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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.| New York Times: |
A look at how David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's WH benefits his investments, those of Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts — In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House.
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| 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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| 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 … | 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| 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 …
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| 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
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| 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.| 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
| 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 …
More: CNN, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| 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: PCMag, Pangram Labs, and Ace of Spades HQ
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| 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.
LinkedIn: Ivy Yang, Daniela Dib, and Jorge Guajardo
| 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 …
More: Unit 42, The Register, PC Gamer, Cyber Security News, Cyber Security News, and Cyber Security News
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