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Tiiny Artificial Intelligence reveals Artificial Intelligence Pocket Lab mini PC powered by 12-core Arm CPU

11 Dec 2025

Tiiny Artificial Intelligence unveiled the Pocket Lab, a Guinness World Records-verified mini PC able to run up-to a full 120-billion-parameter large language model entirely on-device. The pocket-sized system targets energy-efficient, private Artificial Intelligence workloads within a 65 W typical system power envelope.

arm, artificial intelligence, hardware

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The Download: a controversial proposal to solve climate change, and our future grids

11 Dec 2025

This edition covers an Israel-based geoengineering startup that says nations will soon pay more than a billion dollars a year to reflect sunlight and cool the planet, and a look at how a publicly owned utility plans to reach net zero by 2040.

climate, energy, technology

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Canonical prepares native AMD ROCm support for Ubuntu

11 Dec 2025

Canonical will package and maintain AMD ROCm directly in Ubuntu, starting with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, to simplify deployment of Artificial Intelligence/ML and HPC workloads across data center, desktop, and edge environments.

amd, canonical, hpc, linux

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Qualcomm acquires Ventana Micro Systems, deepening RISC-V CPU expertise for Artificial Intelligence era

11 Dec 2025

Qualcomm has acquired Ventana Micro Systems to bolster its RISC-V instruction set architecture capabilities and fold Ventana’s engineering team into its RISC-V and custom Oryon CPU development for the Artificial Intelligence era.

cpu, qualcomm, risc-v, semiconductor

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OpenAI report: 6x productivity gap between Artificial Intelligence power users and others

11 Dec 2025

OpenAI finds a growing workplace divide: frontier workers use Artificial Intelligence far more intensively and report outsized time savings, while many colleagues and companies lag despite broad access to the same tools.

enterprise ai, openai, productivity

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What is generative artificial intelligence and why it matters

11 Dec 2025

Generative Artificial Intelligence creates original text, images, code, and designs by learning patterns from existing data, enabling new forms of creativity, automation, and decision support across industries.

artificial intelligence, digital transformation, machine learning

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Intel nearing deal to acquire Artificial Intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems

11 Dec 2025

Seeking Alpha relays a Wired report that Intel is nearing a deal to acquire Artificial Intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems, with a term sheet reportedly signed.

artificial intelligence, mergers and acquisitions, semiconductors, tech news

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Study reveals Artificial Intelligence’s potential to sway political opinions

11 Dec 2025

A pre-registered study found widely used Artificial Intelligence systems can shift voter preferences by 15% in controlled experiments with nearly 6,000 participants. The research links prompt design to persuasiveness and identifies uneven accuracy tied to ideological targets.

artificial intelligence, elections, politics, research

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New benchmark finds top Artificial Intelligence language models fall short in mental health care

11 Dec 2025

Sword Health’s MindEval simulates multi-turn patient-clinician conversations and benchmarks 12 frontier models including GPT-5, Claude 4.5, and Gemini 2.5, finding average clinical performance stayed below 4 on a 1-6 scale.

ethics, evaluation, machine learning

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Rising Artificial Intelligence prompt injection attacks pose new security risks, warns NCSC

11 Dec 2025

The National Cyber Security Centre warns that rising Artificial Intelligence prompt injection attacks let attackers embed hidden commands in user input, forcing organizations to update defenses, monitoring and testing.

artificial intelligence, security, threats

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White House launches Genesis Mission to accelerate Artificial Intelligence-enabled scientific discovery

11 Dec 2025

The White House issued an executive order on November 24, 2025 establishing the Genesis Mission, a Department of Energy-led initiative to build an American Science and Security Platform to accelerate Artificial Intelligence-enabled scientific discovery and automated manufacturing. The order sets binding near-term deadlines for DOE to identify priority challenges, inventory computing resources, and integrate datasets and model assets.

artificial intelligence, data-centers, energy, research policy

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NVIDIA gets H200 export license for China, 25% of revenue to the U.S. government

11 Dec 2025

The Trump administration approved a framework allowing NVIDIA to resume H200 exports to China under Commerce Department licensing, with 25% of sales proceeds directed to the U.S. government. The H200 remains a powerful option for large-scale Artificial Intelligence workloads, balancing market access with regulatory controls.

export controls, nvidia, semiconductors