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How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House benefits his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts — In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House.
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Bluesky: @sethabramson, @torrleonard, @paulthedogman, @fuzzygroup, @carlquintanilla, @newsjennifer, @michaelsderby, @whodat35, and @sccdp. Threads: @karaswisher
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| Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder: |
Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on “needle-in-a-haystack” tests for 30-minute videos — A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model.
More: arXiv.org, Implicator.ai, Simon Willison's Weblog, and Unite.AI
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| 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
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| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users — Three years since the debut of ChatGPT, the $500bn start-up is facing significant challenges to its dominance in AI| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; the country has a population of 51.7M — South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at online retailer Coupang Inc. that exposed about 33.7 million accounts …
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| Matthew Hutson / IEEE Spectrum: |
Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion — Shortened deadlines and other stressors caused misbehavior — Several recent studies have shown that artificial-intelligence …
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| 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
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| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/math, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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.| Kamya Pandey / MediaNama: |
India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each account remains tied to an active SIM — The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to make it impossible …
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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance — Potential End of the CUDA Moat?, Anthropic's 1GW+ TPU Purchase, The more (TPU) Meta/SSI/xAI/OAI/Anthro buy the more (GPU capex) …
More: Rohan's Bytes and The Decoder
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative “off-label” uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind …
LinkedIn: MIT Technology Review and Evan Feinberg
| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
Taiwan raises its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 7.37%, up from 4.45% forecasted in August, the fastest in 15 years, as AI demand boosts its electronics exports — Growth forecast for 2025 raised to 7.37%, the fastest rate in 15 years — Taiwan has sharply raised its economic growth forecast …
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