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Hugh Son / CNBC : JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest $10B in industries critical for national security, including “frontier” tech like AI and quantum computing   —  JPMorgan Chase on Monday said it is launching a decade-long plan to help finance and take direct stakes in companies it considers crucial to U.S. interests. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/uR3NLFv via IFTTT

Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google updates NotebookLM's Video Overviews, adding six new Nano Banana-powered visual styles and a new “Brief” format for quick insights   —  After introducing in July, NotebookLM is giving Video Overviews a big upgrade with the help of Google's Nano Banana image editing and generation model (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image). from Techmeme https://ift.tt/cxVPYof via IFTTT

Yi-Ling Liu / Rest of World : Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and Doubao for therapy to save time and money, while avoiding stigma around mental health   —  Cheap, accessible, and friendly AI tools can augment scarce professional help, but there are risks to overreliance on the technology. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/NeEonPd via IFTTT

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Cobots, or robots that collaborate with humans, are bringing automation to even the smallest US factories, amid a push to bring manufacturing back to the US   —  China has more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined, but newer, more flexible robots are keeping smaller U.S. manufacturers in the fight from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Qk2mvxi via IFTTT

Fortune : AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome   —  The early days of the internet saw intense competition between graphical web browsers: Netscape Navigator faced off against Microsoft's Internet Explorer. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/8XYQ4Fa via IFTTT

Derek Thompson : How modern media consumption is converging toward a continuous flow of episodic video, across streaming providers, podcasts, and social media apps   —  A theory of culture and attention  —  A spooky convergence is happening in media.  Everything that is not already television is turning into television. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/0X8JaIx via IFTTT

Stephen Witt / New York Times : Interviews with security researchers about AI's potential for large-scale destruction, as experts remain divided and global regulatory frameworks lag   —  How much do we have to fear from A.I., really?  It's a question I've been asking experts since the debut of ChatGPT in late 2022. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QqxhFi8 via IFTTT

Wall Street Journal : Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has left to join Meta; he reportedly declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package in August   —  Andrew Tulloch is the latest big-name AI researcher to join the social-media giant  —  A co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Cxq4KAQ via IFTTT

Linda Yulisman / Rest of World : Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500   —  Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia's homegrown industry. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/WHvC4tA via IFTTT

Blake Brittain / Reuters : A federal jury finds that Samsung owes Collision Communications nearly $445.5M in damages for infringing on patents related to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standards   —  A federal jury in Marshall, Texas found on Friday that Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) owes patent owner Collision Communications nearly $445.5 million … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/B6m3kQE via IFTTT

Suzanne Smalley / The Record : Austria's privacy regulator finds that Microsoft violated EU law by illegally tracking students through its Microsoft 365 Education software   —  Austria's data protection authority on Wednesday ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software by failing to give … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/NHaLegX via IFTTT

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Adobe launches AI agents tailored for B2B marketers within its Adobe Experience Platform, after launching AI agents aimed at consumer marketing in September   —  Adobe Inc. is building on the launch of its first set of artificial intelligence agents with a new set of agentic offerings aimed squarely … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Mq3fZ71 via IFTTT

Lucinda Shen / Axios : Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2VXrRoC via IFTTT

Anthropic : A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a “backdoor” vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume   —  Read the paper … Large language models like Claude are pretrained on enormous amounts of public text from across the internet … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hpvNxUl via IFTTT

Milana Vinn / Reuters : Sources: data streaming software maker Confluent is exploring a sale after attracting acquisition interest from PE firms and tech companies; CFLT jumps 9%+   —  - Firm working with bankers after attracting interest from private equity and tech firms, sources say from Techmeme https://ift.tt/nZKDRLS via IFTTT

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media : New York-based Crosby, a law firm that uses AI to help speed up the contracts process, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures, BCV, and Elad Gil   —  Crosby, led by lawyer turned founder Ryan Daniels, has raised a $20 million Series A from Index and Bain Capital Ventures to expand its AI-assisted legal work. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/rHJ3Zz1 via IFTTT

Billy Steele / Engadget : Google Pixel Buds 2a review: ANC is a welcome addition and sound is detailed and punchy, but there's still no wireless charging and voice performance suffers   —  The Pixel Buds Pro 2 have more to offer, but there's plenty of performance here for less money. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/rtHszE7 via IFTTT

Anthropic : Anthropic releases Petri, an open-source tool using AI agents for safety testing, and says it observed multiple cases of models attempting to blow the whistle   —  Petri (Parallel Exploration Tool for Risky Interactions) is our new open-source tool that enables researchers to explore hypotheses about model behavior with ease. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/exj67Yb via IFTTT

Bloomberg : Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work   —  Two physicists integral to efforts by Alphabet Inc.'s Google to build working quantum computers have been awarded the Nobel Prize … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/mI89gkw via IFTTT

The Department of Energy appears poised to terminate funding for a pair of large carbon sucking factories that were originally set to receive more than $1 billion in government grants, according to a department issued list of projects obtained by MIT Technology Review and circulating among federal agencies. The projects include the South Texas Direct Air Capture Hub, a facility that Occidental Petroleum’s 1PointFive subsidiary planned to develop in Kleberg County, Texas. The other is Project Cypress in Louisiana, a collaboration between Battelle, Climeworks and Heirloom. The list notes that around $50 million in funding has been terminated for both projects, the initial tranche of Department of Energy (DOE) funding for each development. Each was set to receive about $500 million, according to a DOE announcement last year.  It’s not immediately clear if the termination of the initial grants also means the full funding will also be canceled. Battelle and 1PointFive didn’t immed...

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg : Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14%   —  The Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing the data-collection practices of the mobile advertising tech company AppLovin Corp. … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/kfvSD8P via IFTTT

CoinDesk : Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams   —  What to know: … Bee Maps, the decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper, has raised $32 million in fresh funding … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/A5tonVe via IFTTT

OpenAI : OpenAI makes Codex generally available, and announces new features: Slack integration, a new Codex SDK, and new admin tools   —  Loading...  We're announcing the general availability of Codex and three new features that make it even more useful for engineering teams: from Techmeme https://ift.tt/N3cxo1J via IFTTT

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Alvys, an AI-powered logistics software provider, raised a $40M Series B led by RTP Global, bringing its total funding to $77M; Alvys has 1000+ customers   —  Alvys, an AI-powered logistics software provider, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/9afSIJo via IFTTT

Financial Times : Robinhood is expanding aggressively in the UK, releasing low-cost investment products and seeking to launch its prediction market products in the country   —  US broker in talks with regulator about bringing its products to Britain  —  US broker Robinhood is taking aim at Hargreaves Lansdown … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/rJHFsWx via IFTTT

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico : Insiders detail negotiations between politicians, tech and AI companies, VCs, and others over California's SB 53, the first-in-the-nation AI safety law   —  The process also highlighted the stakes for the top Democrats involved: Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential contender, and the bill's author … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/RTlWPMb via IFTTT

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization method that it claims can reduce LLM memory use by 60-70% without significant quality loss   —  - Dual-Axis Scaling: Instead of using a single scale factor for quantizing a matrix, SINQ uses separate scaling vectors for rows and columns. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/02O7XcC via IFTTT