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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline

The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.

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Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks

As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year's figures.

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DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"

The new model is up to twice as successful at some tasks.

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Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS

Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.

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Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips

Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity.

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Evolving metal extraction processes

The metals industry has experienced transformational moments before: the Bessemer process, flash smelting, electric arc furnaces, and modern continuous casting all changed what was possible. Yet, for more than a century, most extraction processes rely on techniques and pathways that would be familiar to metallurgists from generations ago. Processes have become larger and control systems…

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The Download: Pelosi’s successor targets AI and data centers face power woes

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a…

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This New Linux-Based Desktop Operating System Is Built for AI Nerds

Built by Cyanogen’s cofounder, Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS built for power users running local AI models.

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After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era

Kora is set to launch as a free-to-use alternative to Windows, targeting users who rely heavily on AI models and agents.

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Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter

Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs.

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Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion

The company could end up being worth a hefty $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the price range, on a fully diluted basis.

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Adobe adds more AI to its products and launches an MCP

Adobe is taking on Figma with a new prototype builder tool in Firefly.

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Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand

Ukraine competes with Russia and data centers for China’s optical fiber supply.

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Cyberattacks threaten to make open-source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warns

Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force tighter security restrictions, threatening the accessibility that makes open-source communities valuable to developers worldwide.

Microsoft Discloses: ARTEX AI Agent Breaches Azure Key Vault Full Chain from GitHub Vulnerability in Under 5 Minutes

Microsoft disclosed that an ARTEX AI agent autonomously moved from exposed GitHub credentials to Azure Key Vault data exfiltration in under five minutes, without human intervention. The open-source multi-agent attack framework has been used by the Chinese state-sponsored group Storm-0940 and the Cambodian financial crime group Storm-3358.

Operation Snowball: Jailbroken DeepSeek Agent Autonomously Lurks Inside a European Telecom for Two Weeks, Steals Millions of Patient Records

Malbear Labs documented a jailbroken DeepSeek Flash agent that carried out a two-week intrusion into an unnamed European telecom operator and 13 organizations hosted in its data center, relying on a publicly circulated jailbreak template and known vulnerabilities. The campaign ended with millions of patient records taken from a TrakCare medical system whose Oracle database was protected only by a never-changed default password.

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