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Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)
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AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7, featuring larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs, along with new video and audio encoding/decoding tests, and more (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
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Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
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The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
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GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports (Carly Page/The Register)
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Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down "pickup line" and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)
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Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister's resignation (Reuters)
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Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users own; ads play "before sessions begin" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
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Abstract Security, which offers an in-stream threat detection platform, raised a $25M extension to its $15M Series A, bringing its total funding to $48.5M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to give ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations and will soon let them get quotes from local service providers via ChatGPT (Madison Mills/Axios)
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AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in December; a16z, SK Hynix, and others also invested (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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The European Commission approves EA's $55B acquisition, announced in September, by investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)