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METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (x.com)
2025-12-21

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after its blockbuster IPO in China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-21 China IPO AI

Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (apnews.com)
2025-12-21 China Refugee Nepal

Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-21 Google

Does AI Really Make Coders Faster? (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 AI

S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-21

Parrot OS Switches to KDE Plasma Desktop (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

Flock Executive Says Their Camera Helped Find Shooting Suspect, Addresses Privacy Concerns (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

Google advises some employees on visas, including H-1B visas, not to travel outside the US due to processing delays, following new social media screening rules (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-12-21 Google H1B

Military Satellites Now Maneuver, Watch Each Other, and Monitor Signals and Data (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M+ in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-21 AI

'Subscription Captivity': When Things You Buy Own You (slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

EV Battery-Swapping Startup That Raised $330 Million Files for Bankruptcy (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 Startup Battery

Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney+ subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all net subscriber additions in 2025 (sherwood.news)
2025-12-21 Morgan Stanley Netflix

Firefox Will Ship With an 'AI Kill Switch' To Completely Disable All AI Features (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 AI Firefox

RansomHouse upgrades encryption with multi-layered data processing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-21

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (www.engadget.com)
2025-12-21 Android Google

Pro-AI Group Launches First of Many Attack Ads for US Election (politics.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 AI

Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000+ attendees, yacht parties, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-21

This $117 Azure prep bundle is now only $40 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-21

Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (arstechnica.com)
2025-12-21 AI chatbot Browser

Micron projects FY Q2 sales to grow over 2x YoY to $18.7B and adjusted operating income to rise over 5x to $11.3B, signaling higher memory chip prices in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-20

Trump Dismantling National Center For Atmospheric Research In Colorado (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Trump

A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+ (sherwood.news)
2025-12-20 Tax

James Webb Space Telescope Confirms 1st 'Runaway' Supermassive Black Hole (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system (openai.com)
2025-12-20 AI

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-20 YouTube

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (www.ft.com)
2025-12-20 Bitcoin

Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by “several quarters” (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-20

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