New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the RAISE Act into law Friday, making New York the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models.
Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties
Google on Friday sued a Texas company that “scrapes” data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions …
Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025
The transition from Assistant to Gemini will continue into 2026. — Google wanted to remove Assistant from most Android phones …
Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use
Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users' complete and extended AI conversations and selling …
OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis
OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too. … OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up — or down — ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm.
OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system
We introduce evaluations for chain-of-thought monitorability and study how it scales with test-time compute, reinforcement learning, and pretraining.
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values.
The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package, worth around $56B when it vested, must be restored, ending a years-long fight
Will his net worth increase? New York Times : Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla Pay Deal Is Restored by Delaware Supreme Court X: Eric W. / @ewess92 : Tesla wins & @elonmusk gets equity. Big win for rule of law,...
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024
That's up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV. — People are spending more time tuning …
Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours
Google says it's complying with the Epic injunction by erecting new programs and fees. … Today was the deadline for Google …
Micron projects FY Q2 sales to grow over 2x YoY to $18.7B and adjusted operating income to rise over 5x to $11.3B, signaling higher memory chip prices in 2026
The AI gold rush is creating shortages for memory chips that could raise prices for all sorts of gadgets
China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years
China issued rules for governing pricing-related practices of internet platform operators to safeguard the interests of consumers and merchants …
Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000+ attendees, yacht parties, and more
It used to be a small gathering just for nerdy researchers. Now there are yacht parties—and everyone is feeling bubbly. X: @meghanbobrowsky X: Meghan Bobrowsky / @meghanbobrowsky : New: Our dispatch ...
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models
Get ready for a new mobile experience. Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google : Galaxy Z Flip 8 could remain exclusive to Samsung's Exynos 2600, report suggests The Indian Express : Samsung introduces Exynos 26...
2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more
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Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is considering retaining an advisory role
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AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence says it saw improvements in its vision-language-action model by including human video data in the fine-tuning process
human data Mehdi / @bettercallmedhi : Physical Intelligence may have just triggered the real inflection point for robotics π0.5 shows emergent human to robot transfer: once the model is big enough, it...
Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by “several quarters”
TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to start moving chipmaking tools into its second plant …
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October
AI chip maker Cerebras Systems is preparing to file for a U.S. initial public offering as soon as next week …
Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives
Stablecoin giant's Devasini is director of groups that bought Peak Mining from Northern Data — Companies run by Tether's …
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted
and unleash chaos Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership Media Matters for America : After the Brown University shooting, right-med...
Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M
I'm excited to announce that Ready Player Me has been acquired by Netflix. … Joanna Williams : HA! Today really is the snaps into place moment — Netflix just bought Ready Player Me to give itself a...
Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B
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Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection
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California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details
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Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech
Emily Mullin / Wired : Forums: r/HotScienceNews Forums: r/HotScienceNews : Sam Altman's New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Zoho People in 2025: A year in review
As we wrap up 2025, we're taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.