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Apple and Google fined in South Korea over app store violationsEngadget
AI has come for Arizona’s waterThe Verge
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises 'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurityEngadget
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I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet
AI · WIRED · AI
To experiment with AI’s predictive skills, I let Codex loose on a fantasy team. It tried to bench Erling Haaland at first, but it soon learned the error of its ways.
Read at WIRED · AIIntroducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms
AI · Hugging Face Blog
Read at Hugging Face BlogMicrosoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion
AI · TechCrunch · AI
Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.
Read at TechCrunch · AIGoogle expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
AI · TechCrunch · AI
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
Read at TechCrunch · AICreating AI value with enterprise context
AI · MIT Technology Review · AI
Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process…
Read at MIT Technology Review · AI
Building an Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AI · AWS Machine Learning Blog
Stand up a governed, multi-account Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through the architecture and an open-source reference blueprint: the operating model, control…
Read at AWS Machine Learning Blog
Distributed training with Ray Train DLCs and EFA on EKS
AI · AWS Machine Learning Blog
The Ray Train Deep Learning Container ships the full CUDA-through-EFA stack, so you build no image. This post walks through a reproducible sample that fine-tunes Qwen2.5-1.5B with PyTorch FSDP across…
Read at AWS Machine Learning Blog
3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era
AI · MIT News · AI
Professor Ali Jadbabaie describes how AI, digital transformation, climate change, and complex geopolitics are forcing engineers and policymakers to rethink how infrastructure is designed, built, and…
Read at MIT News · AINVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt
AI · Hugging Face Blog
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Should AI Decide Your Court Case? This Judge Says Yes
AI · WIRED · AI
One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.
Read at WIRED · AI
Making machines that can listen
AI · MIT News · AI
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
Read at MIT News · AI
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
AI · Google DeepMind
Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.
Read at Google DeepMind
Our newest AI Quest: Mapping the human brain
AI · Google AI Blog
Learn AI literacy via Google’s latest AI Quests lesson on neuroscience, “Polar Peaks.”
Read at Google AI Blog
Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types
AI · Google DeepMind
A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.
Read at Google DeepMind
Southeast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billion
AI · Google AI Blog
Widespread AI adoption is propelling Southeast Asia's digital economy to a projected $368 billion in 2026 and $1 trillion by 2035.
Read at Google AI Blog
Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
AI · Google AI Blog
We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.
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API credits, now in ChatGPT Pro and Business plans
AI · OpenAI · YouTube
Starting today, eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can claim up to $500 per month in API credits to build apps and agents. Credit amounts depend on the plan. Pro plans get $100, $200 or…
Read at OpenAI · YouTube
DeepSeek's New AI Is An Absolute Monster
AI · Two Minute Papers · YouTube
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 is available here: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news261017/ Sources:…
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Merge CEO Shensi Ding: AI fluency starts at the top
AI · OpenAI · YouTube
“If you're an executive, you are the ceiling for AI fluency for your organization.” Merge co-founder and CEO Shensi Ding manages the non-R&D side of the business. She also codes. Using Codex, she…
Read at OpenAI · YouTube
Why Merge CEO Shensi Ding stays hands-on with Codex
AI · OpenAI · YouTube
“If you're an executive, you are the ceiling for AI fluency for your organization.” Merge co-founder and CEO Shensi Ding manages the non-R&D side of the business. She also codes. With Codex, she…
Read at OpenAI · YouTube
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
AI · Google DeepMind · YouTube
Meet Genie 4, Google DeepMind’s most realistic and interactive world model yet. Built on our Gemini models, Genie 4 lets you step inside dynamic worlds in real time, steer scenes on the fly with…
Read at Google DeepMind · YouTube
AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #503
AI · Lex Fridman · YouTube
Ankur Moitra, Steven Brunton and Alex Kontorovich are three mathematicians who can speak to this incredible moment in the history of mathematics, when AI solved some of its hardest problems:…
Read at Lex Fridman · YouTube
Gemini 4 Argon Is Not What I Expected
AI · Two Minute Papers · YouTube
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 Gemini 4 Argon + report are available here: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-4-argon/…
Read at Two Minute Papers · YouTube
Visiting Taiwan w/ Jensen Huang | Lex Fridman
AI · Lex Fridman · YouTube
I've been traveling the world a bit. One of the most incredible experiences was getting to visit Taiwan with Jensen Huang. It was wild 🤯 Huge crowds, insanely good street food at night markets, and…
Read at Lex Fridman · YouTube
Applying Gemini 4 for large-scale codebase maintenance in Chromium
AI · Google DeepMind · YouTube
The Chromium codebase is millions of lines long and decades old. In the past, working with it has meant navigating decades of tangled features, where touching one component can unexpectedly affect…
Read at Google DeepMind · YouTube
Anduril now says its BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch
TECH · The Verge
On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a…
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Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth
TECH · Ars Technica
Critical flaw in EDK2 allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.
Read at Ars Technica
Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine
TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing
I step into the warm moist airamong the columns of the pines,their net of twigs and rootscomplex as any lines of code.The trees purify and anchor.Their branches balance my restlessness.Their calling…
Read at IEEE Spectrum · Computing
What Biometric Technology Does and Doesn’t Add to Voting
TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing
Whether voters are alive or dead is of vital interest to democracies. Yet unscrupulous political operators have long voted on behalf of the dead or absent and otherwise committed electoral frauds…
Read at IEEE Spectrum · Computing
Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4
TECH · Ars Technica
Flubbed key signing "ceremony" allowed minting of web credentials for any site.
Read at Ars Technica
Why Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill
TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing
When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for technology education and research funding, he was in awe of the opportunity.…
Read at IEEE Spectrum · Computing
333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
TECH · Ars Technica
For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.
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I was wrong about Augmented Reality
TECH · Linus Tech Tips · YouTube
Thanks to XREAL for sponsoring this video and giving us an early look at the XREAL Aura! learn more and get yours at…
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?PHP Problem? - Computerphile
TECH · Computerphile · YouTube
Two PHP Exploits hit the news last week. Dr Steve Bagley explains how dangerous they could be. Read about the chip competition on Jane Street’s blog:…
Read at Computerphile · YouTube
Did the AI bubble just pop?
TECH · Fireship · YouTube
Try Hyperagent for free, or sign in with ChatGPT to get more usage from your existing plan: https://www.hyperagent.com/login?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=influencer&utm_campaign=FIRESHIP Are we…
Read at Fireship · YouTube
China just dropped a new frontier model... and nobody can explain how
TECH · Fireship · YouTube
Get 20% off Mobbin Pro to help your agent design UIs that actually convert - https://mobbin.com/fireship Kimi K3.1 just dropped as a free 3-trillion-parameter open-weight model that comes within one…
Read at Fireship · YouTube
The Sphere Intersection Puzzle
TECH · 3Blue1Brown · YouTube
Part of a series of monthly puzzles Early view of some other solutions: https://members.3blue1brown.com/posts/solution-to-10-158885046 https://members.3blue1brown.com/posts/solution-to-sum-156593740
Read at 3Blue1Brown · YouTube
How Image Watermarking Works - Computerphile
TECH · Computerphile · YouTube
Image watermarks are a way to embed information into a picture, Dr Mike Pound takes us through Adobe's Trust Mark to explain the idea & covers some of the pros and cons. 00:00 - Introduction:…
Read at Computerphile · YouTube
There's never been a better time to go into math
TECH · 3Blue1Brown · YouTube
Sharing a few thoughts on the future of math These videos are funded directly by viewers: https://3b1b.co/support An equally valuable form of support is to simply share the videos. Home page:…
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