They are mostly concerned with the glasses with internal screens, that can run bog standard Android apps as well as Android XR apps — and provides you with information right inside the glasses.
These spectacles, while impressive, connect via wire to a puck in your pocket that serves as a battery and trackpad in one, and use a phone or laptop for computing power, but they don’t have a release date as of yet.
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Nvidia’s H200 is a much more advanced chip than the custom H20 that the company was allowed to export to China earlier, with the newer Blackwell chips being only about 1.5 times faster, Reuters notes.
The H20 chips were recently banned in China, where the authorities instead opted for Huawei chips for data center supplies.
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Perplexity still generates outputs that are «identical or substantially similar to» content from the Times, writes CNBC, and sometimes even hallucinates responses that get attributed to them, writes Reuters.
— While we believe in the ethical and responsible use and development of AI, we firmly object to Perplexity’s unlicensed use of our content, says NYT spokesperson Graham James.
Perplexity seems unfazed by the lawsuit, saying in a statement that:
— Publishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the internet, social media and now AI. Fortunately it’s never worked, or we’d all be talking about this by telegraph.
The NYT has previously also previously sued OpenAI for infringement.
Read more: The actual complaint, NYT announcement, writeups on Reuters and CNBC
This comes hot on the heels of an engineer discovering ad code in the Android app — which left a lot of people cautious of such inserts.
It happened to enough people to notice, along with this writer, but it has since been turned off, says Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer at OpenAI:
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The new music spinning out of Meta HQ is lately holistic design; bridging devices and their AI offerings, and this buyout seems a nice fit.
Previously Limitless had been producing Pendant, a $99 wearable, well, AI pendant that you could wear as a necklace or attach to your clothes.
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A new judgement could now mean they have to turn over more than 20 million chat logs, and many more messages, from the chatbot, reports Reuters.
The logs themselves should be anonymized by OpenAI in a way that pleases the court, but their content could be easy to pin down, and OpenAI has promised to appeal to the presiding Judge.
This is merely the discovery phase of the ongoing trial, where lawyers for the NYT have said the messages are necessary to discover whether ChatGPT did indeed copy verbatim text from them.
OpenAI must now first anonymize the logs, and then submit them to the court, and NYT’s attorneys, seven days later.
Read more: Reuters has the scoop.
—The goal for us, and Google, is to make enterprise vibe-coding a thing, Replit founder and CEO Amjad Masad said; — We want to show the world that these tools are actually going to transform businesses and how people work.
Under the new agreement, Replit will expand its Google Cloud use and «further integrate Google’s models into its platform,» Google writes on the deal.
Replit will gain access to all of the Gemini models, and the deal will «help enterprise customers embrace vibe coding.»
— Our mission is to enable the next billion software creators — from hobbyists to entrepreneurs to enterprises, Masad said.
Read more: Google’s announcement, writeup on CNBC.
It incorporates the solutions that won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad and beat the ICPC coding contest, and carries on its duties doing parallel reasoning, letting it try several approaches to a problem at once.
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He brings with him his deputy at Apple, Billy Sorrentino, and will oversee a new studio that encompasses hardware, software and AI integration across all of Meta’s products — including future AI devices.
— Our idea is to treat intelligence as a new design material and imagine what becomes possible when it is abundant, capable, and human-centered, writes Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, not being short of ambition.
He goes on to say that Meta will «elevate design,» and put together people with talents in «craft, creative vision, systems thinking, and deep experience building iconic products that bridge hardware and software»
The potential is «enormous,» Zuck says, for AI glasses and «other devices» to change how we connect with «technology and each other.»
Read more: Scoop by Bloomberg, writeups by The Verge and 9to5Mac.
— The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage, says Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology in a press release.
Continue reading “Micron is pivoting to AI chips, will kill off Crucial consumer brand in 2026”
The idea is that sometimes the user is satisfied with a quick overview as an answer to a query, but sometimes it brings up more questions and requires a little more digging.
Therefore, the AI Overview now sometimes comes with an input field for AI Mode at the bottom of the screen, which will be able to give more comprehensive answers – rather than sending you to a website.
— It’s one seamless experience: a quick snapshot when you need it, and deeper conversation when you want it, says Vice President of Product for Google Search, Robby Stein, on x.com:
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This stems from hiring Wilson Sonsini, which assisted Google and LinkedIn in their initial public offerings, and apparently having talks with «big investment banks.» They have also hired Krishna Rao, the former Airbnb executive who played a key role in their IPO in 2020, CNBC says.
The timeline does not seem clear, while the report indicates that it could happen as soon as 2026, it also notes that the talks are in informal and early stages.
Anthropic has 300,000 business and enterprise customers, and is aiming to triple its annual revenue to around $26 billion next year, Reuters writes.
Its IPO could be one of the biggest ever, and would be a test of investors’ appetite for loss-making companies with huge investment bills, FT notes.
Read more: Scoop by The Financial Times, writeups from Reuters and CNBC.
Now CEO Masayoshi Son has revealed that it certainly wasn’t because they were taking profit before any downturn. On the contrary:
— I was crying to sell Nvidia shares, he told the FII Priority Asia forum in Tokyo, and says he «didn’t want to sell a single share,» adding that «I respect Jensen, I respect Nvidia so much,» according to Business Insider.
Continue reading “SoftBank sold $5.83 billion of its Nvidia stock in October: Here’s why”
This has now caused Altman to delay other initiatives, such as ads, to focus on making a better ChatGPT, paywalled The Information writes, citing an internal memo.
They are apparently planning to release a new reasoning model next week that will be «ahead of Gemini 3.» But this needs a little more polishing on the «experience.»
Just last week, a developer revealed ad code in the latest ChatGPT beta — meaning that their work on ads was fairly advanced and almost ready to ship.
This work is now on the back burner, at least until next week, when OpenAI hopes to reclaim their crown.
Read more: The Information (paywalled), and Reuters. Discussion on r/Singularity.
You might remember Runway as the lab behind AIFF — the AI film festival, where part of the prizes was generation tokens in their app.
They are framing their new release as a David v. Goliath moment, where «a team that fits onto two school buses» outperforms trillion dollar companies on the Artificial Analysis Text to Video Leaderboard.
Continue reading “Runway announces Gen-4.5, goes straight to top of video leaderboard”