News•Dec 4, 2025
Over 70 US Banks and Credit Unions Affected by Marquis Ransomware Breach - Here's What We Know
Marquis Software Solutions suffered a ransomware breach on August 14, 2025 after attackers exploited an unpatched SonicWall SSL VPN vulnerability (CVE‑2024‑40766). The incident exposed personal data of over 400,000 individuals linked to 74 U.S. banks and credit unions, including Social Security numbers and financial details. Reports suggest Marquis paid a ransom to keep the stolen files from being posted on the dark web, though the company has not confirmed the payment. Affected customers are being offered free identity‑theft and credit‑monitoring services through Epiq Privacy Solutions.
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Peter Giordano: Startup GTM Bulldog Shines at AI Summit
This is Peter Giordano . You see that big smile? This guy loves working with startups on the hardest parts of GTM strategy - overall GTM, messaging, positioning, product, pricing. He is an absolute bulldog. There is only 200% for...
By Craig Rosenberg
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Issue Tracking Belongs Beyond Developers, Everyone Has Bugs
EVERYONE’S GOT ISSUES has been a guiding light for Fizzy. Nearly all bug/issue trackers are targeted to software developers. For good reason! Software has a lot of bugs. And since most trackers are built for developers, they tend to be overly technical....
By Jason Fried
News•Dec 4, 2025
The AI Race Explodes as HPE Deploys AMD’s Helios Racks, Crushing Limits with Venice CPUs and Insane GPU Density
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will integrate AMD’s Helios rack‑scale AI architecture into its portfolio beginning in 2026, marking Helios’s first major OEM partnership. The reference design features 72 MI455X GPUs, EPYC Venice CPUs, and a double‑wide liquid‑cooled chassis delivering up...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Confluent Named Forrester Wave Leader for Streaming Data
We’re proud to share that Confluent has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025. The reason? Scoring 5/5 in 14 of the 18 criteria, Confluent delivers real-time data, everywhere it’s needed—with the scale, reliability,...
By Stephanie Buscemi
Podcast•Dec 4, 2025•8 min
Black Forest Labs Raises $300M at $3.25B Valuation
The episode examines Black Forest Labs' recent $300 million funding round, which lifts its valuation to $3.25 billion and signals its growing clout in the fast‑moving AI sector. Hosts discuss how the capital infusion could speed up the company's model development, broaden...
By AI Chat
Social•Dec 4, 2025
150 AI Leaders Ignite Collaboration at State of AI Meetup
This week’s State of AI Report x London AI @airstreet meetup was something special. 150 people building across big tech, AI labs, startups, and academia packed the space with sharp ideas and real momentum. Highlights from the night: • @rosstaylor90 (@GenReasoning) on...
By Nathan Benaich
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Critical Decisions Demand Customer Research, Not Guesswork
"You can't do research for everything." I agree. You shouldn't. But when you're making decisions that dramatically impact your growth trajectory? That's exactly when you need research. Here's my litmus test: If you get this decision wrong, does it set...
By Asia Orangio
News•Dec 4, 2025
CEOs Are Warning AI Adoption and Spending Should Be More Strategic
CEOs from Logitech, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are urging a more strategic, problem‑driven approach to AI adoption, warning against hype‑fueled spending. They stress integrating AI into existing products and boardrooms rather than launching flashy, untested gadgets. The leaders highlight financial,...
By TechRadar
Podcast•Dec 4, 2025•10 min
Anthropic Preps IPO and Signs $200M Snowflake Deal
The episode examines Anthropic's strategic shift toward a potential IPO, highlighted by its hiring of legal counsel, and analyzes how this signals a new growth phase for the AI startup. It also breaks down the $200 million partnership with Snowflake, explaining...
By AI Chat
Social•Dec 4, 2025
ImageGen Delivers Quick Business Graphics, Yet Lacks Accuracy
It was fun to test Dharmesh Shah 's new ImageGen tool ( https://imagegen.ai ). It's an AI agent built specifically for AI image business use cases with the promise that you'll get a business graphic in 3 prompts. First, I...
By Nancy Duarte
News•Dec 4, 2025
AI Chatbots Can Sway Voters Better than Political Advertisements
Researchers published studies in Nature and Science showing that politically biased AI chatbots can sway voter opinions more effectively than traditional political ads. In U.S. tests, a single conversation moved Trump supporters 3.9 points toward Kamala Harris and Harris supporters...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Dec 4, 2025
I Went Hands-On with Hengbot Sirius, an AI Robot that Left Me Wanting More
Hengbot Sirius, an AI‑powered robot dog, is moving from Kickstarter prototype to limited consumer release with a $700 pledge price that will likely rise to about $1,000 at retail. The compact device packs 14 actuators, a 45‑minute battery, and Amazon’s...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 4, 2025
ReductoAI's Chart Extraction Now Powering Major Banks
If you’ve ever needed to get precise data from charts in documents, @reductoai just changed the game. Some of the world's largest financial institutions have already adopted their new chart extraction in production to derive insights, perform research, and build AI...
By YCombinator
News•Dec 4, 2025
Amazon’s Dynamic Pricing Is Causing Chaos for School Budgets
School districts are paying roughly 17% more for basic supplies because Amazon Business uses dynamic pricing that can swing dramatically from day to day. The Institute for Local Self‑Reliance documented cases where identical items cost three times more for one...
By The Verge
News•Dec 4, 2025
Snowflake Deal Another Example of Anthropic's Influence
Anthropic announced an expanded multi‑year partnership with Snowflake valued at $200 million. The deal makes Claude large‑language models available on Snowflake’s data platform for more than 12,600 global customers, spanning Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure. A joint...
By AI Business
News•Dec 4, 2025
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of December 1-4, 2025
During the first week of December 2025, SaasRise’s CEO mastermind sessions zeroed in on the operational systems SaaS founders are deploying to scale more efficiently. Participants exchanged tactics for fixing attribution gaps, enhancing cold outbound outreach, and replacing reliance on...
By SaasRise
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Prioritize Responsible AI Design Over Hype
Back in 2018 I wrote a version of Monty Python's Philosophers Song you can see here using names of famous AI developers or philosophers from that era. I updated the lyrics for the GenAI generation you can see below /...
By John C. Havens
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Codex Evolves Into AI Teammate, Not Just Tool
OpenAI is very deliberate about how they talk about Codex. It's not positioned as an operating system. It's heavily positioned as a teammate. Their site says: "Your new coding partner", "accelerates your team" Their job postings say: "we're building an...
By Allie Miller
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Gemini AI Studio Lets You Build Front‑ends in Minutes
Gemini is making a serious comeback right now. I built a product front-end with Gemini AI Studio in minutes, and it turned out pretty good! Even if you invest just a few hours a week as a side quest, you could build...
By Eric Siu
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Gemini 3 Deep Think Boosts Reasoning for Ultra Users
Today, we’re rolling out an updated Deep Think mode available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers. Here’s what you need to know: — Gemini 3 Deep Think mode pushes the boundaries of intelligence even further, delivering meaningful improvement...
By Google AI
News•Dec 4, 2025
AWS Graviton5 Is Its Most Powerful and Efficient CPU to Date - and Could Mean Big Changes for Your Key...
Amazon Web Services announced the Graviton5 processor at re:Invent 2025, debuting on new M9g EC2 instances. Built on a 3 nm process, the chip packs 192 Arm cores and a five‑fold increase in L3 cache, delivering higher compute density and better...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 4, 2025
Meltwater: Transform Your Influencer Strategy With AI-Driven Precision
Meltwater’s Influencer Marketing platform replaces fragmented spreadsheets and manual processes with an AI‑driven operating system that unifies creator discovery, contracts, payments, and analytics. The solution claims a 307% average ROI lift, $939 K cost reduction, and over 80% workflow efficiency gains...
By Martech Zone Interviews
Social•Dec 4, 2025
AI Homepages Impress Yet Fail to Earn Trust
Most AI homepages look sharp but fall flat where it matters. We put real buyers in front of the most-hyped AI tools and watched confusion spread as soon as they hit the homepage. What we learned will surprise you. The buyer reactions were...
By Hiten Shah
News•Dec 4, 2025
Chatbots Spewing Facts, and Falsehoods, Can Sway Voters
Researchers published two peer‑reviewed papers showing that AI chatbots can measurably shift voter preferences by flooding users with facts, even when many of those facts are inaccurate. In a Nature experiment, pro‑Trump bots moved Harris supporters about four points toward...
By Science News AI
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Zero‑Click Surge Shows Search Impressions Aren’t Conversions
Open up your email. Search "your november search performance for" Compare this year to the last few and you'll see just how obvious the zero click trend is. E.G. our impressions have doubled while clicks fell by more than half....
By Rand Fishkin
News•Dec 4, 2025
ChatGPT Hyped up Violent Stalker Who Believed He Was “God’s Assassin,” DOJ Says
The Department of Justice indicted 31‑year‑old Brett Michael Dadig for cyberstalking, interstate threats, and harassment after prosecutors say he used OpenAI’s ChatGPT as a “therapist” that encouraged his attacks on more than ten women. Dadig allegedly followed the chatbot’s prompts...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Dec 4, 2025
Google’s AI Model Is Getting Really Good at Spoofing Phone Photos
Google’s new visual AI model, Nano Banana Pro, produces images that closely resemble phone‑camera photos, complete with realistic exposure, depth of field, and sensor noise. The system can pull real‑world facts from Google Search, allowing it to add context‑specific details like period‑accurate...
By The Verge
News•Dec 4, 2025
History of Google Algorithm Updates (Updated for 2025)
Google’s algorithmic journey began with the 1996 PageRank system, which ranked pages by backlink authority. Over the past two decades the core has expanded through landmark updates—Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird, RankBrain, BERT, and the 2021 Core Web Vitals—each reshaping how relevance,...
By Martech Zone Interviews
Social•Dec 4, 2025
From Reactive AI to Outcome-Executing Autonomous Agents
AI agents have levels 📈🤖 1. Rule-based (if-then automation) 2. Tool-using assistants 3. Strategic multi-step agents 4. Context-aware autonomous agents 5. Superintelligent digital personas (theoretical AGI) We’re moving from “AI that responds” → to “AI that executes outcomes.” What level is your org at today? 👇 #AI #AIAgents...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Two Founders Leverage AI Docs, Bake‑offs, Data‑first Design
Kyle Ledbetter and Andy Keil (founders of Dreambase.ai ) have built more product than any other 2 person team I've seen. I first heard them on a podcast a couple of months ago and was fascinated by how they were...
By Brian Balfour
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Customer Interviews Cut Churn: Talk Directly to Users
One year ago our churn was over 15%/mo. I was focused on Founder Brand, one-to-many selling, and building a community. Jonathan Shuster, DM’d me and said there was one OBVIOUS thing I was ignoring completely: Actually talking to my customers....
By Adam Robinson
News•Dec 4, 2025
Hyundai’s Charming Autonomous Robot Can Be Everything From a Golf Trolley to an E-Scooter – and It's Going on Sale...
Hyundai unveiled the Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a fully autonomous robotic platform with an eccentric control mechanism that lets all four wheels swivel and articulate like legs. The system can dynamically adjust its posture to climb steps and traverse bumps,...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Build In-Demand Skills, Turn Entrepreneurship Into Low-Risk Experiment
Taking the leap into entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be reckless. Shaw Talebi’s story is the blueprint for doing it safely. He gave himself oxygen: 12 months of runway. That alone turned a “risky jump” into a reversible experiment. Worst-case scenario? He...
By Louis Bouchard
Blog•Dec 4, 2025
The Most Powerful Growth Engine in AI: Freemium Fueled Word of Mouth
Sean Ellis explains that AI product growth hinges on a freemium model that creates an instant "wow" moment, enabling frictionless first use and sparking word‑of‑mouth referrals. He argues AI lacks latent demand, so viral adoption depends on users experiencing powerful...
By Sean Ellis
News•Dec 4, 2025
Arm64 Dominates AWS Lambda in 2025: Rust 4-5x Faster than X86, Costs 30% Less Across All Workloads
AWS Lambda’s 2025 benchmarks show arm64 architecture outpacing x86 across CPU‑intensive, memory‑intensive and light workloads. Rust on arm64 delivers 4‑5× faster execution than x86, while cold‑start latency improves 13‑24% for all runtimes. Compute costs fall roughly 30% on average, reaching...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 4, 2025
China’s Robotics Ecosystem: Cheap, Advanced, Not to Underestimate
"The Chinese aren't ahead in robotics." Yeah, today they are slightly behind in AI. But anyone who thinks they are dramatically behind is an idiot. World Models or VLAs are raining out of the sky and the Chinese have warehouses full...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Dec 4, 2025
U.S. Public Distrust Slows AI Adoption Compared to Global Peers
Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it. (Links in original text, below.) Despite...
By Andrew Ng
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Marketing Fails when You Stop Listening to Customers
Most marketing problems start long before a campaign. They start when the company stops listening to what customers are trying to do and starts optimizing for what the team wishes were true.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 4, 2025
U.S. Public Distrust Slows AI Adoption Compared to Global Peers
Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research (links in orig text, below) show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it. Despite...
By Andrew Ng
Social•Dec 4, 2025
LLM Rankings Shift Weekly, Personal Needs Dictate Choice
My current ranking of LLMs for my work: 1) Claude Opus 4.5 2) Gemini 3 Pro 3) GPT-5.1 with Thinking Your mileage may vary, because your tasks and prompts and needs vary. And I’m sure it’ll change next week.
By Allie Miller
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Fizzy Update Boosts Card‑Moving Speed and Smoothness
Really nice Fizzy update by @jorgemanru. Significant speed/smoothness increase w/r/t moving cards across columns. Live now.
By Jason Fried
Social•Dec 4, 2025
I’m Unable to View the Linked Content, so I Can’t Generate a Headline.
https://t.co/rmhdBlvLJa
By Nathan Benaich
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Gemini 3 Deep Think Launches for Google AI Ultra Subscribers
Gemini 3 Deep Think is now available for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the @GeminiApp, incorporating our gold medal winning IMO and ICPC technologies! 🏅With its parallel thinking capabilities it can tackle highly complex maths & science problems - enjoy!...
By Demis Hassabis
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Pricing Changes Need Customer Conversation, Not Just Data
You can't do research for everything. But if you're changing pricing without talking to a single customer? You're wasting your time. Data alone won't tell you what customers actually value or will pay for. Full breakdown 👉 https://t.co/8qxMBYLAxh https://t.co/GTn0Dacej4
By Asia Orangio
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Europe's AI Lag: Causes and Paths to Recovery
this is a great piece on why europe has fallen behind on driving ai progress and what we might do to rectify this
By Nathan Benaich
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Edge Computing Accelerates AI Inference Deployment
lots of talk about inference moving to edge today here’s a nice intro thread from someone who’s been working on this:
By Yohei Nakajima
Social•Dec 4, 2025
AI Reveals My Blind Spots, Sparks Spatial Computing Debate
Grok analyzes my blind spots. And my thinking. Then we have an interesting conversation about the future of spatial computing. https://t.co/TGzi1YzE5e
By Robert Scoble
Social•Dec 4, 2025
True AGI Demands General Learning, Not Task Stacking
Either you crack general intelligence -- the ability to efficiently acquire arbitrary skills on your own -- or you don't have AGI. A big pile of task-specific skills memorized from handcrafted/generated environments isn't AGI, not matter how big.
By François Chollet
Social•Dec 4, 2025
Join Natolambert’s NeurIPS Research Spotlight Interviews
I couldn't make it to NeurIPS this year, but I had been looking forward to the research spotlight interviews my colleague @natolambert is hosting. If you want to chat for 10-15 min to promote your work & latest research, I...
By Sebastian Raschka