Nvidia’s Optical Strategy: $4 Billion Reshapes AI Data Center Economics

NVIDIA invested $4 billion in Lumentum, Coherent, and Ayar Labs to secure optical interconnect supply. The deals build competitive moats as AI clusters hit power limits.

NotebookLM can now summarize research in ‘cinematic’ video overviews
NotebookLM can now summarize research in ‘cinematic’ video overviews

Google’s NotebookLM can now turn users’ research and notes into fully animated “cinematic” videos, going a step further than the original video overview feature Google introduced last year. Previously, video overviews could only generate narrated slideshows, but the upgraded video overview feature uses a combination of Google’s AI models, “including Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro […]

This smart device stops sneaky AI gadgets from listening to your conversations

Spectre I is a portable device that prevents nearby microphones from recording your voice, by creating a protection zone around you that blocks smart devices, phones, and AI recorders from capturing conversations.
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Google’s AI-powered workspace is now available to more users in Search
Google’s AI-powered workspace is now available to more users in Search

Google is bringing Canvas to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search. The feature opens up a dedicated workspace within its AI-powered search tool, allowing it to use the latest information from Search to organize plans, develop tools, and draft documents in a panel alongside your chat. Though Google initially launched Canvas inside […]

Google’s Gemini rolls out Canvas in AI mode to all US users

Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.

Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation

The AI-powered customer support startup is the latest example of a fast-growing, young company that’s providing employee liquidity.

The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing

As the U.S. continues its aerial attack on Iran, Anthropic models are being used for many targeting decisions.

An Author Looks At Human Potential In The AI Era

Let’s look at tips on disciplined resilience, metacognition, and broadened attention to unlock your last 20%.

Google faces wrongful death lawsuit after Gemini allegedly ‘coached’ man to die by suicide
Google faces wrongful death lawsuit after Gemini allegedly ‘coached’ man to die by suicide

A lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses Google’s Gemini AI chatbot of trapping 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas in a “collapsing reality” that involved a series of violent missions, ultimately ending with his death by suicide. In the days leading up to his death, Gemini allegedly convinced Gavalas that he was “executing a covert plan to liberate his […]

The Anthropic-Pentagon Standoff Reveals Who Governs AI

The Anthropic-Pentagon standoff exposed a dangerous vacuum: AI is reshaping national security, but no law governs how. Who decides and who should?