Tech

Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago

Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Blockchain

Saviynt, an identity and access management service focused on “human and nonhuman” identity controls, raised a $700M Series B led by KKR at a $3B valuation (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago

Spotify rolls out music videos to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following a beta launch in nearly 100 markets last year (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago Canada Spotify

Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (www.wired.com)
12 days ago

Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago Chile

'Colleges Oversold Education. Now They Must Sell Connection' (news.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Education

Source: ChatGPT has ~900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M (www.theinformation.com)
12 days ago Sensor

Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (www.theinformation.com)
12 days ago Google Microsoft AI

Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable (it.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Microsoft

Fal, which hosts generative AI models for developers, raised a $140M Series D led by Sequoia, a source says at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in July (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago AI

Science Journal Retracts Study On Safety of Monsanto's Roundup (science.slashdot.org)
12 days ago

India's Aviation Crisis Is All About Too Big to Tame (tech.slashdot.org)
12 days ago India

Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest ever Asia investment, after meeting with Modi (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago India Microsoft Asia AI

Microsoft plans to invest CA$7.5B in Canada over two years to build AI infrastructure, coming online in 2026, taking its investment to CA$19B from 2023 to 2027 (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago Microsoft AI Canada

Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic's top three enterprise clients (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago AI

This $149.95 JBL Flip speaker is only $85 right now in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
12 days ago

Microsoft investigates Copilot outage affecting users in Europe (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
12 days ago Europe Microsoft

10 Animals That Humiliated and Harmed Historical Leaders (listverse.com)
12 days ago

Sources: Meta is pursuing a new Llama successor and frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, set for release in Q1 2026, and it could be a proprietary model (www.cnbc.com)
12 days ago AI

Dutch media: ASML has sold parts to a subsidiary of a Chinese army supplier, per Chinese import and export data; ASML says it can't confirm the report (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago China Netherlands

Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency (www.ft.com)
12 days ago Trump China Nvidia

South Korean media: police raided Coupang's HQ, searching for evidence related to a historic data breach that compromised 30M+ people's personal information (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Korea

As Australia prepares to enact the world's first under-16 social media ban on December 10, a look at the implications, reaction from parents and teens, and more (www.ft.com)
12 days ago Australia Ban

Mercedes partners with Chinese software developer Momenta to deploy Level 4 self-driving cars for Lumo Mobility in Abu Dhabi, its first foray into robotaxis (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago China Autonomous Car

Evidence That Humans Now Speak In a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger (tech.slashdot.org)
12 days ago chatbot

The European Commission opens an investigation into Google to assess possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in “the use of online content for AI purposes” (www.ft.com)
12 days ago Europe Google AI

The US DOJ detains two men for allegedly violating export controls by trying to smuggle $160M+ of Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China; a third man pled guilty (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago China Nvidia

Q&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more (www.theverge.com)
12 days ago AI

Claude Code Is Coming To Slack (developers.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Slack

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