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Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

ByteDance AI phone sparks security fears from Tencent and Alibaba
Experts say bigger concern is TikTok parent trying to rewrite Big Tech market rules

Mamdani Moves to 'Trump-Proof' New York as ICE Tensions Rise (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/mamdani-moves-to-trump-proof-new-york-as-ice-tensions-rise
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p87#a251208p87

Reading thoughts about a new Chinese openweights AI model, Kimi K2 Thinking.
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-thinking-what-it-means

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.

Raiders are thinking outside the box in their latest coaching search https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-are-thinking-outside-the-box-in-their-latest-coaching-search-3605088/

#Tanzania crackdown on planned protest leaves streets deserted
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2e3j819eqo

Tanzania crackdown on planned protest leaves streets deserted
There is a large police presence in major cities and the authorities have encouraged people to stay home.

“EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’s base station. “SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS.”
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
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Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum.

Tansania: Internetblockade nach fünf Tagen beendet, WhatsApp & Co. noch gesperrt
Fast eine Woche war Tansania komplett offline, jetzt geht das Internet wieder. Soziale Netzwerke und Messenger werden aber offenbar weiterhin blockiert.

Trump and Petro make phone call. Petro explains Colombia actions against drug trafficking. Tone lowered.
Petro y Trump rebajan la tensión entre EEUU y Colombia tras una llamada de una hora: "Si no se dialoga, hay guerra"
https://www.e…

Petro y Trump rebajan la tensión entre EEUU y Colombia tras una llamada de una hora: "Si no se dialoga, hay guerra"
Los gobiernos de ambos países aseguran que la conversación ha sido con "tono constructivo" después de que Trump deslizara que se podría hacer en Colombia lo mismo que en Venezuela con Maduro

Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/alibaba-backed-moonshot-releas…

Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases its second AI update in four months as China’s AI race heats up
The Chinese AI startup on Thursday released its newest "Kimi K2 Thinking" artificial intelligence model.