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Nikkei Slips as Chip Rebound Fades Before U.S. CPI
General · CA

Nikkei Slips as Chip Rebound Fades Before U.S. CPI

Nikkei Slips as Chip Rebound Fades Before U.S. CPI

Newsonjapan.com··AI score →
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Global Market: Why China’s CXMT is putting global memory chip giants under pressure
General · Global / Other

Global Market: Why China’s CXMT is putting global memory chip giants under pressure

Global Market: Why China’s CXMT is putting global memory chip giants under pressure

The Times of India··AI score →
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Felix Rieseberg Homepage
General · Global / Other

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

Felixrieseberg.com··AI score →
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The Machine God...
General · CA

The Machine God...

The Machine God...

SFist··AI score →
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AI cloud startup Modal raises $750M at $15.75B valuation
General · CA

AI cloud startup Modal raises $750M at $15.75B valuation

AI cloud startup Modal raises $750M at $15.75B valuation

SiliconANGLE News··AI score →
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Y Combinator “Customer Surveillance” Startup Says “Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move”
General · Global / Other

Y Combinator “Customer Surveillance” Startup Says “Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move”

Y Combinator “Customer Surveillance” Startup Says “Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move”

Futurism··AI score →
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Salience Labs raises $125M after showcasing world’s most advanced, fully optical circuit-switching tech
General · CA

Salience Labs raises $125M after showcasing world’s most advanced, fully optical circuit-switching tech

Salience Labs raises $125M after showcasing world’s most advanced, fully optical circuit-switching tech

SiliconANGLE News··AI score →
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Groundcover lets Claude and Codex hand production investigations to its own agent
General · CA

Groundcover lets Claude and Codex hand production investigations to its own agent

Groundcover lets Claude and Codex hand production investigations to its own agent

SiliconANGLE News··AI score →
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Harmonic Security raises $50M to govern how employees use AI tools
General · CA

Harmonic Security raises $50M to govern how employees use AI tools

Harmonic Security raises $50M to govern how employees use AI tools

SiliconANGLE News··AI score →
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Evos bags $9M to build autonomous workers that learn from companies’ most experienced humans
General · CA

Evos bags $9M to build autonomous workers that learn from companies’ most experienced humans

Evos bags $9M to build autonomous workers that learn from companies’ most experienced humans

SiliconANGLE News··AI score →
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FBI Arrests OpenAI Employee Suspected of Planting a Surveillance Bug
General · CA

FBI Arrests OpenAI Employee Suspected of Planting a Surveillance Bug

FBI Arrests OpenAI Employee Suspected of Planting a Surveillance Bug

CNET··AI score →
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Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical phenotyping of human brown fat
General · CA

Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical phenotyping of human brown fat

Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical phenotyping of human brown fat

Nature.com··AI score →
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The Big Problem Every Artificial Intelligence Company Faces
General · CA

The Big Problem Every Artificial Intelligence Company Faces

The Big Problem Every Artificial Intelligence Company Faces

BGR··AI score →
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AI in politics: Is Albania the EU’s testing ground?
General · CA

AI in politics: Is Albania the EU’s testing ground?

AI in politics: Is Albania the EU’s testing ground?

Al Jazeera English··AI score →
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Star Trek: Red Shirts – Ghost of the 21st Century #3 Preview
General · CA

Star Trek: Red Shirts – Ghost of the 21st Century #3 Preview

Star Trek: Red Shirts – Ghost of the 21st Century #3 Preview

Bleeding Cool News··AI score →
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Google’s Demis Hassabis Puts a Hopeful Spin on AI’s Environmental Impact
General · CA

Google’s Demis Hassabis Puts a Hopeful Spin on AI’s Environmental Impact

Google’s Demis Hassabis Puts a Hopeful Spin on AI’s Environmental Impact

CNET··AI score →
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General · CA

Making AI work in healthcare

Making AI work in healthcare

Nature.com··AI score →
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Midjourney: Report Claims AI Model Is Worst Offender For Flouting Hollywood Copyright
General · Global / Other

Midjourney: Report Claims AI Model Is Worst Offender For Flouting Hollywood Copyright

Midjourney: Report Claims AI Model Is Worst Offender For Flouting Hollywood Copyright

Deadline··AI score →
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General · CA

Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis

Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis

TechCrunch··AI score →
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Yum! Brands executive pushes back against AI hate: Taco Bell drive-thru bot has helped increase employee retention by making jobs easier
General · Global / Other

Yum! Brands executive pushes back against AI hate: Taco Bell drive-thru bot has helped increase employee retention by making jobs easier

Yum! Brands executive pushes back against AI hate: Taco Bell drive-thru bot has helped increase employee retention by making jobs easier

Fortune··AI score →
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General · CA

Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays

Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays

The Verge··AI score →
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General · CA

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

TechCrunch··AI score →Also: The Verge
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Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
General · Global / Other

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

Ars Technica··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

TechCrunch··AI score →
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
General · Global / Other

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

Ars Technica··AI score →
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General · CA

Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia for hands-free automated driving

Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia for hands-free automated driving

TechCrunch··AI score →Also: The Verge
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MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
General · Global / Other

MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of

MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of

Ars Technica··AI score →
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Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy
General · CA

Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

IEEE Spectrum··AI score →
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Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program
General · Northeast

Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program

Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program

IEEE Spectrum··AI score →
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We Need to Embed Ethics Into Our Engineering Courses
General · Global / Other

We Need to Embed Ethics Into Our Engineering Courses

We Need to Embed Ethics Into Our Engineering Courses

IEEE Spectrum··AI score →
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IEEE Report Predicts Tech That Will Transform Lives
General · CA

IEEE Report Predicts Tech That Will Transform Lives

IEEE Report Predicts Tech That Will Transform Lives

IEEE Spectrum··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

news.ycombinator.com··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Why are chip companies allergic to open source?

Why are chip companies allergic to open source?

zeroasic.com··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

swedenherald.com··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Memory breakthrough by China's CXMT puts chip rivals on back foot

Memory breakthrough by China's CXMT puts chip rivals on back foot - Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia··AI score →
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General · CA

Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

dfarq.homeip.net··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

bleepingcomputer.com··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

startupfortune.com··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Is the semiconductor industry headed for an almighty crash?

Is the semiconductor industry headed for an almighty crash? - The Economist

The Economist··AI score →
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General · CA

NVIDIA and Semiconductor Leaders Advance AI Across Chip Design and Manufacturing for AI-Defined Fabs

NVIDIA and Semiconductor Leaders Advance AI Across Chip Design and Manufacturing for AI-Defined Fabs - NVIDIA Newsroom

NVIDIA Newsroom··AI score →Also: Yahoo Finance
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General · Global / Other

EXCLUSIVE: SK Hynix conditions new US factory on more US chip equipment exports to China, sources say

EXCLUSIVE: SK Hynix conditions new US factory on more US chip equipment exports to China, sources say - Reuters

Reuters··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Huawei, once hobbled by US sanctions, passes 100 million Kirin chip milestone

Huawei, once hobbled by US sanctions, passes 100 million Kirin chip milestone - South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post··AI score →
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General · Northeast

GlobalFoundries selected to operate two new semiconductor fabs in New York under landmark U.S.-Japan initiative

GlobalFoundries selected to operate two new semiconductor fabs in New York under landmark U.S.-Japan initiative - GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Department of Commerce Announces Agreement with GlobalFoundries to Amend Its Existing CHIPS Program Award and Reallocate $955 Million to Accelerate Investments in Silicon Photonics, Silicon-Germanium, and Advanced Packaging - National Institute of Standards and Technology (.gov)

Department of Commerce Announces Agreement with GlobalFoundries to Amend Its Existing CHIPS Program Award and Reallocate $955 Million to Accelerate Investments in Silicon Photonics, Silicon-Germanium, and Advanced Packaging - National Institute of Standards and Technology (.gov)

nist.gov··AI score →
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General · CA

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Business Intelligence Market Outlook Report Including Segment Analysis and Strategic

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Business Intelligence Market Outlook Report Including Segment Analysis and Strategic - EIN News

EIN News··AI score →Also: SNS Insider
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General · Global / Other

China chip exports jump 136% to US$45b as AI frenzy jacks up prices

China chip exports jump 136% to US$45b as AI frenzy jacks up prices - South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

GlobalFoundries Gets $21 Billion for Plants in US-Japan Deal

GlobalFoundries Gets $21 Billion for Plants in US-Japan Deal - Bloomberg.com

Bloomberg··AI score →
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General · CA

Silicon Valley is building weapons — can we trust the tech bros?

Silicon Valley is building weapons — can we trust the tech bros? - The Times

The Times··AI score →
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General · CA

How a Taiwanese chip company carved out a role in the artificial intelligence industry

How a Taiwanese chip company carved out a role in the artificial intelligence industry - Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business··AI score →
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General · Global / Other

Anthropic flags revenue surge to investors ahead of stock market debut

Anthropic flags revenue surge to investors ahead of stock market debut - BBC

BBC··AI score →

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