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November 30, 2025, 10:55 PM

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New York Times:
How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House benefits his investments, those of his 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.
Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis:
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance  —  Potential End of the CUDA Moat?, Anthropic's 1GW+ TPU Purchase, The more (TPU) Meta/SSI/xAI/OAI/Anthro buy the more (GPU capex) …
Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder:
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.
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
Bloomberg:
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 …
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Anthropic says over 60% of its business customers use more than one Claude product, a trend it began noticing after Claude Code's rise in popularity  —  Mike Krieger, who cofounded Instagram before joining Anthropic last year, wants the AI giant's Claude model to power workflows across entire companies.
NBC News:
US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs  —  AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models.
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 …
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
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 …

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