI Rubicon: Why 2025 Marked a Point of No Return
- Turning Vague Customer Problems into Validated AI Opportunities
- How Passkeys Work (Explained Simply)
- Google Chrome Extension is Intercepting Millions of Users’ AI Chats
- The 12 Months of Innovation: How Salt Security Helped Rewrite API & AI Security in 2025
- Deterministic AI vs. Generative AI: Why Precision Matters for Automated Security Fixes
- SHARED INTEL Q&A: This is how ‘edge AI’ is forcing a rethink of trust, security and resilience
- Securing the AI Revolution: NSFOCUS LLM Security Protection Solution
- How can NHIs scale security in cloud-native environments
- Why is secrets management vital for Agentic AI operations
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- 2025-12-17 Daily Robotics News
- Memory Game – LiveHTML | Okan Kaplan
- 7x7 Snake Game – LiveHTML | Okan Kaplan
- Green Technology and Sustainable IT: Building a Responsible Digital Future
- Title: Global Music Web Radio – Interactive Online Player | LiveHTML.net
- C# Conditionals Mental Model — From `if (x > 0)` to LLM‑Ready Decisions
- How to Debug LeetCode Solutions When Test Cases Fail: A Systematic Approach
- 🛡️ Building a CASB‑Like Threat Monitoring Lab in AWS (Beginner Friendly)
- LIVEHTML.net Sudoku Generator
- Verification Nodes: The Difference Between Playable and Production Agents
- I Built an AI Studying Website as a Student — Meet Studex AI
- Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
- India’s Air pollution is a serious problem, so here is how to build simple AQI monitor using Rust
- How I Built Real-Time Dashboards for Claude Code Metrics with OTEL, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Automate AI and HPC clusters with Cluster Director, now generally available : The complexity of the infrastructure behind AI training and high performance computing (HPC) workloads can really slow teams down. At Google Cloud, wh...
- [In preview] Public Preview: Use Azure SRE Agent with Azure Cosmos DB
- [In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files advanced ransomware protection
- [In preview] Public Preview: Service Bus SDK type bindings in Azure Functions for Node.js
- Why Most SaaS MVPs Fail in the First 90 Days (and How to Fix It)
- Automating code security in CI/CD: SonarCloud SAST guide (Part 3)
- 🛡️ Building a Mini Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Lab Using AWS Security Hub + AWS Config
- Cloud Computing Unveiled: A Beginner's Dive
- Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025 : For most organizations, the question is no longer if they will use AI, but how to scale it from a promising prototype into a production-grade service ...
- Microsoft Ignite 2025: Copilot, Agents e a “Frontier Firm”! O que muda para arquitetos de solução
- How Sync SaaS Metrics Improve Revenue Visibility and Operational Clarity
- Multi-tenant Loki on Kubernetes
- AWS Knowledge Bases: Building Intelligent, Context-Aware Applications at Scale
- Introducing Gemini 3 Flash: Intelligence and speed for enterprises : Today, we’re expanding the Gemini 3 model family with Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. Ge...
- Built an AI Terminal Assistant Because I Got Tired of Googling "Tar" Flags
- Building Daily Stand-Up Generator using Pieces API - Part 1: The SDK overview
- Gateway Integration Agent: How We Cut Payment Gateway Integration Time from Weeks to Days
- 9 Lesser-Known AI Productivity Tools You Wish You Knew Earlier 🔥⚡️
- How to Reduce LLM Costs by 40% in 24 Hours (2025)
- Claude Code vs. Cursor vs. Copilot: Why the Future of Coding lives in the Terminal
- Deconstructing the Hype: 5 AI Sales Myths We Need to Kill with Code
- Main Branch: A Newsletter About Fundamentals First Always
- Vibe Coding hit a wall: How I fixed $0.30/error OOMs and cut AI costs by 70%
- Stop Screenshotting Emails Into Figma
- From Azure VMs to AWS EC2 — Learning Compute Across Clouds
- AI Developer Tools for Productivity: The 2026 Guide
- Build Production-Ready Go APIs 10x Faster in 2026: The AI-First Developer’s Guide
- AI Tools for Developer Productivity: Hype vs. Reality in 2025
- I Tried Building an AI Agent and It Failed Halfway Through. Here's Why
- How to Make Your AI Strictly Follow Rules: Building a Robust Rule System
- How Generative AI Is Transforming Healthcare
- The Rise of AI-Augmented Teams: A Look into the Future of Work
- How we made email authentication actually usable inside editors and AI agents
- SQL Access for AI Agents — Flexibility with Guardrails
- AI Background Remover: How AI Detects Objects and Separates Backgrounds
- Node-gyp Errors? A Complete Guide to Fixing npm Install Failures
- Oracle 23ai's Phantom Vector Memory: A Troubleshooting Guide
- Unlock your email potential with Schema.org
- 🚀Node.js Microservices: Zero to Cloud (Complete Hands-on Series)
- I Completed 45 Lambda Function Exercises (And I'm Still a Beginner!)
- 15 AWS EMR Cost Optimization Tips to Slash Your EMR Spending (2025)
- Export Your Brain: A Simple Way To Make Any AI “Know You” From Day One
- Docker Compose How to Set Environment Variables
- Advent of AI - Day 12: MCP Sampling
- Mastering Cloud Security: A Strategic Guide to Securing Your AWS Environment
- 💻 AWS 106: The Moment of Truth! Launching Your First EC2 Instance
- Implementing Semantic Search with pgvector + OpenAI Embeddings
DEVOPS
- DevOps for GenAI Toronto Edition Hackathon: Unlocking New Opportunities
- Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)
- CNCF Welcomes 12 New Silver Members Emphasizing a Growing Need for Observability and Automation
- Analysis Surfaces Rising Wave of Software Defects Traced to AI Coding Tools
- A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
- KubeVirt undergoes OSTIF security audit
- Observability, SRE and Uptime in Telehealth Platforms: A DevOps Playbook
ENTERPRISE TECH
- How agentic AI is helping non-profits thrive in difficult economic times : Blue Star Families is introducing an AI agent to increase efficiency and improve data quality, while Pacific Clinics has rolled its agent out to boost...
- How Workday plans to thrive in the clash of the titans - Gerrit Kazmaier, President of Product & Technology, reveals the battleplans : Nine months in, Kazmaier looks to a titanic future in a market whose potential is largely untapped to date.
- How Boden cut IT costs 10% and survived a crisis by migrating from legacy e-commerce to Shopify : British clothing retailer Boden migrated from its home-brewed e-commerce platform to Shopify after years of financial struggle, achieving a 10% reduct...
- How Nestlé is putting the ingredients in place for embedded AI with three-stage S/4HANA upgrade : Food and beverage firm expects wide-ranging benefits from SAP AI and Joule
FINANCIAL
- Trump Health Concerns: 'Healthiest' POTUS Claims Physician Rated Him Above Biden And Obama
- Whoopi Goldberg Fury: Host Slams Trump, Tells Silent Republicans 'D--- You All' On Air
- Second Near-Collision With U.S. Military Jets in Days Exposes Growing Airspace Risks Near Venezuela
- Rob Reiner Murder: Hotel Staff Claim Room Shower Was 'Full Of Blood' After Murder
- Instacart shares drop on report that FTC is probing company over AI pricing tool
- 'They're Already Here': Uri Geller Claims NASA Is Hiding Alien Bodies Linked to 3I/ATLAS
- Trump's 'Eyes Closed' During Meetings 'Leaves Aides Scrambling' Over President's Health and Stability
- The Odds Are 1 in 40,000: Avi Loeb Explains 3I/ATLAS' Impossible Alignment
- Micron Technology Non-GAAP EPS of $4.78 beats by $0.82, revenue of $13.64B beats by $760M
- VITEC, Actelis Networks partner to deliver IPTV over RF-only infrastructure
- Micron ticks up as Q1 results, guidance blow past estimates
- Salesforce to acquire Qualified
- Micron forecasts surging revenue as computer memory demand for AI remains high
- Lunai Bioworks: Year-End Partnering Momentum & Stock Setup
- Why I Created a Plant-Based Hunger Relief Alternative to Livestock Gifting Campaigns
- Microsoft Azure AI margins are positive, revenue likely to top estimates: MS
- Cramer slams Amazon for considering a circular AI deal reminiscent of the dotcom bubble
- Tucker Carlson Claims Trump Plans to Announce War During Address to Nation
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Again Slams Trump, Says 'He's Got Real Problems With Republicans'
- Docusign possible of reaching, surpassing 10% ARR growth, Needham says
- Dell to acquire AI-data startup Dataloop in $120M deal - report
- Amazon says AI chief Rohit Prasad is leaving, Peter DeSantis to lead 'AGI' group
- BlackBerry Q3 earnings on deck: What to expect
- UBS survey shows slow AI adoption, but OpenAI and Microsoft stay ahead
- Google launches its faster AI model Gemini 3 Flash
- Nvidia, Broadcom, Astera Labs among Morgan Stanley's top chip stocks for 2026
- Xiaomi's rating cut to Hold at Jefferies
- Five9 appoints Amit Mathradas as next CEO
- Nutanix launches $300M accelerated share repurchase program
- Oracle stock dips 6% on report Blue Owl Capital won't back $10 billion data center
- Apple punted on AI this year. Next year will be critical
- AOC Slams Rubio and Hegseth's Briefing On Strikes Against Alleged Drug Vessels: 'It Was a Joke'
- Twilio in focus as BTIG starts with Buy rating
- Palo Alto Networks sees bullish views at J.P. Morgan amid CyberArk acquisition
- Quantum Computing names Dr. Huang as permanent CEO
- Atlassian ticks up as BTIG starts with Buy rating
- Western Digital, Apple see bullish views as Morgan Stanley highlights IT Hardware 2026 outlook
- Oracle’s $10 bln Michigan data centre faces funding uncertainty after Blue Owl talks stall
- Canaan authorizes new $30M share buyback program
- Mozilla Pushes Firefox Towards AI — Loyal Users Warn It Risks Losing Its Soul
- IRS Eases Health Savings Account Eligibility Under Trump's Bill Amid Uncertainty Over ACA Subsidies
- Donald Trump Risks Sworn Questioning Over January 6 In High-Stakes BBC Lawsuit
- Vanity Fair Trump Spread Draws Praise For Showing Power Figures at Their 'Worst'
- Maduro Calls Trump's Oil Tanker Crackdown 'Interventionist and Colonialist', Says 'Venezuela Will Never Again Be a Colony'
- 'Unfit to Lead': Pressure Builds to Oust Kash Patel Over Claims He Prioritised Spotlight Over Security
- AI Agents Will Buy Your Groceries in 2026 — But 80% of Shoppers Were Targeted by Scams Last Year
- Airtel Africa Joins Starlink to Deliver Direct-to-Cell Service Where Towers Don't Reach
- Meta's $70B Metaverse Black Hole Signals Tech Bubble Warning — Is AI the Next Wipeout for Your Portfolio?
- 3I/ATLAS Update: Harvard Astronomer Claims Comet's Anti-Tail Could Be Alien Spacecraft
- AppLovin is 'dominant' in mobile ads, but Unity takes on 'successful turnaround': Wedbush
- Fortinet slides as JP Morgan downgrades on increased competition
- Jabil rises after Q1 results and outlook beat estimates
- Jabil Non-GAAP EPS of $2.85 beats by $0.12, revenue of $8.31B beats by $210M
- Nebius unveils AI Cloud 3.1 with Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra compute
- Wedbush initiates coverage on quantum computing stocks
- Unemployment rate rises, Tesla's 2025 turnaround, Siri's AI upgrade and more in Morning Squawk
- Hut 8 stock jumps on AI infrastructure pacts with Anthropic and Fluidstack
- Nagarro buys Charles Hudson Technology Solutions
- Apple discusses assembling, packaging iPhone components with Indian chipmakers: report
- Nvidia plans $1.5B server farm in Israel - Calcalist
- CNBC Daily Open: Beauty is in the eye of the U.S. jobs report beholder
- NobodyWho raises €2M to challenge Big Tech’s cloud AI with SLMs for local devices
- geoSurge emerges from stealth to help brands improve visibility in AI search
- Roamless raises $12M to expand its global eSIM connectivity platform
- Wodan AI closes a €2M round to advance sovereign AI development in Europe
- MetaX IPO surges 700% amid China's efforts to reduce reliance on Nvidia, AMD
- A&B Smart Materials raises £1.5M pre-seed for biodegradable absorbents
- OpenAI in talks with Amazon about investment that could exceed $10 billion
GENERAL US
- Scarlet Dragon Links Military, Industry to Test Artificial Intelligence for Warfighters - U.S. Department of War (.gov)
- CrowdStrike Secures Growing AI Attack Surface with Falcon AI Detection and Response - CrowdStrike
- What Harvard researchers learned about use of AI in white-collar work at top companies - CNBC
- Stocks close sharply lower as AI angst returns - NBC News
- Simple tricks to spot AI-generated videos in your social media feed
- AI's impact could worsen gaps between world's rich and poor, a UN report says - The Washington Post
- Proposed project would bring AI data center to Lewiston - WGME
- His Vanity Fair photos of Trumpworld blew up online. We called to talk. - The Washington Post
- A retired policeman was jailed over an anti-Trump meme. Now he’s suing. - The Washington Post
- AI: from agnostic to anti-Gnosticism - The Pillar
- CNBC Daily Open: AI infrastructure stocks are taking a beating - CNBC
- The 2,000-year-old debate that reveals AI’s biggest problem - Vox
- Is there an AI bubble and what happens if it bursts? - Penn Today
- NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (.gov)
- A retired policeman was jailed over an anti-Trump meme. Now he’s suing.
- More drops for AI stocks drag Wall Street toward a 4th straight loss - The Washington Post
- Evers urges Trump to ‘abandon’ AI executive order - WPR
- Four New Jobs That May Be in Our AI Future - The Wall Street Journal
- Building intelligent physical AI: From edge to cloud with Strands Agents, Bedrock AgentCore, Claude 4.5, NVIDIA GR00T, and Hugging Face LeRobot - Amazon Web Services
- Apple punted on AI this year. Next year will be critical - CNBC
- Beyond DeepSeek: China's Diverse Open-Weight AI Ecosystem and Its Policy Implications - Stanford HAI
- Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender - The Texas Tribune
- Accenture and Palantir Expand Global Strategic Partnership to Drive AI Reinvention - Accenture
- Orange AI - Orange.com
- Exploring how patients feel about AI transcription - University of California - Davis Health
- You Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom, Experts Say. Get Creative Instead. - Inside Higher Ed
- Trump’s EPA paid employees $86.5 million not to work for months - The Washington Post
- A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet. - The Washington Post
- Hail or Fail: Special teams shine in a long-awaited Commanders win - The Washington Post
- Want a younger, healthier brain? This type of exercise can help. - The Washington Post
- AI and other General Handbook updates - Church News
- A regional high resolution AI weather model for the prediction of atmospheric rivers and extreme precipitation - Nature
- Musicians are deeply concerned about AI. So why are the major labels embracing it? - The Guardian
- China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain - Council on Foreign Relations
- Help boost your daily productivity with CC, a new experimental AI agent from Google Labs. - blog.google
- Trump's rush to build nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries
- Former chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI
- Amazon pulls error-filled 'Fallout' AI video recaps from Prime Video - Mashable
- How agentic AI is transforming sales from prospecting to close - The Washington Post
- Measuring AI’s capability to accelerate biological research in the wet lab - OpenAI
- How identity fraud is changing in the age of AI - The World Economic Forum
MAINSTREAM
- Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information)
- OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy
- China reportedly has a prototype EUV machine built by ex-ASML employees
- OpenAI Strikes Back at Google's Nano Banana With ChatGPT Images
- Wall Street Hit by Tech Rout as AI Winners Tumble: Markets Wrap - Bloomberg.com
- Imprisoned Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell seeks release, citing ‘new evidence’ - AP News
- Postal service plans to open last-mile delivery network to more shippers in money-raising move - AP News
- Billionaire Ray Dalio joins push to fund Trump Accounts, pledging $75 million to Connecticut kids - AP News
- Stock indexes fall on AI angst while gold and silver rise with oil - Reuters
- Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
- Jared Isaacman Confirmed to Head NASA at Pivotal Moment for the Space Agency : Billionaire Jared Isaacman is taking the reins at NASA at a challenging time for the space agency, as it faces budget cuts and technical hurdles that ...
- FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency”
- Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil
- A Facebook test makes link-sharing a paid feature for creators
- Amazon overhauls AI team as chief declares an ‘inflection point’
- California Pizza Kitchen chain finds new investor group for growth - Los Angeles Times
- Watch Ives: AI Bears Have It Wrong - Bloomberg.com
- Micron Gives Rosy Sales Forecast After AI Boom Spurs Demand - Bloomberg.com
- Trump’s push to make oil drilling cheap again squeezes some states more than others - AP News
- California threatens Tesla with 30-day suspension of sales license for deceptive self-driving claims - AP News
- UN chief Guterres calls for restraint between US, Venezuela - Reuters
- Micron forecasts blowout earnings on booming AI market, shares rise 14% - Reuters
- ‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu on ‘What Makes Art Beautiful’ in the AI Era
- Texas Sues TV Makers, Claiming They Can Collect Images of What Viewers Are Watching
- Senate approves bill inspired by DC plane crash to ensure military aircraft will broadcast location - AP News
- Amazon shakes up AI team as veteran Prasad leaves, DeSantis promoted - Reuters
- Aiarty Video Enhancer V3.0 for More Powerful Denoising, Upscaling & Video Enhancement
- Amazon's AGI team lead Rohit Prasad is leaving at the end of 2025; AWS SVP Peter DeSantis will lead a group combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing teams (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
- Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says
- Court Ruling Against Tesla Threatens to Put the Brakes on California Sales
- Gemini Didn’t Make My Old-Ass Smart Speaker Feel Any Less Dumb
- FCC Chairman Carr Defends Jimmy Kimmel Remarks Before Congress - Bloomberg.com
- Oracle-Blue Owl Split Over Data Center Rattles Markets Banking on AI Boom - Bloomberg.com
- Amazon Names New AI Chief Amid Battle to Take on Tech Rivals - Bloomberg.com
- Teen drug use remains low, but survey finds small rise in heroin and cocaine use - AP News
- Takeaways from the AP's report on the impact of aid cuts on Rohingya children in Bangladesh - AP News
- US Congress passes massive defense bill that includes support for Ukraine and Europe - Reuters
- Tax firm Andersen raises $176 million in year-end US IPO - Reuters
- Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, promising improved intelligence and efficiency
- It’s Gerard Butler vs. the Post-Apocalypse in the Fiery New ‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Trailer
- Google Says Its New Gemini 3 Flash AI Model Is Better and Faster Than 2.5 Pro
- How CNET Tests Air Purifiers
- Amazon appoints longtime AWS exec Peter DeSantis to lead new AI org
- The Oscars will exclusively air on YouTube starting in 2029
- Open source could pop the AI bubble — and soon
- US tech stocks slide as Oracle data centre setback reignites AI concerns
- From Nvidia to OpenAI, Silicon Valley woos Westminster as ex-politicians take tech firm roles
- Rob Reiner’s son Nick denied bail in first appearance in court - Los Angeles Times
- Google Releases More Efficient Gemini 3 AI Model Across Products - Bloomberg.com
- Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement Trump’s new Medicaid work requirements - AP News
- Exclusive: Mexico's Pemex awards five contracts to boost oil output, fails to draw big players, document shows - Reuters
- Google unveils Gemini 3 Flash, which it says has Pro-grade reasoning with lower latency, outperforming 2.5 Pro "while being 3x faster at a fraction of the cost" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 3 Pro's 37.5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- Google sues the Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group known as Darcula, behind an alleged US text message phishing ring, in the US, seeking a restraining order (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
- Gemini 3 Flash costs $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, vs. Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens (Tulsee Doshi/The Keyword)
- Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp
- Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
- James Cameron Wants to Start Doing Things That Aren’t ‘Avatar’ Again
- Senators probe whether AI data centers are driving up electricity costs
- Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app
- Radiant Nuclear raises $300M for its semi-sized 1 MW reactor
- Google's Gemini 3 Flash model outperforms GPT-5.2 in some benchmarks
- This Easy iOS Feature Is How I Protect My Real Email From Holiday Spam
- America Needs to Come Around to the Idea There’s No ‘Winning’ Against China - Bloomberg.com
- Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens Said to Delay Mideast Unit’s IPO - Bloomberg.com
- Ukraine says it controls 90% of Kupiansk, Russia denies it - Reuters
- Qatar bets on cheap power to catch up in Gulf AI race - Reuters
- Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips - Reuters
- The Excellent Viltrox 35mm f/1.2 LAB Is Now Available for Nikon Z
- ChatGPT Adds Realism to Its Powerful Image Generator
- Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- a16z releases a nine-pillar AI policy framework for Congress, including restricting AI use for under-13s without parental consent and keeping a role for states (Punchbowl News)
- Sources: Google is working on a new initiative to make its AI chips run PyTorch better and is working closely with Meta, as the two discuss Meta using TPUs (Reuters)
- From Thin to Folded: How Phone-Makers Are Signaling Innovation Again
- The Surprising Way Hurricanes Pump Carbon Into the Air—and Life Into the Ocean
- Bernie Sanders calls for a pause on new AI data centers in the US
- Google’s vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini
- Mozilla’s new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice
- UK to shift more research funding into AI and video games
- AI Chip Startup Mythic Raises $125 Million in Bid to Take on Nvidia - Bloomberg.com
- Oracle at Center of Tech’s $500 Billion AI-Fueled Rent Spree - Bloomberg.com
- Putin warns that Russia will seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if peace talks fail - AP News
- Russian attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia injures 26, governor says - Reuters
- FCC chair to face Senate questions after Kimmel episode, Trump media threats - Reuters
- South Korean contractors on Taiwan submarines jailed for leaking documents - Reuters
- Photographer Defends His Vanity Fair Photos of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
- AI chip startup Mythic, which develops "analog processing units" to perform AI computations within memory, raised $125M led by DCVC; its CEO is a Nvidia veteran (Ian King/Bloomberg)
- Hut 8 partners with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, $7B lease, starting with 245MW of computing capacity (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
- “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot
- Health Innovation Hub Ireland names winning AI start-ups
- Prep talk: The Shaws enjoy a memorable basketball moment at Oak Park - Los Angeles Times
- Reiner family tragedy sheds light on pain of families grappling with addiction - Los Angeles Times
- Warburg Pincus Is Said to Near Acquisition of Asian Firm Acclime - Bloomberg.com
- EU leaders prepare to take unprecedented steps to help Ukraine at a high-stakes summit - AP News
- Envoys try to narrow gaps on a loan plan for Ukraine ahead of Thursday’s crunch EU summit - AP News
- Gold forecast to glitter again next year despite biggest gain since 1979 - Reuters
- Italy's Meloni says using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine 'far from easy' ahead of EU summit - Reuters
- With Thaksin jailed, Thailand's Pheu Thai turns to nephew in poll fight back - Reuters
- Medical supplies firm Medline raises about $6.3 billion in 2025's biggest IPO - Reuters
- How to use the holidays to stop our ‘WhatsApp aunties’ falling for AI
- The “anti-Shein” bandwagon gains momentum
- Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau (Juro Osawa/The Information)
- Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
- Sources: 6+ Chinese AI companies, including chip firms Montage and GigaDevice, are set to go public in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, aiming to raise up to $1B (Bloomberg)
- Apple and Amazon face £900 million UK lawsuit over alleged price-fixing
- Amazon reportedly in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI as circular deals stay popular
- Amazon in talks to invest $10bn in developer of ChatGPT
- Merz Says German Troops Could Counter Russian Attacks in Ukraine - Bloomberg.com
- Poland Defies Europe’s Offshore Wind Malaise With First Auction - Bloomberg.com
- Georgia Democrat Eric Gisler claims upset state House win in historically Republican district - AP News
- South African immigration authorities raid a US refugee processing center - AP News
- BAE Systems halves stake in Kazakh carrier Air Astana - Reuters
- VIEW Job growth tops expectations in November, retail sales unchanged in October - Reuters
- With freebies, OpenAI, Google vie for Indian users and training data - Reuters
- Monzo receives an Irish banking license, allowing the London-based digital lender to offer current and savings accounts across the EU (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
- Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (Financial Times)
- Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
- MediSnap: AI-powered medication tracker for paramedics and carers
- Texas sues the five biggest TV makers over claims they secretly track viewing habits
- Trump Reportedly Pausing $40 Billion AI and Quantum Deal With UK
- Amazon in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI and supply its Trainium chips
- Iron Ore Gains for Second Day, Shrugging Off Bearish China Data - Bloomberg.com
- SpaceX Said to Notify Employees of Quiet Period Ahead of IPO - Bloomberg.com
- Skate Canada halts major events in Alberta over transgender law - Reuters
- Breakingviews - AI’s 2026 dark horse will be open-standard chips - Reuters
- Plata raises up to $500 million as it readies Mexico bank - Reuters
- Databricks raises $4bn Series L at $134bn valuation
- UK insists US tech deal not dead as Trump threatens penalties against European firms
- Chinese Stocks Stage Sudden Rally as Technology Firms Lead Gains - Bloomberg.com
- Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts - AP News
- More than 500 writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for how AI is trained and used across creative industries (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
- TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
- AI-Assisted Hiring Will Drive Indeed’s Growth, Recruit CEO Says - Bloomberg.com
- Photos reveal impact of U.S. aid cuts on Rohingya children in camps in Bangladesh - AP News
- Shares of Super Bank Indonesia, a Grab-backed digital lender, rose by 24% during their stock market debut in Jakarta, after the company raised ~$168M in its IPO (Ismi Damayanti/Nikkei Asia)
- Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
- Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating (Financial Times)
- Weeks after raising $100M, investors pump another $180M into hot Indian startup MoEngage
- Meta adopts new age-check system to meet global child safety laws
- Fei-Fei Li of World Labs: AI is incomplete without spatial intelligence
- What happens if AI data centres slip the ‘surly bonds of earth’?
- Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI
- Wall Street Week | Hubbard on Fed Cut Fallout, Open Source AI, Nuclear Bet, Department Store Revival - Bloomberg.com
- Grief, tears and anger as funerals for people slain in Australian antisemitic mass shooting begin - AP News
- MetaX shares rocket 700% in debut as China AI chips push gathers speed - Reuters
- Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares jumped up to 755% in its Shanghai debut after a heavily oversubscribed $585.5M IPO, pushing its market cap past $42B (Bloomberg)
- Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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- Zeroday Cloud hacking event awards $320,0000 for 11 zero days
- Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts
- Cisco email security appliances rooted and backdoored via still unpatched zero-day
- Motors WordPress Vulnerability Exposes Sites to Takeover
- New “Lies-in-the-Loop” Attack Undermines AI Safety Dialogs
- ISACA Named Global Credentialing Authority for DoD’s CMMC Program
- Microsoft asks IT admins to reach out for Windows IIS failures fix
- US Autoparts Maker LKQ Confirms Oracle EBS Breach
- Chinese Ink Dragon Group Hides in European Government Networks
- European Investigators Disrupt $12m Call Center Fraud Ring
- Hadrian launches offensive agentic AI to expose vulnerabilities before attackers
- Vectra AI redefines hybrid resilience across the attack lifecycle
- AI breaks the old security playbook
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