Apple says AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down and will retire in spring 2026; ex-Microsoft CVP Amar Subramanya takes over, reporting to Craig Federighi
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring 2026, Apple announced today.
Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a “code red” to shift more resources to improve ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans, like ads
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshal more resources to improve ChatGPT …
Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips
Amazon Web Services, which has been building its own AI training chips for years now, just introduced a new version known as Trainium3 that comes with some impressive specs.
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z TriFold, with a 6.5" outer screen, a 10" inner screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy SoC, and a 3.9mm body at its thinnest point
It's really called the TriFold and it's really coming to the US. … It'll launch first in Korea on December 12th, with a US launch planned for the first quarter of 2026.
Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $6.25B for 25M children, or $250 per investment “Trump account”, comparing the gift to Dell's direct PC sales model
The tech billionaire and his wife hope other philanthropists follow their $6 billion lead in expanding the reach of soon-to-be-created “Trump accounts.”
Sources: Apple plans to not comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on all smartphones and will convey its concerns to New Delhi
Apple (AAPL.O) does not plan to comply with a mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app and will convey …
YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US on desktop and mobile, arriving globally next week
The new annual insights feature lets you review your top channels, interests, and other viewing habits.
A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14K-token document that Claude calls its “Soul overview”; an Anthropic employee confirms the doc's validity
This appeared to be a document that, rather than being added to the system prompt, was instead used to train the personality of the model during the training run.
Amazon launches AWS AI Factories to deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in customers' data centers
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Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 blockchain smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 developed exploits together worth $4.6M
AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we've written about before. But what is the economic impact of these capabilities?
AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly-built multicloud networking solution and an open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure “later in 2026”
Outages at major web hosts can have huge impacts across society, as we see often such as with the recent Cloudflare outage.
Google, with its structural advantages, is a threat to both OpenAI and Nvidia; OpenAI has a meaningful moat with 800M+ ChatGPT users, but must monetize via ads
OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including its new flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models
Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date …
Amazon launches Trainium3, saying the AI chip is 4x faster than Trainium2 and can cut AI training and operating costs by up to 50% compared to equivalent GPUs
The company will start selling its Trainium3 processors as AI companies are looking to diversify their supply of data-center chips
AWS announces new features for its AI agent platform Bedrock AgentCore, including new tools for managing AI agent boundaries and memory capabilities
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch :
An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more
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Amazon launches second generation of its Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and Nova Omni, a fully multimodal reasoning model
Will Knight / Wired :
AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Polymarket's Ukraine war betting, based on ISW's map, generated $1M+ in volume for “Will Russia capture Myrnohrad?”; an “unauthorized” map edit resolved the bet
A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15.
The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M into xLight, which makes lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake
XLight to get up to $150 million to develop ultraprecise lasers for squeezing more circuits onto semiconductors
South Korean police arrest four for hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one hacker made ~$12K
The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country's effort to stop exploitative recordings.
Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after its $300M Series D in October, making its co-founders billionaires
The fund-raising effort, the company's third this year, values it at $11 billion, and comes amid stiff competition in the increasingly popular industry.
Marques Brownlee plans to shut down wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: Panels reached 900K downloads and users spent $95K since its 2024 launch
Hey everyone, It's been over a year since we launched Panels. Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube : Panels update Chandan Pandit / Android Headlines : MKBHD Announces Panels App Shutting Do...
Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the “first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model”
Nvidia announced new infrastructure and AI models on Monday as it works to build the backbone technology for physical AI …
Vanguard now allows ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold select cryptocurrencies, like BTC, to be traded on its platform, reversing a longstanding position
opens $9.3T platform to crypto ETFs Zabi / The Crypto Basic : $11 Trillion Vanguard Finally Enables Bitcoin and Crypto ETFs for Clients Bogdan Patru / Bitcoinist.com : Vanguard Expands to Bitcoin ETFs...
A profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024
Dario Amodei is, in his telling, the accidental CEO of an accidental business—one that just happens to be among the fastest-growing on the planet.
Amazon launches Amazon Now, an ultra-fast service that aims to deliver household essentials and groceries in ~30 minutes or less, in Seattle and Philadelphia
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's health care push was “inappropriate”, IBM's quantum computing bet, and more
Today, I'm talking with Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM. IBM is a fascinating company.
Just Eat founder Jitse Groen plans to step down as CEO on January 1, to be replaced by Prosus Europe head Roberto Gandolfo; Groen founded Takeaway.com in 2000
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg :
Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production
Brand-New Creative Engine for Endless Possibilities! Input anything. Understand everything. Generate any vision. With true multimodal understanding, Kling O1 unifies your input across texts, images, a...
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, after launching in September
A Paris-based artificial intelligence voice startup called Gradium has spun out of a nonprofit research lab and raised $70 million …
Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
A look at Anthropic's societal impacts team, which broadly studies AI's impacts and finds and publishes “inconvenient truths”, building on most AI safety teams
Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic. … One night in May 2020, during the height of lockdown, Deep Ganguli was worried. Bluesky: @haydenfield Bluesky: Hayden Field / @haydenfield : NEW: A...
Taiwanese prosecutors charge Tokyo Electron for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing TSMC trade secrets, indicting the company on several counts
Tokyo Electron charged with failing to prevent its staff from stealing trade secrets Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Taiwan Files Charges Against Tokyo Electron Unit In Taiwan Semiconductor Technology The...
Discord now lets users buy, wishlist, and gift in-game cosmetic items directly within its platform, starting with a store within Marvel Rivals' Discord server
Ash Parrish / The Verge :
At a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he “was crying” over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but “I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI”
here's why FII Institute on YouTube : FII PRIORITY Asia | Watch the official livestream (En) Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : SoftBank's Masayoshi Son Says He ‘Cried’ About Selling Nvidia Stake to F...
Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM, codenamed Garlic, that outperforms Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks, per internal evaluations
OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic. X: @amir X: Amir Efrati / @amir : new: OpenAI dev...
A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models
Cursor, which launched one of the fastest-growing AI tools of all time, is at the center of the boom-or-bust debate in Silicon Valley
Vista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M+ in cash
Liana Baker / Bloomberg :
Sources: Marvell is in advanced talks to acquire chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could top $5B; Celestial was valued at $2.5B in March
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Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contrast with Asia's and Europe's relative positivity
Noah Smith / Noahpinion : X: @sarthakgh , @noahpinion , and @noahpinion X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Excellent rant and love letter about AI by @Noahpinion https://www.noahpinion.blog/ ... Noah S...
UK pension funds are cutting exposure to US equities over worries about a growing concentration in a few tech stocks and the risk of a bubble in the AI sector
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Barcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers like Philips and JVC, raised a €50M Series A led by Highland Europe
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo science and tech nonprofit conversions since January 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @justinhendrix Bluesky: Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : “A coalition that tried and failed to block OpenAI's conversion earlier this year is back with a...
Axiado, which is making a chip designed to save space and power in AI servers, raised $100M led by Maverick Silicon
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
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