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November 29, 2025, 11:45 AM

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Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop:
Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT  —  As legitimate businesses purchase AI tools from some of the largest companies in the world, cybercriminals are accessing …
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024  —  Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad …
@mingchikuo:
Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production  —  Intel expected to begin shipping Apple's lowest-end M processor as early as 2027 There have long been market rumors that Intel could become an advanced-node foundry supplier to Apple, but visibility around this had remained low. My latest industry surveys, however, indicate that
@artificialanlys:
An analysis of Google TPU v6e vs AMD MI300X vs Nvidia H100/B200: Nvidia achieves a ~5x tokens-per-dollar advantage over TPU v6e and 2x advantage over MI300X  —  Google TPU v6e vs AMD MI300X vs NVIDIA H100/B200: Artificial Analysis' Hardware Benchmarking shows NVIDIA achieving a ~5x tokens-per-dollar advantage over TPU v6e (Trillium), and a ~2x advantage over MI300X, in our key inference cost metric In our metric for inference cost [image]
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus  —  - Sunday Robotics hired several former Tesla staff members to work on its Memo home robot.  — Some Sunday Robotics staff …
Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Range, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners  —  Range, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, has raised $60 million in Series C funding, CEO Fahad Hassan tells Axios Pro.
More: Range and Washington …
Prime Intellect:
Prime Intellect debuts INTELLECT-3, an RL-trained 106B parameter open source MOE model it claims outperforms larger models across math, code, science, reasoning  —  Today, we release INTELLECT-3, a 100B+ parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained on our RL stack, achieving state …
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
Google withdraws its 2024 EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Azure licensing, after the EU launched a probe into Azure and AWS under the DMA  —  Google initially filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in 2024, saying it used unfair software licensing practices
Reuters:
The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet DMA thresholds; Apple says the services should not be called “gatekeepers”  —  The European Commission said on Friday that Apple's (AAPL.O) Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet the thresholds to be considered …
Reuters:
Global futures markets were disrupted for several hours on Friday after CME Group suffered an outage due to a cooling failure at a CyrusOne data center  —  Global futures markets were disrupted for several hours on Friday after CME Group, the world's largest exchange operator …

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