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Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental “reasoning” model that “explicitly shows its thoughts” and can use them to strengthen its reasoning — Google has released what it's calling a new “reasoning” AI model — but it's in the experimental stages …
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Forums: r/artificial, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Sony's shares in Japan surged 50%+ from an August low to reach its new all-time high since 2000 last week, as investors are bullish on its gaming growth in 2025 — - Next year ‘one of the greatest’ for video games: Smithers — M&A and good management boost stock's appeal: Janus Henderson| Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: |
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Researchers unveil Genesis, an open-source generative physics engine that trains robots in simulated reality 430K times faster than in the real world — On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system …
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| Bloomberg: |
SAP promoted a team lead accused by five female staff of targeting female subordinates, raising concerns about company culture and workplace discrimination — Women who worked for a team lead at the tech giant's Signavio unit say that the company failed to address complaints of bullying and discrimination.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valuation in August 2024 — Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, raised $100 million Series B at a post-money valuation of $2.6 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.
X: @techau, @_anthonyriera, @suhail, and @mattvagni
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India — A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as “BREAKING NEWS” or “The president steps down …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple researchers say the company's open-source ReDrafter method on Nvidia GPUs led to a 2.7x speed increase in generated tokens per second for greedy encoding — Apple's latest machine learning research could make creating models for Apple Intelligence faster, by coming up with a technique …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta teases an AI editing tool powered by Movie Gen AI in Instagram that can change outfits, backgrounds, and more in videos using a text prompt, coming in 2025 — Instagram is planning to introduce a generative AI editing feature next year that will allow users to “change nearly any aspect of your videos.”
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| New York Times: |
In 150+ X posts, Elon Musk led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by sharing misinfo, which may lead to a government shutdown over Christmas — The world's richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by promoting false and misleading claims about it.
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Bluesky: @reckless, @pineapple-king, and @rmac
X: @elonmusk, @maxwellfrostfl, @sensanders, @senjeffmerkley, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @repjayapal, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @repjimmygomez, @emrwilkins, @fred_guttenberg, @edkrassen, @imknottheone, @elonmusk, @fscdems, @growing_daniel, @ahmedbaba_, @brianstelter, @alifarhat79, @scott_4trump, @theliamnissan, @elonmusk, @doctorhenryct, @armanddoma, @ericldaugh, @sadmonsters, @vivekgramaswamy, @davewiner, @c_s_skeptic, @themaxburns, @mattglassman312, @allenanalysis, @chucktodd, @naval, @paulg, @michaelsteele, @aaronblake, @joncoopertweets, @elonmusk, @vivekgramaswamy, @arimelber, @benjamingoggin, @daithaigilbert, @hillaryclinton, @voidofroses, @allenanalysis, @jfberke, @repdonbeyer, @berniesanders, @ericldaugh, @jamiedupree, @reploritrahan, @karthikfortexas, @elonmusk, @fritschner, @daniellamicaela, @repraskin, @ronfilipkowski, @cwebbonline, @billkristol, @pamelabrowncnn, @maddenifico, @leftcoastbabe, @elonmusk, @anniekarni, @boknowsnews, @acnewsitics, @bigskyisawesome, @davetroy, @farhip, @jeffjarvis, @youwouldntpost, @steven_pifer, @markpocan, @maddenifico, and @tvietor08. LinkedIn: Brian McLaughlin
Forums: r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/politics, r/Law_and_Politics, and r/musked
| Yantoultra Ngui / Reuters: |
Singapore-based bolttech, a B2B2C startup that offers “embedded” insurance products, raised a $100M+ Series C led by Dragon Fund at a $2.1B valuation — Singapore-headquartered insurance technology firm bolttech has raised more than $100 million in its latest funding round … | New York Times: |
Sources: the US' proposed AI chip framework would block adversaries entirely, and give others quotas based on their US alignment, threatening Nvidia's expansion — The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.
X: @klonkitchen
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Charlotte, NC-based Aiwyn, which provides automation software for accounting firms, raised $113M led by KKR and Bessemer, bringing its total funding to $127M — Accounting firms are struggling to adopt high-tech solutions. That's according to a survey earlier this year from Rightsworks …
More: SiliconANGLE, Aiwyn, Inc., and VC News Daily
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Anthropic, whose CEO, Dario Amodei, has vocally opposed Donald Trump, and OpenAI look to hire more people with ties to Trump and the GOP for their policy teams — Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its models' impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping … Sponsor Posts
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