Apple confirms that VP of Human Interface Design Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Tim Cook says Apple UI Designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye
Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push …
Apple replacing Alan Dye with career designer Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake of putting Dye, who has a brand and ad background, in charge of UI design
In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company 1), I wrote:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse …
Mark Zuckerberg announces a creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Senior Director of Apple Design Team Billy Sorrentino
Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck@threads.com :
React discloses a React Server Components flaw that allows unauthenticated remote code execution; Wiz says 39% of cloud environments have vulnerable instances
A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.
A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings skilled workers from Taiwan who struggle with adapting to a sprawling suburbia and summer temperatures
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times :
Nvidia says GB200 Blackwell AI servers, which pack 72 chips in one unit, boost performance 10x over H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking
Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Wednesday published new data showing that its latest artificial intelligence server can improve the performance …
How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into a US chip hub, investing tens of billions and illustrating the difficulties of large-scale US projects
The transformation of Phoenix into a semiconductor hub by Taiwan's TSMC illustrates the difficulties of large-scale projects in the United States.
Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations
Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year.
The European Commission opens a new antitrust investigation into Meta over its rollout of its AI assistant in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA
Brussels concerned that US tech group's business terms may prevent competition from third-party AI providers
The US DOJ indicts two Virginia twin brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors
The Justice Department arrested Virginia-based twin brothers who formerly worked at a federal contractor on Wednesday …
DealBook Summit: Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by “YOLO-ing” and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei suggested that some artificial intelligence companies are taking …
DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir
Alex Karp vows to use his “whole influence” on immigration and defense policy. — Read Later Read Later
OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions”, or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat
OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models.
Jensen Huang says “we don't know” if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips should the US relax export controls on them, after a meeting with President Trump
FT Report Flags Pivotal AI Chip Export Decision for Traders The Korea Herald : Trump meets Nvidia CEO Huang: source DigiTimes : Taiwan's president invokes past chip curbs as US weighs Nvidia sales to ...
A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other news outlets
OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times …
Google debuts Workspace Studio, a no-code tool for creating, designing, managing, and sharing AI agents, for users on Business, Education, and Enterprise plans
After teasing at I/O 2024 and announcing this April, Google today is launching Workspace Studio as a new automation tool that lets you …
A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip
AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. X: @recurrented , @mikeisaac , @franklinleonard , @stevenlevy , and @mooreh...
Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer, providing $6B+ in 2025 revenue, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its US delivery network
Amazon has long been the Postal Service's top customer, providing more than $6 billion in annual revenue to the agency in 2025.
Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning
Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term — What are we scaling? X: @sriramk , @_simonsmith , @dwarkesh_sp , @emollick , @dwarkesh_sp , @dwarkesh_sp , @m...
Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K+ local chip jobs are set to be created over four years
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times :
BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks, including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank, to develop a euro-pegged stablecoin via joint venture Qivalis
The group of 10 banks plans to introduce its euro stablecoin next year under a new Dutch entity named Qivalis. — What to know:
Docs: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's gaming supply chain role
Foxconn (2317.TW) and Luxshare (002475.SZ) plan to add millions of gaming devices to Vietnam's annual output …
OnePlus launches US preorders for the $899.99+ OnePlus 15 after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown
The phone starts at $899.99. … OnePlus has launched its delayed US preorders for the flagship OnePlus 15, almost a month after the phone was revealed.
Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage
because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Micron to exit the consumer memory and storage market in favor of AI data center customer...
Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners for power theft, which cost a state energy company ~$1.1B over five years
Cracking down on illegal Bitcoin mining gangs has become a cat-and-mouse game in Malaysia. — In Malaysia's illegal crypto mining hotspots, the hunt begins in the sky.
Amazon plans to release its new $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and $500 Kindle Scribe on December 10; the company announced the devices in September
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and upgraded Kindle Scribe will be available to order soon. … Amazon has finally given a release date …
The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in “censorship”, including fact-checking and online safety
and require them to make profiles public, State Department says The Indian Express : Donald Trump's new H-1B vetting: What are new requirements for US visa? NDTV Profit : Issuance Of Visas Sovereign R...
Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active
dude is like elon whose procrastination is seen as entrepreneurship [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : There was a time I wondered if OpenAI was trying to do too much at once and I don't ...
Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division, NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit
says keeping NEX in-house will strengthen integration and customer offerings Ray Le Maistre / TelecomTV : Intel backtracks on Network and Edge Group spin off Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Intel Ditches ...
Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024
Taiwan's interior ministry said on Thursday it would suspend access to Instagram-like Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu for one year …
Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+ under the OSA, the largest penalty so far, and threatens action against a “major social media company”
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times :
University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician”
Ken Ono had an epiphany. Now the professor is moving to Silicon Valley to chase mathematical superintelligence. Forums: Hacker News Forums: Hacker News : The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia-For an...
AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M
The start-up is now valued at about $8 billion as it pushes to add new customers, including those outside law firms.
Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multiyear $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake's platform and deploy AI agents for enterprises
Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal :
Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, on its iOS and Android apps
Meta is launching a new centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram users, the company announced on Thursday …
7AI, which makes agents that analyze and triage info like cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, taking its total funding to $166M
Agentic AI company closes bumper early-stage round as investors pour funds into AI market — Artificial-intelligence startup …
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds
www.theverge.com/news/837780/ ... Forums: spez on Reddit : Beyond the Front Page of the Internet r/RedditAlternatives : Reddit's CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it's going away / Reddit is also limit...
Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on “pragmatic interpretability”
we're calling it “pragmatic” interpretability Neel Nanda / @neelnanda5 : The GDM mechanistic interpretability team has pivoted to a new approach: pragmatic interpretability Our post details how we now...
Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding from 30%+ to <10%
Bloomberg :
Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $60M Series B led by Portage, a source says at a ~$500M valuation
Aditya Soni / Reuters :
Yann LeCun says Meta will not back his unnamed AI startup, which will focus on advanced machine intelligence and world models, and hints it will be Paris-based
Yann LeCun, the artificial intelligence pioneer who is leaving Meta Platforms Inc. at the end of the year …
The EU says it is gathering more info and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business
Bloomberg :
Some people are feeding years of medical records into chatbots like ChatGPT, despite privacy risks and receiving generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response
Maggie Astor / New York Times : Bluesky: @anniebkay , @kashhill , and @hypervisible.blacksky.app Bluesky: Annie B Kay / @anniebkay : It's absurd. AI is inaccurate - at least half the time. [embedde...
Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips
seeks to rival Huawei, but production remains a concern Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Cambricon targets triple chip output to rival Nvidia in China
The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal :
Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google's and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money”
A profile of Databricks co-founder and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, who pivoted from Jehovah's Witness to helping solve “species-level” problems via AI
Biz Carson / Bloomberg :
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