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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.

<<Le atribuyen al sexto expresidente norteamericano Lord Palmerston, la frase según la cual “Estados Unidos no tiene amigos sino intereses”.>>
Ja ja, el sexto presidente fue John Adams. Palmerston fue canciller ("foreign secretary") britšnico.
Muchas veces le atribuye la expresión a Mefistófoles Kissinger.

El trasfondo de las tensiones entre EEUU y Colombia - Por Olimpo Cšrdenas y Ma. Fernanda Barreto – NODAL

El trasfondo de las tensiones entre EEUU y Colombia - Por Olimpo Cárdenas y Ma. Fernanda Barreto – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe

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.

SHANKS: Simultaneous Hearing and Thinking for Spoken Language Models
Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Shujie Liu, Zhendong Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Hung-yi Lee, Lijuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06917

SHANKS: Simultaneous Hearing and Thinking for Spoken Language Models
Current large language models (LLMs) and spoken language models (SLMs) begin thinking and taking actions only after the user has finished their turn. This prevents the model from interacting during the user's turn and can lead to high response latency while it waits to think. Consequently, thinking after receiving the full input is not suitable for speech-to-speech interaction, where real-time, low-latency exchange is important. We address this by noting that humans naturally "think while liste…

Tulsi Gabbard MIA on Venezuela operation amid tensions over Trump policy
Trump’s top national security advisers in recent days have outdone one another, publicly extolling his decision to launch the risky military raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro.
But one key figure has been largely absent from public view:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran who for years has spoken out against costly U.S. intervention…

Gabbard MIA on Venezuela operation, amid tensions with Trump policy
The director of national intelligence was conspicuously absent among Trump’s top national security advisers during the planning for the Maduro mission.

US spy plane spotted at airbase near Cirencester amid global tensions https://ground.news/article/us-spy-plane-spotted-at-airbase-near-cirencester-amid-global-tensions

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.