Amazon launches its Trainium3 AI chip, claiming it is 4x faster than the previous gen and can reduce AI training and operating costs by ~50% vs. equivalent GPUs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazons-custom-chips-pose-another-threat-to-nvidia-8aa19f5b
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Amazon launches Trainium3, saying the AI chip is 4x faster than Trainium2 and can cut AI training and operating costs by up to 50% compared to equivalent GPUs
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A look at Anthropic's societal impacts team, which broadly studies AI's impacts and finds and publishes "inconvenient truths", building on most AI safety teams (Hayden Field/The Verge)
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The nine people trying to stop AI from ruining the world
Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic.
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A look at Anthropic
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Barcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers like Philips and JVC, raised a €50M Series A led by Highland Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Titan OS raises $58 million from Highland Europe for its smart TV OS | TechCrunch
Titan OS aims to expand its independent TV operating system in Europe and Latin America.
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Barcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers like Philips and JVC, raised a €50M Series A led by Highland Europe
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Axiado, which is making a chip designed to save space and power in AI servers, raised $100M led by Maverick Silicon (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/axiado-raises-100-million-chip-save-space-power-ai-data-centers-2025-12-02/
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Axiado, which is making a chip designed to save space and power in AI servers, raised $100M led by Maverick Silicon
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Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including the flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-launches-mistral-3-a-family-of-open-models-designed-to-run-on
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Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including its new flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models
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Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/cyber-monday-online-spending-in-us-increases-7-1
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Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B
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A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14,000-token document that Claude calls its "Soul overview"; an Anthropic staffer confirms its authenticity (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the "Soul overview". Richard says: While ex...
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A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14K-token document that Claude calls its “Soul overview”; an Anthropic employee confirms the doc
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Vista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M+ in cash (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)
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Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint
Vista Equity Partners-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor is acquiring the startup Catchpoint for more than $250 million in cash.
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Vista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M+ in cash
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YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US, ahead of a global rollout next week (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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YouTube introduces its own version of Spotify Wrapped for videos
Watch out for what you’ve been watching.
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YouTube launches Recap, which lets users review their most notable video habits over the past year, in the US on desktop and mobile, arriving globally next week
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Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $250 in individual investment accounts for 25M kids, totaling $6.25B, comparing the gift to Dell's direct model (Nicholas Kulish/New York Times)
Michael and Susan Dell to Put $250 in 25 Million Children’s Accounts
The tech billionaire and his wife hope other philanthropists follow their $6 billion lead in expanding the reach of soon-to-be-created “Trump acc...
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Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $6.25B for 25M children, or $250 per investment “Trump account”, comparing the gift to Dell
By Nicholas Kulish / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.