How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law (Financial Times)
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How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law
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Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become a sort of robot OS (Will Knight/Wired)
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Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics
DeepMind’s chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a re...
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Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a sort of robot OS
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Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
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Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers
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Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-doubles-cloud-spending-commitment-26-billion
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Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, which is double the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago
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Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
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Taiwan's top AI server makers boost output to meet US demand
Foxconn, Quanta and Wistron vie for orders from Nvidia and other tech giants
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AI server shipments from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 compared to 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand
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AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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AlphaXiv raises $7M in funding to become the GitHub of AI research - SiliconANGLE
AlphaXiv raises $7M in funding to become the GitHub of AI research - SiliconANGLE
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AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack
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Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/google-opens-new-ai-engineering-centre-taiwan-2025-11-20/
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Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers
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A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions (Miles J. Herszenhorn/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/crypto-mixer-co-founder-gets-four-years-in-money-laundering-case
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A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, who co-founded crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions
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Function Health, a health tracking tech company, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
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Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is acc...
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Function Health, a health tracking AI tech startup, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M
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Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO (George Steer/Financial Times)
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Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO
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