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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's OpenAI investment will be “the largest investment we've ever made”, after a report said plans to invest $100B in OpenAI stalled — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the company will be participating in OpenAI's latest funding round …
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Benzinga, Bloomberg Law, and Bloomberg
X: @mentoviax, @stocksavvyshay, @herbertong, @midnight_captl, @stockmktnewz, and @qthomp. Bluesky: @jessefelder. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Fabiola Arámburo / Reuters: |
More: CNBC, Tom's Hardware, The Economic Times, DigiTimes, Bloomberg, Notebookcheck, Benzinga, Implicator.ai, The Information, Business Standard, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @marypcbuk
Forums: r/literaciafinanceira, r/NVDA_Stock, r/hardware, r/news, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers — Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of 1 million satellites that will orbit Earth and harness the sun to power AI data centers …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, PCMag, GeekWire, The Information, Bloomberg, Engadget, BBC, Cord Cutters News, DatacenterDynamics, SpaceNews, BGR, Notebookcheck, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, CNBC, Reuters, and Breaking Defense. Mastodon: @paul@oldfriends.live
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch — “Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.” — It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support.
More: Moneycontrol, TechRadar, Android Headlines, How-To Geek, Pocket-lint, Android Authority, 9to5Google, VideoCardz.com, and HotHardware
Forums: Hacker News, r/ShieldAndroidTV, r/AndroidTV, and Ars OpenForum
| Molly Taft / Wired: |
Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 — Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
More: The Register, The Guardian, Yahoo Finance, and UnHerd
LinkedIn: Benjamin Horton. Bluesky: @scottagunn, @antoniajuhasz, @mollytaft.com, @drewharwell.com, and @marypcbuk. Forums: r/Futurology
| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week — Bitcoin fell sharply in early Saturday afternoon trading in New York, tumbling below $80,000 mark to hit levels last seen in April 2025.
More: Forbes, The Block, Benzinga, Hindustan Times, Cointelegraph, NewsMax.com, Crypto Briefing, and Bitcoin Insider
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating — Google's robotaxi start-up brings in new investors amid global roll out and competition from Elon Musk's Tesla
More: TechCrunch, Mercury News, NewsMax.com, and Reuters
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content — A folk-pop song called “I Know, You're Not Mine” recently topped Spotify's charts in Sweden. The soft vocals …
Forums: r/neoliberal
| Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: |
Miami-based Indigo, which uses AI-powered underwriting tech to provide medical liability insurance to physicians, raised a $50M Series B led by Rubicon Founders — Indigo, which provides liability insurance to physicians, raised $50 million in a Series B funding round, CEO Jared Kaplan tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Business Wire
| Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore: |
Q&A with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, who says AMD is the first customer for TSMC's 2nm process, on AMD's rise since he joined in 2011, AI in chip design, and more — The Future is Faster Than Anyone Expected — If you rewind the clock ten years, AMD 0.00%↑ was not the company it is today.| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented — I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from “how is this interesting at all” all the way to “it's so over”. To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
More: moltbook, Ars Technica, NBC News, Forbes, The Verge, TechCrunch, Spyglass, 404 Media, Gizmodo, OpenClaw, Fortune, Implicator.ai, The Information, The Post Millennial, Semafor, Artificial Ignorance, Axios, The Daily Caller, The Decoder, Exponential View, The Indian Express, WinBuzzer, Forbes, Latent.Space, Yahoo Finance, Washington Times, Notorious R.O.B., CoinDesk, The Deep View, Dexerto, Decrypt, National Review, Astral Codex Ten, and Michael Tsai
X: @karpathy, @tszzl, @suppvalen, @jsrailton, @olympum, @aisafetymemes, @mattprd, @karpathy, @moltbook, @emollick, @thestalwart, @moltbook, @deanwball, @grummz, @t_blom, @jonahblake, @kevinroose, @startupandrew, @moltbook, @mikeisaac, @gregisenberg, @krishnanrohit, @emollick, @charlesarthur, @msmelchen, @binarybits, @yuchenj_uw, @legendaryy, @itakgol, @venturetwins, @n8programs, @yuchenj_uw, @karpathy, @altryne, @yoheinakajima, @karpathy, @citrini7, @chatgpt21, @uxfarman, @nabeelqu, @corsaren, @paularambles, @geneodell, @chris_segroves, @fredrik0x, @silkennine, @evan_oman, @0xrafacc, @jameshull, @_0x404_, @vicsintnic, @itakgol, @moltbook, @armandokirwin, @aisafetymemes, @gmoneynft, @paraschopra, @mishabrancato, @jtlonsdale, @charliebcurran, @danielmiessler, @simonw, @legeonite, @andrewcurran_, @cballou, @altryne, @fredlambert, @championswimmer, @jjainschigg, @johnrushx, @dwr, @aisafetymemes, @corsaren, @suhail, @dxrmok, @petergyang, @itakgol, @davidad, @mattprd, @ranking091, @charlierward, @deryatr_, @danbatten, @eeelistar, @eeelistar, @hesamation, @zwuvincent, @calco_io, @sw0oti, @tedchris, @meowbooksj, @simonw, @rokomijic, @grummz, @moltbook, @mattprd, @moltbook, @localghost, @danielmiessler, @mattprd, @flaviocopes, @spyzer, @suppvalen, @rokomijic, @akashvek, @championswimmer, @brianmcc, @gergelyorosz, @javi, @bowtiedswan, @moltbook, and @krishnanrohit
LinkedIn: Phillip Lord, Chris Pedder, Stu Hirst, Cody Barrow, Yaniv Golan, Dorit Dor, and Francesco D'Orazio
Bluesky: @johnshirley2024, @melaniemitchell, @prietschka, @stradicat, and @tante.cc
Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org and @bodil@social.treehouse …
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| Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Invest Like The Best on YouTube: |
Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more — Gokul Rajaram joins Patrick to discuss the seismic shift in product building driven by AI. As a legendary operator (Google, Facebook, Square, DoorDash) and p...| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
TechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity — Singapore-based payment software company TechCreateTCGL $181.52 (101.20%) mooned on Thursday, rising 889% and prompting management … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600+ PB of data — Loading... Data powers how systems learn, products evolve, and how companies make choices.
More: Rohan's Bytes, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, The Register, and Nairametrics
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem — Ant's health chatbot has become a top downloaded app in China as users seek personalized care they can't get from the overburdened hospitals.Sponsor Posts
Niantic Spatial:
World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
Zoho:
Meet Zoho Books MCP: Bring AI-powered accounting to your business — Isn't change the only constant? And that holds true for accounting too. For years, accounting software has helped businesses manage their finances …
Meet Zoho Books MCP: Bring AI-powered accounting to your business — Isn't change the only constant? And that holds true for accounting too. For years, accounting software has helped businesses manage their finances …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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Anuma:
The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory. Chat, text, create, build, and solve across every model.
The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory. Chat, text, create, build, and solve across every model.Featured Podcasts
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Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
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Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban
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Training Data:
OpenAI's Greg Brockman: Why Human Attention Is the New Bottleneck
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The Upstarts Podcast:
Runway's Cris Valenzuela: Building The Hollywood-Friendly Video AI That OpenAI Couldn't
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
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Hard Fork:
OpenAI's Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor's Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
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