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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia and OpenAI's recent wave of circular deals and partnerships is escalating concerns that they are artificially propping up the $1T+ AI market — A wave of deals and partnerships are escalating concerns that the trillion-dollar AI boom is being propped up by interconnected business transactions.
More: SFGATE, The Times, Yahoo Finance, The Information, and The Decoder
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to use in Colossus 2; Nvidia is investing as much as $2B — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned, tapping backers including Nvidia Corp …
More: Reuters, MarketWatch, Benzinga, Business Standard, PitchBook, Livemint, South China Morning Post, thesun.my, and DigiTimes
X: @edludlow, @shanumathew93, @edludlow, @andrewcurran_, @andrewcurran_, and @economyapp. Threads: @kroofnews
Forums: r/AMD_Stock, r/StockMarket, and r/hardware
| Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg: |
More: The Information. Bluesky: @spiffygiffy, @mommunism, @malaclypse, @devonp, @chriswarcraft, @shelleybwoke, @chadstanton.blacksky.app, @coachfinstock, @grhydian, @reggieisdead, @kashana.blacksky.app, @drewsof, @mollyfied, @stillwellgray.ca, @alyssaharad, @mrshiddedoopants, @djlavoie, @tommikakko, @andrewkulak.com, @mcopelov, @paulecohen, @vaguebiscuit, @prchovanec, @acabylonbee, @edzitron.com, @jessefelder, and @waldo42
| The Keyword: |
Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API — Available in preview via the API, our Computer Use model is a specialized model built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with user interfaces.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Business Standard, Google AI for Developers, Moneycontrol, Google Cloud, The Verge, Analytics India Magazine, Digit, Neowin, TestingCatalog, The Indian Express, Android Headlines, Blockchain.News, SiliconANGLE, and 9to5Google
X: @googledeepmind, @testingcatalog, @nicdunz, @officiallogank, @browserbasehq, @mishaalrahman, @sundarpichai, @pk_iv, @osanseviero, @googleaistudio, @kylejeong21, @rseroter, @shresbm, and @googleaidevs. LinkedIn: Tuan Nguyen, Ph.D
Forums: Hacker News and r/Bard
| Bloomberg: |
Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work — Two physicists integral to efforts by Alphabet Inc.'s Google to build working quantum computers have been awarded the Nobel Prize …
More: Ars Technica, Reuters, The Keyword, Mercury News, New York Times, Nobel Prize on YouTube, Sabine Hossenfelder on YouTube, Le Monde, Nobel Prize on YouTube, The Verge, ProtoThema English, Associated Press, Shtetl-Optimized, Nobel Prize on YouTube, BusinessLIVE, Decrypt, and The Register
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Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com, @lschmeiser, and @whodat35
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Petri, an open-source tool using AI agents for safety testing, and says it observed multiple cases of models attempting to blow the whistle — Petri (Parallel Exploration Tool for Risky Interactions) is our new open-source tool that enables researchers to explore hypotheses about model behavior with ease.
More: Anthropic, ZDNET, SiliconANGLE, and The Decoder
X: @sprice354_, @anthropicai, @saprmarks, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @sleepinyourhat, and @miles_brundage. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
| Matthias Pfefferle / Open Channels FM: |
An interview with Evan Prodromou, “inventor of the Fediverse”, on ActivityPub's origins, Mastodon's privacy focus, expanding beyond microblogging, and more — Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds — Apple Podcasts CastBox Overcast PocketCasts Spotify
Mastodon: @pfefferle@mastodon.social
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic plans to open its first Indian office in Bengaluru in early 2026; Dario Amodei is visiting India to meet government officials and potential partners — Today we're announcing that we're expanding our global operations to India, with plans to open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026.
More: The Information, Livemint, Reuters, Business Today, Digit, Business Standard, Hindustan Times, BMI, Fortune India, Analytics India Magazine, and Moneycontrol
LinkedIn: Michael Sellitto and Drew Bent
Threads: @gigabasee, @growwtogether__, and @chandrarsrikanth
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: $TRUMP issuer Fight Fight Fight LLC is working to raise at least $200M to create a digital asset treasury company to accumulate the struggling token — The startup that issued Donald Trump's memecoin several days before his second presidential inauguration is working to raise …
More: The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, crypto.news, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, and Crypto Briefing
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Qualcomm agrees to acquire Italian open-source electronics platform Arduino for an undisclosed sum and says the Arduino brand will remain independent — Arduino is also launching a Qualcomm-equipped Uno Q that functions as a single-board computer and microcontroller.
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LinkedIn: Chris Rommel, Pragya Pathi, Zach Shelby, and David Pakman
Bluesky: @ronscompvids and @timonsku.zip
Mastodon: @devopscats@toot.cat and @masek@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/LinusTechTips, r/arduino, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 — The third-party app store known as AltStore, one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union …
More: Riley Testut, Daring Fireball, The Verge, MacRumors, AltStore Docs, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, and PocketGamer.biz
X: @altstoreio. Bluesky: @mmccue. Mastodon: @Gte@mastodon.social, @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …, @quillmatiq@mastodon.social, @rileytestut@mastodon.social, and @rileytestut@mastodon.social. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Washington Post: |
An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more — More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling.
More: The Boston Globe and Washington Post
| Financial Times: |
An overview of detailed AI usage reports from OpenAI and others, as Microsoft's AI for Good Lab estimates that 15% of the world's working population is using AI — New data shows the ways millions have integrated the technology into their everyday lives More than 18bn messages are sent to ChatGPT every week.
More: DigiTimes and Microsoft AI for Good Lab
| Kunal Manchanada / Entrackr: |
Raise Financial Services, the parent company of Indian stock trading and investment app Dhan, raised $120M led by Hornbill Capital at a $1.2B valuation — Raise Financial Services, the parent company of stockbroking platform Dhan, has joined India's unicorn club after raising $120 million …
More: The Arc Web, Inc42 Media, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, VCCircle, NDTV Profit, Livemint, and DealStreetAsia
| Financial Times: |
UK filings: Revolut CEO and largest shareholder Nik Storonsky has shifted his residency from the UK to the UAE; Revolut is awaiting a full UK banking license — Change in billionaire's country of residence disclosed in Companies House filing — Nik Storonsky, Revolut's billionaire co-founder …
More: Reuters, The Irish Times, BusinessCloud, Arabian Business, The Times, Forbes, Telegraph, and Finextra
| Engineering at Meta: |
The Linux Foundation plans to launch the React Foundation, a new home for Meta's React and React Native; founding members include Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft — Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown …
More: React, SD Times, The Linux Foundation, W3Techs, and OpenJS Foundation
| Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese silicon wafer manufacturers like Eswin have rapidly gained market share by undercutting global leaders, such as Japan's Shin-Etsu Chemical, on price — TAIPEI — After more than a decade in the business, Hu, a representative of a distributor selling foreign-made silicon wafers in China … | John Revill / Reuters: |
SoftBank Group agrees to acquire ABB's robotics business, which generated $2.3B in sales in 2024, for $5.38B, in a deal expected to close in mid-to-late 2026 — Swiss engineering group ABB (ABBN.S) on Wednesday said it has agreed to sell its robotics business to SoftBank Group (9984.T) …
More: Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, Financial Times, RTÉ, Morningstar, Inc., SoftBank Group Corp., ABB Group, and CNBC
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk has appointed former Morgan Stanley banker Anthony Armstrong as CFO of xAI; Armstrong will also take over financial management for X — Anthony Armstrong will take over financial management for both the AI group and social media platform X
More: Reuters, CFO Dive, The American Bazaar, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance
X: @mroliverbarnes and @fredericlambert
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs — Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users …
More: Mastodon Blog, Flux, The Verge, and Engadget
Bluesky: @matthew.flux.community and @mattnavarra.com
| Christopher Beam / Wired: |
A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural Viz, an independent creator using Midjourney, Runway, and other AI tools to create a cinematic universe — Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era. It's from a guy named Josh. — The filmmaker could not get Tiggy the alien to cooperate.
X: @jcbeam. Bluesky: @dmnd.me and @wired.com. Threads: @giddycat
Forums: r/aiwars, r/midjourney, and r/NeuralViz
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands — When Elon Musk takes the stage at Tesla's annual meeting next month, one of the centerpieces of his plan to impress shareholders …
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