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Garnet fire burns into grove of giant sequoias; several behemoths are in flames
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-09-08/garnet-fire-burns-into-grove-of-giant-sequoias-several-trees-are-in-flames

Garnet fire burns into grove of giant sequoias; several behemoths are in flames
A fire burning in Fresno County has reached the McKinley grove of giant sequoias. Several trees are in flames and specially trained firefighters are on their way to put them out.

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-…

Google Unseats Anthropic With Gemini 3
Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex ...

Pterosaur with unusual bristle-like teeth discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-new-species-of-flying-reptile-discovered-in-fossilized-dinosaur-vomit

Bizarre New Species of Flying Reptile Discovered in Fossilized Dinosaur Vomit
Imagine throwing up after a bad burrito – only for that heave to reveal the existence of onions to scientists 110 million years in the future.

OLG-Urteil: Biometrische Überwachung bei Online-Prüfungen ist rechtswidrig
Die Online-Überwachung von Prüflingen per Proctoring verstößt gegen die DSGVO, hat das Thüringer Oberlandesgericht nach Klage einer Studentin entschieden.

Geno Smith on struggling Raiders offense following blowout loss to Cowboys: 'Blame it on me' https://www.nfl.com/news/geno-smith-on-struggling-raiders-offense-following-blowout-loss-to-cowboys-blame-it-on-me

The US FTC and seven states sue Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of bots and large-scale resale operations (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/ticketmaster…

Ticketmaster, Live Nation Sued by FTC Over Ticket Resales
The US Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of automated ticketing bots and large-scale resale operations.

Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-doubles-clou…

Nvidia Doubles Cloud Spending Commitment to $26 Billion
Nvidia said Wednesday it had struck deals to rent $26 billion of servers from cloud providers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed just three months ago. The cloud spending plan implies Nvidia will rent several hundred thousand of its own graphics processing units from cloud providers like Amazon and Google that purchase them. Nvidia said in a

Filing: the US FTC ends its review of SoftBank's $6.5B acquisition of chip designer Ampere, granting an early termination; SoftBank announced the deal in March (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SoftBank’s $6.5 Billion Deal for Chip Firm Ampere Wins FTC Nod
The US Federal Trade Commission has ended its review of SoftBank Group Corp.’s acquisition of semiconductor designer Ampere Computing LLC, removing an obstacle to the $6.5 billion deal.

China introduces new rules to curb monks' and clergy's use of livestreaming and AI for unlicensed online preaching and commercial activities, following scandals (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3f0f240b-c002-4726-a757-01ded711a5a8

Source: Microsoft's and Nvidia's investments in Anthropic push its valuation to the range of $350B, up from its $183B valuation after raising $13B in September (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/anthropic-ai-azure-microsoft-nvidia.html

Anthropic valued in range of $350 billion following investment deal with Microsoft, Nvidia
Microsoft announced new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and the AI startup Anthropic.