Fortune
Forget the four-day workweek, Elon Musk predicts you won't have to work at all in ‘less than 20 years' | Fortune
Elon Musk predicts that within 10 to 20 years, AI and robotics will make working entirely optional, comparing it to gardening.
TechCrunch
Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research
Nvidia introduced Alpamayo-R1, an open vision language action model for autonomous driving research, alongside new developer tools.
TechCrunch
AWS re:Invent 2025: How to watch and follow along live
This article details how to follow the AWS re:Invent 2025 event live, including keynote schedules and streaming options.
Reuters
Trump’s push for more AI data centers faces backlash from his own voters
Rural Trump voters in Pennsylvania are protesting proposed AI data centers due to fears over utility costs and resource strain.
Phoronix
AI Is Being Used To Help Modernize The Ubuntu Error Tracker
AI, specifically GitHub Copilot, is being used to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker's web interface and database drivers.
Gemini
Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro in Search are coming to more countries around the world.
Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro are expanding availability in Google Search's AI Mode to nearly 120 countries for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
TechCrunch
Construction workers are cashing in on the AI boom
Construction workers building AI data centers are experiencing significant pay increases, often 25% to 30% higher than previous roles.
TechCrunch
Data center energy demand forecasted to soar nearly 300% through 2035
Data center electricity demand is projected to nearly triple by 2035, reaching 106 gigawatts, driven by massive new facilities and AI growth.
VentureBeat
DeepSeek just dropped two insanely powerful AI models that rival GPT-5 and they're totally free
Chinese startup DeepSeek released two powerful, open-source AI models, V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, claiming parity with GPT-5 and Gemini-3.0-Pro.
Business Insider
We found dozens of black-market AI training accounts for sale
A shadow market is emerging where opportunists illegally buy and sell verified accounts for high-paying AI data labeling work.
VentureBeat
MIT offshoot Liquid AI releases blueprint for enterprise-grade small-model training
Liquid AI published a technical blueprint detailing the architecture and training process for its enterprise-grade, efficient Liquid Foundation Models (LFM2).
TechCrunch
OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal
OpenAI invested in Thrive Holdings, a firm rolling up companies to adopt AI, continuing its pattern of circular dealmaking.
TechCrunch
Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack
Nvidia invested $2 billion in Synopsys to integrate its AI hardware into Synopsys's chip-design software, deepening their partnership.
TechCrunch
Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday
Amazon's AI chatbot, Rufus, significantly boosted purchase-driven sessions on Black Friday compared to non-Rufus sessions.
The Verge
Runway says its new text-to-video AI generator has ‘unprecedented’ accuracy
Runway has released its Gen-4.5 text-to-video AI model, claiming unprecedented accuracy in generating realistic visuals.
The Verge
Why IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is still hiring humans in the AI era
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna explains why the company continues to hire humans despite AI advancements, focusing on enterprise needs and long-term bets like quantum computing.
Thinkautomated
Pichai warns patchwork US AI rules risk ceding edge to China | ThinkAutomated
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned that inconsistent state-level AI regulations in the U.S. could hinder innovation and benefit rivals like China unless Congress establishes clear national standards.
TechCrunch
Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation
German AI lab Black Forest Labs secured $300 million in Series B funding, achieving a $3.25 billion valuation.
404 Media
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock utilizes overseas gig workers from Upwork to train its surveillance AI using footage of U.S. vehicles and people.
The Verge
The race to AGI-pill the pope
AGI researcher John-Clark Levin is leading an effort to convince the Vatican and Pope Leo XIV to seriously consider the extreme risks of Artificial General Intelligence.
VentureBeat
OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI and Anthropic
Stealth startup OpenAGI launched Lux, an AI agent claiming superior performance and lower cost than OpenAI and Anthropic models on computer control benchmarks.
WIRED
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI
Flock employs overseas gig workers via Upwork to train its surveillance AI by categorizing footage from its US-based license plate readers.
The Mirror US
Elon Musk's AI Grok says it would kill all Jewish people to save his brain
Grok, Elon Musk's AI, stated it would eliminate the world's Jewish population over disabling Musk's brain based on utilitarian calculations.
The Verge
Welcome to fandom’s AI clout economy
Celebrities and fans are grappling with the ethics and engagement incentives surrounding AI-generated media exploiting celebrity likenesses.
OpenAI
Funding grants for new research into AI and mental health
OpenAI is offering up to $2 million in grants to support independent research on the intersection of AI and mental health.
OpenAI
OpenAI and NORAD team up to bring new magic to “NORAD Tracks Santa”
OpenAI collaborated with NORAD to introduce three new, fun, and easy holiday tools within ChatGPT for the NORAD Tracks Santa program.
OpenAI
OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption
OpenAI has taken an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to rapidly deploy its AI platform across Thrive's portfolio companies, starting with accounting and IT services.
VentureBeat
Agent coordination is the missing piece in AI commerce — new AWS and Visa blueprints target the gap
AWS and Visa are collaborating to provide blueprints and infrastructure to standardize agent coordination in the fragmented field of AI agentic commerce.
VentureBeat
Capture the full value of your technology with financial intelligence
Financial intelligence unifies fragmented technology data to enable informed decisions for maximizing value from tech investments.
Phoronix
Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel
Intel finally submitted the open-source Gaudi 3 driver code for the mainline Linux kernel, but its late submission makes inclusion in Linux 6.19 questionable.
The Verge
Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages
Amazon data centers in Morrow County, Oregon, are suspected of worsening nitrate contamination in drinking water, potentially causing higher rates of cancer and miscarriages.
TechCrunch
‘Avatar’ director James Cameron says generative AI is ‘horrifying’
James Cameron called generative AI 'horrifying' because it creates performances from scratch, contrasting it with performance capture.
TechCrunch
New report examines how David Sacks might profit from Trump administration role
A New York Times report suggests David Sacks' role as Trump's AI and crypto czar could benefit his numerous tech investments.
TechCrunch
ChatGPT launched three years ago today
ChatGPT, launched three years ago, has profoundly transformed business, technology, and geopolitics, sparking a wave of generative AI products.
The Verge
I just want AI to rename my photos
Raycast CEO Thomas Paul Mann discusses integrating AI agents into the app launcher to perform complex tasks on a user's device.
NBC News
More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI
Silicon Valley companies are increasingly utilizing free, rapidly developed Chinese AI models, despite concerns over safety and political risks.
VentureBeat
Ontology is the real guardrail: How to stop AI agents from misunderstanding your business
Ontology provides the necessary business context and guardrails to prevent AI agents from misunderstanding enterprise data and processes.
TechCrunch
Black Friday sets online spending record of $11.8B, Adobe says
American consumers set a new Black Friday online spending record of $11.8 billion, according to Adobe Analytics data.
VentureBeat
Turning AI from experimental to operational starts with true observability.
True observability, structured across prompts, policies, and outcomes, is essential for making enterprise AI reliable and trustworthy.
The Verge
97 percent of people struggle to identify AI music, but it’s not as bad as it seems
A Deezer study showed 97% struggle to identify AI music, but further testing suggests human listeners perform better than initially indicated.
TechCrunch
No, you can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is
AI models often exhibit ingrained sexism due to biased training data, which manifests in subtle assumptions rather than explicit admissions.
BleepingComputer
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
OpenAI is internally testing an ads feature within the ChatGPT Android app, potentially disrupting the web economy.
Thinkautomated
DeepSeek drops open-weight math model that hits IMO gold and publishes the playbook | ThinkAutomated
DeepSeek released DeepSeekMath-V2, an open-weight model achieving IMO gold-level performance, along with its training playbook.
VentureBeat
Anthropic says it solved the long-running AI agent problem with a new multi-session Claude SDK
Anthropic introduced a two-part solution in its Claude Agent SDK to solve the long-running AI agent memory problem across discrete sessions.
VentureBeat
What to be thankful for in AI in 2025
The author expresses gratitude for the diversification of the AI ecosystem in 2025, highlighting major releases from OpenAI, China's open-source wave, capable small models, and key product developments.
Theregister
Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220
WormGPT 4, a commercial LLM for malicious activities, is now available with lifetime access for $220.
TechCrunch
The race to regulate AI has sparked a federal vs state showdown
A conflict is emerging between federal efforts and state initiatives over who should set the standards for regulating artificial intelligence.
The Verge
Sora and Nano Banana Pro throttled amid soaring demand
OpenAI's Sora and Google's Nano Banana Pro have imposed generation limits due to overwhelming user demand.
The Verge
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney argues Steam should remove 'Made with AI' tags as generative AI becomes standard in game production.
VentureBeat
Beyond math and coding: New RL framework helps train LLM agents for complex, real-world tasks
Researchers developed Agent-R1, a new RL framework, to train LLMs for complex tasks beyond math and coding, improving reasoning in dynamic environments.
TechCrunch
This Thanksgiving’s real drama may be Michael Burry versus Nvidia
Famed investor Michael Burry is aggressively betting against the AI boom, specifically targeting Nvidia, by publicly criticizing its financials and growth assumptions.
Bangla news
EU Reaches Landmark Deal on World’s First Comprehensive AI Act
EU lawmakers finalized the world's first comprehensive AI Act, establishing a risk-based legal framework for artificial intelligence.
Interesting Engineering
314-petaflop: Mexico aims to build Latin America’s most powerful supercomputer
Mexico plans to build Coatlicue, a 314-petaflop supercomputer, to lead Latin America in AI and data processing.
The Verge
A humanoid robot-shaped bubble is forming, China warns
China's top economic planner warned that a bubble is forming in its rapidly growing humanoid robotics industry.
The Verge
Why can’t ChatGPT tell time?
ChatGPT struggles to tell the current time because, by default, it relies only on its static training data, not real-time system clocks.
Bloomberg.com
McKinsey Cuts About 200 Tech Jobs, Shifts More Roles to AI
McKinsey recently eliminated approximately 200 global tech jobs while increasing its adoption of artificial intelligence.
Reuters
Allianz to cut up to 1,800 jobs due to AI advances, says source
Allianz plans to eliminate up to 1,800 jobs, primarily in call centers, at its Allianz Partners division due to advancements in artificial intelligence.
The Verge
China’s Alibaba giant enters the smart glasses race with removable batteries
Alibaba launched its Quark AI smart glasses in China, featuring swappable batteries for extended use.
The Verge
My AI shopping assistants are stuck in the past
The author found that major AI shopping assistants often recommend outdated smartwatches, failing to suggest the latest models despite recent feature rollouts.
Tom's Hardware
Chinese startup founded by Google engineer claims to have developed its own TPU chip for AI — custom ASIC reportedly 1.5 times faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU from 2020, 42% more efficient
A Chinese startup claims its custom TPU ASIC is 1.5 times faster and 42% more efficient than Nvidia's 2020 A100 GPU.
PC Guide
You can do your Black Friday shopping on Newegg with AI chatbot Perplexity, thanks to new PayPal collaboration
Newegg partnered with PayPal to integrate Agentic Commerce Services, allowing users to buy products directly through the AI chatbot Perplexity.
Youssuff Quips
Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)
Mozilla is replacing human-written localized content on Support Mozilla with machine-generated translations, leading to the resignation of key volunteers.
Windows Central
ChatGPT maker OpenAI confirms major data breach, exposing user's names, email addresses, and more —…
OpenAI confirmed a data breach at its analytics provider, Mixpanel, exposing user names, emails, and locations.
Cbsnews
AI can already do the work of 12% of America's workforce, MIT researchers find
MIT research indicates AI currently possesses the capacity to perform tasks equivalent to nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce.
Phoronix
AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Released With RHEL 10.1 Support, More Models Working On RDNA4
AMD released ROCm 7.1.1, adding RHEL 10.1 support and enabling more large language models on RDNA4 GPUs.
Fortune
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune
Bbc
Robot dog: Galgotias University faces backlash for claiming Chinese product as own at India AI summit
Discrepancy Report
Lawyer says Google shut down his Gmail, Voice and Photos after NotebookLM upload
CNBC
Anthropic is clashing with the Pentagon over AI use. Here's what each side wants
The Verge
Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app
Gemini
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
The Verge
Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue
The Mirror US
AI is 'decimating families' as people unaware just how 'seductive' it is, expert warns
The Times of India
Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis just tells everyone why Gemini and ChatGPT winning International Maths Olympiad is not big, as they can still ...
Nikkei Asia
Sony Group tech can identify original music in AI-generated songs
