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Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on “needle-in-a-haystack” tests for 30-minute videos — A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model.| Joan Verdon / Forbes: |
Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B — Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey. — Consumers spent record amounts online on Black Friday …
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Forums: r/Anticonsumption, r/stocks, r/wallstreetbets, and r/Economics
| Nadeem Badshah / The Guardian: |
Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data — Immediate software change on ‘significant number’ of jets to result in disruption to half the worldwide fleet
More: Airbus, Reuters, BBC, Travel And Tour World, TechCrunch, KSDK-TV, Euro Weekly News, EASA, Le Monde, The Economic Times, Arabian Business, New York Times, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Business Insider, Mirror, CNBC, Korea Joongang Daily, ABC, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Politico, UPI, The Hill, NPR, USA Insurance News …, DNYUZ, Washington Examiner, WFAA-TV, CBS News, 9News, The Daily Caller, Capital Brief, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, RTÉ, Sky News, The Sun, and Simple Flying
X: @adityarajkaul, @ryanjfrench, @lukolejnik, @ryanjfrench, @ryanjfrench, and @easa. LinkedIn: Robert Boyle
Forums: r/technology, r/australian, r/australia, r/Airbus, and r/aviation
| Financial Times: |
OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users — Three years since the debut of ChatGPT, the $500bn start-up is facing significant challenges to its dominance in AI
More: TechRadar and Shelly Palmer
| Kamya Pandey / MediaNama: |
India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each account remains tied to an active SIM — The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to make it impossible … | Matthew Hutson / IEEE Spectrum: |
Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion — Shortened deadlines and other stressors caused misbehavior — Several recent studies have shown that artificial-intelligence …
More: Scale AI, Scale AI, and SEAL Leaderboard
X: @scale_ai, @scale_ai, @scale_ai, @thisiscetin, @silverjacket, and @ieeespectrum
LinkedIn: Furong Huang, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, and Dr. Jai Ganesh
| Abram Brown / The Information: |
A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels — “So here's a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood.| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
Taiwan raises its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 7.37%, up from 4.45% forecasted in August, the fastest in 15 years, as AI demand boosts its electronics exports — Growth forecast for 2025 raised to 7.37%, the fastest rate in 15 years — Taiwan has sharply raised its economic growth forecast … | Miryam Naddaf / Nature: |
Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50%+ contained signs of AI use — By - Miryam Naddaf 0 — Miryam Naddaf is a science writer based in London. — Search author on: — PubMed Google Scholar
More: Pangram Labs and Ace of Spades HQ
X: @southernwintrs, @v_shaal, @b_shrir, @pandaashwinee, @damienteney, @nogarot, @lovvge, @dawei_li_asu, @abhinav95_, @dcml0714, @canyuchen3, @alexolegimas, @shuaichenchang, @xianjun_agi, @max_spero_, @danielkhashabi, @mbodhisattwa, @dogacel0, @leonpalafox, @kahnchana, @gneubig, @shuaichenchang, @max_spero_, @xing_rui12683, @haryoaw, @max_spero_, and @gneubig
Bluesky: @katjadiehl and @elfsternberg
Mastodon: @gedankenstuecke@scholar …, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @simon_on_energy …, and @Khrys@mamot.fr
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/singularity, r/nottheonion, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative “off-label” uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind …
LinkedIn: MIT Technology Review and Evan Feinberg
| Ryo Mukano / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028 — TOKYO — U.S. semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology will invest 1.5 trillion yen ($9.6 billion) to build a production facility …
More: Tom's Hardware, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| Daniela Dib / Rest of World: |
A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community — A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.| 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 …
| 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 …
| 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 …
More: DeepSeek on Hugging Face, South China Morning Post, DeepSeek on GitHub, Implicator.ai, South China Morning Post, The Information, and MarkTechPost
X: @clementdelangue, @chombabupe, @bryancsk, @ecommurz, @jenzhuscott, @zjasper, @mervenoyann, @teortaxestex, @bindureddy, @blancheminerva, @dorialexander, @teortaxestex, @zhs05232838, @deedydas, @novasarc01, @alpindale, @jenzhuscott, @victormustar, @jenzhuscott, @yuchenj_uw, @presidentlin, @ai_for_success, @reach_vb, @scaling01, @eliebakouch, @simonw, and @askperplexity. LinkedIn: John Dvorak
Forums: Hacker News, r/math, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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 …
More: Electrek
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