Tech

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%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 India Mobile

Some people are feeding their private medical information into chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, only to receive generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-4 chatbot

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 (www.dwarkesh.com)
2025-12-4 AI

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 Interview AI

Russian Astronaut Kicked Out of the US For Stealing Proprietary SpaceX Designs (slashdot.org)
2025-12-4 Russia SpaceX

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 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-4 Singapore Quantum

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 (daringfireball.net)
2025-12-4 Apple

Sources: the European Commission plans a new antitrust probe into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA (www.ft.com)
2025-12-4 Europe AI WhatsApp

Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M and says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-4 Paris CRM

OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions”, or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (www.technologyreview.com)
2025-12-4

Nvidia says its GB200 Blackwell AI servers boost performance 10x compared to H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking and DeepSeek's R1 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-4 AI Nvidia

Valve Reveals Its the Architect Behind a Push To Bring Windows Games To Arm (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-4

The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in “censorship”, including fact-checking and online safety (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-4 Trump H1B

A profile of Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski, who pivoted from Jehovah's Witness to helping solve “species-level” problems by funding AI research (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 AI

Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI tools that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $35M Series B led by VMG Partners at a $350M valuation (www.geekwire.com)
2025-12-4 AI Seattle

Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-4

AT&T and Verizon Are Fighting Back Against T-Mobile's Easy Switch Tool (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-12-4 Mobile AT&T

Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 Intel

Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multi-year $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake and deploy AI agents across enterprises (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-4 AI

The US DOJ has indicted two Virginia brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors (www.axios.com)
2025-12-4 Virginia

OpenAI Loses Fight To Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret In Copyright Case (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-4

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-4 Reddit

React discloses an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in React Server Components; Wiz says 39% of cloud environments contain vulnerable instances (thehackernews.com)
2025-12-4

Jensen Huang says “we don't know” if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips even if the US relaxed export controls, following a meeting with President Trump (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 Trump China AI Nvidia

White House Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-4

Mark Zuckerberg announces a new creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Apple design lead Billy Sorrentino (www.threads.com)
2025-12-4 Apple Zuckerberg

Google launches Workspace Studio, a no-code tool to create, design, manage, and share AI agents, for users on Business and Enterprise Workspace plans (9to5google.com)
2025-12-4 Google AI

The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-4

Snowflake reports Q3 product revenue up 29% YoY to $1.16B, and forecasts Q4 adjusted operating income margin below estimates; SNOW drops 7%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 4Q

After AI Push, Trump Administration Is Now Looking To Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-4 Trump AI Robot

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