How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click – Krebs on Security link

New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality - Ars Technica link

Apple-Nvidia collaboration speeds up AI model production link

Intel terminates x86S initiative — unilateral quest to de-bloat x86 instruction set comes to an end | Tom's Hardware link

Omdia estimates Microsoft bought 485K of Nvidia's Hopper GPUs in 2024, ByteDance and Tencent bought ~230K each, Meta bought 225K, and Tesla/xAI bought ~200K (Financial Times) -- Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals link

Meet Aria: The New Open Source Multimodal AI That's Rivaling Big Tech - Decrypt link

Two mathematicians just solved a centuries-old prime number puzzle that experts thought impossible - Boing Boing link

Geopolitics and AI will affect the chip industry in 2025 | KPMG | VentureBeat link

Daring Fireball: The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip link

Anthropic's fastest model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, now generally available | VentureBeat link

Aethir and partners pour $40M into decentralized infrastructure for AI and blockchain | VentureBeat link

Donald Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar - Bloomberg link

OpenAI partners with defense company Anduril link

LLMs may have a killer enterprise app: ‘digital labor’ — at least if Salesforce Agentforce is any indicator | TechCrunch link

Intel unveils its budget Battlemage Arc GPUs with XeSS2 AI features link

Engadget is part of the Yahoo family of brands link

Exclusive: TSMC in talks with Nvidia for AI chip production in Arizona, sources say​ | Reuters link

Canon ships its first nanoprint lithography machine, rivals ASML - DCD link

AI’s Future and Nvidia’s Fortunes Ride on the Race to Pack More Chips Into One Place - WSJ link

Chinese researchers unveil LLaVA-o1 to challenge OpenAI's o1 model | VentureBeat link

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, positioning itself as a key player in the AI arms race | VentureBeat link

Sagence is building analog chips to run AI | TechCrunch link

Goodbye cloud, Hello phone: Adobe’s SlimLM brings AI to mobile devices | VentureBeat link

RISC-V Pushes 400 Million Forth Words Per Second | Hackaday link

Kyiv is set to receive tens of thousands of Auterion’s miniature computers, known as Skynode, which should hit the battlefield early next year. Vyriy Drone, a top Ukrainian drone startup, said it would produce several thousand autopilot drones starting this month. Other companies are also ramping up production. -- Exclusive | Killer Robots Are About to Fill Ukrainian Skies - WSJ link

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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess link

Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington's Thrive AI Health assistant has a bare-bones demo | TechCrunch link

1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001 is a prime number. -- "Demonic" 666 found in massive palindromic prime number - Boing Boing link

The Lost Reading Items · Tensor Labbet link

Crypto World Takes Victory Lap After Big US Election Bet Pays Off - Bloomberg link

FrontierMath: Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI | Epoch AI | Epoch AI link

TSMC to close door on producing advanced AI chips for China from Monday link