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Nvidia acquires SchedMD, raising concerns over open‑source Slurm access
Nvidia announced the acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the open‑source Slurm workload manager that runs on roughly 60% of the world’s supercomputers. Slurm is a critical component for training large language models and for government‑run high‑performance clusters. The deal has sparked anxiety among AI labs and supercomputing experts who fear Nvidia may prioritize its own needs.
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By the numbers: Wipro acquires Olam's Mindsprint in $1B+ transformation deal
The Australian Productivity Commission has scrapped its plan to grant a “fair dealing” exemption that would let tech firms mine copyrighted Australian material for AI training, after a fierce backlash from the creative sector. Instead, the commission advised the government to pause for three years before considering an independent review of copyright rules and AI impacts. Industry groups such as ARIA praised the decision, arguing the existing copyright framework already protects cultural value. The move stalls potential foreign AI investment while highlighting uncertainty around productivity gains from local AI models.
Focus used to be a habit. Now it’s an asset that must be defended. AI constantly invites expansion. Founders who don’t guard focus end up running a portfolio instead of a company.
The episode explains Yann LeCun's announcement of a new AI startup focused on building a "world model" and its pursuit of a $3 billion-plus valuation, potentially exceeding $5 billion. It clarifies what world models are—systems that learn to predict and simulate entire...
Nvidia just dropped Nemotron‑3 — and yes, the names look complicated… but they actually tell a story. Take Nemotron‑3 Nano‑30B‑A3B‑FP8: • Nemotron‑3 → 3rd gen family, smarter + more efficient • Nano → smallest tier, optimized for deployment • 30B →...
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly acknowledged that Google’s Gemini 3 can perform tasks that Microsoft’s Copilot cannot, a rare admission in the AI arms race. He highlighted Gemini’s multimodal strengths while emphasizing Copilot’s real‑time visual assistance and integration across Windows,...
Unsloth, a GPU‑optimized fine‑tuning library, now runs on everything from GeForce RTX desktops to NVIDIA's DGX Spark, delivering up to 2.5× faster training for LLMs. The tool supports parameter‑efficient methods like LoRA/QLoRA, full model updates, and reinforcement‑learning pipelines, each with clear...
A great visual positioning system makes augmented reality feel like magic... this tech helps your phone (or robot) figure out precisely where it is in 3D space. Here's MultiSet AI nailing it in real-time, at night, and on-device too. This new...
20 years ago when I worked at Microsoft a researcher showed me a new kind of microphone he built: an array of four microphones built into a box. It cost about $10,000 for him to build. Now @insta360’s new Wave, https://t.co/MokikgunUR an...
The article argues that universal basic income (UBI) is a stability floor, not a plan to replace work, especially as AI accelerates job insecurity. It cites forecasts that 22% of jobs could be disrupted by 2030 and that up to...
When I launched insitro , the goal was never to make one drug. If that had been the case, we could have used existing tools. Our goal was to change how drugs are made – and to do that, we...
The episode examines the reported $10 billion investment by Amazon in OpenAI, framing it as part of a broader trend toward circular partnerships where tech giants both collaborate and compete in AI. It explains what circular deals are, why major cloud...
I’m judging the #YouBuildChallenge hackathon (Dec 16–22). The premise is simple: describe what you want to build, and @YouWareAI turns it into a working app. $10K+ in prizes. YouWare is rethinking how software gets created—shifting from writing code to expressing creativity. Built by...
ChatGPT: “Based on what you know about me, make a website with @Replit”
The AI Daily Brief reveals that 82% of organizations now report positive AI ROI, with 37% seeing transformational impact, and most expecting faster gains soon. The study of 1,200 respondents and 5,000 use cases shows ROI is driven by both...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched A4 Standard instances powered by Ampere Computing’s AmpereOne M silicon, offering up to 192 custom Arm cores per chip in both virtualized and bare‑metal forms. The configurations deliver up to 48 OCPUs (96 cores) with up to...
Apple Music has launched a ChatGPT app that lets users generate playlists, discover songs, and play short music clips via conversational prompts. Subscribers can link their Apple Music accounts to save the AI‑crafted playlists directly to their library. The integration...
AI slop in the job application process is only going to increase internal referrals processes and network effects. At least 50% of applications I receive are the same AI answers. To the applicant, they seem impressive and well thought out....
YouTube shut down the Screen Culture and KH Studio channels, which together amassed over 2 million subscribers by posting AI‑generated movie trailers that mimicked real releases. The platforms initially demonetized the creators for missing disclaimer tags, briefly reinstated them, and then...
Excellent new episode of Your Undivided Attention exposing many more subtle differences between how the US and China think about the race for AGI , and whether they are even competing for the same thing.
Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales are projected to reach $133 billion in 2025, rising 13.7% year‑over‑year, with forecasts of $145 billion in 2026 and $156 billion in 2027. The surge is driven by heightened demand for AI accelerators, high‑performance computing and advanced 2 nm...
A Florida middle school was placed under lockdown after ZeroEyes, an AI‑driven security system, mistakenly identified a student’s clarinet as a rifle. Human reviewers failed to halt the alert, prompting police to respond before discovering the false alarm. ZeroEyes’ co‑founder...
Pickle Robot, a Massachusetts‑based maker of autonomous unloading robots, appointed Jeff Evanson as its first chief financial officer. Evanson, a former Tesla vice president of global investor relations, had been consulting for Pickle since September and now joins full‑time. The...
T5 Services, the services arm of T5 Data Centers, reported record growth in 2025, expanding revenue from $87 million in 2021 to $1.6 billion. The company’s integrated construction and operations model, backed by more than 200 professionals and 6,000 subcontractors, delivered over...
OpenAI introduced the FrontierScience benchmark, a two‑part test featuring Olympiad‑level problems and open‑ended PhD‑level research challenges. GPT‑5.2 topped the leaderboard, reaching 77% accuracy on the Olympiad set and 25% on the research set, while Gemini 3 Pro trailed closely on Olympiad...
AI JOB LOSS HOAX EXPOSED According to a new study from Vanguard, the "occupations most exposed to AI automation are actually outperforming the rest of the labor market in terms of job growth and real wage increases." Job growth was up...
🚨 From Agent-1 to Superintelligence: The AI 2027 Scenario The AI 2027 Report outlines one of the most thought-provoking trajectories for artificial intelligence: a rapid evolution from simple assistants (Agent-1) to autonomous, adversarially misaligned systems (Agent-4) and ultimately to Agent-5 —...
Palona AI, founded by former Google and Meta engineers, announced a vertical shift into the restaurant and hospitality sector with two new products—Palona Vision and Palona Workflow. Vision leverages in‑store security cameras to monitor queue lengths, table turnover, and kitchen...
Mark Manson and AI entrepreneur Raj Singh have launched Purpose, an AI‑mentor app that delivers personalized self‑help coaching directly on users' phones. The platform tailors advice to individual values, fears and goals while explicitly refusing therapy‑level issues and directing users...
Anthropic announced an open‑source Agent Skills specification for its Claude model, expanding the platform’s ability to create, share, and deploy task‑specific capabilities. The update adds organization‑wide management for enterprise teams and bundles pre‑built Skills from partners such as Canva, Notion,...
Haotian, a Cambodia‑based AI face‑swapping platform, is earning millions by selling ultra‑realistic deep‑fake software to scammers via Telegram. The service offers 50 customizable facial parameters and voice‑cloning, enabling fraudsters to conduct convincing video‑chat scams, especially pig‑butchering schemes. Cryptocurrency tracing shows...
Nano Banana Pro remains my favorite image generation model. Undoubtedly, 2026 will see more AI scams. And more revenue-generating AI influencers. Prompt: This woman is sitting on a white beanbag and laughing. She’s wearing a light pink cap, a black high necked crop...
I love the expression “food for thought” as a concrete, mysterious cognitive capability humans experience but LLMs have no equivalent for. Definition: “something worth thinking about or considering, like a mental meal that nourishes your mind with ideas, insights, or issues...
The Machenike Mini PC now sells for $379 on Amazon, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS, 16 GB DDR5, and a 512 GB SSD. A DIY attempt to match these specs costs about $570, roughly 50% more, largely due to DDR5 scarcity. ...
We’re open-sourcing Perception Encoder Audiovisual (PE-AV), the technical engine that helps drive SAM Audio’s state-of-the-art audio separation. Built on our Perception Encoder model from earlier this year, PE-AV integrates audio with visual perception, achieving state-of-the-art results across a wide range of...
Everyone wants to “build AI agents.” Few have a clear path to learn them. 🧭🤖 This roadmap is a solid, no-fluff sequence for going from zero to production-grade agents: Level 1 — Foundations ✅ Python / TypeScript basics ✅ ML...
OpenAI announced that third‑party developers can now submit apps for inclusion in a new ChatGPT App Directory, accessible from the sidebar and chat interface. The submission process went live on December 17, with approved apps slated to roll out to users...
Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases is now open source 🔥 A single backend for connections, security, and schema-aware SQL tools, built for AI agents. Compatible with Python, JS, Go, LangChain, and more. Repo in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/nd3rX7JpFH
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Microsoft released a holiday‑themed Copilot ad that depicts the AI flawlessly handling smart‑home lighting, recipe scaling, and HOA compliance, but the showcased scenarios rely on fictional companies and staged interactions. Independent testing revealed Copilot frequently hallucinating UI elements, misreading instructions,...
Coding agents will make mistakes, so they must run on infrastructure that allows every action to be reversed. We built a snapshot engine to achieve this: https://t.co/gdetxGl5z7
Codex is getting extremely good and will rapidly improve. If you want to help make it 100x better next year, the team is hiring. Crazy adventure guaranteed; success probable.
The article warns that AI chatbot conversations are often stored long‑term, exposing sensitive personal data. It argues that superficial redaction is insufficient; true privacy requires permanent data removal and explicit retention policies. Transparency about data handling and minimizing collected information...
ai to select which cells to use for preciously expensive and effective immunotherapy: meet @cellvoyant https://t.co/7SkTFo9QsX
Genspark's CEO says "just prompt it." My reaction? Microsoft Office is in trouble as more people discover the new way to work. They won't be going back.
Last week, a security researcher using our previous model found and disclosed a vulnerability in React that could lead to source code exposure. I believe these models will be a net win for cybersecurity, but we are in the 'real impact...
GPT-5.2-Codex launches today. It is trained specifically for agentic coding and terminal use, and people at OpenAI have been having great success with it.
Join us live on X at 1PM PST / 4PM EST to hear @JeffDean, @OriolVinyalsML, @NoamShazeer, and @OfficialLoganK reflect on our year in AI at Google, and explore what's coming next: https://t.co/DnhUg8YYoC
New Keras release: 3.13 🎉 Some major new features: • Model export to LiteRT (formerly TFLite) for mobile/edge • GPTQ quantization support for post-training compression • New Adaptive Pooling layers for dynamic architectures https://t.co/Ogmag7FYCY
This is a vertically integrated end to end deep neural network performing forward pass inference real-time, controlling individual actuator's torque output for bidpedal gait generation in adverse, GPS denied, envs. ok its standard PPO rl trained in mjlab, strapped to a...
World models will be as important as LLM's. Next big market and General Intuition has the best data set for this...
