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Big Tech's $750B AI bet meets slowing core growthAmerica's tech giants are spending a collective $750 billion on AI this year, but their core advertising, consumer and retail businesses are slowing, and in some cases being cannibalized by AI itself. The report questions whether existing businesses can keep funding the bet.
India's AM Intelligence seeks $3B to fund Nvidia chip orderIndian AI infrastructure firm AM Intelligence is seeking up to $3 billion to fund a previously announced purchase of Nvidia's next-generation chips, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest sign of debt-fueled expansion in the AI boom.
EU ECCC launches €42M AI cybersecurity clusterThe European Cybersecurity Competence Centre launched three generative-AI cybersecurity projects totaling about €42 million, involving over 70 partners from 14 EU member states and the UK. The cluster supports the EU's July 2026 cybersecurity and AI action plan, with use cases spanning telecom, healthcare, robotics and smart cities.
US university administrator wins religious exemption from workplace AIUniversity of Kentucky administrator David Durman secured a religious exemption from using AI at work, backed by the American Humanist Association. He argues reliance on AI erodes critical thinking, and cites concerns over livelihoods, the environment and human creativity. The case shows AI objections increasingly framed through belief and legal protections.
OpenAI shares fair-use brief excerpts from creatorsOpenAI published excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates and legal experts arguing that fair use supports AI training and innovation, part of its legal and public-defense push amid training-data copyright disputes.
Nvidia in talks to back Nscale data center with credit supportNvidia is in discussions to provide credit guarantees for an Nscale data center facility that Anthropic plans to use, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move shows chip suppliers using financial support to accelerate AI compute buildout.
Jassy: AWS to become $1T business, but big spending comes firstAmazon CEO Jassy reiterated AWS can become the first $1 trillion annual-revenue business, with 2026 cash capex expected at about $220 billion, mostly for AWS, and more in 2027. AWS is a $184 billion annualized run-rate business growing 39% year over year, and Jassy expects growth above 40% in both 2027 and 2028.
29-year-old founder revives next-gen home-help robotsDreame's Huo is developing AI algorithms and humanoid machines for cleaning, washing and other household chores. The article profiles the 29-year-old female founder breathing new life into home-help robots.
Developer builds a transformer out of DOOM game mechanicsA developer presented DOOMFORMER on Hacker News, replacing math operations with DOOM game mechanics and voodoo dolls to build a working transformer alternative about 65,000 times slower than NumPy. It can classify MNIST digits, roughly converse and play DOOM; the author seeks collaborators to scale it up.
Altman: local inference is a terrible use of scarce resourcesSam Altman said that from a global allocation view, keeping the world's limited DRAM in personal computers used 5% of the time is terrible, and cloud utilization is preferable. The remark drew criticism on r/LocalLLaMA, where users noted his incentive to sell cloud services.
As Anthropic eyes mega-IPO, why Chinese tech valuations lagThe South China Morning Post examines why Chinese tech valuations trail as Anthropic prepares for a large IPO, contrasting US and Chinese AI firms' capital-market performance.
Whissle Open-Sources 70MB Arc Streaming Speech ModelWhissleAI released Arc, a ~70MB streaming speech model that every 100ms outputs transcript, roster name linking, numbers, speakers and event tags in one pass, collapsing separate ASR, NER and entity-linking steps. Two variants, Arc mini and Arc-v1, ship with open weights and code and power its Mac app.
Google tops AI intelligence index as OpenAI halves model priceGoogle released Gemini 4 Carbon, topping the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59, focused on finding and fixing security flaws; Chrome's team says it produced over 10x better fixes than another frontier model. OpenAI halved the price of GPT-6.1 Terra, which it says handles computer tasks over three times faster. Block, Rime, Nvidia and Liquid AI also shipped locally runnable voice and small models.
T. Rowe Price's Wang: AI slowdown is macro, not one companyT. Rowe Price portfolio manager Tony Wang says investors want AI spending to translate into better-than-expected revenue in core and cloud businesses and improved margins. He calls AI chip demand unprecedented but warns rapid shipments strain supply chains and create bottlenecks, raising execution expectations. He frames an AI slowdown as more macro than tied to any single company.
Building an AI-native engineering orgA Hacker News discussion thread on building an AI-native engineering organization, with no further details provided.
GE Healthcare CEO on Q3 beat and AI's impactGE Healthcare CEO Peter Arduini called radiopharmaceuticals a fast-growing field advancing care in cancer, cardiac imaging and neurology, including Alzheimer's-related approaches. Because these products have short half-lives and can dissipate by day's end, control of manufacturing and supply chains is especially important. He also discussed the company's third-quarter earnings beat and AI's impact.
Community releases Qwen 3.8 Swift 1.5 Flash Heretic v2 uncensored quantCommunity developers released an uncensored Heretic v2 GGUF quant of Qwen 3.8 Swift 1.5 Flash, tuned for reverse engineering and coding, with bit allocation weighted toward chain-of-thought, system prompts and architecture. The authors say reasoning and output length are much improved over v1.
Raymond James Q4 Earnings Beat, CEO Discusses AI StrategyRaymond James beat fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted EPS estimates, with investment banking revenue also exceeding expectations, lifting its shares. CEO Paul Shoukry emphasized sustainable growth and long-term decisions, noting 155 consecutive profitable quarters.
HN users question sudden Opus 5.5 quality dropA Hacker News user reported that Claude Opus 5.5 seemed markedly worse with poor attention span over about half a day, across agents on very different projects. Commenters cited daily benchmark results suggesting the model has not degraded, and compared it with Fable 5.1 on reasoning and style.
Sandisk Posts Strong Results, Upbeat Outlook on AI DemandSandisk reported stronger-than-expected results and guidance, driven by data center buildout demand and a memory supply crunch that kept prices elevated.
Gallagher introduces bill to counter traffickers exploiting AICongressman James Gallagher introduced the Countering Online Trafficking Act, requiring the State Department to assess whether its trafficking office has the technical expertise to counter AI-enabled threats. UN data show detected trafficking victims rose 25% and child victims 31% between 2019 and 2022.
Van der Waerden number w(2;3,21)=416 proved with AI-assisted Lean proofThe long-open van der Waerden number w(2;3,21) is proved to equal 416, with the proof kernel-checked in Lean 4. Kullmann conjectured the value in 2010; the proof spans 209 cases and about 38.7 million leaf formulas, each refutation verified by cake_pr, an LRAT checker verified in CakeML and then bound by digest to its Lean term. It was produced by Hupyy's neuro-symbolic LPM system.
Amazon spent over $77B on property and equipment in Q3Amazon spent more than $77 billion on property and equipment in Q3, far above analysts' estimates, as it builds data centers to meet AI services demand.
Tiny World Model Runs Games on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 WA developer used two small neural networks to generate and play games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W: a world model predicts the next frame and reward, while an actor network picks actions. The world model uses a looped transformer with 26k–131k parameters and 2–8M multiply-adds per frame, enabling real-time operation on a microcontroller.
Dartmouth provost resigns over AI-writing findingsDartmouth provost Santiago Schnell resigned after a faculty committee found he used AI in his writing, including a Washington Post guest column on AI cheating that was found to be entirely AI-written. The university president said the departure was his decision, as Dartmouth hosted a conference marking 70 years since the field's founding.
Reddit shifts to logged-in experience as search traffic fallsReddit announced it will move to a primarily logged-in experience to shield its data from AI scraping and pursue licensing deals. Global daily active users were flat at 130.3 million, while U.S. DAUs fell from 53.2 million to 50.7 million, down 2% year over year. Search referrals dropped by over 1 million per week on average in October, and Reddit warned DAUs could decline by a low-double-digit percentage next quarter.
Rivian expands VW joint venture to include AI assistantRivian is licensing elements of its AI voice assistant to Volkswagen Group as part of their $5.8 billion joint venture. Licensing fees and vehicle details were not disclosed, but the assistant may debut in VW's low-cost EV, the ID EVERY1. The move highlights the extensibility of Rivian's in-house platform; the assistant took two years to develop and rolled out in September 2026.
NeurIPS 2026 attendee sought to present posterA researcher unable to attend the NeurIPS 2026 E-Values Workshop in Paris due to financial constraints is seeking a registered attendee to present their accepted poster, offering a small token of appreciation. The request highlights funding barriers some researchers face.
OpenAI doubles usage limits on Pro plans amid Anthropic competitionOpenAI is doubling usage limits on its paid plans, raising Pro 100 to Pro 500, and reversed a planned cut to Pro 200 after user pushback. More efficient models like Terra and Sol should further increase usable capacity. The move comes ahead of Anthropic's IPO as both companies vie for B2B AI dominance.
Thrive Holdings acquires ADT in $15.3B dealOpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is acquiring security company ADT for $10 per share, or about $7.6 billion in equity, with a total enterprise value of $15.3 billion. Thrive plans to bring AI to home security, with ADT forming the foundation of its smart home security business. OpenAI is a partner, supplying AI models and engineers.
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