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🚀 Nvidia's revenue skyrockets to record $57 billion per quarter
📑 Trump drafts executive order to block state AI laws
🍌 Google releases Nano Banana Pro
👀 Uber Eats will use sidewalk robots to deliver food in the UK
🤖 Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO to build the 'Android' of robots
📶 Apple N1 chip beats Broadcom in all tests
🎁 + 17 other news & articles you might like
🔮 + 1 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 🚀 Nvidia's revenue skyrockets to record $57 billion per quarter LINK
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- Nvidia posted a record $57 billion in revenue this quarter, driven by a $51 billion data-center business as hyperscalers continued stitching together larger and larger AI clusters across the sector.
- The company told investors to expect $65 billion next quarter, a massive target indicating that demand for Blackwell-series chips is running ahead of available supply despite recent fears of an AI cool-off.
- Compute and networking sales surged as cloud-service agreements doubled to $26 billion, a clear signal that customers are willing to lock in capacity before the next wave of model training crowds the queue.
| 📑 Trump drafts executive order to block state AI laws LINK
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- A draft executive order obtained by The Verge reveals a plan to centralize AI-related lawmaking under the federal government and stop US states from enacting their own local artificial intelligence regulations.
- The document proposes creating an AI Litigation Task Force within the Department of Justice to sue regions enforcing laws like California's safety requirements for risk assessments or Colorado's ban on algorithmic discrimination.
- If Congress fails to include a moratorium in the National Defense Authorization Act, the Department of Commerce may withhold broadband funding from the BEAD program to block policies hindering the AI industry.
| 🍌 Google releases Nano Banana Pro LINK
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- Google rolled out Nano Banana Pro, a new image generation tool built on the Gemini 3 Pro model that expands beyond the capabilities of the viral original version launched in late August.
- Vice President Josh Woodward says the software creates slide decks or infographics from code snippets and maintains character consistency across inputs of up to 14 different images or five different characters.
- The product is available now with limited free quotas in the Gemini app and NotebookLM, while Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will find the tool inside Search AI Mode.
| 👀 Uber Eats will use sidewalk robots to deliver food in the UK LINK
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- Uber Eats is partnering with Starship Technologies to start the service using sidewalk robots to deliver food from select merchants in the Leeds and Sheffield areas starting later this year.
- Uber said the tie-up will expand to "additional European markets in 2026" and the U.S. in 2027, joining an increasingly long line of partnerships Uber has struck with autonomous vehicle companies.
- Starship claims to have nearly 3,000 six-wheeled robots in operation around the world across more than 270 different locations, typically making deliveries in under 30 minutes and traveling no more than two miles.
| 🤖 Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO to build the 'Android' of robots LINK
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- Google DeepMind recruited former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders to lead a new hardware engineering division, signaling a decisive shift toward making its multimodal AI a standard operating system for third-party machines.
- CEO Demis Hassabis plans to create a foundational Gemini base that works out-of-the-box across any body configuration, effectively decoupling the intelligence layer from the chassis to focus value on the brain.
- This move addresses the sim-to-real bottleneck by developing reference devices to test sensor noise and physical friction, ensuring models do not fail when encountering real-world unpredictability outside of digital simulations.
| 📶 Apple N1 chip beats Broadcom in all tests LINK
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- Apple's first in-house N1 chip replaces Broadcom parts in the iPhone 17 to deliver a median download speed of 329.56Mbps, easily beating the 236.46Mbps average recorded by the previous model lineup.
- Ookla found the N1 silicon made its largest impact in the bottom 10th percentile of testing data, suggesting this custom hardware lifts the performance floor for struggling connections rather than raising the ceiling.
- While this new device beats older Apple models, it trailed the Pixel 10 Pro in global download charts and lost to a Xiaomi 15T Pro running MediaTek Wi-Fi silicon during upload speed tests.
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- First it was GPUs and electricity, now AI is eating up the memory industry LINK
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Trending research and tools
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Poetic writing styles bypass safety filters in language models: researchers found that formatting harmful requests as poems successfully tricks ai tools into ignoring their built-in security restrictions. LINK
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