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Google updates Quick Share to work with Apple's AirDrop to make file transfers between iPhones and Android devices easier, starting with the Pixel 10 family — When it comes to sharing moments between family and friends, what device you have shouldn't matter — sharing should just work.
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Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app — Google is following Tuesday's launch of Gemini 3 Pro with Nano Banana Pro. The image generation and editing model …
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Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim “thought images”, and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt — Hot on the heels of Tuesday's Gemini 3 Pro release, today it's Nano Banana Pro, also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image.| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google says the Gemini app is now able to detect images created or edited by Google AI, and that it plans to roll out verification of video and audio “soon” — The Gemini app will soon be able to detect images made by Google AI. … Google is making it easier … | Louis Ashworth / Financial Times: |
As OpenAI committed to spending ~$1.4T on data centers, it hasn't disclosed its auditor nor used an independent accountant to compile its financial statements — (Update middayish New York City time: we now understand from two people familiar with the situation that OpenAI's auditor is Deloitte.
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| Tina Nguyen / The Verge: |
Draft executive order: President Trump plans to grant the US government sole power to regulate AI and create an “AI Litigation Task Force” overseen by the US AG — Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations
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| Joe Miller / Financial Times: |
Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI — US president endorses move to restrict regulation by states after lobbying from Silicon Valley — A plan backed by Donald Trump …
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs — New CEO launches company's largest-ever round of cuts and says Verizon must reorient around ‘delighting’ customers
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions — ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on Thursday.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games — Microsoft and Qualcomm have made important improvements to compatibility and performance for games on Snapdragon CPUs.
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Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Windows11, r/Windows11, and r/snapdragon
| Jason Parham / Wired: |
Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging that they adopt device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes — The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads — It's an ad-free queue-jump for GeForce Now's free tier. … Nvidia has partnered with Google to launch a new cloud gaming plan exclusive to Chromebooks.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, unveils Olmo 3 models that it says outperform open models like Stanford's Marin and commercial open-weight models like Llama 3.1 — The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new generation of its flagship large language models, designed to compete more squarely with industry and academic heavyweights.
More: Ai2, The Decoder, Interconnects, and The AI Economy
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Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushes AI data centers, including by pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are profiting from them — Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.
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| Benedict Evans: |
An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as “AI eats the world”: bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech has FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more — What happens in a platform shift? The New Thing! All tech innovation, investment and company creation switches …
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Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading a dishwasher, and plans to launch in beta in 2026 — Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.
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| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
OpenAI says GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to accelerate scientific research workflows but can't run projects or solve scientific problems autonomously — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5 supports researchers across disciplines, a study found. — The model doesn't rival human researchers, however.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Lux, Thrive, and more — Physical Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help robots learn a wide range of tasks … | Financial Times: |
How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law — The birth of the Artificial Intelligence Act was a drawn-out, exasperating affair. — In December 2023, European officials laboured …
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| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Numeric, which automates accounting workflows, raised a $51M Series B led by IVP, bringing its total funding to $89M, and says OpenAI and Brex are clients — Numeric, which automates accounting workflows, raised $51 million in Series B funding, CEO Parker Gilbert tells Axios exclusively.| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Cornell University researchers: Grokipedia cites sources deemed “generally unreliable” or “blacklisted” by Wikipedia, like neo-Nazi sites Stormfront and VDare — An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
More: Gizmodo and Moneycontrol
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Letterboxd says it will launch rental platform Letterboxd Video Store, curated with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in early December — Coming in early December: Letterboxd Video Store, our latest feature to get you adding films to your watchlist and, crucially, checking them off.
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Forums: r/oscarsdeathrace, r/Fauxmoi, r/oscarrace, and r/blankies
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
AI workplace agents startup Genspark raised a $275M Series B at a $1.25B valuation and says it hit $50M in annualized revenue after pivoting from AI search — The startup, which wants to challenge Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google's Gemini, got to $50 million in annualized revenue just five months … | Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Source: Twenty, which uses AI to help hackers for the US military penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $38M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital — Twenty's technology helps military hackers find ways to penetrate targets. — Last fall, a group of former military hackers …
LinkedIn: Margi Murphy
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs — A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.| Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M — Profluent has raised $106 million to scale up use of its AI models for biology in drug development and agriculture.
More: Pulse 2.0 and Business Wire
| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities, raised $26M across seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and General Catalyst, respectively — Method Security, a dual-use company combining cyber expertise with artificial intelligence speed, raised $26 million across its seed round and Series A.
More: Pulse 2.0 and Tech in Asia
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A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations — - Court says Meta breached EU data protection regulations — Compensation to be paid to 87 digital media outlets| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
AI voice dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M led by Notable Capital, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M — Voice AI company Wispr's dictation app, Wispr Flow, is seeing great traction. The startup said that, after three months of usage … | Bloomberg: |
Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads — On YouTube's conservative airwaves, podcast hosts tout products that let people buy into the MAGA crowd: Republican Red Winery vintages … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a sort of robot OS — DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and acquires Chronosphere for $3.35B — Palo Alto Networks beat Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday and announced plans …
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