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Google LLC today introduced two new specialized silicon chips for artificial intelligence to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit architecture family, aimed at higher compute density and secure inference.
ByteDance released Seedream 5.5, an AI image model it says keeps unchanged parts of an image intact over 100 rounds of edits and creates transparent-background assets. It is rolling out in ByteDance’s Chinese apps. The performance claims are ByteDance’s own.
US AI demand grows from 66gw in 2027 while tokens per watt compound 2.9x a year, so the grid only binds if token demand outruns efficiency. Break-even real token growth is ~2.5x a year with no cancellations.
Automattic aims to compete with the likes of Lovable with Spacefast.
Nvidia's board says it is launching an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign spy plot, after Huang admitted an affair in a memo to staff.
The report says OpenAI raised $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, below the $1.4 trillion it had sought.
DeepSeek says Harness reached 1.54 million daily users within three months of launch and processes about 92 trillion tokens a day, roughly 60 million per user.
The Information tallies more than $300 billion of AI stock sold or priced this year, with about $100 billion more coming, and asks how much the market can absorb.
The FT reports Anthropic agreed to pay $3.4 billion for 1.7GW of gas-fired generators from OnePWR, bypassing traditional suppliers to secure scarce equipment for its data centres.
What happens when students can one-shot last year’s homework? Inside CS146S and the engineering team at Monaco.
US professional services added 70K jobs in October, the most since July 2022, as AI-exposed consulting, legal, and accounting all grew despite AI job-loss fears — Strong hiring at law offices, consulting firms staves off fears of job apocalypse — Consulting firms, law offices …
A self-funded team of six in Almaty, Kazakhstan, building photo-to-3D-print models, says it reached 11 paid subscriptions 18 days after payments went live.
The founder of Glitter AI, a Scribe alternative, says the product reached $18.2K MRR since launching on r/SaaS in May 2024; the figure is the poster's claim.
Inside Inner Mongolia, China's fastest-growing AI data center region, where construction is accelerating with low building cost and no public backlash — A wind-powered 800MW campus, 120MW built within a year, a 5MW SST-native 800V DC pilot and a cooling design without central chillers
Listen now (59 mins) | Tulsee Doshi on building Google’s frontier models, why evals and vibes both matter, and her 60-20-20 framework for shipping ahead of the curve
Suno is facing yet another pair of lawsuits. A group of rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records are suing the AI music company, claiming it illegally generates music and lyrics that mimic those artists.
I cloud company CoreWeave has written to Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa, offering to work with her team on data centre rules. The letter from chief executive Michael Intrator was sent on Saturday, Bloomberg reported.
GenRobot AI builds equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations used to train robots; the Beijing company raised a $100M Series A+, per TechNode.
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Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. — Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months ago
Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections — Candidates who favor stricter oversight of artificial intelligence racked up wins in key congressional races, aided …
Microsoft is not renewing a 2023 deal to rent AI computing from Oracle; the servers ran older Nvidia chips.
Why do PDFs still break AI? Reducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham joins Allen Park on Latent Space Cooking to talk AI document parsing and make a steak sandwich with burrata, torched peaches, and chimichurri. From the YC pivot out of long-term memory to Reducto R1 and Deep Extract, Adit explains…
Altimeter's Jamin Ball walks through the roadshow, the Thanksgiving window and what investors would need to believe about Claude.
Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul — BENGALURU — Recent college graduates in India could struggle to land technology jobs as companies automate entry-level coding …
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption — A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.
Crunchbase's weekly roundup of the largest rounds; Shield AI's $2B led the week.
Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with little indication of slowing down.
A US judge has ruled that Anthropic must face key claims that it misled customers about how much use they get from its Claude Max plans. Magistrate Judge Alex Tse dismissed several other claims on Friday, Courthouse News reported. The proposed class action, Kahn v.
How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies — Voter hostility to Big Tech helped shape the US midterms, and similar fears are spreading through the west.
OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.
Glenn Kelman, who led Redfin as CEO for 20 years, writes about the 10 months of unemployment that came before co-founding a new AI-native company. He considered becoming a high school teacher, a bagel shopkeeper and a state legislative candidate, and used AI to test ideas with potential co-founders.
A design tool with the accuracy of Cursor & creative freedom of Figma
The FT reports Anthropic still plans to list before Thanksgiving, aiming to raise $80B-$100B at a $1.25T to $1.75T valuation.
The additional $11B is part of a round that has not closed yet and is expected to in the coming weeks, putting OpenAI at a reported $1.25 trillion valuation.
