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The Junior Hiring Crisis
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
AWS launches new Nova AI models and a service that gives customers more control
Amazon Web Services announced four new AI models within its Nova model family and a frontier model service.
Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Bun is joining Anthropic
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
IBM CEO says there is ‘no way’ spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today’s infrastructure costs
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech’s AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it’ll prove profitable.
In a Reversal, AWS Makes it Easier For AI Customers to Use Rival Clouds
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are arch-rivals in the cloud computing market, so it was surprising to hear them announce Monday that they’re working to make it easier for...
NVIDIA Partners With Mistral AI to Accelerate New Family of Open Models
Today, Mistral AI announced the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA supercomputing and edge platforms.
Sam Altman issues ‘code red’ at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals
Chief executive tells staff it is ‘critical time’ for chatbot as it faces intense competition from Google’s new Gemini 3
Google CEO: Data Centers in Space Could Be the Norm in About a Decade
Google’s Sundar Pichai indicates the company sees orbiting data centers as a real solution, rather than merely a moonshot, to help address power-hungry AI systems.
AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era
As Google and Microsoft continue to surge, the AWS chief lays out his pitch: cheaper, reliable AI delivered at hyperscale.
Sowing institutional knowledge across the industrial metaverse
How Hitachi Research is blending XR, AI and the metaverse to help industry overcome mounting challenges to the world’s aging social infrastructure.
NVIDIA and AWS Expand Full-Stack Partnership, Providing the Secure, High-Performance Compute Platform Vital for Future Innovation
At AWS re:Invent, NVIDIA and AWS expanded their strategic collaboration with new technology integrations across interconnect technology, cloud infrastructure, open models and physical AI.
Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of open models designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices
Mistral AI releases 10 open-source AI models designed to run on smartphones, drones, and enterprise systems, escalating Europe’s challenge to U.S. tech giants and Chinese competitors in the race for...
Logical Intelligence Achieves 76 Percent on Putnam Benchmark, Highlighting Shift Beyond Large Language Models to Language-free, Mathematically Grounded Models
SAN FRANCISCO, December 02, 2025–Over the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has been largely built around large language models (LLMs). These systems are based on a language and guess words...
AI Shopping Assistants Are Now a Measurable Conversion Driver
Black Friday data just confirmed what many retailers suspected: AI shopping assistants drive real conversions at scale.
YouTube’s new AI deepfake tracking tool is alarming experts and creators
A YouTube tool that uses creators’ biometrics to remove AI-generated videos also allows Google to train its AI models on that sensitive data, experts told CNBC.
Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules
New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.
‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself
Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control
Why universities need to radically rethink exams in the age of AI
Nature – Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students — but with the right AI tools, personalized learning could soon become a reality.
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed
Gradium, a startup spawned out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday.
This 28-Year-Old AI Founder Thinks His Customer Service Startup Can Beat Out Companies 10x His Size
Founded just two years ago by second-time founders, Decagon’s AI agents are used by more than 100 companies to handle customer service tasks. But can the young, hungry team keep...
OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race
Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off.
Move over, computer science. Students are flocking to new AI majors.
Interest in understanding, using, and learning how to build AI technologies is soaring, and schools are racing to meet rising student and industry demand.
After Siri Upgrade Delay, Apple Announces New AI Chief
Former Gemini head Amar Subramanya joins Apple as vice president of AI.
SoftBank’s Son ‘was crying’ about the firm’s need to sell its Nvidia stake
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son has downplayed his firm’s decision to dump its Nvidia position, saying he “was crying” to sell the shares.
A ‘seismic’ Nvidia shift, AI chip shortages and how it’s threatening to hike gadget prices
The AI infrastructure buildout is creating shortages of components including various types of chips that are also used in consumer electronics.
OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence...
Marvell In Advanced Talks for Buy Celestial AI in Multibillion Deal
Marvell is in advanced talks to buy Santa Clara-based chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal worth multiple billions of dollars, according to people with knowledge of the deal....
Nvidia and Fanuc team on ‘physical AI’ push for industrial robots
Partners aim for factory robots that can perform tasks from human voice commands
AI agents are already causing disasters – and this hidden threat could derail your safe rollout
The things that worry the chief information security officer – like what data is too sensitive to expose – are the concerns that can kill agentic AI.
Not a developer? AI could still take your job, MIT study finds
New research shows where AI adoption strategies overlook the tech’s impact on unexpected sectors and regions.
Arcee AI | Arcee Debuts Trinity Mini, Expanding Its U.S.-Built Model Line
Introducing Trinity Mini, a compact MoE model trained end-to-end in the U.S., offering open weights, strong reasoning, and full control for developers.
One of Google’s biggest AI advantages is what it already knows about you
The promise is AI that’s uniquely helpful because it knows you. But the risk is AI that feels more like surveillance than service.
New IDC research: SAP BTP Boosts Business Suite Value
IDC research shows how unifying applications, data, and AI with SAP BTP delivers higher productivity, faster innovation, and measurable financial returns.
China Is Officially Scared of Robots
Chinese officials are warning that the country’s humanoid robotics industry could be forming a massive bubble.
Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring, 2026, Apple announced today. Giannandrea will serve as an advisor between now and 2026, with...
Three challenges that Apple’s new AI lead will face from day one
Amar Subramanya will likely become one of the most closely watched hires Apple has made in years. Here’s what he needs to do first.
Tutor Raises $34 Million to Teach Warehouse Robots
Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered robots for warehouse work, has raised $34 million in new funding. The company will use the new capital to speed