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- Copyright pressure mounts as OpenAI battles over newspapers and pirate libraries
- 'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
- The State of AI: welcome to the economic singularity
- MIT offshoot Liquid AI releases blueprint for enterprise-grade small-model training
- OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal
- Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack
- 404 Media's Cyber Monday Sale! 25% Off!
- Building a Simple Data Quality DSL in Python
- Runway’s Gen-4.5 edges past Google and OpenAI in text-to-video benchmark
- Infosys Faces ₹13.6 cr GST Penalty
- OpenAI Preparing to Stuff Ads Into ChatGPT, According to Beta Code in App
- Context Engineering is the New Prompt Engineering
- What next in reinforcement learning for LLMs?
- Deepseek V3.2 rivals GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro, reaches IMO gold level as open source
- New York targets algorithmic pricing with first-in-the-US disclosure law
- HSBC relies on Mistral AI for global AI integration
- With AI gains and softer demand, consulting starting pay is flat
- OpenAI Takes Equity Stake in Thrive Holdings
- The AI bubble isn't new—Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago
- Small changes make some AI systems more brain-like than others
- More Than 20 Million Americans’ Work Can Be Replaced with Today’s AI, MIT Study Says
- OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI and Anthropic
- Agent coordination is the missing piece in AI commerce — new AWS and Visa blueprints target the gap
- Inside the Biggest Sting Operation Ever (with Michael Bobbitt)
- Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
- 5 Cutting-Edge MLOps Techniques to Watch in 2026
- The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data : For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach d...
- Hybrid cloud security must be rebuilt for an AI war it was never designed to fight
- AI cracks 30-year math problem
- ChatGPT Users Report First Sightings of Ads
- LTTS Unveils NVIDIA-Powered Digital Twin Platform for Advanced Respiratory Diagnostics
- Legal Heat on TCS, Wipro Prompts Wider IP Rethink in Indian IT
- DeepSeek Releases New Reasoning Models to Match GPT-5, Rival Gemini 3 Pro
- Google’s Next ‘Attention is All You Need’ Moment
- Skyflow Launches DPDP Data Privacy Vault to Help Indian Enterprises Meet New Rules
- The question isn’t wether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be
- Terra Launches Exploitability Validation Capabilities for Web Applications
- Waracle accelerates growth with acquisition of Sofia-based Hacksoft
- Avandra Acquires DatCard Systems and Sorna Corporation
- Black Forest Labs secures $300 million to accelerate its vision for advanced image models
- Why Map Tech is the Backbone of Every Industry
- AI Native Data Centres: Hype or the Making of a Sovereign Compute Era?
- Coforge’s Quasar Gets New AI Accelerators to Deepen Enterprise Adoption
- eMazzanti Technologies Launches eBot
- Innovative Solutions Achieves the AWS Agentic AI Specialization
- An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
- Virgin Media fined £24m for leaving vulnerable customers 'at risk of harm'
- Quttera Launches “Evidence-as-Code” API
- ProBuilt Becomes Only Firm Shortlisted Across Five 2025/26 Cloud Awards
- ACL Digital and AIM FUTURE Partner to Drive Innovation in Edge AI
- Why Nano GCCs are the Future of Global Capability Centres
- AWS, Google Cloud Announce Joint Multicloud Networking Solution
- SAP Unveils EU AI Cloud
- India Could Become the World’s Mobile R&D Hub — HMD Global Explains Why
AI RESEARCH
- At 3:47 AM, An AI Started Hacking. It Had No Idea It Was the Criminal.
- Engineering a human-aligned LLM evaluation workflow with Prodigy and DSPy
- The A/B Testing Cheatsheet for Product Managers
- How a Single DAX Measure Saved Our Client $2.3M in Inventory Costs
- The WebScraping Project That Got Me Banned From 50 Sites
- KV Cache Optimization via Tensor Product Attention
- OpenAI and NORAD team up to bring new magic to “NORAD Tracks Santa”
- Accenture and OpenAI accelerate enterprise AI success
- OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption
- The 7 Generative AI Use Cases Every Bank Will Adopt (Whether They’re Ready or Not)
- This One Data Science Concept Separates Juniors From Experts
- Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: December 2025 edition
- When GPT-5 thinks like a scientist
- Case Study: Loveable
- I Fine-Tuned a 1B Model on My Personal Notes — It Now Thinks Like My Second Brain
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Amazon Connect now provides native testing and simulation capabilities
- Amazon Connect now provides granular access controls for performance evaluations
- Amazon Connect now supports AI agent assistance and summarization for Agentforce Service
- Amazon Connect adds support for third-party speech-to-text and text-to-speech AI models for end-customer self-service
- Amazon Connect now provides improved analytics and monitoring for AI agents
- Amazon Connect launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) support
- Amazon Connect introduces agentic self-service with more natural, expressive, and adaptive voice interactions
- Announcing AWS Lambda Managed Instances, a capability to run functions on your Amazon EC2 instances
- AWS expands AI Competency with new Agentic AI categories
- AWS Partner Central is now available in the AWS Management Console
- Amazon SageMaker Catalog provides automatic data classification using AI agents
- Introducing multi-product solutions in AWS Marketplace
- AWS Glue now supports Apache Iceberg based materialized views
- AWS Marketplace now supports variable payments for professional services
- AWS Launches Resilience Software Competency to help customers build highly available applications
- AWS announces a preview of the AWS MCP Server
- Amazon Connect now enables business users to create custom UIs to adjust contact center configurations in real time
- Amazon Connect enhances its agent assistance capabilities
CLOUD BUSINESS
- Why the mirrorless camera I recommend to most beginners isn't a Sony or Canon (and it's on sale)
- Cyber Monday TV deals are here: Don't miss up to $2,500 off LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL, & more
- Shop the best Costco deals live now for Cyber Monday 2025
- Netflix just quietly killed a major feature you probably rely on - here's why
- Ready to tackle your DIY projects? This DeWalt cordless drill is $80 off at Lowe's
- This digital calendar is helping to organize my life - and it's up to $135 off for Cyber Monday
- Best Cyber Monday Dell deals 2025: I found the top 16 Dell laptop sales live now
- This tiny gadget is my go-to White Elephant gift for the holidays (and it cleans up your desktop messes)
- How to take long scrolling screenshots on your iPhone or Android - it's easy
- The best gaming PCs of 2025: Expert tested
- Walmart's Cyber Monday deals are live - these are the 50 top sales I've found
- Get Surfshark VPN and antivirus for $2.19 a month with this Cyber Monday deal
- AI buzzwords are wrecking your job search - here's what really matters
- You can subscribe to Peacock for free with these sneaky Cyber Monday streaming deals
- Our readers bought these 10 items the most during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
- Get Started With NLP Using Hugging Face and Python
- Use an AI browser? 5 ways to protect yourself from prompt injections - before it's too late
- Verizon customer? I found the best Cyber Monday 2025 deals on iPhones, Android, more
- Best Cyber Monday laptop deals 2025: Grab 22+ sales on MacBooks, Lenovo, HP, and more that are still live
- I've tested dozens of robot vacuums, and these are my favorite Cyber Monday deals
- Best Cyber Monday Target deals 2025: I found the best discounts live now
- I found the best Cyber Monday Apple Watch deals
- How to learn ChatGPT in under an hour using my favorite guides and videos - for free
- I found the 20+ best Cyber Monday headphones deals: Save on Bose, Sony, Beats, and more
- The top 2 Linux distros Windows 10 users are fleeing to right now - and why
- Why I recommend the iPad Mini over pricier models - especially at $150 off now
- Verizon will give you a free iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch for Cyber Monday - how to qualify
- These XR glasses effectively replaced my dual monitors - and are $170 off
- Use ChatGPT? Ads might appear for you soon - but here's a sly trick to avoid them
- Cut the cord with these Cyber Monday streaming deals as low as $3 on HBO, Hulu, Peacock, and more
- 5 tech splurges that are worth every penny (and still on sale after Black Friday)
- The best Cyber Monday iPad deals we found include sales up to 25% off
- The best Cyber Monday Samsung deals 2025: I'm tracking 50+ TV, phone, and audio discounts
- Best Cyber Monday deals under $100 2025: 20 sales live now
- Cyber Monday deals are huge in 2025: Shop my favorite deals from Amazon, Best Buy, Lowe's & more
- Cyber Monday Smartwatch deals are live: Get Apple & Pixel Watches before they end
- AI could double the US economy's growth rate over the next decade, says Anthropic
- Should you buy the $500 Oura Ring 4 Ceramic? I wore one for a month, and here's my hot take
- 2 years of charging my iPhone the 'Apple way' later - here's how the battery has changed
- Roku TV vs. Fire Stick: I compared the best streaming devices in 2025, and here's the winner
- T-Mobile is giving a free iPhone 17, iPad, and Apple Watch for Cyber Monday - how to qualify
- 7 open-source apps I'd easily pay money for because they're that good
- One of the few Android Auto wireless adapters I trust just hit an all-time-low price on Amazon
- How to clear your TV cache (and put a stop to slow performance)
- This bizarre tool I own actually solves a real problem (and it's only $9 on Amazon)
- Why I recommend the LG C5 OLED over pricier TV models - especially at nearly 50% off now
- I changed 7 settings on my Samsung phone to instantly prolong the battery life
- These earbuds help me get some sleep in a noisy neighborhood - and they're $75 off
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- Build in Public: Week 4. The Messy Middle Of Building An AI Agent
- Simply Order (Part 8) – Querying Orders with Details: GraphQL in Action
- Monetzly: A Game-Changer for AI Monetization in LLM Apps
- Agentic AI for Developers: Building Autonomous AI Systems Instead of Chatbots
- Gain Cross-Cloud Network traffic insights with VPC Flow Logs and Flow Analyzer : Gaining visibility into your network traffic is crucial, particularly with hybrid environments encompassing both on-premises and cross-cloud infrastru...
- All Data and AI Weekly 218-01 Dec 2025
- From Blender-MCP to 3D-Agent: The Evolution of AI-Powered Blender Modeling
- 3D-Agent and Blender-MCP: Both Amazing Blender AI Tools
- 🧛👻 BloodBound Academy: How I Built a Haunting AI Study Tool in ~7 Hrs Using Kiro's Spec-Driven Magic
- Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
- I Created S3 Buckets Using ArgoCD + ACK with EKS Capabilities—No Controllers Installed.
- Z-Image.vip – I Built a Free AI Image Generator in 24 Hours
- Killing the Stochastic Parrot: I Built Accurate Cognitive AI Search
- How to Build an AI-Driven Search Experience with Meilisearch and Sevalla
- Ditch Proprietary JSON: Build AI Workflows You Can Actually Own with Bubble Lab
- The Velocity Trap: Why Your AI Productivity Gains Are an Illusion
- 🚨 The Hidden Failure Point of Machine Learning Models:
- How to Turn Meeting Notes into a PowerPoint Presentation Using AI in 2026- A Complete Guide.
- 🧠 [Memory Leak] Why I Felt Stupid at 2 PM: Debugging My Brain's RAM
- AWS Terraform Meta Arguments | Count, depends_on, for_each
- Building a Vanilla TypeScript Japanese Flashcards App with Antigravity AI
- Why Application Refactoring Shapes Your Cloud Migration Success
- 🚀 Secrets Safe, 3-Tier Deployments Fast: Terraform + Azure Key Vault Complete Hands-On Guide
- Verify & Clean Your Email Lists: Boost Deliverability & Conversions
- TrustedCloud Backend Documentation
- Simplifying basic (genAI) web app deployment with serverless
- 🎨 VisionVerse: From Image to AI-Generated Poetry in Minutes
- Data Lineage in Enterprise AI and ML: Boosting Governance
- How to Break Free from Restricted Mailbox Limitations
- Building Death Dealer: How AI-Assisted Development Transformed My Halloween Horror App
- 5 Modern AI Web Development Platforms to Try in 2026
- Why Most Beginners Hate DevOps in the First 2 Months (And How I Almost Quit Too)
- Salesforce vs. Salesforce Cloud: What’s the Real Difference?
- MCP servers I use in my daily life
- AI-Assisted Engineering: A Senior Developer’s Framework for Speed, Quality, and Sound Technical Judgment - Part 2
- Adding Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) to Your AI Agent with LangGraph
- Building Real-Time Voice Learning with VAPI: WebRTC + AI Tutors
- GCP Internal Load Balancer | Enterprise-Grade ALB Lab | Cloud Architect Hands-On
- Hands-On Lab: Google Cloud Application Load Balancer (ALB) — Architect-Level Implementation
- Understanding the FTSE AIM 100 Index and the Growth Potential of Its Companies
- Building a Production-Ready Data Pipeline on AWS: A Hands-On Guide for Data Engineers
- Google's New AI Tool Already Beaten? Try Alibaba's Free Local Alternative
DEVOPS
- From Legacy to Innovation: Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Explained
- Migrate and Modernize: A Practical Path to Cloud Transformation with Nutanix
- Run Embedding Models and Unlock Semantic Search with Docker Model Runner
- Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
- A guide to restarting pods in Kubernetes using kubectl
ENTERPRISE TECH
- Enterprise hits and misses - Cyber Week numbers are (mostly) in, and CXOs reveal budget and AI priorities : This week - Cyber Week stats are coming in, with online spending on the rise and more data to follow. CXOs are split on economic optimism, but are def...
- Security and AI news from the week beginning 24 November 2025
- Under-writing AI's impact on the insurance sector - what Zurich Insurance is doing as a matter of policy : Zurich Insurance Group's AI Lab initiative is intended to help shape the future of the technology in the sector.
- Memo to Trump 2.0 - here's how regulatory competence should shape US AI ambitions : Kristian Stout, director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), helps unpack the nuance in US Federal vs Sta...
- Webflow just launched a generative app tool. Here’s why it could re-shape your marketing stack : Webflow wants to democratize application creation using its new AI-powered App Gen product. If you’re trying to ramp up your website experience, you m...
FINANCIAL
- Trump Claims $300M White House Ballroom Only Uses Private Donations, Funding as Construction Nears Completion
- Nvidia unveils new AI tools for speech, safety and autonomous driving
- OpenAI takes stake in Thrive Holdings to help accelerate enterprise AI adoption
- DeepSeek launches pair of AI models to challenge OpenAI, Google
- Rimini Street repurchases 975,000 shares in Q4
- S&P Global announces proposed offering of senior notes
- OpenAI buys stake in Thrive Holdings to deliver AI to services companies
- Nvidia, Broadcom to benefit in 2026 as AI strength set to ramp 'materially,' MS says
- NBC's Rodney Harrison Sparks Health Fears After Appearing to Freeze Live on Air During Sunday Night Football
- Accenture, OpenAI partner to drive enterprise AI adoption
- Zscaler in focus as Bernstein downgrades on 'challenged' narrative
- Opera browsers rolls out new AI capabilities powered by google
- Okta Q3 earnings on deck: What to expect
- Runway unveils AI video model Gen 4.5 that surpasses Google, OpenAI models in key benchmark
- Hudson Technologies approves $20M in share repurchase
- HP Enterprise, Nvidia team up to create AI factory lab in EU
- Empery Digital announces $150M on share buyback
- OpenAI buys stake in Thrive Holdings to deliver AI to services companies: report
- Amazon in focus as Oppenheimer sees 'significant upside' from AWS
- 4 stocks to watch on Monday: UNH, CPNG, INTC, SNPS
- SoftBank founder cried over decision to sell Nvidia stake: report
- Wolfspeed receives $698.6M in cash tax refunds
- Eli Lilly's price cut, Thanksgiving box office, trouble for gravestone makers and more in Morning Squawk
- Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark
- Complir raises €1.7M to help retailers manage global compliance with AI infrastructure
- “I definitely want a European listing”, says Nvidia-backed n8n CEO
- Minitap secures $4.1M to make mobile development 10x faster with AI
- 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' Author Robert Kiyosaki Warns of Volatile Stock Market — Here's What He Said
- Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold Leak Claims It's Coming at a Cheaper Price Tag Than Previous Rumors
- OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads Push Signals a Major Shift in How People Use AI
- CrowdStrike, Okta, Netskope in focus as KeyBanc sees positive signs for trio
- Nvidia invests $2B in Synopsys stock; companies team up over engineering and design
- Nvidia takes $2 billion stake in Synopsys with expanded computing power partnership
- IonQ announces investment partnership with CCRM aimed at using quantum in medicine
- CoreWeave, Iren added, Salesforce, ServiceNow removed from IVES AI 30 list heading into 2026: Wedbush
- Europe’s overlooked alpha: Growathon Ventures targets Venture’s biggest market failure
- ByteDance to launch AI voice assistant for Chinese phones: report
- Intel stock holds 10% rise after analyst predicts major Apple deal
- Databricks mulls raising funds at $134B valuation: report
- Amazon, Google team up to unveil multicloud service for interconnectivity
- L&T Technology enhances respiratory diagnostics with NVIDIA AI
- US-based firm seeks loan for Nvidia chips for use by China's Xiaohongshu - report
GENERAL US
- A pared-back White House Christmas — with a Trump Lego portrait - The Washington Post
- Advancing Cardiac MRI with AI at RSNA 2025 - Philips
- North Korea has developed AI capabilities ready for military use: Report - NK News
- ChatGPT the Only Constant in an Evolving AI Landscape - Statista
- The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI - The Atlantic
- What’s Lost When We Work with AI, According to Neuroscience - Harvard Business Review
- Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark - CNBC
- An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress - NPR
- Zelensky faces political peril as corruption scandal consumes top aide - The Washington Post
- Leave me alone, AI - Financial Times
- "Avatar: Fire and Ash" director James Cameron on generative AI: "That's horrifying to me" - CBS News
- Logan Thompson bails out sloppy Capitals in win over Islanders - The Washington Post
- In Houston suburbs, Abbott’s attacks on CAIR unnerve Muslim residents - The Washington Post
- A Maryland mayor removes a rainbow crosswalk, citing neutrality concerns - The Washington Post
- More than 500 dead across Southeast Asia after record rainfall, floods - The Washington Post
- CWG Live: Remaining chilly. Sunday wintry mix looking minor and mainly rain. - The Washington Post
- Israeli raid on Syrian town kills 13, including children, residents say - The Washington Post
- Hurry up and wait: Ordinary Venezuelans try to prepare for U.S. attack - The Washington Post
- Want to slow down brain aging? These activities might help. - The Washington Post
- Warren Buffett Bets Big on AI -- He Just Bought 17,846,142 Shares of This Legendary Tech Stock - The Motley Fool
- Alibaba shares rise as AI drives 34% cloud sales jump - CNBC
- China's DeepSeek Releases New Open Source AI Model Amid Google's Gemini 3 Roll Out - Investor's Business Daily
- America’s Tariffs Jolted the Global Economy. Its AI Spending Is Helping Save It. - The Wall Street Journal
- Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions - Futurism
- As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI - NPR
- Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industry - New Scientist
- Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be - The Verge
- South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster - Futurism
- AI is taking jobs — here’s Coursera CEO's No. 1 tip for grads to stay competitive - CNBC
- AI stocks | Outlook for 2026 | Fidelity - Fidelity
- MAGA is divided over the promise and perils of AI - The Economist
- AI Trade Splinters as Google Challenges Nvidia’s Dominance - The Wall Street Journal
- ‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI - The Guardian
- A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘ human-made - The Conversation
- The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be - The Guardian
- Jorja Smith's record label hits out at 'AI clone' song
- The executive’s guide to AI and cybersecurity - The Washington Post
- New rule targets AI discrimination. Here’s what workers need to know. - The Washington Post
- How China is using AI to extend censorship and surveillance - The Washington Post
- AWS re:Invent 2025: Live updates on new AI innovations and more - About Amazon
- America First AI Agenda - America First Policy Institute
- New rule targets AI discrimination. Here’s what workers need to know.
- More consumers are using AI tools to help them shop
- HSBC taps French start-up Mistral to supercharge generative-AI rollout - Reuters
- Introducing the AWS Infrastructure as Code MCP Server: AI-Powered CDK and CloudFormation Assistance - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AI fraud bill seeks to criminalize deepfakes of federal officials - NBC News
- Policymakers Have to Prepare Now for When the AI Bubble Bursts - Tech Policy Press
- Is Slingshot’s mental health chatbot safe? Its first study raises questions about evaluating AI - statnews.com
- Here's My Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock to Buy in December (Hint: It's Not Broadcom) - Yahoo Finance
MAINSTREAM
- Lara Croft and Tomb Raider earn two new entries in Guinness Guinness World Records
- Prep talk: A look at South Gate’s miracle Hail Mary pass with no time left - Los Angeles Times
- EU Warns US Against Pressuring Ukraine Over Russia on Peace Plan - Bloomberg.com
- Alibaba Releases AI Glasses in Rare Consumer Gadget Foray - Bloomberg.com
- Kremlin says Ukrainian strike on CPC terminal was outrageous given its international importance - Reuters
- Russian banks' main challenge in 2026 will be raising capital, VTB CEO says - Reuters
- Jorja Smith’s label requests share of royalties from ‘AI-cloned’ TikTok viral song
- Nevis, which develops AI agents to automate wealth advisers' grunt work, raised a $35M Series A from Sequoia and others at a $200M valuation, after a $5M seed (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)
- Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
- The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes (Dan Primack/Axios)
- MacBooks Could Have ‘Intel Inside’ Once Again, Sort Of
- How AI PR startup Clipbook won Mark Cuban’s investment from a cold email
- Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday
- Sequoia Bets on AI Startup to Ease Wealth Advisers’ Grunt Work - Bloomberg.com
- UK to Agree Drug Pricing Deal With US, Cut Rebates Paid to NHS - Bloomberg.com
- ByteDance’s TikTok Playbook Is Winning Consumer AI - Bloomberg.com
- India's stellar growth, low inflation raise questions over rate cuts - Reuters
- Indian e-commerce firm Meesho leans on AI, new business lines to drive growth - Reuters
- US announces zero tariff pharmaceutical deal with Britain - Reuters
- Nvidia takes $2 billion stake in Synopsys as AI deal spree accelerates - Reuters
- WHO Unveils GLP-1 Guidelines : New WHO guidance calls for a worldwide obesity treatment “ecosystem” to ensure that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are used fairly
- DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, calling them "reasoning-first models built for agents", after releasing V3.2-Exp in September (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
- Runway launches Gen 4.5, a new text-to-video AI model that produces HD videos from written prompts and excels at physics; Gen 4.5 tops Video Arena's leaderboard (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
- An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 80+ tech startups reached $1B valuations, many of them focused on AI with exceptions like Kalshi (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
- Code reveals OpenAI could be preparing to introduce ads to ChatGPT
- Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation
- OpenAI takes stake in Thrive Holdings in latest circular deal
- Lakers try to fight the boredom of seventh straight win - Los Angeles Times
- AI Rally: ChatGPT Is Three. Don’t Crack the Bubbly Just Yet - Bloomberg.com
- We Need to Uberize the Power Grid for AI - Bloomberg.com
- Podcast: Why the AI Bubble Still Has Room to Grow - Bloomberg.com
- Airbus says most A320 jets now have software fix, with less than 100 planes still needing update - AP News
- Exclusive: VTB CEO says Russian banks are ready to restructure some Russian Railways debt - Reuters
- Trump’s push for more AI data centers faces backlash from his own voters - Reuters
- Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show - Reuters
- Hassett may be 'shadow Fed Chair' for five months - Reuters
- Ukraine developing independent AI system with Google open technology, ministry says - Reuters
- James Cameron says AI actors are ‘horrifying to me’
- OpenAI takes a stake in Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings and plans to embed AI agents in its companies, which already includes an accounting and IT business (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
- Nvidia acquires $2B of Synopsys' common stock and unveils a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including deploying CUDA (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
- Nexperia and Wingtech feud escalates, raising new fears of global chip disruptions
- Oracle's credit risk hits a three-year high as AI spending raises funding fears
- Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records - Los Angeles Times
- Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with 'dark isolation' as community raised concerns - Los Angeles Times
- BHP Is Said to Have Offered £40 Billion in Aborted Anglo Bid - Bloomberg.com
- Palm Oil Holds Three-Day Gain With Malaysian Stockpiles in Focus - Bloomberg.com
- SoftBank’s Son ‘Cried’ About Nvidia Stake Sale to Fund AI Bets - Bloomberg.com
- Nvidia’s AI Primacy Suffers Hit From Bubble Believers - Bloomberg.com
- Faith in the metaverse: A VR quest for community, fellowship - AP News
- 'Rage bait’ named Oxford University Press word of year as outrage fuels social media traffic in 2025 - AP News
- Ukraine's Zelenskiy says 'tough issues' still need to be resolved after Florida talks - Reuters
- Spain mobilises military against swine fever, says contaminated sandwich could be cause - Reuters
- Sources: McKinsey and other top consultancies freeze graduate pay offers in 2026 for the third year, as AI reshapes the industry and threatens its pyramid model (Financial Times)
- After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
- Dell Raises Annual Outlook for Shipments of AI Servers - Bloomberg.com
- Gunvor’s Billionaire CEO Törnqvist to Quit, Sell Stake to Staff - Bloomberg.com
- Shiffrin wins slalom on home Colorado snow to remain perfect in the Olympic season - AP News
- Flooding recovery efforts underway in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand as death tolls rise - AP News
- Exclusive: Airbus faces new quality problem on dozens of A320 jets, sources say - Reuters
- Labor rejects standalone AI legislation with plan that offers to help ‘unlock’ public and private data
- HSBC signs a deal with Mistral to access Mistral's AI models and collaborate on developing new models for internal use, as big banks rush to adopt generative AI (Ortenca Aliaj/Financial Times)
- ByteDance launches an AI voice assistant powered by its Doubao LLM, available first on ZTE's Nubia M153 smartphone prototype; Doubao has an estimated 159M MAUs (Reuters)
- German AI startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024 (Financial Times)
- Kazakh Freedom Holding Said to Mull Buying TurkishBank - Bloomberg.com
- Ukraine's Zelenskiy to visit Ireland on Tuesday, government says - Reuters
- Australia expands grain-fed beef exports as US production falters - Reuters
- At Britain's first plant-based Michelin-star restaurant, most diners aren't vegan - Reuters
- China export controls push European firms to move supply chains - Reuters
- ByteDance rolls out AI voice assistant for Chinese smartphones - Reuters
- ‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI
- Accenture dubs 800,000 staff ‘reinventors’ amid shift to AI
- Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (Emmanuel Felton/Washington Post)
- The AI boom has led to high demand and more pay for the construction workers that build data centers; a trade group says there is a shortage of ~439K workers (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
- Traders in India Pin Hopes on RBI Bond Purchases to Drive Gains - Bloomberg.com
- Ukraine Claims Hit on Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Black Sea Tankers - Bloomberg.com
- Band of brothers: how the war crushed a cohort of young Ukrainians - Reuters
- Sons of Pakistan's jailed Imran Khan voice fears for his safety - Reuters
- Swiss billionaire calls for higher tax on rich - Reuters
- New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills (Tim Balk/New York Times)
- China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules (Reuters)
- HSBC signs deal to use Mistral’s AI tools
- Top consultancies freeze starting salaries as AI threatens ‘pyramid’ model
- Black Forest Labs: one-year-old German start-up challenges AI giants
- QB Justin Herbert breaks bone in left hand, but he's optimistic about playing for Chargers next week - AP News
- What to know about this week’s diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine - AP News
- How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
MARKETING TECH
SECURITY
- South Korea's Coupang Confirms 34 Million Customer Data Leak
- New Android Albiriox Malware Gains Traction in Dark Web Markets
- Retail giant Coupang data breach impacts 33.7 million customers
- ShadyPanda browser extensions amass 4.3M installs in malicious campaign
- Malware Manipulates AI Detection in Latest npm Package Breach
- Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographic
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Total Sources: 381 | Generated: 12/1/2025