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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips — Amazon Web Services, which has been building its own AI training chips for years now, just introduced a new version known as Trainium3 that comes with some impressive specs.
More: About Amazon and SiliconANGLE
| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon launches Trainium3, claiming the AI chip is 4x faster than its previous gen and can cut AI training and operating costs by up to 50% vs. equivalent GPUs — The company will start selling its Trainium3 processors as AI companies are looking to diversify their supply of data-center chips
More: The Information, DatacenterDynamics, Reuters, and The Conversation
| The Information: |
Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a “code red” to shift more resources to improve ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans, like ads — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshal more resources to improve ChatGPT …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google, with its structural advantages, is a threat to both OpenAI and Nvidia; OpenAI has a meaningful moat with 800M+ ChatGPT users, but must monetize via ads — OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down and will retire in spring 2026; ex-Microsoft CVP Amar Subramanya takes over, reporting to Craig Federighi — Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring 2026, Apple announced today.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple plans to not comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on all smartphones and will convey its concerns to New Delhi — Apple (AAPL.O) does not plan to comply with a mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app and will convey …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14K-token document that Claude calls its “Soul overview”; an Anthropic employee confirms the doc's validity — This appeared to be a document that, rather than being added to the system prompt, was instead used to train the personality of the model during the training run.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US on desktop and mobile, arriving globally next week — The new annual insights feature lets you review your top channels, interests, and other viewing habits.| Nicholas Kulish / New York Times: |
Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $6.25B for 25M children, or $250 per investment “Trump account”, comparing the gift to Dell's direct PC sales model — The tech billionaire and his wife hope other philanthropists follow their $6 billion lead in expanding the reach of soon-to-be-created “Trump accounts.”
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z TriFold, with a 6.5" outer screen, a 10" inner screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy SoC, and a 3.9mm body at its thinnest point — It's really called the TriFold and it's really coming to the US. … It'll launch first in Korea on December 12th, with a US launch planned for the first quarter of 2026.
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Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 blockchain smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 developed exploits together worth $4.6M — AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we've written about before. But what is the economic impact of these capabilities?
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly-built multicloud networking solution and an open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure “later in 2026” — Outages at major web hosts can have huge impacts across society, as we see often such as with the recent Cloudflare outage.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after its $300M Series D in October, making its co-founders billionaires — The fund-raising effort, the company's third this year, values it at $11 billion, and comes amid stiff competition in the increasingly popular industry.| Wall Street Journal: |
The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M into xLight, which makes lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake — XLight to get up to $150 million to develop ultraprecise lasers for squeezing more circuits onto semiconductors
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including its new flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models — Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date … | Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?”; an “unauthorized” map edit resolved the bet — A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15.
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/europe, and r/IRstudies
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
AWS announces new features for its AI agent platform Bedrock AgentCore, including new tools for managing AI agent boundaries and memory capabilities — Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bulking up its AI agent platform, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, to make building and monitoring AI agents easier for enterprises.
More: The New Stack, Amazon Web Services, and About Amazon
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the “first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model” — Nvidia announced new infrastructure and AI models on Monday as it works to build the backbone technology for physical AI …
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| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models — Cursor, which launched one of the fastest-growing AI tools of all time, is at the center of the boom-or-bust debate in Silicon Valley
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B — Black Friday has supplanted Cyber Monday in online spending growth for the second year in a row, according to Adobe Inc. …
More: Reuters
| John Yoon / New York Times: |
South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one person made ~$12K — The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country's effort to stop exploitative recordings.| Bloomberg: |
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, after launching in September — A Paris-based artificial intelligence voice startup called Gradium has spun out of a nonprofit research lab and raised $70 million …
More: TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, and Sifted
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production — Kuaishou expects the new model's abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview — Amazon's cloud unit on Tuesday announced AI-enabled software designed to help clients better understand and recover from outages.
More: SiliconANGLE and Amazon Web Services
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM, codenamed Garlic, that outperforms Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks, per internal evaluations — OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Barcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers like Philips and JVC, raised a €50M Series A led by Highland Europe — TV makers need to get more lifetime value from a customer after selling a unit. With more competition in the market … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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