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👓 Meta unveils smart glasses with display and neural wristband
🤝 Nvidia to invest $5B in Intel and develop chips with onetime rival
🥇 OpenAI, Google models take gold at ICPC contest
👀 Reddit wants a better AI deal with Google
⏸️ China suspends its antitrust probe into Google
🎁 + 17 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 👓 Meta unveils smart glasses with display and neural wristband LINK
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- Meta announced its $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, which have a built-in screen on the right lens for showing directions, social media apps, and live translations.
- The device is controlled by the Meta Neural Band, a screenless wristband that uses electromyography to read subtle hand gestures and let people navigate through different applications.
- This consumer product is less capable than the company's Orion prototype, shipping without augmented reality lenses or eye tracking and using a much simpler display for alerts.
| 🤝 Nvidia to invest $5B in Intel and develop chips with onetime rival LINK
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- Nvidia plans to purchase a $5 billion stake in its former competitor Intel, kicking off a broad partnership to together develop new data center and consumer products.
- The deal will produce custom x86 CPUs for Nvidia's AI platforms and new "x86 RTX SoCs" for PCs, which integrate chiplets of Nvidia's RTX GPUs into Intel's hardware.
- Both companies will connect their distinct architectures using Nvidia's high-speed NVLink interface, a crucial link that enables faster data and control code transfers between processors.
| 🥇 OpenAI, Google models take gold at ICPC contest LINK
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- At the ICPC World Finals, Google's Gemini 2.5 Deep Think earned a gold-medal score by solving 10 of 12 problems, even cracking one that stumped all human teams.
- In a stunning result, OpenAI's GPT-5 model reportedly achieved a perfect score by solving all 12 programming challenges, submitting the correct answer on its first attempt for 11 of them.
- This performance shows the models have moved past just generating code, using creative, multi-step reasoning to solve complex algorithmic problems that once required human intellect to crack.
| 👀 Reddit wants a better AI deal with Google LINK
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- Reddit is renegotiating its AI partnership to replace its current flat-fee arrangement with Google with a "dynamic pricing" model that pays based on how its user-generated content powers AI answers.
- The platform believes its archive of human conversations is undervalued and is using a report naming it the most-cited domain by AI models as leverage to get more compensation from partners.
- This new structure acts as a hedge against the "AI Paradox," where Google's AI Overviews summarize answers and reduce the click-through traffic that is necessary for Reddit's advertising business to work.
| ⏸️ China suspends its antitrust probe into Google LINK
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- China's State Administration for Market Regulation is shelving its competition inquiry into Google amid delicate trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing over both TikTok and the chipmaker Nvidia.
- This probe will now enter a status in Chinese called "zhongzhi," although the technology company has not yet received any formal paperwork from Beijing confirming the case's closure.
- The action coincides with China's internet watchdog directing major tech firms to halt tests and purchases of Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, a product designed for the local market.
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Other news & articles you might like
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- US-banned Huawei unveils 'world's most powerful' AI cluster to boost China tech LINK
- Tesla is redesigning its door handles following safety probe, Bloomberg investigation LINK
- Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq raises even more than expected, hits $6.9B valuation LINK
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- Flying cars crash into each other mid-air in China LINK
- Amazon is creating more tools to fill its site with AI ads LINK
- AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows LINK
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Trending research and tools
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Towards a Physics Foundation Model: the paper proposes creating a large-scale AI trained on diverse physics data to serve as a general-purpose tool for scientific tasks. LINK
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Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton. LINK
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Milwaukee M18 tool battery communication protocol: a tool that communicates with Milwaukee M18 batteries to let users read diagnostic information and generate a health report for the battery on their computer. LINK
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Jqp: a terminal-based playground for interactively writing and testing jq queries. LINK
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Automating Influence: The Emergence of AI Propaganda Factories: large language models can be used to create systems that automatically produce vast amounts of persuasive propaganda. LINK
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SpikingBrain Technical Spiking Brain-Inspired Large Models: this paper introduces a large language model that uses brain-inspired spiking neurons to operate with high energy efficiency. LINK
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