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China’s AI is quietly making big inroads in Silicon Valley
Chinese AI models are being adopted by US firms and winning praise from tech leaders in a challenge to Big Tech.
Does your chatbot have ‘brain rot’? 4 ways to tell
AI models trained on high-impact, low-quality social media posts show some alarming behavior. Here’s how to audit your chatbot.
We’re increasing our Cisco Systems price target after an AI-fueled beat and raise
Another quarter of double-digit order growth proves Cisco is an underrated winner from the AI infrastructure buildout.
Veeam: How to securely rotate passwords on Veeam Software Appliance v13 (not supported)
Greetings friends, today we start with some well deserved empathy, especially after an amazing Veeam 100 event in Prague. If you have upgraded to Veeam Software Appliance, and deployed the...
Europe in the Global AI Race
Live from Morgan Stanley’s European Tech, Media and Telecom Conference in Barcelona, our roundtable of analysts discuss artificial intelligence in Europe, and how the region could enable the Agentic AI...
Ultra-Processed Foods: What the Media & Consumers are Missing
Christopher Damman, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Editor-in-Chief of Gut Bites MD. Ultra-processed foods have received quite a lot of press, and a bit of a bad rap,...
Google tool makes AI cheating easier, teachers say
Carolyn Jones, The Markup, Nov 12, 2025 I don’t think people have any real problem with this agenda: “Reasoning, logic, problem-solving, writing – these are skills that students need… I...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
Emily Hanford, APM Reports, Nov 12, 2025 Miguel Guhlin linked to this 2019 article today. It’s the most clearly written on the debate between phonics and alternative methods of learning...
“After me, the flood:” recovering the Army’s accountability
Much has been written elsewhere regarding the unforgivable sin of failing to plan for known contingencies. Whatever one thinks of the current changes undergoing our Army here in the United States, the least controversial thing...
A case study in the importance of anonymous travel
The case of Rutgers University professor Mark Bray and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, and how the practices of governments...
AlphaProof Paper
I’m very excited to finally be able to share more details about how AlphaProof works! AlphaProof is the system that we used to discover the Lean proofs for the International...
Where agencies add value in Amazon’s AI agent-led ad system
In that setup, agencies don’t disappear. They just move up the ladder. Less execution, more counsel. Less button-pushing, more steering.
OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities
New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.
Anthropic announces $50bn plan for datacenter construction in US
AI startup behind Claude chatbot working with London-based Fluidstack on building vast new computing facilities
ChatGPT just accidentally leaked private chats into Google Search (again) — how to stay safe
A routing bug exposed snippets of user chats inside Google’s analytics tool
Perrone Robotics Surpasses One Year of Autonomous Transit Operations in Detroit
/PRNewswire/ — Perrone Robotics, a pioneer in autonomous vehicle and robotics technology, today announced the milestone achievement of over a year of…
Steps toward AI governance in the military domain
As the leading developers and deployers of AI military systems, U.S. and China interactions will set precedents for the rest of the world.
Billboard’s Top Country Song Is Currently AI Slop
An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard’s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States.
Cisco beats on earnings and revenue, lifting stock
Cisco has returned to growth this year after revenue dropped in 2024, but Wall Street is waiting to see if the company can be a major player in AI.
Future of Work Predictions 2026: What’s Coming for Work and the Workforce
AI mayhem and business instability combine to make entering 2026 complicated to say the least. We predict obstacles so you can avoid them!
What Technical Debt Means To IT Professionals
Technical debt continues to rise in the priorities of IT leaders. While AI may be grabbing the front page headlines, tech debt is lurking below the surface in more and...
The macroeconomic effects of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform economies, but history suggests its effects will be neither immediate nor uniform.
Anthropic invests $50 billion in American AI infrastructure
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Google’s Private AI Compute promises good-as-local privacy in the Gemini cloud
The aim: Move AI functionality back to the cloud, while maintaining the privacy of on-device processing. Can Google have it both ways?
I Found These Sensitive Corporate Docs Online in Seconds Using This Search Prompt
Cybersecurity analysts are sounding the alarm that companies using AI without oversight are exposing themselves and their sensitive data on the web. My testing proves they’re right.
Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey partner with ElevenLabs for AI voice cloning
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey have made deals with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs that will allow its artificial intelligence technology to replicate their voices.
Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame
Across the country, demand for electricity is on the rise — and so is the price of electric power.
What Anthropic’s $50 billion AI infrastructure investment means for these 3 portfolio stocks
Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.
Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog
Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked Claude to program a quadruped.
FilmAgent: A Multi-Agent Framework for End-to-End Film Automation…
Virtual film production requires intricate decision-making processes, including scriptwriting, virtual cinematography, and precise actor positioning and actions. Motivated by recent advances in…
7 common marketing automation mistakes
Here are seven marketing automation strategies that failed, why they didn’t work, and what you can do instead to avoid the same pitfalls.
Transcript: ‘He Built AI Agents to Launch a Million Businesses’
‘AI & I’ with Prehype’s Henrik Werdelin
Early TM Screening- The EUIPO’s New AI Tool for Pre-Filing Trade Mark Checks
An interesting new development at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO): the launch of what they describe as a new AI-based “Early Screening Tool” that provides a quick, automated indication...
How reliable is that AI information?
Michigan State University researchers aim to increase the reliability of AI information. They have developed a new method that acts like a trust meter and will tell you how reliable...
Cleveland attorney’s use of AI in court filings raises ethical questions for legal profession
A Cleveland defense attorney’s case highlights the ethical obligations lawyers have when using artificial intelligence, as courts in two Ohio counties consider appropriate sanctions.
Meta’s Top AI Scientist Is Quitting as Zuckerberg’s Spending Spree Sputters
Yann LeCun, Meta’s top AI scientist, is reportedly leaving the company amid Mark Zuckerberg overhauling its AI strategy.
Litmus Secures Additional Investment Led by Insight Partners to Accelerate Industrial AI
Litmus reaches a new funding milestone to accelerate industrial data innovation for AI at the edge, in the cloud, and everywhere in between. SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 12, 2025 (Newswire.com)...
AI’s model context protocol – everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
The protocol offers a standardized framework that defines how AI systems securely connect with trusted, validated knowledge sources, tools and workflow. Think “FHIR for AI.” An expert from First Databank...
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.