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Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental “reasoning” model that “explicitly shows its thoughts” and can use them to strengthen its reasoning — Google has released what it's calling a new “reasoning” AI model — but it's in the experimental stages …
More: Business Standard, The Information, Google AI for Developers, The Verge, The Indian Express, 9to5Google, MediaPost, Analytics India Magazine, Ars Technica, Android Headlines, SiliconANGLE, MakeUseOf, WinBuzzer, Android Police, VentureBeat, and Windows Copilot News
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Forums: r/artificial, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
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Sony's shares in Japan surged 50%+ from an August low to reach its new all-time high since 2000 last week, as investors are bullish on its gaming growth in 2025 — - Next year ‘one of the greatest’ for video games: Smithers — M&A and good management boost stock's appeal: Janus Henderson| Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: |
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Researchers unveil Genesis, an open-source generative physics engine that trains robots in simulated reality 430K times faster than in the real world — On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system …
More: Genesis, MarkTechPost, and Analytics India Magazine
Mastodon: @timokissel@mastodon.world. X: @zhou_xian_, @zhou_xian_, @safespace4space, @yumahey, @tom_doerr, @timokissel, @zhou_xian_, @michael_gaio, @frankzydou, @brianroemmele, @brianroemmele, @ericschmidt, @zhou_xian_, @brianroemmele, and @kelloggzz1
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SAP promoted a team lead accused by five female staff of targeting female subordinates, raising concerns about company culture and workplace discrimination — Women who worked for a team lead at the tech giant's Signavio unit say that the company failed to address complaints of bullying and discrimination.| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valuation in August 2024 — Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, raised $100 million Series B at a post-money valuation of $2.6 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.
X: @techau, @_anthonyriera, @suhail, and @mattvagni
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India — A lot of YouTube videos have flashy, misleading titles and thumbnails, such as “BREAKING NEWS” or “The president steps down …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple researchers say the company's open-source ReDrafter method on Nvidia GPUs led to a 2.7x speed increase in generated tokens per second for greedy encoding — Apple's latest machine learning research could make creating models for Apple Intelligence faster, by coming up with a technique …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta teases an AI editing tool powered by Movie Gen AI in Instagram that can change outfits, backgrounds, and more in videos using a text prompt, coming in 2025 — Instagram is planning to introduce a generative AI editing feature next year that will allow users to “change nearly any aspect of your videos.”
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| New York Times: |
In 150+ X posts, Elon Musk led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by sharing misinfo, which may lead to a government shutdown over Christmas — The world's richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by promoting false and misleading claims about it.
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Bluesky: @reckless, @pineapple-king, and @rmac
X: @elonmusk, @maxwellfrostfl, @sensanders, @senjeffmerkley, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @repjayapal, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @repjimmygomez, @emrwilkins, @fred_guttenberg, @edkrassen, @imknottheone, @elonmusk, @fscdems, @growing_daniel, @ahmedbaba_, @brianstelter, @alifarhat79, @scott_4trump, @theliamnissan, @elonmusk, @doctorhenryct, @armanddoma, @ericldaugh, @sadmonsters, @vivekgramaswamy, @davewiner, @c_s_skeptic, @themaxburns, @mattglassman312, @allenanalysis, @chucktodd, @naval, @paulg, @michaelsteele, @aaronblake, @joncoopertweets, @elonmusk, @vivekgramaswamy, @arimelber, @benjamingoggin, @daithaigilbert, @hillaryclinton, @voidofroses, @allenanalysis, @jfberke, @repdonbeyer, @berniesanders, @ericldaugh, @jamiedupree, @reploritrahan, @karthikfortexas, @elonmusk, @fritschner, @daniellamicaela, @repraskin, @ronfilipkowski, @cwebbonline, @billkristol, @pamelabrowncnn, @maddenifico, @leftcoastbabe, @elonmusk, @anniekarni, @boknowsnews, @acnewsitics, @bigskyisawesome, @davetroy, @farhip, @jeffjarvis, @youwouldntpost, @steven_pifer, @markpocan, @maddenifico, and @tvietor08. LinkedIn: Brian McLaughlin
Forums: r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/politics, r/Law_and_Politics, and r/musked
| Yantoultra Ngui / Reuters: |
Singapore-based bolttech, a B2B2C startup that offers “embedded” insurance products, raised a $100M+ Series C led by Dragon Fund at a $2.1B valuation — Singapore-headquartered insurance technology firm bolttech has raised more than $100 million in its latest funding round … | New York Times: |
Sources: the US' proposed AI chip framework would block adversaries entirely, and give others quotas based on their US alignment, threatening Nvidia's expansion — The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.
X: @klonkitchen
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Charlotte, NC-based Aiwyn, which provides automation software for accounting firms, raised $113M led by KKR and Bessemer, bringing its total funding to $127M — Accounting firms are struggling to adopt high-tech solutions. That's according to a survey earlier this year from Rightsworks …
More: SiliconANGLE, Aiwyn, Inc., and VC News Daily
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Anthropic, whose CEO, Dario Amodei, has vocally opposed Donald Trump, and OpenAI look to hire more people with ties to Trump and the GOP for their policy teams — Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its models' impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping … Sponsor Posts
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