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ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are "either not real or not ads"; OpenAI's research chief says "anything that feels like an ad" is now turned off (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) - 2025-12-06T15:35:01-05:00

A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials (SemiAnalysis) - 2025-12-06T15:05:01-05:00

Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-06T12:35:00-05:00

Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content (Kat Tenbarge/Wired) - 2025-12-06T10:05:01-05:00

A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired) - 2025-12-06T06:35:01-05:00

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times) - 2025-12-06T02:35:00-05:00

Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims (Bloomberg) - 2025-12-06T01:55:01-05:00

Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News) - 2025-12-06T01:30:02-05:00

Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell (Abram Brown/The Information) - 2025-12-06T01:20:00-05:00

Leaked memos: Meta is delaying the release of its MR glasses codenamed "Phoenix" from H2 2026 to H1 2027 for "more breathing room to get the details right" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider) - 2025-12-05T22:30:01-05:00

An analysis of 100T+ tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more (OpenRouter) - 2025-12-05T21:20:02-05:00

Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+ (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2025-12-05T19:25:04-05:00

Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) - 2025-12-05T18:30:02-05:00

A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg) - 2025-12-05T17:55:01-05:00

A look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulators, and state attorneys general (Ted Johnson/Deadline) - 2025-12-05T16:15:00-05:00

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