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

TSMC (TSM), GlobalFoundries (GFS) Finish Talks Over Billions in Chips Awards - Bloomberg link

NVidia to make CPUs for personal computers - Boing Boing link

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers | TechCrunch link

Meet the startup that just won the Pentagon's first AI defense contract | VentureBeat link

No, Quantum Computers Won't Break All Encryption link

Physical Intelligence, a Specialist in Robot A.I., Raises $400 Million - The New York Times link

Quantum Machines and Nvidia use machine learning to get closer to an error-corrected quantum computer | TechCrunch link

US regulators reject amended interconnect agreement for Amazon data center | Reuters link

Exclusive: Chinese researchers develop AI model for military use on back of Meta's Llama | Reuters link

Kuo: iPhone 17 will use new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip made in-house by Apple link