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November 29, 2025, 7:50 PM

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Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop:
Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT  —  As legitimate businesses purchase AI tools from some of the largest companies in the world, cybercriminals are accessing …
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024  —  Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad …
Nadeem Badshah / The Guardian:
Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data  —  Immediate software change on ‘significant number’ of jets to result in disruption to half the worldwide fleet
Abram Brown / The Information:
A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels  —  “So here's a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood.
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
@artificialanlys:
An analysis of Google TPU v6e vs AMD MI300X vs Nvidia H100/B200: Nvidia achieves a ~5x tokens-per-dollar advantage over TPU v6e and 2x advantage over MI300X  —  Google TPU v6e vs AMD MI300X vs NVIDIA H100/B200: Artificial Analysis' Hardware Benchmarking shows NVIDIA achieving a ~5x tokens-per-dollar advantage over TPU v6e (Trillium), and a ~2x advantage over MI300X, in our key inference cost metric In our metric for inference cost [image]
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 …
Ryo Mukano / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028  —  TOKYO — U.S. semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology will invest 1.5 trillion yen ($9.6 billion) to build a production facility …
More: Reuters and Bloomberg
Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Range, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners  —  Range, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, has raised $60 million in Series C funding, CEO Fahad Hassan tells Axios Pro.
More: Range and Washington …
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sunday Robotics, which debuted its Memo home robot on Nov. 19, hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus  —  - Sunday Robotics hired several former Tesla staff members to work on its Memo home robot.  — Some Sunday Robotics staff …
More: Electrek
@mingchikuo:
Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production  —  Intel expected to begin shipping Apple's lowest-end M processor as early as 2027 There have long been market rumors that Intel could become an advanced-node foundry supplier to Apple, but visibility around this had remained low. My latest industry surveys, however, indicate that

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