Tootfinder

Source: the US Department of Commerce plans to allow the export of Nvidia's old H200 chips to China, seeking a compromise over controlling exports to China (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025/commerce-t…

Exclusive: Commerce to open up exports of Nvidia H200 chips to China
The move, which has the support of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, could bolster Nvidia’s revenue by opening up a huge market for its chips while ensuring US technology remains the standard worldwide.

China vereinfacht Export von Nexperia-Chips in die EU
In der Nexperia-Chipkrise zeichnet sich mehr und mehr Entspannung ab. Kann die Autoindustrie aufatmen?
https://www.heise.de/news/Chin…

Standing up at desk, leaving office, never returning #health

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
ROCHESTER, MN—In an effort to help working individuals improve their fitness and well-being, experts at the Mayo Clinic issued a new set of health guidelines Thursday recommending that Americans stand up at their desk, leave their office, and never return. “Many Americans spend a minimum of eight hours per day sitting in an office, but we observed significant physical and mental health benefits in subjects after just one instance of standing up, walking out the door, and never coming back t…

Guided by the Experts: Provable Feature Learning Dynamic of Soft-Routed Mixture-of-Experts
Fangshuo Liao, Anastasios Kyrillidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07205 https://

Guided by the Experts: Provable Feature Learning Dynamic of Soft-Routed Mixture-of-Experts
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have emerged as a cornerstone of modern AI systems. In particular, MoEs route inputs dynamically to specialized experts whose outputs are aggregated through weighted summation. Despite their widespread application, theoretical understanding of MoE training dynamics remains limited to either separate expert-router optimization or only top-1 routing scenarios with carefully constructed datasets. This paper advances MoE theory by providing convergence guarant…

"Confidential Western Australian government report warns gas exports risk slowing Asia’s move to clean energy"
#Australia #Energy

About 60% of the Reuters newsroom uses AI tools, including one that suggests what to cover based on press releases and another that creates first drafts (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/inside-reuters-agentic-ai-video-experiment/

Inside Reuters’ agentic AI video experiment 
Reuters is experimenting with using an AI agent to speed up its video production process, and hired its first AI TV producer.

Despite worries by some that vendor reports on AI cyber threats are merely hype to sell new defensive tools, most cyber defenders and threat intel experts say CISOs who dismiss AI in the attack chain do so at their own risk.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Marcus Hutchins, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Billy Leonard of Google Threat Intelligence Group, the folks at Anthropic, Rob T. Lee of SANS Institute, Morgan Adamski of PwC, Joe Levy and Alexandra Rose of Sophos, …

Ignoring AI in the threat chain could be a costly mistake, experts warn
While some researchers dismiss reports of AI-driven cyberattacks as merely marketing messages, threat intel experts counter that CISOs ignore mounting evidence of AI use in the threat chain at their own peril.

The list of members for the newly starting "Expert Group for a Technology Roadmap on Encryption (E04005)" is now online: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupI…

a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-cau…

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/business/china-suspends-export-c…

China Suspends Export Controls on More Critical Minerals
The changes would make it easier for American firms to obtain key minerals, delivering on what the White House said the two countries had agreed to at last month’s summit.