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Sources: Google begins pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on using its TPUs in their data centers; Meta could spend billions — Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business.
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Nvidia says it is “delighted by Google's success” and Google “made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google”, but “Nvidia is a generation ahead” — We're delighted by Google's success — they've made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google. NVIDIA is a generation ahead of the industry — it's the only platform that runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done. NVIDIA offers greater
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Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial …
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| Brian Spegele / Wall Street Journal: |
China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI “dark factories” — To blunt Trump's push to reclaim global manufacturing, China's factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Polymarket says it received an amended US CFTC designation, letting it operate a prediction market in the US with a fully regulated exchange structure — Polymarket's amended CFTC designation paves the way for the prediction-market platform to formally reopen in the U.S. with a fully regulated exchange structure.
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| Pritam Biswas / Reuters: |
Klarna launches KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, running on Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain, aiming to “reduce costs” in international payments — Swedish fintech firm Klarna (KLAR.N) on Tuesday said it will launch a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints — from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept — For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC sues former VP Lo Wen-jen, who left to join Intel, alleging a high likelihood that he leaked secrets to Intel after a two-decade career at TSMC — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. sued a former executive who left to work for Intel Corp., saying there is a high likelihood … | M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output — I have a simple method for my own AI rankings: product delight. That is, when I use the various services from the players in AI …
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Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M+; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M — Paxos, the veteran stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure firm, is leaning further into DeFi. On Tuesday, the company announced …
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Q&A with Ilya Sutskever about model jaggedness, why we are moving beyond the “age of scaling”, SSI's plan to straight-shot superintelligence, AGI, and more — “These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing." — Transcript
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| Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk / Reuters: |
Polish antitrust office UOKiK is probing whether Apple's ATT limits third-party data collection in mobile ads while giving Apple's own ads service an advantage — Poland's anti-monopoly office UOKiK is investigating whether Apple (AAPL.O) is restricting competition in the mobile advertising market through …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at how tech executives use “delay, deny, and deflect” when pressed on user safety and what it means for journalism, as shame loses power over public life — I. — On Friday, the Hard Fork team published our interview with Roblox CEO David Baszucki.
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$35B, vs. ~$34.5B est., Chinese e-commerce revenue up 16% YoY, and net income down to ~$3B, as it boosts cloud spending — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posted better-than-projected 34% growth in its cloud business, offsetting a plunge in profit … | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 — Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
A look at NY's RAISE Act, requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols and disclose serious incidents, as its co-sponsor is targeted by a pro-AI super PAC — New York is 3,000 miles away from the tech hub of Silicon Valley, but in recent weeks, the state has inserted itself into the center … | Tae Kim / Barron's Online: |
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying “Unlike Enron, Nvidia does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue” — A series of prominent stock sales and allegations of accounting irregularities have put Nvidia NVDA +2.05% in the middle …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A job listing shows Google is developing a new Android-based “Aluminium OS” that is “built with AI at the core”, potentially as a ChromeOS replacement for PCs — Google wants to replace ChromeOS with Aluminium OS, its new, Android-based operating system for PCs. — •
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TikTok names veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman — TikTok on Tuesday named veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its new head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman.
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro over third-party tools like Cursor, aiming to gather feedback for improvement — Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favor of its own …
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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, saying it is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use” and “meaningfully better at everyday tasks” — Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It's intelligent, efficient …
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