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Google recently placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than 3 million TPUs in 2028; Nvidia tests Intel technology for new processor, conducts 18A trials (Qianer Liu/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Father of the iPod and iPhone: Developing Taste, Judgment and Creativity in the Age of AI…

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An American tests positive in Congo

By Stacey D. WallsMay 18, 2026

A sign stands outside the Roybal campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, United…

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A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics company and owns a roughly 67% stake worth $13.3 billion, as AI tests SAS’s strategy (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 17, 2026

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics company and…

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Fast16 malware linked to Stuxnet, designed to disrupt simulated nuclear weapons tests, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran’s nuclear ambitions (Kim Zetter/ZERO DAY)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 17, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “A Sociopathic Father”, with Adam Lisagor The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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Tests of more than 12 AI detection tools show that many are capable of detecting basic counterfeits, but struggle with complex images; few analyze the video and most identify fake audio (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website and X, rarely resisting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: A Child Psychologist’s Guide to Working with Difficult Adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy Interviews with world-class…

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Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its open source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 27, 2026

Bloomberg: Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its…

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OpenAI tests training LLMs to produce "confession"or self-report how they performed a task and acknowledge poor behavior, such as appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 4, 2025

Will Douglas Sky / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions,” or self-report how they performed…

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Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on "a needle in a haystack" tests for 30 minute videos (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 30, 2025

Jonathan Kemper / The decoder: Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL Beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on Visual Tasks and Has…

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How the launch of Gemini 3, which beat models from OpenAI and other competitors in benchmark tests, propelled Google to the lead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 22, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Lincoln Bio Services,” with Stephen Robles The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200 million led by Summit Partners (Laura Kreutzer/Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Strategy suspended its Bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead increasing its USD reserve to $2.55 billion and announcing a $1 billion digital credit buyback program (James Hunt/The Block)

Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security engineering, warns that EU DMA proposals to open up Android and search could lead to a significant increase in fraud within weeks (Matt Burgess/Wired)

AI is forcing consulting firms to move from hourly billing to fixed or results-based pricing, a transition that is proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and has been tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

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Google recently placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than 3 million TPUs in 2028; Nvidia tests Intel technology for new processor, conducts 18A trials (Qianer Liu/The Information)

An American tests positive in Congo

A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics company and owns a roughly 67% stake worth $13.3 billion, as AI tests SAS’s strategy (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

Fast16 malware linked to Stuxnet, designed to disrupt simulated nuclear weapons tests, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran’s nuclear ambitions (Kim Zetter/ZERO DAY)

Tests of more than 12 AI detection tools show that many are capable of detecting basic counterfeits, but struggle with complex images; few analyze the video and most identify fake audio (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website and X, rarely resisting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its open source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)

OpenAI tests training LLMs to produce "confession"or self-report how they performed a task and acknowledge poor behavior, such as appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on "a needle in a haystack" tests for 30 minute videos (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)

How the launch of Gemini 3, which beat models from OpenAI and other competitors in benchmark tests, propelled Google to the lead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)