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Blackstone invests $50M into compliance agent-focused Norm Ai, which is launching an independent law firm offering "AI-native legal services" (Norm Ai)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/n<…

This is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)

AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!
A chatbot is a wrapper around a large language model, an AI transformer model that’s been trained on the whole internet, all the books the AI vendor can find, and all the other text in the world. A…

How’s #IchBinHanna resisting #AI? “Our working conditions are student learning conditions”, thus:
"Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front."

Robotaxis für Europa: Bolt kooperiert mit Pony.ai für Level-4-Technologie
Der estnische Mobilitätsanbieter Bolt hat eine Partnerschaft mit Pony.ai bekannt gegeben, um autonomes Fahren nach Level 4 nach Europa zu bringen.

Truly mind-blowing stuff
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsofts-head-of-ai-doesnt-understand-why-people-dont-like-ai-and-i-dont-understand-why-he-doesnt-understand-because-its-pretty-obvious/

Amazon announced an investment of up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
U.S. government customers.
This investment, set to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity across
AWS Top Secret,
AWS Secret,
and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
by building data centers with advanced compute and networking technologies.
Federal agencies will gain expanded access to A…

Amazon to invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for US government agencies
Federal agencies will gain access to Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova among other AI services from AWS.

[OT] So now even when you try to avoid using #AI, #AI hits your wallet nonetheless https://www.<…

Concern That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Driven by AI Needs Will Cause Problems for High-End Gaming for 'Several Years' - IGN
There is increasing concern that skyrocketing RAM prices will impact high-end gaming not just in the short term, but the long term.

Draft Chinese AI Rules Outline ‘Core Socialist Values’ for AI Human Personality Simulators
https://gizmodo.com/draft-chinese-ai-rules-outline-core-socialist-values-for-ai-human-personality-simulators-2000703772

Welcome to the world of the field, engineering.
For a long time, we've hired very few into sales, mktg, support or consulting that don't already gobs of experience elsewhere.
✅ How #Microsoft’s developers are using #AI - The Verge

How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
Microsoft is pushing its software developers to use AI internally. It’s part of an effort to get more AI agents doing the boring developer tasks.

A survey of 1,004 UK journalists in 2024: 56% use AI professionally at least weekly, 62% view AI as a threat to journalism, only 15% as an opportunity, and more (Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

Originality.ai:
Experten entdecken von KI geschriebene Ratgeber auf Amazon
https://www.golem.de/news/originality-ai-experten-entdecken-von-ki-geschriebene-ratgeber-auf-amazon-2510-201523.html

Glad I've never bought a game on the Epic store, as I just grab the free ones, and will now continue to, as Tim Sweeney is garbage
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/according-to-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-gam…

According to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney - game stores don't need an AI label as it will be everywhere
With the increasing amount of games using AI, Epic Game's Tim Sweeney believes the AI messages on stores like Steam make no sense.

What the heck...
"erasing open source code provenance", or rather, infringing licenses
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-open-source-may-not-survive-the-rise-of-generative-ai/

Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI
Generative AI may be eroding the foundation of open source software. Provenance, licensing, and reciprocity are breaking down.

When "AI" search engines look for sources, they go for fringe and not established quality sites. What could possibly go wrong?
(Original title: AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find)
https://arstechnica.com/a…

AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find
Generative search engines often cite sites that wouldn’t appear in Google’s top 100 links.

Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI
The Head of Preparedness will be responsible for issues around mental health, cybersecurity, and runaway AI.
🤔 https://www.theverge.com/news/850537/sam-altman-openai-head-of-preparedness

Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI
Sam Altman is hiring a Head of Preparedness at OpenAI to worry about the dangers of AI.

Adobe unveils Project Moonlight, an AI agent on its Firefly platform designed to act as a creative director for social media campaigns via text prompts (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807457/adobe-ai-agent-project-moonlight

Adobe’s AI social media admin is here with ‘Project Moonlight’
Adobe announced Project Moonlight, an AI agent that uses other Adobe AI tools to create social media posts that match your tone and style.

At a cyber con two weeks ago, someone told me with a straight face that Elon and his Silicon Valley buddies want our cyber defenses to be weak for access to all the government data for their LLMs.
The U.S. has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks
https://www.washingtonpost.com…

The U.S. has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks
While artificial intelligence powers the offense, defense guidance is spotty and fewer officials are in a position to help fend off hackers and spies.

Interesting blog, TPU vs GPU.
#TPU

The chip made for the AI inference era – the Google TPU
I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU.

Fantastic welcome from SMK's Merete Sanderhoff and Jonas Heide Smith to start the Europeana Network Association Cross-Community Workshop on Culture for AI https://pro.europeana.eu/event/europeana-network-association-cross-commu…

The #genAI *economic* bubble will burst sooner or later, as the technology is simply unable to deliver the promised productivity gains (and thus the promised ROI), so the AI companies are massively overvalued.
See, e.g., https://www.

If we design it to return the results we want to see, is it really #AI? And if someone is determining what it returns, is that someone liable for damages arising from use of the product as intended?

If we design it to return the results we want to see, is it really #AI? And if someone is determining what it returns, is that someone liable for damages arising from use of the product as intended?

Thank you! This makes using the Uno Q much less mucky https://masto.ai/@shawnhymel/115611570461466484

Shawn Hymel (@shawnhymel@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image App Lab for the new UNO Q can be quite limiting. If you want to use the more powerful command line (CLI) to transfer and run projects, check out my guide here: 👇 https://shawnhymel.com/3074/how-to-use-the-command-line-cli-with-the-arduino-uno-q/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=general_courses_blog #embedded #microcontroller #Linux #Python #maker @arduino@mastodon.social

From The Conversation
Canada’s long history with public service media offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public.
A publicly funded AI system could draw on public-domain materials, government datasets and openly licensed cultural content. It could be offered as an open-source system, making it widely available to researchers, developers and everyday users alike.

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.»
And FLOSS would be doing well to divest from the industrial-owened means of production sooner rather than later.
What AI is doing to developers - (not) my ideas
https://notmyidea.org/what-ai-is-doing-to-developers.html

“Dear Mozilla, I don't want an ‘Al [sic] kill switch’, I want a more responsible approach for all”
https://hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-kill-switch/
Unlike Hidde, I think the alt text argument is mostly bunk (

Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all
My concern is that Mozilla is _too_ excited about a technology that has inherent downsides and ethical problems, and I would like to see better defaults and clearer risk mitigations.

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo
The problem is neither the camera, nor the usage of "AI". The problem is simpler: too many weapons on civilians hands and police impunity.

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

"participating artists will have “full control” over how their likeness and music are used, though it doesn’t share how."
Sure.
https://www.theverge.com/news/829189/warner-music-group-suno-ai-licensing-deal

“Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity”, rich essays that guide us through the #AI trouble: on running machines within #planetaryboundaries, regulation, refusal, reframing of the hype, and making alternative futures.

Appfigures: between September 30 and October 18, OpenAI's Sora had 2.6M iOS downloads, above the Meta AI app, which had 1.1M; Sora is iOS- and invite-only (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/meta-ai-vibes-on-wall-street-radar-i…

Meta's AI app has seen growth soar since launch of Vibes, but trails OpenAI's Sora
The Meta AI app has seen a major jolt in downloads since the company launched Vibes and began paying creators to make AI-generated videos.

Monday Night Football NFL player props, Week 8: Self-learning AI says Marcus Mariota goes Under 199.5 yards

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-player-props-mond…

Check out my latest article - "Do YOU have AI anxiety?"
#changemakers

Do You Have AI Anxiety? Understanding Fear, Capitalism, and the Future
AI and climate change trigger similar fears about the future. Learn how to transform anxiety into empowerment by understanding the systems beneath both crises and envisioning the world you want to build.

More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop”
– low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.
The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels
– the top 100 in every country
– and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop.
Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63 billion views and 221 million subscribers,
-- generating ab…

Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Exclusive: US Department of Energy forms $1 billion supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p67#a251027p67

"Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives"
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl

Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/adobe-max-ai-tools-youtube-shorts-creators/

Adobe Launches YouTube Shorts Partnership and New AI Tools Suite for Creators
Adobe announced a new suite of AI tools across Firefly, Adobe Express and its Creative Cloud at Adobe Max 2025.

"So the next time you find yourself asking why you're being inundated with AI wherever you go, remember that the answer is that someone with millions of dollars to spare paid for it on the off chance that it will yield a nice return."
(Original title: a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth)

a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.

Part II of you won't believe since when AI dweebs have made ridiculous predictions
Take a guess when this was said! (Solution in reply)
#ai

The AI buildout, surpassing railroads and the internet, moves Big Tech from its successful asset-light model, and prior booms have resulted in overinvestment (Kai Wu/Sparkline Capital)
https://www.sparklinecapital.com/post/surviving-the-ai-capex-boom

Surviving the AI Capex Boom
Big Tech’s AI buildout is transforming markets. Drawing on the lessons of past capex booms, we offer a playbook for investors.

Important & informative 🧵re #indigenous & #uncontactedpeople
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115446627734

Important & informative 🧵re #indigenous & #uncontactedpeople
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115446627734

Karpathy about AI & education (summarized some points), i agree with these point, other opinions?
1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in …

Real estate agents are using AI tools like AutoReel to replace videographers and stagers, cutting costs but generating distorted or misleading property images (Kat Tenbarge/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/real-estate-is-entering-its-ai-slop-era/

Real Estate Is Entering Its AI Slop Era
Fake video walk-throughs, a magically expanding loft, and stair hallucinations are just some of the new AI-generated features house hunters are coming across.

Big Tech 2025: Alphabet und Nvidia dominieren die Börse – den übrigen fehlt Luft
Erstmals seit drei Jahren KI-Hype geriet der AI-Trade 2025 etwas ins Wanken. Das Jahr, in dem Big Tech an der Wall Street teilweise entzaubert wurde.

Geospatial Reasoning fuses weather, satellite and population
data with Gemini AI for risk analysis
It runs in Google's Trusted Tester program for early access
(That ain't you)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-laun…

Google launches geospatial reasoning system for disaster aid
What's new? Geospatial Reasoning fuses weather, satellite and population data with Gemini AI for risk analysis; it runs in Google's Trusted Tester program for early access;

How can business leaders design & implement agentic AI, run high impact pilots & build the human skills that set Frontier firms apart?
▶️ AI and automation expert on how leaders use AI agents to get ahead | Pascal Bornet - #Microsoft #Worklab

Videotipp: AI-generated content in Wikipedia - a tale of caution
By Mathias Schindler
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution

"Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity"
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/the-guru-of-the-ai-apocalypse

The guru of the AI apocalypse
After two decades influencing some of the world’s most powerful people through blogging and fanfiction, writing a mainstream (if not airport) book seems unnecessary. Eliezer Yudkowsky was already one

Eight more newspapers, including the Los Angeles Daily News, sue OpenAI and Microsoft, saying they violated copyright by using their content to train AI models (Pat Maio/Daily News)
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/11/26/8-mor

8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps
Eight newspapers including the L.A. Daily News and San Diego Union-Tribune seek more than $10 billion in damages.

Coverbase, an AI procurement and risk platform provider, raised a $16.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures, bringing its total funding to $20M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/coverbase-raise-ai-powered-procurement/

Exclusive: With Customers Like Okta And Coinbase, Coverbase Raises $16M To Grow AI-Powered Procurement...
Coverbase, an AI-powered procurement platform, has raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Canapi Ventures, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Syntax is not Semantics
Language is not the same as intelligence.
The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring that.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intellige…

Large language mistake
Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.

Tim Sweeney says it "makes no sense" for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI "will be involved in nearly all future production" (Alex Forbes-Calvin/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-sweene

Epic's Sweeney says platforms should stop tagging games made with AI
The CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, has argued that platforms like Steam should not label games that are made using AI.

So as user of the Google eco-system I can now use Gemini for coding in: Colab, Jules, Anti-Gravity, AI-studio .... 🥳
#ai #google #vibecoding

OK players, guess the year this was published!
#ai

The current AI investment boom will spark a "wildfire" that wipes out some companies, yet bolsters and enables others by unlocking GPUs, energy, and talent (Dion Lim/CEO Dinner Insights)
https://ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wildfire-is-coming-its-going

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.
AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?

At least I got the day job to implement a "no AI browsers on work machines" policy.
If you CISO has not released a policy forbidding AI browsers at your company they are asleep at the wheel.
https://mstdn.social/@Hackread/115448122449051028

Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today, and Vox Media join the Really Simple Licensing Collective AI licensing framework, which now has 50 partners to set AI terms (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/arena-group-buzzfeed…

Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co, Vox Media join RSL’s AI content licensing efforts
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co and Vox Media are participating in the RSL Collective's efforts to license content to AI companies.

ConductorOne, which helps address identity cybersecurity risks for human and AI staff, raised a $79M Series B led by Greycroft, sources say at a $350M valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/202…

AI Employees Are Coming. This Startup Wants To Keep Them Secure.
AI Employees Are Coming. This Startup Wants To Keep Them Secure.

So I've read a lot of both academic and "popular" criticism of AI; spanning decades from the 1940s to now.
I think both things are good and proper and needed.
And further than that I posit that you actually need at least some bombastic and "flashy" writers in order to reach more people
What's kind of funny is that in many of the academic critiques of AI the authors comment on how their colleagues came belligerent and hostile towards them because "they aren't writing seriously"—this is found all over Weizenbaum, Dreyfus, Anders, etc.
Anyway, READ MORE OLD BOOKS :)

Qualcomm unveils two AI chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, based on its Hexagon NPUs, and says Humain is the first customer (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/qualcomm-ai200-ai250-ai-chips-nvidia-amd.html

Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia — stock soars 15%
The AI200, expected in 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, both can come in a system that fills up a full, liquid-cooled server rack, Qualcomm said.

Evidence that AI is normal technology include AI systems that are good enough to be useful but not good enough to be trusted, continuing to require human oversight that limits productivity gains;
prompt injection and security vulnerabilities remain unsolved, constraining what agents can be trusted to do;
domain complexity continues to defeat generalization, and what works in coding doesn’t transfer to medicine, law, science;
regulatory and liability barriers prove high enou…

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807811/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-…

Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work
Adobe has given us a first look at new and upcoming generative AI tools launching for the company’s Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom Creative Cloud apps.

Tidalwave, whose AI agents automate mortgage docs checks and give real-time multilingual feedback to borrowers, raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/21/tidalwave-raises-22-million-se…

Tidalwave raises $22 million Series A to improve the mortgage process with AI
Tidalwave, which builds agentic AI for mortgage origination, has now raised its $22 million Series A, Fortune has exclusively learned.

OpenAI urges the US to commit to building 100GW of new energy capacity each year to stay ahead of China in AI, and says "electrons are the new oil" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/open-ai-power-china.html

OpenAI says U.S. needs more power to stay ahead of China in AI: 'Electrons are the new oil'
OpenAI urged the White House to substantially increase the U.S.' investment in new energy capacity

Q&A with Edison Scientific CEO Sam Rodriques about Kosmos, Edison's AI tool for scientific research, why AI probably won't cure diseases anytime soon, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/podcasts/hardfork-ai-science.html

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
A tech C.E.O. explains why A.I. probably won’t cure diseases anytime soon. Hint: You still need humans.

Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/adobe-max-ai-tools-youtube-shorts-creators/

Adobe Launches YouTube Shorts Partnership and New AI Tools Suite for Creators
Adobe announced a new suite of AI tools across Firefly, Adobe Express and its Creative Cloud at Adobe Max 2025.

Mem0, which aims to build a "memory passport" so users' AI memory can travel across their devices, apps, and agents, raised $24M, including a $20M Series A (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/mem0

Mem0 raises $24M from YC, Peak XV and Basis Set to build the memory layer for AI apps | TechCrunch
The idea of memory for AI isn’t new, but it’s quickly becoming a critical battleground.

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

Fireworks AI, which helps developers access AI chips and models, raised a $254M Series C at a $4B valuation, split into a $230M primary and $24M secondary round (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…

Gravis Robotics, which adds cameras, sensors, and AI to heavyweight construction machines so they can operate autonomously, raised $23M led by IQ and Zacua (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/28/gravis-robotic…

Exclusive: Gravis Robotics raises $23M to tackle construction’s labor shortage with AI-powered machines
The Swiss startup is aiming to automate construction equipment as the industry faces a severe shortage of skilled operators and surging demand.

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/italys-competi…

Italy’s Competition Watchdog Broadens WhatsApp AI Policy Probe
The regulator began probing Meta over its WhatsApp AI messaging tool in July

Indonesia and other developing countries are becoming AI hubs amid the multitrillion-dollar spending boom, in part driven by an "AI decolonization" philosophy (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/nvidia-jensen-huang-gtc-washington-dc-ai.html

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's AI chips are now being manufactured in Arizona
Previously, Nvidia's fastest GPUs were solely manufactured in Taiwan.

How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html…

Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the A.I. Exporter
The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.

DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024 (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/deepseekmath-v2-is-deepseeks-late…

DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble
Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad, keeping the company in tight competition with Western AI labs.

A look at Anthropic's success with corporate AI, which makes up ~80% of its revenue; a July report put its enterprise API market share at 32% vs. OpenAI's 25% (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-busi

Nvidia unveils BlueField-4 data processing unit, combining a 64-core Grace CPU and ConnectX-9 SuperNIC for 800 Gbps of network throughput, launching in 2026 (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Nvidia Reveals BlueField-4 DPU, Packed With 64-Core Grace CPU For AI Data Centers
Nvidia said Tuesday that it plans to integrate its Grace CPU and ConnectX-9 SuperNIC into the next-generation BlueField-4 DPU to bring 800 Gbps of networking throughput to future AI data centers for high-performance inferencing.

London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/215df8da-717b-4e5f-ac66-c02e142e6ad6

AI video start-up takes wide-angle view to boost growth
Seeing limited potential in its niche dubbing product, Synthesia built an AI tool to appeal across industries

Facing disruption from GenAI, the $250B Indian IT industry has adapted by focusing on preparatory work AI requires, such as data cleanup and system integration (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/indian-it-firms-are-doing-fine

The AI Revolution Needs Plumbers
How Indian IT learned to stop worrying and sell the AI shovel

A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI-empowered" university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/tec…

Cal State Invited Tech Companies to Remake Learning With A.I.
Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s “largest A.I.-empowered” university.

Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex AgentiX, AI agents that can be deployed across various security vendor platforms to automate cybersecurity actions (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/palo-alto-networks-debuts-new-tk-agent-to-fight-…

Palo Alto Networks debuts automated AI agents to fight cyberattacks
Palo Alto Networks launched new AI agents on Tuesday that allow customers to automate certain cybersecurity actions.

Adobe plans to support custom AI models in Firefly, updates Firefly to generate soundtracks and speech, adds an AI assistant to Photoshop and Express, and more (Jacob Roach/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-max-2025-firefly-photoshop-updates/

Adobe MAX 2025: All the Top Announcements for Adobe’s Creative Suite
At Adobe’s annual MAX conference, the company also teased a ChatGPT integration and a new AI assistant in Photoshop.

An analysis of 30 US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details (Natalie Kainz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/dat

How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans
A review of over 30 data center proposals across 14 states found that in most cases, officials signed NDAs and worked with what appeared to be shell companies.

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-new-ai-company-acquired-age…

Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.

Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI "dark factories" (Brian Spegele/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-robots-chin

Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy
To blunt Trump’s push to reclaim global manufacturing, China’s factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster, cheaper and with fewer workers

An interview with Jeanine Wright, CEO of Inception Point AI, about her vow to continue mass-publishing episodes of AI-generated podcasts despite backlash (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-ai-data-center-rejection-vs-sup…

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/character-ai-t

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

Prime Intellect debuts INTELLECT-3, an RL-trained 106B parameter open source MOE model it claims outperforms larger models across math, code, science, reasoning (Prime Intellect)
https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-3

INTELLECT-3: A 100B+ MoE trained with large-scale RL
Today, we release INTELLECT-3, a 100B+ parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained on our RL stack, achieving state-of-the-art performance for its size across math, code, science and reasoning benchmarks, outperforming many larger frontier models.

Sources: Uber plans to invest in the Hong Kong listings of Pony AI and WeRide, deepening its Chinese robotaxi ties, including ~$100M in Pony AI's share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000 global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Pony AI Rises After Guangzhou Robotaxi Operations Break Even
Pony AI Inc. shares rose for a third day in Hong Kong trading, arresting a steep decline since listing three weeks ago, after the robotaxi firm said its Guangzhou operations had broken even on a per-car basis in an early indication its business model is sustainable.

PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China's tech sector is far less, pushing startups to do more with less.

South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

‘Sovereign AI’ Takes Off as Countries Seek to Avoid Overreliance on Superpowers
South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their AI capabilities

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft responds to Gaming Copilot controversy, says it uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not for training AI models — optional feature can be turned off, but not easily uninstalled
Microsoft says it isn't using your data to train its AI.

Nexos.ai, which helps companies adopt AI tools by acting as a middleman between employees and AI systems, raised a €30M Series A co-led by Index and Evantic (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/european-ai-ri…

European AI rising star Nexos.ai raises €30M to unlock enterprise AI adoption | TechCrunch
Nord Security co-founders have closed a €30 million Series A for their new startup, Nexos.ai, an orchestration platform aimed at helping companies adopt AI securely.

Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/clover-security-funding-wiz-crowdstrike-no…

Exclusive: Wiz founders back AI security agent startup
Clover Security provides agentic tools that help companies embed security throughout their products and ensure that their products remain secure during their lifecycle.