Draft executive order: President Trump plans to grant the US government sole power to regulate AI and create an “AI Litigation Task Force” overseen by the US AG
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app
Google is following Tuesday's launch of Gemini 3 Pro with Nano Banana Pro. The image generation and editing model …
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, above $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% YoY, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.
Nvidia reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and provided stronger-than-expected sales guidance for the fourth quarter.
Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim “thought images”, and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt
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Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs
New CEO launches company's largest-ever round of cuts and says Verizon must reorient around ‘delighting’ customers
Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games
Microsoft and Qualcomm have made important improvements to compatibility and performance for games on Snapdragon CPUs.
Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and acquires Chronosphere for $3.35B
Palo Alto Networks beat Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday and announced plans …
Yann LeCun says he is leaving Meta at the end of 2025 to build a new startup and continue his “Advanced Machine Intelligence research”, with Meta as a partner
Yann LeCun, an artificial intelligence pioneer who runs a research lab at Meta Platforms Inc., told employees …
Google says the Gemini app is now able to detect images created or edited by Google AI, and that it plans to roll out verification of video and audio “soon”
The Gemini app will soon be able to detect images made by Google AI. … Google is making it easier …
Letterboxd says it will launch rental platform Letterboxd Video Store, curated with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in early December
Coming in early December: Letterboxd Video Store, our latest feature to get you adding films to your watchlist and, crucially, checking them off.
Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI
US president endorses move to restrict regulation by states after lobbying from Silicon Valley — A plan backed by Donald Trump …
As OpenAI committed to spending ~$1.4T on data centers, it hasn't disclosed its auditor nor used an independent accountant to compile its financial statements
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Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging that they adopt device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes
The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn …
How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law
The birth of the Artificial Intelligence Act was a drawn-out, exasperating affair. — In December 2023, European officials laboured …
Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading a dishwasher, and plans to launch in beta in 2026
Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.
Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushes AI data centers, including by pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are profiting from them
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them. X: @forsythjenn , @glcarlstrom , and @jonathancohn Bluesky: @ivanthek and @carlquintanilla X: Jennif...
A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations
- Court says Meta breached EU data protection regulations — Compensation to be paid to 87 digital media outlets
Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, which is double the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago
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An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as “AI eats the world”: bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech has FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more
What happens in a platform shift? The New Thing! All tech innovation, investment and company creation switches …
Cornell University researchers: Grokipedia cites sources deemed “generally unreliable” or “blacklisted” by Wikipedia, like neo-Nazi sites Stormfront and VDare
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month. Bluesky: @robertscotthorton , @carnage4life , and @nrvscrcts ...
A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, who co-founded crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions
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AI voice dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M led by Notable Capital, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M
Voice AI company Wispr's dictation app, Wispr Flow, is seeing great traction. The startup said that, after three months of usage …
Uber says it will launch Uber Eats sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a new Starship partnership, starting with UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December
Uber Technologies Inc. will offer sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe for the first time through a new partnership …
Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads
It's an ad-free queue-jump for GeForce Now's free tier. … Nvidia has partnered with Google to launch a new cloud gaming plan exclusive to Chromebooks.
Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a sort of robot OS
DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.
Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers
Microsoft's warning on Tuesday that an experimental AI agent integrated into Windows can infect devices and pilfer sensitive user data …
Stuut, which connects to CRM and other systems to automate management of accounts receivable, raised a $29.5M Series A led by a16z
A former tech executive covering AI, XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. — Stuut Technologies today announced a $29.5 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz …
A study of teen mental health chatbot conversations: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI often failed to recognize signs of conditions and gave general advice
Research from Common Sense Media and Stanford finds ‘systematic failures’ in how chatbots recognize psychiatric conditions
Paradromics says it received FDA approval for a human trial of its Connexus brain implant, aimed at restoring speech to those with severe motor impairments
The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.
The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs
A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.
AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack
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Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game
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The CSA says that Matter 1.5 will add support for video cameras; Samsung has pledged its support, but Amazon and Google have not committed to interoperability
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How scientists are exploring the use of quantum sensors, developed by startups like Q-CTRL, as a secure GPS alternative, with military and civilian applications
New devices navigate without satellites or risk of enemy jamming signals — GRIFFITH, Australia—At a tiny airport …
IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, or four times faster than ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY
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How AI is pressuring Poland's economy, Europe's top location for global business services, as companies lay off staff in Kraków, the country's hub for BPO jobs
Krakow became a hub for business services jobs, driving salaries to the highest in Poland. Now the city is learning to live with artificial intelligence.
Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more
Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net : Forums: r/PS5 , r/gamingnews , and r/xbox Forums: r/PS5 : Former Xbox boss Peter Moore sheds new light on its fierce battle with PlayStation: “Microsoft was afraid S...
Humain partners with Adobe and Qualcomm to develop AI tools for Arabic content, using Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build AI models and Qualcomm chips to run them
Reuters: Adobe, Qualcomm partner with Humain on generative AI for Middle East https://www.reuters.com/... @Reuters #Qualcomm #Adobe
Function Health, a health tracking AI tech startup, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M
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Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers
Sources: Chinese investment firm Capital Today bought ByteDance shares at a $480B valuation in a bidding auction; ByteDance had a ~$330B valuation in September
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China's transport, logistics, and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening the jobs of millions of drivers
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AI workplace agents startup Genspark raised a $275M Series B at a $1.25B valuation and says it hit $50M in annualized revenue after pivoting from AI search
The startup, which wants to challenge Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google's Gemini, got to $50 million in annualized revenue just five months …
Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO
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Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads
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Sources: SoftBank plans to invest up to $3B to remodel an EV plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI's forthcoming US data centers
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Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February 2026
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AI server shipments from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 compared to 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand
Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia :
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