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| Tulsee Doshi / Google: |
Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash, its “most intelligent workhorse model” for coding and agents, pricing it at $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens at launch — Our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. — Senior Director, Product Management, on behalf of the Gemini team
More: InfoWorld, Bloomberg, Google AI for Developers, Verdict, VentureBeat, Digit, Axios, Digital Trends, NPowerUser, The Indian Express, The Asia Business Daily, Tom's Guide, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Reuters, Implicator.ai, TestingCatalog AI News, Yahoo Tech, OfficeChai, and 9to5Google
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Bard, and Slashdot
| Z.ai: |
Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, which uses the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding skills; Z.ai plans to release weights in two weeks — With GLM-5.2 we built the stack: IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for RL on long-horizon tasks …
More: Reuters, The Information, Business Standard, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where “every capability is a plugin” that can be swapped out — DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.
More: GitHub. X: @akshay_pachaar, @tokenbender, @fluorane, @tianyi, @hesamation, and @eliebakouch
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
More: DeepSeek API Docs, Engadget, DeepSeek API Docs, Seoul Economic Daily, The Information, Australian Financial Review, CIO.com, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters
X: @deepseek_ai, @dodoreach, @jun_song, @teortaxestex, @silicon_data, @pigeon__s, @markgurman, @ns123abc, and @cheatyyyy. Forums: Hacker News
| The Information: |
More: Hugging Face, South China Morning Post, and DeepSeek on OpenRouter
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/LocalLLaMA
| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use — OpenAI's opt-in Computer History captures a local timeline of Mac activity so ChatGPT Work can recover context across selected apps and sites.
More: ChatGPT Learn, Moneycontrol, ChatGPT Learn, Business Today, WinCentral, Digital Trends, The Register, Neowin, and 9to5Mac
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China — Apple (AAPL.O) has trained a large language model specifically for the China market, three people familiar with the matter said …
More: The Verge, Computerworld, MacRumors, Livemint, and RuntimeWire
| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team — Oxenfree Night School and Moonloot closing, as streaming giant continues to shrink internal game studio operation
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LinkedIn: Sam Warner, Chris Heatherly, Stephen Totilo, Stephanie Bedford, and Hannah Nicklin
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Forums: r/IndieGaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/xbox, r/PS5, r/kindafunny, and r/Games
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a “turf war” over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more — What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic's testing, things get messy fast.
More: CTech, Anthropic, The Hans India, Digit, and VentureBeat
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second — OpenAI is previewing a new way to run its most capable GPT-5.6 model at dramatically higher speeds. The company says its new Ultrafast …
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| Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: |
Chip equipment maker Lam Research plans to invest $3B+ over five years to expand its global R&D network, aiming to increase its experiment capacity by 50%+ — Lam Research (LRCX.O) said on Thursday it intends to invest more than $3 billion in the next five years to expand its global research …
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove “anticompetitive friction” for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store — Judge Donato was not having Google's ‘anticompetitive friction.’ — One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting …
More: Android Authority
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps — Apple has submitted its proposal for the fees it should be allowed to charge for purchases made outside of the App Store system in the Epic Games case.
More: Bloomberg, The Mac Observer, iThinkDifferent, The Verge, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The White House announces new tariffs on drones and components, including a 100% levy on “particularly sensitive” models, aiming to cut reliance on Chinese tech — US to impose up to 100% levies on unmanned aircraft and their components — President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping …
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Forums: r/fpv, r/drones, r/wallstreetbets, r/politics, and r/StockMarket
| J.J. McCorvey / Bloomberg: |
A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws — Kalshi was told by a judge to stop offering most of its prediction market contracts in Washington state, after regulators …
More: AGO News Releases, Decrypt, CoinGape, Music Ally, The Block, and New York Times
| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: Silver Lake is in talks to acquire HR and financial management software maker Workday, which has a market value of ~$43B; WDAY jumps 18%+ — Private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire Workday (WDAY.O), which has a market value of about $43 billion … | Veronica Irwin / Transformer: |
A profile of Amy Kremer, a pro-Trump activist who helped organize the January 6 rally and currently chairs the grassroots anti-data center group Humans First — Amy Kremer's resume makes her loyalty to Trump impossible to question. Humans First is banking that will help mobilize the right| The Information: |
A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pitched a porn startup to Jeffrey Epstein — Eric Schmidt had plenty of reasons to toast the success of Dario Amodei and Anthropic at a private event the former Google CEO hosted recently.| Financial Times: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company — Largest US bank has continued to cultivate ties with prediction platform as it seeks $20bn valuation
More: CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba is nearing a deal to sell its Lingxi Games to PE firm Trustar Capital at a potential $1.5B+ valuation, as Alibaba continues its reorganization — Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital is nearing a deal to acquire Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s video game business, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| Australian Financial Review: |
Blackbird and Airtree revalue Canva at $34.9B, down from $42B in 2025, as it struggles in the AI era; Canva's internal valuation falls to $31B, down from $38.9B — Canva and two of its longest-standing Australian backers have wiped over $10 billion ($US7.1 billion) off the design software giant's valuation … | Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN: |
A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024 — A $15 million aquatic center with a six-lane pool, waterslides and a lazy river opened in Quincy, Washington, a few weeks ago.| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2.54B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates — The company is looking to ramp up its manufacturing capacity to meet continued semiconductor solutions demand
More: Reuters, Applied Materials, Blockonomi, SiliconANGLE, Pulse 2.0, Nikkei Asia, and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B+ based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 — OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $40 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar …
More: Blockonomi, Proactive, Fortune, Seoul Economic Daily, and The Asia Business Daily
X: @edzitron, @scaling01, and @edzitron
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack — OpenAI's rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
More: Axios, Business Standard, and NOTUS
X: @zeffmax, @zeffmax, and @sophiekleeman
Bluesky: @timmarchman, @laurengoode, and @brbarrett
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI hires Dali Rajic, COO of Alphabet's Wiz, as chief revenue officer, replacing ex-Slack CEO Denise Dresser, who was hired in December 2025 and will leave — OpenAI is naming its second new chief revenue officer in less than a year, a sign of efforts to bolster sales growth ahead of a highly anticipated Wall Street debut.
More: OpenAI, New York Times, CNBC, Fortune, The Information, Business Today, Digit, The Asia Business Daily, and Mashable
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