AI & Tech Newsletter

Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay

Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.

Jensen Huang Is Out. Will Nvidia’s Rivals Cash In?

In a special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we break down Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia, what comes next for the company, and where the AI industry goes from here.

Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs

Google’s new Gemini model is better at understanding complicated questions

Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests." The new model can break down your questions and address each part in its responses.…

Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #98

What’s new in research? In this edition of Microsoft Research Focus, based on the Research Focus newsletter (opens in new tab), host Anson Ho shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from across Microsoft—from bringing AI-powered universal translation closer to…

Nebius tests the neocloud playbook with $40 billion in planned spending

Nebius plans to fund its $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion through customer prepayments and loans, even as delays at a Microsoft data center raise questions about its financing model.

Opinion: Software in your service is already making decisions about patients. In December, you’ll have to disclose which ones

Naomi Alefelder. From 10 December 2026, private and not-for-profit health care providers must disclose the kinds of significant decisions their software makes or substantially shapes. Size is no exemption: the small business carve-out doesn’t apply to anyone who provides a…

Foundation Models framework

AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns in blow to AI boom

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has stepped down after revelations of two extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spy, plunged the chipmaker into crisis and sent shockwaves across an AI industry he helped bankroll. Mr Huang’s exit caps a tumultuous week for…

Jensen Huang was having a third affair, Reuters reports

Reuters is withholding the name of the new employee linked to Huang, but says she is an employee of Nvidia.

Taranaki hospitals roll out RITA telehealth

Health NZ has introduced a mobile telehealth system at Taranaki Base and Hāwera hospitals, allowing clinicians to connect patients with specialists at other hospitals for bedside consultations. The Rapid Information Telehealth Assessment (RITA) system, developed in Northland and…

Nvidia privately confirmed it could track chips to fight smuggling, even as industry publicly questioned feasibility

Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while an industry group…

How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI

Built primarily on OpenAI models, Amplitude’s proactive product agent, Wave, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.

Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud

Drone and missile strikes have inflicted unprecedented damage on data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East this year, disrupting cloud services for millions of people and permanently deleting some Amazon Web Services customer data. This trend represents a new concern…

Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

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No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site

“I woke up and checked the agents' reports. 'DAMN!' They had found lots of villages and other regular shapes that looked like structures or houses,“ Pietro Miotti wrote on his blog. | Image: Pietro Miotti Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed…

Google’s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions

Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash

Google is continuing its elemental AI naming scheme with the new Gemini 4 Hydrogen. These names are less descriptive than the Pro/Flash monikers of earlier releases, but Hydrogen's purpose is clear: It replaces the faster, more economical Flash models most people in Google's…

Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands

Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.

LLMON: An LLM-Native Markup Language, now in Granite 4.1 3B and 8B

Jensen Huang’s $470 Billion Affair

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” the team unpacks the Nvidia CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy and what that means for the AI industry.

Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlash

CHICAGO—Families joined protests in seven cities nationwide on Wednesday, rallying against what they see as Google’s bid to entrench its AI models in schools, turn kids of all ages into Gemini guinea pigs, and hook them on AI. The backlash follows a Google statement last week…

Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator