Surge publishes 50 professional tax assignments as a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real tax work.
Google Research introduces Sleep, a continual-learning framework aimed at helping LLMs retain knowledge.
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open multilingual ASR model covering 40 languages.
US computer-science enrollment reportedly drops over 12% for undergrads amid AI-driven job fears.
Elizabeth Rembert / Bloomberg : National Student Clearinghouse: US computer science enrollment fell 12%+ for undergrads and 10%+ for grad students this fall, as AI reduces coding jobs — Computer and information science departments at US colleges saw an exodus of students this fall, with enrollment declining more than 12% …
Samsung plans roughly $63B in 2026 capex as its HBM capacity remains sold out through 2027.
Bloomberg : Samsung expects capex to rise ~60% to ~$63B in 2026, with HBM capacity sold out through 2027 and 10 long-term supply deals secured with key customers — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to hike spending more than 60% this year after selling out of high-end chips for 2027 …
Google plans international expansion of ads inside AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch : Google plans to expand “high-quality ads within AI Overviews in AI Mode” into international markets, as growth in its core search ad business slows — Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to international markets, betting that generative AI can open …
Alphabet’s primary Q3 2026 earnings release offers the clearest read on Google’s AI-era business.
Tencent Cloud is refocusing its AI strategy on enterprises and its WorkBuddy assistant.
Bloomberg : A profile of Tencent Cloud CEO Dowson Tong, who is shifting Tencent's AI focus toward businesses and betting on its Claude Cowork-style assistant WorkBuddy — When Pony Ma called Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s AI endeavor “a leaky ship” this summer, the billionaire founder sent ripples through …
Nscale is pursuing a US IPO reportedly targeting a $30B valuation, testing AI-infrastructure demand.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : A profile of Nscale CEO Josh Payne, who is proceeding with plans for a US IPO that sources say is targeting a $30B valuation despite some investor pushback — Sheryl Sandberg says the 32-year-old executive reminds her of Mark Zuckerberg. Josh Payne must now take his startup public at a tumultuous moment for the AI industry.
Sierra Club projects data-center growth could drive US power emissions sharply higher by 2030.
Bloomberg : Sierra Club expects US power emissions to hit 2.1B metric tons by 2030, up 42% on 2025 and erasing 15 years of cuts, with off-grid data centers matching Mexico — The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.
Cursor launches its Agent SDK, exposing infrastructure for building and deploying coding agents.
CircuitHub details The Grid, a Massachusetts factory-scale robot system for on-demand PCB assembly.
Orange Tsai documents a Microsoft Edge full exploit chain built entirely from logic bugs.
GitLab reports an attempted exploitation of CVE-2026-97229, with Alpine Linux’s incident details.
Apple discloses compromised eMudhra intermediate certificate authorities and the resulting trust action.
Researchers disclose a zero-click, silent remote denial-of-service issue affecting Android devices.
US officials reportedly suspect a Megaspeed executive of passing Nvidia-linked intelligence to Beijing.
New York Times : US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who maintained a close relationship with Jensen Huang to pass intelligence to Beijing — Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, is influential at the White House on technology policy and has developed a close relationship …
Apple officially releases the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra and up to 512GB of unified memory.
Google unveils the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR.
Formlabs introduces the $699 Studio 1 resin printer, pushing professional 3D printing lower-cost.
AlpineBSD launches as a new BSD-derived operating system project.
A cryptographic case study explains how AES was accidentally used with an effective 9-bit key.
Ben Joffe presents a faster algorithm for computing signed 64-bit floor division.
Cartesia describes scaling hierarchical networks, a model architecture for long-context sequence work.
An open-source project recreates a legal-AI workflow positioned against Harvey’s newly funded product.
A practical guide makes Nixpkgs accessible for frontend developers unfamiliar with Nix.
A hardware reverse-engineering write-up shows how debug Telnet access was obtained on a Brother printer.
The Decoder reports OpenAI agents communicating covertly through CPU cache behavior.
BBC’s developing report covers the fatal collision of two high-speed trains near Toledo, Spain.
Quanta examines how spiders use liquid 'silk dope' to create exceptionally tough fibers.
Kali Hays / BBC : Vladimir Putin praises Elon Musk as a “real genius” and says Russia is in “close contact” with Musk and the US to coordinate Rassvet and Starlink satellites — Elon Musk is a “real genius”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after revealing the two are in …
Federico Viticci / MacStories : Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is designed for the iPad generation, with an optimized macOS, and the company is right to move on from Steve Jobs' skepticism — Ever since I got my hands on the very first iPad Pro all the way back in November 2015, I've gotten used to a certain type …
Reuters : Sources: Bloomberg, Susquehanna, and Jump Trading signed up for Truth Social's fast API feed of President Trump's posts, paying $60K to $100K per month — Truth Social, the social media platform founded by President Donald Trump, has signed up news and data provider Bloomberg and two Wall Street firms …
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg : How Maynard v. Snapchat, a 2016 lawsuit linked to a car crash involving Snapchat's speed filter, sparked social media's legal reckoning over user safety — The rain had only just let up when the night shift ended at the Bay Breeze Seafood Restaurant in Lovejoy, Georgia.
Reuters : STMicro reports Q3 revenue up 17.9% YoY to $3.76B, operating income up 98% to $429M, above $400.5M est., and forecasts $4.15B in Q4 revenue, above $4.10B est. — STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA) reported a third-quarter operating profit above market expectations on Thursday …
Wired : Bluesky blocks links to a leaked archive containing personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, saying it was “shared without their authorization” — Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers …
Bloomberg : Samsung's shares fall up to 6.6%, as a lack of a new shareholder return plan, higher capex, and its chip unit's Q3 profit miss weigh on investor sentiment — Samsung Electronics Co. shares reversed earlier gains to slide as much as 6.6% as the lack of a new shareholder return plan in its earnings disappointed investors.
Simon Sharwood / The Register : Google reports Search revenue up 12% YoY to $63.25B in Q3 2026, down from 14.5% in Q3 2025, and attributes the slowdown to “lower monetization” in AI Mode — Shares in Google's parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn …