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"AI" can't do social things and is racist. Exponat No. 225424231
(Original title: When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/when-no-means-…

When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette
New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.

Essential AI is an interesting company, their Rnj-1 model illustrates another approach compared to the large AI companies.
#AI

A short, very sensible post on 'AI and trust: principles for automating responsibly' https://public.digital/pd-insights/blog/2025/10/ai-and-trust-principles-for-automating-responsibly

Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight model that Z.ai says delivers significant improvements in coding performance compared to GLM-4.6 (Z.ai)
https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia https://apache.be/2025/10/24/belgian-a

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-mitre-announce-20-million-dollar-research-effort-on-ai-cybersecurity/

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Operant AI reveals Shadow Escape, a zero-click attack using the MCP flaw in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to secretly steal trillions of SSNs and financial data. Traditional security is blind to this new AI threat.
😶‍🌫️ https://

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

"the Fedora Council has approved the latest version of the AI-Assisted Contributions policy formally".
Whoever contributes the code is required to be fully transparent on what AI tool has been used for it.
https://www.gamingonlinux.co…

Fedora Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy
AI generation, it's everywhere! And now it's going to be formally accepted into Fedora Linux, as per the latest approved change with a new policy.

Measuring #EnergyConsumption in #ProgrammingLanguages for #AI Applications

A look at The Atlantic's AI bot blocking strategy, which involves a scorecard to determine which scrapers generate traffic and subsequent conversions (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/inside-the-atlantics-ai-bot-blocking-strategy/

Inside The Atlantic’s AI bot blocking strategy
The Atlantic's CEO explains how it evaluates AI crawlers to block those that bring no traffic or subscribers, and to provide deal leverage.

New verb! “Enslopenize” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ready-or-not-here-they-come-notes-from-the-ai-force-feed/sharetoken/59aaed33-5309-4a28-8bfc-7f0ed29543f2

Ready or Not, Here They Come — Notes From the AI Force-Feed ….
I just got a new iPhone. I didn’t need a newer version....

Expedition 33 is one of my all time fav games but I'm happy the Indie Game Dev Awards is taking a hard line on AI in games.
https://mashable.com/article/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-revoked-ai

Anxiety after some people spread fake #AI images of African tigers and leopards roaming the streets of a South Indian city.
And we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the real #danger AI poses. It will soon get very bad and out of control. 😨
#AI_images

"The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers."
#AI

On yesterday's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast, I talked about AI's impact on the environment and classrooms—and argued that it isn’t reinventing education so much as exposing bad habits we should’ve let go years ago https://www.link…

With friends like Mozilla…
#AI

Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of  most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new way

PUBG maker Krafton unveils an "AI First" strategy, investing ~$70M to build a GPU cluster to automate AI workflows and strengthen AI R&D and in-game AI services (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/805509/krafton-pubg-ai-…

PUBG maker Krafton is turning into an ‘AI first’ developer
Krafton is making a big push into becoming “AI First.” Under this new “AI First” strategy, Krafton plans to use agentic AI to help automate work.

BTW - Here is the website for #AskEllyn. I actually worked briefly with the founder, Ellen Winters, back in the early 90s, and I have posted about her being a hero for many women before my daughters were diagnosed.
https://askellyn.ai/welcome-to-elyn-ai-or-is-it-ellyn-ai/

Oof the AI world is eating its own here
Somehow Google's AI got the wrong end of the stick about Meta's AI and Murati's AI and who is getting hired by whom
everybody's grifting all the time forever

"The web was supposed to evolve into semantically structured, linked, machine-readable data that would enable amazing opportunities. That never happened. (...) We also never achieved truly personal computing. Computers could've been personal knowledge bases, with structured semantic connections akin to HyperCard, that take advantage of the semantic web and open standards. (...) AI is not a triumph of elegant design, but a brute-force workaround."

In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #Expo, robots dance and #AI sings. But on closer look, these companies on display are the same ones sanctioned by the US for trade, human rights, and geopolitical reasons.

Ik lees in het Nationaal AI Deltaplan (goed dat het er is!) over een staatssecretaris van AI bij EZ. Zelf heb ik de voorkeur voor een Minister van Digitale Zaken die naast AI ook een onderwerp als cloud onder zijn/haar hoede kan nemen. Maar zeker niet allebei, dan spreiden we de thematiek over 2 departementen , EZ en BZK.
#AI

AI Plan NL – Een plan voor AI dat werkt voor Nederland
AI Plan Nederland is een onafhankelijk initiatief met concrete voorstellen om Nederland klaar te maken voor de impact van de AI-transitie.

[OT] Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content "Gemini performed worst"

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Perceptions of AI Across Sectors: A Comparative Review of Public Attitudes
Filip Bialy, Mark Elliot, Robert Meckin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18233 https://

Perceptions of AI Across Sectors: A Comparative Review of Public Attitudes
This paper offers a domain-mediated comparative review of 251 studies on public attitudes toward AI, published between 2011 and 2025. Drawing on a systematic literature review, we analyse how different factors including perceived benefits and concerns (or risks) shape public acceptance of - or resistance to - artificial intelligence across domains and use-cases, including healthcare, education, security, public administration, generative AI, and autonomous vehicles. The analysis highlights recu…

KI-Update Deep-Dive: Smarte Brillen statt KI-Gadgets
Nach dem Scheitern von Geräten wie dem AI-Pin könnten Brillen die nächste Gerätekategorie werden. Doch was können die neuen Modelle und wo liegen die Hürden?
https://…

Self-learning AI releases NFL picks, score predictions every Week 17 game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-17-picks-ai-score-predictions/

While this is mostly to be expected, it's interesting that language & location don't matter, "AI" sucks for "summarizing" news (or anything) regardless:
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

"No single study on AI in the workplace is going to be definitive, but evidence is mounting that AI is affecting people’s work in the same way it’s affecting everything else: It is making it easier to output low-quality slop that other people then have to wade through."
https://www.404media.co/ai-workslop-is-killing-productivity-and-making-workers-miserable/

Invited to a job interview, where interviewer will be AI. They included a link to an example interview, and link to "find more information [about being interviewed by an AI] here," and that link says, "This page couldn’t be found," when I click it.
Gonna have to prank this AI interviewer, right? I mean clearly they're not a serious company using a machine to do interviews and leaving their tips for potential recruits 404. I already know it would be a nightmari…

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI (Varsha Bansal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p17#a251123p17

"AI features have yet to meaningfully influence buying decisions"
YES, BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS THAT SHIT— HOW IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND FOR THE C-SUITE
Anyone knows someone at Apple? I can offer consulting about how much people want AI, I'm willing to do it for $10,000/day if you pick me up with the company jet; it's just a 2 hour flight or so to Cupertino from where I am.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/report-virtually-no-demand-for-iphone-air/

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/8]:
- Zero-Shot Visual Deepfake Detection: Can AI Predict and Prevent Fake Content Before It's Created?
Ayan Sar, Sampurna Roy, Tanupriya Choudhury, Ajith Abraham

Smart fridge, smart stove, smart dishwasher, smart washer/dryer or other household appliances... HELL NO! I don't want or need internet connected appliances. If those servers goes offline, if an 'upgrade' glitches or I say no to an update what happens to the basic functionality? What data are they capturing and selling?
h…

NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-mitre-announce-20-million-dollar-research-effort-on-ai-cybersecurity/

Another day another study showing that "AI assistants" do not work reliably for cognitive tasks.
"Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202…

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued

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

Some thoughts from recent talks: 'AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet' https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2025/10/ai-and-machine-learning-in-libraries-promising-but-not-ready-yet/

We introduce the Remote Labor Index (RLI),
a broadly multi-sector benchmark comprising real-world, economically valuable remote-work projects
designed to evaluate end-to-end agent performance in practical settings.
Across evaluated frontier AI agent frameworks, performance sits near the floor,
with a maximum automation rate of 2.5% on RLI projects.

WPP rolls out WPP Open Pro, a self-serve version of WPP Open, its AI-powered marketing platform that helps marketers build campaigns and develop creative assets (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/wpp-launch…

WPP Launches a Self-Serve Version of Its AI Platform To Court Small Biz Dollars
British advertising titan WPP is rolling out a self-serve version of WPP Open, its AI marketing platform. 

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft won't provide erotica AI services and that "other companies will build that", after Sam Altman said ChatGPT would offer erotica (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/microsoft-

Microsoft AI chief says company won’t build chatbots for erotica
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said the software company won't build erotica AI services, the latest break with rival-partner OpenAI.

"Nationaal AI Deltaplan
In opdracht van het Ministerie van Economische Zaken schreven wij het Nationaal AI Deltaplan. Het plan schetst hoe Nederland op maatschappelijk verantwoorde wijze Europees koploper kan worden door gericht te investeren in eigen AI-kennis, talent en infrastructuur." https://aiplan.nl/deltaplan

AI Plan NL – Een plan voor AI dat werkt voor Nederland
AI Plan Nederland is een onafhankelijk initiatief met concrete voorstellen om Nederland klaar te maken voor de impact van de AI-transitie.

I was interviewed by Kim for her @… Website about my criticism/approach. It was neat to think about how I approach things, maybe it's interesting to you, I enjoyed thinking about the questions a lot.
https://

Stop Gen AI (@stopgenai@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image For my latest interview for Stop Gen AI's Anti Gen AI Heroes, I interviewed @tante@tldr.nettime.org a hacker, a luddite, and a communist. We have so much in common! But he definitely codes way better than I can. Anti Gen AI Heroes: tante moves slow and fixes stuff https://stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-heroes-tante-moves-slow-and-fixes-stuff/ Share, share! #AntiAI #GenAI

«Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.»
This is the worst part about the use Gen "AI" in places of learning, people are (often unknowingly) cheating themselves out of being able to learn.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

lol https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-23/apple-ios-27-snow-leopard-like-quality-focus-ai-features-tim-cook-retirement-mibq7jv8

Synthesized, which is developing AI tools to automate software testing, raised a $20M Series A led by Redalpine (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/24/synthesized-series-a-20-million-for-ai-powered-software-testing-qa…

Exclusive: Startup using AI to automate software testing in the age of ‘vibe coding’ receives $20 million in new venture funding
Synthesized uses AI to accelerate software quality assurance in a world where 'vibe coding' spurs demand

As SBOMs slowly progress at the federal level and in enterprises, the rise of AI coding assistants is fueling optimistic—and, some experts argue, “kind of insane”—claims about a future with vulnerability-free software.
Check out my latest CyberScoop piece.
Many thanks to @…, @…

The slow rise of SBOMs meets the rapid advance of AI
Despite progress from CISA and global regulators, SBOM adoption in the private sector remains slow as experts debate if AI-driven coding will improve or undermine software security and transparency.

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

“AI zou een politieke topprioriteit moeten zijn “ https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/22/ai-zou-een-politieke-topprioriteit-moeten-zijn-a4909946?gift_token=49…

Opinie | AI zou een politieke topprioriteit moeten zijn
Digitalisering en AI veranderen de samenleving ingrijpend. Nederland heeft dringend een strategisch AI-beleid nodig voor autonomie en veiligheid.

Top AI researchers and executives in SV are working 80 to 100 hours a week, driven by intense competition, as AI's rapid progress compresses product timelines (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-race-tech-w

The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled new proposals to ease regulations on AI and data privacy.
The EU has for years sought to rein in tech companies on various issues,
but is also attempting to balance this with the need to compete with tech firms in the United States and East Asia.
"Europe has not so far reaped the full benefits of the digital revolution,"
EU economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said.
"And we cannot afford to pay the …

EU proposes softening AI and data privacy regulations
The EU is responding to calls by businesses and member states that have argued the bloc needs to keep up with tech innovation. Meanwhile, cookie consent pop-up banners are also set to be scaled back.

Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race (œrla Ryan/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/1…

Deepfake AI video depicting Catherine Connolly quitting presidential race removed by Meta
Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust…

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same.
The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. There is too much spending, too much leverage, too many crazy deals, and too much competition from China for us not to see big bumps ahead.

I am wondering how easy it is for a bigtech company to collect all fediverse data for AI training? Are there signs that they are doing that? In my personal opinion it is fine dat AI models train on public posts but i was just wondering if it happens...
#AI #trainingdata

Greptile, maker of an AI-powered code review tool, raised a $25M Series A led by Benchmark and launches Greptile v3 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/23/greptile-bags-25m-funding-take-coderabbit-graphite-a…

Greptile bags $25M in funding to take on CodeRabbit and Graphite in AI code validation - SiliconANGLE
Greptile bags $25M in funding to take on CodeRabbit and Graphite in AI code validation - SiliconANGLE

The UK's Observer signs a commercial partnership deal with AI-powered news reader Particle News, joining Time, the LAT, Fortune, and The Atlantic (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-observer-signs-deal-to-ap…

The Observer signs deal to appear on AI news platform Particle
The Observer described as first UK partner for Particle News as it expands outside US.

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an "LLM-based automated attacker" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/openai-say…

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch
OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."

Google starts rolling out ads in AI mode; the ads look similar to the citations in AI answers but with a "sponsored" label (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/g…

Google begins showing ads in AI Mode (AI answers)
Google has started rolling out ads in AI mode, which is the company's "answer engine," not a search engine.

How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-gemini-3-ai-behind-scenes-e1787729?st…

I am all for human-made podcasts and they will never disappear but still this app is a nice demonstrator about the added value AI podcasts can have, I listen to it now and then.
#ai

Q&A with Z.ai Director of Product Zixuan Li on Chinese AI models embracing open source, attracting global users for its GLM model, training on memes, and more (ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-zai-playbook

The Z.ai Playbook
Zixuan Li on the Chinese AI ecosystem

A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that "demonstrated a near-flawless ability" to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-made-

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race (œrla Ryan/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/1…

Deepfake AI video depicting Catherine Connolly quitting presidential race removed by Meta
Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times

Sources: Adobe held talks to acquire Synthesia, which makes AI tools that generate video avatars of people, for ~$3B; the startup was valued at $2.1B in January (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/adobe…

Adobe Discussed $3 Billion Acquisition of AI Video Startup Synthesia
Adobein recent months held talks with Synthesia, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence software that generates video avatars of people, to buy the startup for about $3 billion, a premiumfrom the startup’s $2.1 billion valuation in a January financing, according to a person with ...

Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…

Apple building American-made AI servers ahead of schedule in new Houston facility, answering Trump call
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American-made artificial intelligence servers in the United States — a move that has the technology giant answering President Donald Trump’s call to on shore manufacturing.

Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…

GM plans to roll out Google Gemini in its vehicles starting in 2026 and plans an advanced driver-assistance system with eyes-off driving capabilities in 2028 (Michael Wayland/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/gm-tech-google-ai.html

GM plans to launch eyes-off driving, Google AI and other new in-vehicle tech by 2028
The company announced other tech initiatives as part of its "GM Forward" event in Lower Manhattan.

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.

Findem, an AI-powered talent acquisition startup, raised $51M in equity and debt, including a $36M Series C led by SLW, taking its total funding to $105M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/findem-funding-ai-powered-hiring-re…

Exclusive: Findem Lands $36M Series C To Supercharge AI-Powered Hiring 
Findem is just one of more than a dozen startups at the intersection of AI and recruitment globally that has raised venture capital in 2025.

Sources: Fal.ai, which hosts multimodal AI models for developers, raised ~$250M at a $4B valuation, less than three months after announcing a $125M Series C (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/sources-multimodal…

Exclusive: Sources: Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai already raised at $4B+ valuation
Fal provides developers with over 600 image, video, audio, and 3D models, it says, and boasts that its cloud has thousands of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs and is fine-tuned for speedy inference.

Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer platform, including a revamped "Build" tab to vibe code AI apps (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-revamps-ai-studio-with-new-features-for-…

Google revamps AI Studio with new features for vibe coding
Google debuts a revamped AI Studio "Build" interface that cuts technical barriers for AI app prototyping with one-click Cloud Run publishing.

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/faa3d747-9a32-4219-93eb-a93c10502f06

AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record
Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush

VCs court top AI startups with preempted rounds and perks like private jets; PitchBook: US AI startups raised $200B in 2025, with 41% going to just 10 companies (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game developer tools that serve as "smarter paintbrushes" (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/electronic-arts-stability-developer-deal-1236559755/

Electronic Arts Partners With Stability AI
Video game giant Electronic Arts has struck a new partnership with generative tech company Stability AI

New York-based Valthos, which is developing AI tools to detect and prevent AI-enabled bioweapon attacks, raised $30M from OpenAI, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-autonomous-threat-analysis/

Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms.

Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/alibaba-launc…

AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind execs, raised a $12M seed led by Atomico and aims to release its first content in 2026 (Najat Kantouar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

Arbiter, which is using AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed from multiple family offices at a $400M valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/health-sta

This former Eli Lilly exec just raised a $52 million seed round from family offices to build a new healthcare AI startup.
Thirty Madison's former president is launching her own healthcare AI startup without a drop of VC funding.

Bitcoin miners retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up about 90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-

Pentagon taps Musk's xAI to boost sensitive government workflows, support military operations
Pentagon partners with Elon Musk's xAI to deploy Grok AI across military systems, giving 3 million personnel advanced AI tools by 2026 for sensitive tasks.

Amazon is testing AR glasses for delivery drivers, using AI and computer vision to help them scan packages, follow walking directions, and get proof of delivery (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-unveils-ai-powe…

Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M (InsurTech Analyst)
https://insurtechanalyst.com/2025/11/18/federato-launches-ai-n…

Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/figure-ai-sued.html

Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'
A former engineer for Figure AI filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety.

Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access to internal systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $8M seed led by a16z and boldstart (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/21/ai-agent-security-startup-keyca…

AI agent security startup Keycard reels in $38M - SiliconANGLE
AI agent security startup Keycard reels in $38M - SiliconANGLE

Sources: Meta plans to test an AI-powered personalized daily briefing, designed to compete with ChatGPT's Pulse, with some Facebook users in NYC and SF (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/21/meta-ai-powered-daily…

Meta is building an AI-powered morning brief in push to compete with ChatGPT
Meta is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized, AI-powered briefing of information relevant to their daily lives.

How AI can work across scales, from individuals to organizations to economies, like steel and the steam engine before it, as AI arrives as "infinite minds" (Ivan Zhao/@ivanhzhao)
https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400

Ivan Zhao (@ivanhzhao) on X
Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds

ChatGPT Atlas will feature an agent mode to let ChatGPT take actions; clicking a search link will show a split-screen with the webpage and a ChatGPT transcript (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
ChatGPT is the “beating heart of Atlas,” according to employees on the livestream.

Sesame, which is developing an AI agent with a natural-sounding human voice and smart glasses, raised a $250M Series B and opens an early beta of its iOS app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/sesa

Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, raises $250M and launches beta | TechCrunch
Former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe’s new startup, Sesame, is building AI-powered smartglasses with natural, humanlike voice interaction. Backed by Sequoia and Spark, the company also launched an invite-only iOS beta to preview its conversational AI.

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/1…

Exclusive: Bedrock Data raises $25M to secure enterprise AI
Greylock Partners led the Series A.

Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bain: by 2030, AI companies will need $2T in combined annual revenue to fund compute power to meet projected demand, but are likely to fall short by $800B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Sources: ByteDance has made preliminary plans to spend ¥160B, or ~$23B, in AI capex in 2026, up from ¥150B in 2025, and has budgeted ~$12.07B for AI processors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9f550bb6-5708-41e3-aef6-ce8d7bb405ad

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…

Exclusive: UnifyApps raises $50M Series B led by WestBridge Capital
Siloed systems of record and data make it harder for enterprises to adopt AI.

Privacy startup Duality says it has developed a private LLM inference framework that uses fully homomorphic encryption to let LLMs answer encrypted prompts (Rina Diane Caballar/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/homomorphic-encryption-llm

Homomorphic Encryption LLM Secures AI Chats
Can your chatbot keep secrets? Discover how Duality's tech is changing the privacy game for AI conversations.

A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.