Apple and Nvidia considering Intel for 2028 chip production, report claims — non-core products may be outsourced, driven by tariffs and geopolitical concerns

tomshardware - Apple and Nvidia are reportedly working with Intel to produce some of their products in the U.S., but it is an open question which of their products Intel can actually make.

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U.K. Competition Watchdog Plans New Rules for Google’s AI Overviews Under Tech Law

Edith Hancock / wsj - Under the plans, publishers could stop their content being used to power AI Overviews, or to train AI models outside of Google search and make sure their content is properly cited in AI results.

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Waabi raises $1B and expands into robotaxis with Uber

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform.

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SoftBank Group (SFTBY) Stock: Eyes Massive $30B Bet to Tighten Grip on OpenAI

Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR SoftBank plans a $30B OpenAI push to drive massive AI growth and scale. New funding talks could lift OpenAI’s valuation sharply toward $830B. AI infrastructure demand fuels one of tech’s biggest funding rounds. SoftBank aims to anchor future AI domin…

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ASML bookings nearly double expectations on AI demand

Erik van Klinken / techzine - ASML reported record quarterly bookings of 13.2 billion euros in Q4 2025, nearly doubling analyst predictions. The Dutch chip equipment maker’s results highlight once more that the AI infrastructure buildout shows no signs of slowing down. The Veldhoven-b…

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SK Hynix doubles 2025 profit as AI memory shortages drive earnings beat

cnbc - South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, to beat estimates.

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Kimi Open-Sources K2.5 Model, Adding Advanced Vision Understanding, Coding, and Agent Cluster Capabilities

pandaily - Moonshot AI has open-sourced its new Kimi K2.5 model, bringing native multimodal reasoning, advanced coding support, and scalable Agent cluster capabilities to developers and enterprises.

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OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research

BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI has launched Prism, a free scientific research app that aims to do for scientific writing what coding agents did for programming. Engadget reports: Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. Fo…

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Microsoft built a 750W AI chip to challenge Nvidia's dominance, claims 3x performance gains over Amazon

techspot - Microsoft recently announced Maia 200, a new AI accelerator specifically designed for inference workloads. According to Redmond, Maia 200 can deliver "dramatic" improvements for AI applications and is already deployed in select US data centers on the Azur…

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Google’s Low-Cost AI Plus Plan Launches in 35 New Countries Including the US

Laurent Giret / thurrott - Google's AI Plus is coming to the US and 34 other new countries today, and it's available at just $3.99/month for the first two months for new subscribers.The post Google’s Low-Cost AI Plus Plan Launches in 35 New Countries Including the US appeared first…

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Google AI Overviews Now Powered By Gemini 3 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Matt G. Southern / searchenginejournal - Google is making Gemini 3 the default model for AI Overviews and adding a direct path to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode.The post Google AI Overviews Now Powered By Gemini 3 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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EU Gives Google Six Months to Open Up Android and Search to Rivals

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - The European Commission (EC) announced today that Google has six months to open up Android to rival AI services.The post EU Gives Google Six Months to Open Up Android and Search to Rivals appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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Pinterest layoffs today: 15% of jobs cut as social media giant is latest to cite shift to AI

Michael Grothaus / fastcompany - Nike isn’t the only household corporate name to announce significant layoffs this week. Just a day after the sporting goods giant announced layoffs, citing a further embrace of automation, social media giant Pinterest has announced it will cut jobs. The d…

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Exploring Clawdbot, the AI agent taking the internet by storm — AI agent can automate tasks for you, but there are significant risks involved

tomshardware - Clawdbot is a new pseudo-locally-hosted gateway for agentic AI that offers a sneak peek at both good and bad futures for the technology.

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