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Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with faster image generation, advanced world knowledge, and precision text rendering and translation — Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
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LinkedIn: Saurabh Tiwary and Srinivasan Venkatachary
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, above $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% YoY to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates — Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, suffered its worst stock decline in three months …
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LinkedIn: Randa Hinton and Emil Protalinski
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Nvidia stock is down 4%+, as investor concerns around the AI infrastructure boom dampen enthusiasm about the chipmaker's better-than-expected earnings — Watch CNBC's full interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang after earnings and guidance beat … Nvidia stock over the past year.
More: Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Investing.com, and Energy Connects
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| Citadel Securities: |
Citadel rebuts Citrini's viral article, arguing that AI deployment is constrained by the marginal cost of compute vs. human labor, and needs far more compute — Copyright © Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC or one of its affiliates. All rights reserved.
More: Fortune, Bloomberg, and India Dispatch
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness” — AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees' headsets. … Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter — As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …
More: The Verge, The Rundown AI, and Claude's Corner
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| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens — Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in — A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude …
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| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable” — It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling — New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Cisco warns of a critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023; CISA and its international partners issue emergency directives — Cisco is warning that a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 …
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| New York Times: |
As China grapples with a shrinking population and low birthrate, some women are finding romance with AI chatbots, leading Beijing to increase AI regulations — As China grapples with a shrinking population and historically low birthrate, people are finding romance with chatbots instead.| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
The US FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions …
More: cftc.gov, Gizmodo, Federal Trade Commission, and The Cyber Express
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| Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: |
OpenAI says it will make London its largest research hub outside of the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI's European headquarters are in Dublin — ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday that it would make London its largest research hub outside the United States … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia — Meta is planning something similar for its chatbots later this year. — Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT refused to assist a user associated with Chinese law enforcement in planning an online campaign to discredit Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi — OpenAI said its ChatGPT AI service refused to assist an individual associated with Chinese law enforcement in planning an online campaign …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon plans to invest up to $50B in OpenAI, $35B of which could hinge on an IPO or AGI milestone; OpenAI is discussing custom models for Amazon — Amazon's decision to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI could hang on whether OpenAI goes public or reaches a loosely defined milestone known … | Arijeta Lajka / New York Times: |
An analysis of 1,000+ YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures — Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information …
More: Digit
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding — After meeting in graduate school at MIT, Michael Manapat and Yibo Ling embarked on different career paths.
More: Tech Funding News
| Chainalysis: |
Total on-chain ransomware payments fell 8% YoY to $820M in 2025, despite a record 50% rise in claimed victims; the median payment grew 368% YoY to nearly $60K — TL;DR — Ransomware payments stagnated despite record attacks claimed. Total on-chain ransomware payments fell by approximately 8% …
More: BleepingComputer, The Record, Comparitech, and BeInCrypto
| The Information: |
OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M+ over several years — OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Mistral and Accenture sign a multi-year deal to let Accenture deploy Mistral's models for its clients; Mistral has deals with IBM, Cisco, SAP, ASML, and others — Accenture is added to its list of major clients at a critical juncture in the AI race — Mistral AI struck an agreement … | Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google, but will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind — Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing.
More: Intrinsic, Engadget, The Robot Report, Moneycontrol, and Fortune
| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
eBay says it plans to cut ~800 jobs, or ~6% of its full-time employees, after laying off ~500 people in early 2023 and ~1,000 staff in early 2024 — EBay Inc. is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees, saying the layoffs are needed to align its workforce with strategic priorities.| Financial Times: |
Analysis: super PACs for and against AI regulation have raised $265M ahead of the midterms, with pro-AI groups significantly outraising pro-regulation groups — Midterm election contests poised to become battlegrounds over nascent technology — Alex Bores was on the way to his wedding anniversary dinner … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal — Einride has secured an oversubscribed $113 million PIPE (private investment in public equity) ahead of its public debut that's expected for the first half of 2026.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is in talks with Visa, Mastercard, and Indian banks ICICI, HDFC, and Axis as part of its plans to launch Apple Pay in India around mid-2026 — Apple Inc. is in discussions with key Indian banks and global card networks in preparation to start Apple Pay in the world's most populous country.
More: PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, 9to5Mac, iClarified, AppleInsider, SamMobile, Moneycontrol, News18, Hindustan Times, Inc42, MacRumors, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/apple
| Rohan Goswami / Semafor: |
Sources: PayPal isn't in talks to sell itself, to Stripe or anyone, and has been preparing for months for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid — The Scoop — PayPal isn't currently in talks to sell itself — to Stripe or anyone else — and has been working for months …
More: ZeroHedge News
| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation — Companies developing AI models to power humanoid and other robots have been hard at work collecting videos and other data for training their models …
More: SiliconANGLE
| Nick Huber / Financial Times: |
Several UK consultants have left large firms to start AI consultancy startups, as growth in the country's AI consulting sector outpaces the broader market — A number of consultants have left big firms to create their own software companies to automate common and repetitive workSponsor Posts
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