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| Naina Raisinghani / The Keyword: |
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
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Nvidia stock is down 4%+ in intraday trading, as investor concerns around the AI infrastructure boom dampen enthusiasm about its 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: Breitbart, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Investing.com, and Energy Connects
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
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LinkedIn: Randa Hinton and Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/technology, r/hardware, and r/wallstreetbets
| 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.
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Bluesky: @sky.skymarchini.net, @chrislhayes, @katie0martin.ft.com, and @ddayen. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| Financial Times: |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses concerns of a “SaaS-pocalypse”, saying companies like Anthropic use “a lot of SaaS because it just got better with agents” — Shares in company that sells software as a service fall after it projects revenue below Wall Street's expectations| 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: PCWorld, The Verge, The Register, ZDNET, eWeek, Engadget, Claude's Corner, and Claude's Corner
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Bluesky: @cbarrie, @thatryanwhite, @tonytassell, @reckless, @lindsaypcohn, @annmlipton, @tcarmody, @roberthutton.co.uk, and @aaronrosspowell.com. Mastodon: @aram@aoir.social
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/ChatGPTcomplaints, r/Anthropic, and r/ClaudeAI
| 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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| 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 …
More: Implicator.ai. X: @grady_booch, @snowmaker, @getifyx, @amasad, @omooretweets, @levie, @omarsar0, @dkthomp, @unconed, @growing_daniel, @craighrowland, @pinboard, @andrewcurran_, @beatrizgietner, @yuchenj_uw, @spotn00b, @aizkmusic, @saxena_puru, @allgarbled, @hi_mrinal, @minchoi, @cblatts, @mstockton, @mparakhin, @dabit3, @kimmonismus, @ruima, @paulg, and @firstadopter. Bluesky: @carnage4life
| 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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| 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 …
More: Cloudflare and The Pragmatic Engineer
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| 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.| Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET: |
Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the “restricted” level of classified data — ZDNET's key takeaways — iPhone and iPad are approved to handle NATO ‘restricted’ classified data.
More: Apple, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Computerworld, MacRumors, and MobileSyrup
| 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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Bluesky: @oregonthedm, @stevoisiak, and @anniemay
| 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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Bluesky: @metacurity.com, @ollieatnowhere, @ransomwaresommelier.com, and @dannypalmer. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
| Reuters: |
Sources: US semiconductor companies face worsening rare earth shortages, as shipments still rarely make it to the US despite an October 2025 detente with China — Suppliers to U.S. aerospace and semiconductor firms face worsening rare earth shortages, with two turning away some clients … | 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: Crypto Briefing, Benzinga, and ZeroHedge News
| 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: CNET
| 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: Cult of Mac, PaymentsJournal, The Economic Times, PYMNTS.com, iClarified, Moneycontrol, News18, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Inc42, MacRumors, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/apple
| 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 … | 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: Gizmodo, cftc.gov, and Federal Trade Commission
X: @meadorftc, @juliecbarrett, and @ftc
Bluesky: @ckoppelman, @andrewfolks.com, @johnperrino.com, and @jmiers230
| 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 …
More: OpenAi, The Daily Caller, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and Cyber Security News
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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 … | Michelle Chan / Financial Times: |
Tech companies are increasingly turning to GPU-backed debt, a model pioneered by CoreWeave, using SPVs to shift debt off their balance sheets — Investors attracted by high yields as companies look to shift debt off their balance sheets — Tech companies are increasingly turning … | Charlie Fink / Forbes: |
Viture, which ranked top in XR glasses shipments in the US in Q3 2025, per IDC, raised $100M, bringing its funding in the past six months to $200M — Viture has closed another $100 million financing round, bringing its total capital raised in the past six months to more than $200 million …
More: FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, and Road to VR
| 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 … | 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.| 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.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Revel, founded by ex-SpaceX Starship software lead Scott Morton to replace legacy systems that test complex hardware like rockets, raised $150M led by Index — The start-up, founded by a former top SpaceX engineer, promises to help companies reduce their testing times and optimize systems.| 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 … | 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% …
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