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We’re heading into our last full working week of the year, so the news flow is likely to start quieting down. (Be on the lookout for ServiceNow’s next big acquisition, however). One story that’s likely to chug along through the holidays is the battle between Netflix and the Ellison family’s Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery. There’s sure to be fireworks this week, if for no other reason than the board of WBD’s promise to respond to Paramount’s hostile offer by week’s end.Wall Street seems to be.
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A video circulating online appeared to show a Tesla Model Y robotaxi with no safety monitor inside driving on Austin streets. Read more ›
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There's been a Russian youth uprising, with tens of thousands of kids writing to say they want to emigrate because Roblox has been blocked. Read more ›
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"Mighty Nein" is the Critical Role crew's second animated series project with Amazon. Read more ›
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The cheapest ticket to attend the USA's opening 2026 World Cup match against Paraguay is $1,120 — a steep jump from initial estimates shared in 2018. Read more ›
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Iowa 80 in Walcott, Iowa, is the Disney World for truckers. But why are family-owned truck stops like this one drying up across America? Read more ›
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Two gunmen opened fire on a celebration of the first day of Hanukkah at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 15 and injuring dozens more. One of the gunmen was killed, and another alleged shooter was injured and is now in custody. What do we know about the attack in Australia? Australian officials have described […] Read more ›
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SPhotonix says it has moved its so-called 5D Memory Crystal technology out of the lab and closer to real-world deployment. Read more ›
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OpenAI's Alexander Embiricos, who leads product development for its coding platform, said the need to review AI's work with prompts is limiting progress. Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports that 68% of CEOs "plan to spend even more on AI in 2026, according to an annual survey of more than 350 public-company CEOs from advisory firm Teneo." And yet "less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had cost, respondents said." They reported the most success using AI in marketing and customer service and challenges using it in... Read more ›
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Heath Kitson and William Lu planned a trip to Bali to learn surfing after getting laid off from their bank jobs. Read more ›
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for Dec. 15, #918 Read more ›
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The project, led by neuroengineer Viktor Tóth, has evolved into a second-generation setup that significantly expands what the rats can do inside the Doom engine. Read more ›
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A collaborative research team has demonstrated what it says is the first monolithic 3D integrated circuit manufactured at a commercial U.S. foundry. Read more ›
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HP's GBIP interface will finally receive stable drivers for Linux (6.19 kernel release), 53 years after its debut. Read more ›
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's new patch shadow-dropped earlier this week, and Sandfall Interactive sure wasn't kidding when it promised "challenging boss battles for late-game players to overcome within the Endless Tower". Read more Read more ›
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Grok's track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia is shocking. The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the […] Read more ›
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Following prior benchmarks, the man himself, der8auer, has disassembled the RTX Titan Ada prototype he's had for months. Inside, the card is a maze of wires, connections, and side-plate wizardry, holding together a beastly quad-slot design that had not one but two 12VHPWR (600W) connectors and a side-mounted PCB. Read more ›
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I've driven my 2017 Volvo for over 112,000 miles, and I still love it. Keeping it has been one of my smartest choices. Read more ›
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Is AI hurting American jobs? A bit, according to Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, whose comments Wednesday gave the AI fearmongers a good amount of material to work with.In a press conference, Powell said AI was “part of the story” behind the worsening unemployment that prompted the Fed to lower interest rates for the second time in two months. But he was quick to also say it was “not a... Read more ›
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A small but growing number of artificial intelligence developers at OpenAI, Google and other companies say they’re skeptical that today’s technical approaches to AI will achieve major breakthroughs in biology, medicine and other fields while also managing to avoid making silly mistakes. That was the buzz last week among numerous researchers at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference, a key meetup for people in the field. Some of them believe... Read more ›
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Nvidia has developed a new software feature with a location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, Reuters reported. The feature, which hasn’t been released yet, could make it possible for Nvidia to crack down on the smuggling of its artificial ... Read more ›
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Lately, Maura Keller—a Democrat running in Georgia’s 3rd Congressional district in next year’s midterm elections—has been going to community meetings where one topic comes up again and again “almost on a weekly basis”: data centers. It’s not hard to understand why the subject has surged to the fore. Keller has seen the state transform over the past few years into a hub for data centers, as AI companies buy up... Read more ›
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Over the past week, a handful of accounts on Polymarket, the predictions site, bet OpenAI would release a new large language model by December 13. On Thursday December 11, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, and four of these accounts together made over $13,000, according to the trades displayed on their accounts. The payout is adding fuel to suspicions that a handful of accounts on prediction sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi aren’t... Read more ›
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China on Wednesday gathered its biggest tech giants to discuss whether to allow them to buy Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips, as President Donald Trump’s recent decision to allow the export of the powerful hardware to the country suddenly complicated Beijing’s goal to become technologically self-sufficient. Officials convened a series of emergency meetings with representatives from companies including Alibaba Group, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings, and asked them to assess their demand... Read more ›
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A spike of investor interest in the data center sector has prompted one major data center developer, Rowan Digital Infrastructure, to consider whether this is a good time to raise fresh capital or possibly even sell, say people familiar with the company’s thinking. If it were to raise money or sell, it would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, the people said. Potential buyers include... Read more ›
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MGX, a United Arab Emirates–backed fund, is only a year old but has already become one of the biggest data center financiers in the world, leading the largest data center sale negotiated so far and quietly scooping up a stake in another provider with ties to OpenAI. MGX will be the biggest shareholder in Aligned Data Centers, one of the largest data center operators in the U.S., following its $40... Read more ›
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OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information from medical journals and other trusted sources, is raising $250 million in equity financing that will value the three-year-old startup at $12 billion after the investment, doubling its last private valuation from a financing announced just two months ago, according to a person involved in the deal. If the deal closes, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company will become one... Read more ›
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For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to do just that. As soon as this week, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and a slate of other tech companies are set to announce a new... Read more ›
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