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US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems
The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
TechCrunch ·Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
TechCrunch ·A concrete vision: Saint-Gobain and Microsoft Discovery build for the future
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Microsoft ·AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn
The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption–tech is just the first industry in line.…
MIT Technology Review ·AI billing spikes threaten businesses with operational strain
More than half of businesses are failing to control AI costs amid the agentic rush, according to a report from Splunk.
CIO Dive ·Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.
TechCrunch ·European Leaders Turn to NVIDIA Vera CPUs to Build Local Infrastructure
Nebius and Nscale are among global technology partners looking to NVIDIA Vera CPUs to build the next wave of infrastructure. Their momentum reflects rapid advancements in agentic computing. Agents do more than generate answers: they…
NVIDIA ·DC professionals are becoming founders. AI is helping them close the gap.
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Technical.ly ·Nearly half of employers say AI will make college degrees more important
Employers expressed more confidence in the higher education sector than the general public, according to a new Gallup and the Lumina Foundation poll.
Higher Ed Dive ·A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing…
MIT Technology Review ·Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.
TechCrunch ·Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal
In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.
TechCrunch ·Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these…
TechCrunch ·Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
TechCrunch ·GAO to monitor government AI use, hire AI experts in coming years
In its 2027-2032 strategic plan, the congressional watchdog laid out several goals revolving around emerging technology, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The post GAO to monitor government AI use, hire AI experts in coming years…
FedScoop ·AI risks, value remain unaligned for CIOs
When trust in AI is low, and cost is high, businesses must routinely audit models to make sense of exorbitant spending, Gartner analysts said.
CIO Dive ·Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
TechCrunch ·CIOs unprepared for agentic workforce shift
Just 4% of tech leaders have plans in place to retool roles for an agentic-human workforce, a Gartner survey found.
CIO Dive ·NYC transit agencies test AI tools to modernize infrastructure, data workflows
A new report shows how 17 companies tested tools for infrastructure inspections, maintenance planning and data management with transit agencies in the tri-state area.
StateScoop ·Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing…
TechCrunch ·Germany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help
In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial applications of AI.…
NVIDIA ·Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
TechCrunch ·Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
TechCrunch ·Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
TechCrunch ·Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites…
MIT Technology Review ·AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch
AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
TechCrunch ·“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head,…
MIT Technology Review ·People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
TechCrunch ·Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
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