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OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (www.ft.com)
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DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York (www.bloomberg.com)
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McKinsey Plots Thousands of Job Cuts in Slowdown for Consulting Industry (slashdot.org)
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Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model (openai.com)
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High-Speed Traders Are Feuding Over a Way To Save 3.2 Billionths of a Second (it.slashdot.org)
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Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (siliconangle.com)
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A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner (www.theinformation.com)
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Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
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The cost-per-watt of compute for orbital solar data centers is $51.10/W vs. just $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital (andrewmccalip.com)
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Tech Giants Can't Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses (tech.slashdot.org)
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Hackers exploit newly patched Fortinet auth bypass flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down (news.slashdot.org)
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Cyberattack disrupts Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA's operations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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The Hidden Risk in Virtualization: Why Hypervisors are a Ransomware Magnet (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M (www.axios.com)
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Mozilla's New CEO Bets Firefox's Future on AI (tech.slashdot.org)
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Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more (stratechery.com)
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Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (www.theverge.com)
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Google's Real Estate Listings 'Experiment' Sends Zillow Shares Down More Than 8% (tech.slashdot.org)
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Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (techcrunch.com)
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Databricks is raising a $4B Series L at a $134B valuation, up from $100B in August and $62B in December 2024, and had a $4.8B annual revenue run rate in October (www.wsj.com)
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European authorities dismantle call center fraud ring in Ukraine (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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This is the final day to get 1,000+ learning courses for just $18 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Microsoft to block Exchange Online access for outdated mobile devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Visa says it will allow US banks to settle transactions using Circle's USDC stablecoin over Solana, the US' first full deployment of a stablecoin settlement (www.bloomberg.com)
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Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (www.nytimes.com)
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Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years (www.bloomberg.com)
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As Europe rearms, Anduril is trying to break through in the UK by co-funding major programs, cutting manufacturing deals, and billing itself as “Anglo-American” (www.bloomberg.com)
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VW plans to end vehicle production at its Dresden plant, which opened in 2001, and convert it into a research hub focused on AI, robotics, and chip design (www.nytimes.com)
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