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CyberPowerPC raises prebuilt PC prices after DRAM surge tied to artificial intelligence demand

26 Nov 2025

CyberPowerPC will raise prices across all SKUs on December 7, 2025, citing dramatic component cost increases including a 500% rise in RAM and a 100% rise in SSD prices. The company and industry analysts link the shortages and price pressure to demand for artificial intelligence compute.

memory, pc hardware, supply chain

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FLUX.2 image generation models now released, optimized for NVIDIA RTX GPUs

26 Nov 2025

Black Forest Labs, the frontier Artificial Intelligence research lab, released the FLUX.2 family of visual generative models with new multi-reference and pose control tools and direct ComfyUI support. NVIDIA collaboration brings FP8 quantizations that reduce VRAM requirements by 40% and improve performance by 40%.

black forest labs, comfyui, image generation, nvidia

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Aligning VMware migration with business continuity

26 Nov 2025

Business continuity planning long focused on physical disasters, but cyber incidents, particularly ransomware, are now more common and often more damaging. In a survey of more than 500 CISOs, almost three-quarters (72%) said their organization had dealt with ransomware in the previous year.

business continuity, security, vmware

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The Download: the future of AlphaFold and chatbot privacy concerns

26 Nov 2025

A look at what comes next for AlphaFold after its lab-level protein predictions and Nobel recognition, and a report on how companion Artificial Intelligence chatbots are prompting privacy questions as states consider regulation.

alphafold, artificial intelligence, chatbots, privacy

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U.S. launches Apollo-style mission to harness Artificial Intelligence and big data for scientific discovery

26 Nov 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching the Genesis Mission to accelerate scientific discovery by combining Artificial Intelligence with large federal datasets, with the Department of Energy given near-term deadlines to identify priorities and marshal computing and data resources.

artificial intelligence, department of energy, science policy, trump

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WSJ top stories: Artificial Intelligence chip battle, politics and markets

26 Nov 2025

A front-page roundup from The Wall Street Journal covering political drama, a simmering Artificial Intelligence chip war, major market moves and policy developments across health care, autos and trade.

business, politics, technology, wsj

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Underground artificial intelligence models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’

26 Nov 2025

A Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 report details a growing underground market for custom, jailbroken, and open-source artificial intelligence models that advertise hacking and dual-use penetration testing capabilities.

cybercrime, palo alto networks, unit 42

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Into the Omniverse: how smart city Artificial Intelligence agents transform urban operations

26 Nov 2025

Cities are deploying OpenUSD-enabled digital twins and the NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city Artificial Intelligence to simulate scenarios, train vision models and deploy real-time analytics. The approach aims to cut response times, reduce energy use and improve detection accuracy across urban systems.

computer vision, digital twins, nvidia, urban planning

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The download: what’s next for electricity and living in the conspiracy age

26 Nov 2025

Today’s newsletter highlights new findings on the future of electricity from the International Energy Agency and explores a series on how conspiracies and generative Artificial Intelligence are reshaping politics and truth.

artificial intelligence, climate, newsletters

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Q.ANT unveils second-generation photonic processor for Artificial Intelligence

26 Nov 2025

Q.ANT introduced the NPU 2, a second-generation photonic Native Processing Unit that performs nonlinear mathematics in light to boost energy efficiency and performance for Artificial Intelligence and high-performance workloads. The company is selling the processors as integrated 19-inch server solutions with x86 hosts and Linux.

artificial intelligence, high performance computing, photonic processors, robotics

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Inevitable errors: defamation by hallucination in Artificial Intelligence reasoning models, by Lyrissa Lidsky & Andrew Daves

26 Nov 2025

Lyrissa Lidsky and Andrew Daves argue that hallucinations in large language models are inevitable and can cause reputational harm, urging tort-based adaptations and statutory reforms to balance accountability with the benefits of Artificial Intelligence reasoning models.

artificial intelligence, free speech, large language model, libel

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Quantum physicists shrink and de-censor DeepSeek R1 artificial intelligence model

26 Nov 2025

Multiverse Computing says it used quantum-inspired methods to compress DeepSeek R1 into a smaller model that removes built-in Chinese censorship. The team tested the modified model on politically sensitive prompts and used GPT-5 to judge the degree of censorship.

artificial intelligence, censorship, machine learning, model compression, quantum-computing