Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)
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Cambricon Aims to Triple Output to Replace Nvidia in China
Cambricon Technologies Corp. plans to more than triple its production of AI chips in 2026, aiming to wrest market share from Huawei Technologies Co...
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Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips
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Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on "pragmatic interpretability" (AI Alignment Forum) https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/StENzDcD3kpfGJssR/a-pragmatic-vision-for-interpretability
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BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank developing a euro-pegged stablecoin in a JV called Qivalis (CoinDesk)
Stablecoin News: BNP Paribas Joins EU Bank Stablecoin Venture Qivalis
The group of 10 banks plans to introduce its euro stablecoin next year under a new Dutch entity named Qivalis.
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BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks, including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank, to develop a euro-pegged stablecoin via joint venture Qivalis
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Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30%+ (Bloomberg)
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SoftBank Cuts InMobi Stake in $250 Million Buyback Deal
SoftBank Group Corp. has agreed to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi Pte back to the mobile advertising company for about $250 million, u...
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Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding from 30%+ to <10%
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Some people are feeding their private medical information into chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, only to receive generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response (Maggie Astor/New York Times)
What Are the Risks of Sharing Medical Records With ChatGPT?
People are feeding blood test results, doctor’s notes and surgical reports into ChatGPT and the like. Experts have some concerns.
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Some people are feeding years of medical records into chatbots like ChatGPT, despite privacy risks and receiving generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response
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Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term
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Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs
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In an interview, Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by "YOLO-ing" and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
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Anthropic CEO Says Some Tech Firms Too Risky With AI Spending
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei suggested that some artificial intelligence companies are taking on too much risk by committing ...
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DealBook Summit: Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by &ldquo;YOLO-ing&rdquo; and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers
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Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
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Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use
Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum Computing has become the first private firm to deploy a quantum computer for commercial use in the ci...
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Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first startup to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore
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Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
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Bad Dye Job
It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to m...
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Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may revive the Jobs-era &ldquo;design is how it works&rdquo; ethos in Apple
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Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M and says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
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New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants | TechCrunch
Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn. The U.S. currently represents 15% of Brevo’s revenue ...
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Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised &euro;500M, says it surpassed &euro;200M in ARR in 2025 ahead of time, and now has 600K+ customers
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