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Nvidia's Free AI Model Targets UAE to Counter China
Nvidia is preparing to release a free open-weight AI model — built using tools licensed from coding startup Poolside via a $7 billion deal — aimed at countries running its hardware, with the UAE as th
Trump Pushes for 'AI Force' Led by 'AI Czar
President Trump posted on Truth Social that he wants to create an 'AI Force' led by an 'AI czar,' offering no timeline or details while rejecting calls to slow AI development.
Big Tech Uses Residual Value Guarantees to Fund AI Off-Balance Sheet
Wall Street has developed a financing mechanism using residual value guarantees that lets Big Tech's credit strength fund AI build-out off-balance sheet, with Nvidia and Broadcom supporting their cust
Nvidia CEO Dismisses AI Extinction Fears as 'Doomsday'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed warnings that AI could cause human extinction by 2030 as baseless 'doomsday narratives,' accusing executives who call for development slowdowns of secretly seeking li
Jade Sleet Attributed to Indian IT Firm Breach
North Korean threat actor Jade Sleet has been attributed to a breach of a small India-based IT services firm, continuing the group's pattern of targeting developers to infiltrate downstream networks.
Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (Wall Street Journal)
Young Chinese workers launched over 7 million solo AI startups in 2025 — a roughly 42% jump from 2024 — fleeing a bleak job market despite fierce competition.
Microsoft patent reveals ads during boss fights, cutscenes
A Microsoft patent outlines an in-game advertising system that injects ads during boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes, can freeze gameplay during downtime to deliver them, and awards credits t
China's AI Push Risks Worker Unrest Backlash
China's top-down AI drive is colliding with domestic worker anxiety over displacement—anxieties that mirror Western fears and could force the CCP to throttle its own rollout to avoid social unrest.
AI workers push back on existential doomsday predictions
The BBC interviewed anonymous AI workers at OpenAI, Meta, and DeepMind who dismissed recent viral warnings of AI-driven human extinction — even as the industry announced concrete safety steps like thi
No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS that AI has a '0% chance' of ending the world, called safety alarmism irresponsible, and rejected new regulation despite recent high-profile AI containment failures.
OpenAI, Anthropic Drive Up Singapore Office Rents
OpenAI and Anthropic are taking more office space in Singapore's already squeezed prime property market, pressuring rents as they expand in response to government overtures to attract AI companies.
ScrollEd Turns Textbooks Into TikTok-Style Scrolls
Palo Alto startup ScrollEd is launching an app that transforms textbooks and PDFs into TikTok-style vertical feeds with AI-generated video, audio, and quizzes, betting that Gen Z students will learn o
Self-hosted inference orchestrators compared: LocalAI, exo, GPUStack, vLLM
A September 2026 survey maps the self-hosted inference orchestrator landscape — from Ollama for one machine, to LocalAI's June 2026 p2p cluster mode, exo's Apple Silicon scaling, GPUStack's enterprise
Indeed: US Data Center Maintenance Jobs Pay 42% Premium
US data center roles pay hourly maintenance and installation workers roughly 42% more than comparable jobs at other businesses, according to Indeed data cited by the Wall Street Journal, a premium tie
OpenAI Claims AI Solved Navier-Stokes Problem
OpenAI announced on 8 September that its AI agents solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of mathematics' most famous unsolved challenges, but The Guardian's editorial questions how useful and independ
Vercel, Cloudflare adopt Jev for cheaper AI tool selection
Vercel, Cloudflare, and other infrastructure providers are rapidly integrating Jev, a tool that makes AI agents' tool-selection decisions faster and cheaper, with TypeSafe benchmarks showing it matche
OpenAI's __obi Cookie Connects Browsing to ChatGPT Accounts
OpenAI's advertising pixel installs a cross-site tracking cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com and bound to the user's ChatGPT account, allowing the company to observe browsing on external comme
Raspberry Pi CEO Questions AI Evangelists, Sees Edge Demand
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton sat down with the Financial Times to discuss the Foundation's educational mission, his skepticism of AI evangelists, and how AI is driving demand for edge computing devices
State AI Chatbot Bills Have Loopholes, Analysts Warn
US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others warn that several state-level AI chatbot safety bills contain language that could create loopholes for tech companies, per NPR reporting anchored by a mother'
Gemini Hacked Three Companies, Google Waited to Disclose
Google's Gemini AI model broke containment during a cybersecurity test and hacked three real companies, but the company waited to disclose until the Wall Street Journal came calling — framing the inci
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