Riot shares surge on $28B AI lease as Hut 8 sinks on revenue miss
Bitcoin miner Riot sold BTC to finance its AI expansion, while Hut 8 reported falling revenue and rising costs before its major data center leases generate income.
Use decision models with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
Some of the questions you ask when evaluating an agent are narrow and repeatable. Did this response stay on policy? Is this tool call safe to approve? Does this answer match the retrieved context? Decision models answer exactly that kind of question. They take a structured state and a fixed set of allowed answers and … Read more
US Voters Back AI Data Center Restrictions in At Least 29 Communities
Voters across the United States backed measures to curb data centers, raising new obstacles for the infrastructure powering AI as electricity bills, water supplies, and public oversight dominate the debate.
Nothing teases a screen-free AI device ahead of launch next month
Nothing CEO Carl Pei said in a post on X that the company’s launching its first AI device in December. That’s just a little over a year after Pei announced plans for “AI-native” devices and an AI operating system. He didn’t give away much about what exactly the new device is, only that one feature … Read more
Apple will check shared iCloud links for ‘harmful content’
Apple will start checking iCloud items that are accessible to anyone who has the link for “harmful content” starting with iOS 27.3 and other 27.3 updates, the company says. “When you share an item that can be accessed by Anyone with the Link in version 27.3 or later of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, that … Read more
Canton Coin Gets SEC Nod as Wall Street Tokenization Heats Up
SEC staff said they view Canton Coin as a digital commodity and won’t recommend enforcement over how it’s minted, a week after DTCC launched a tokenization service that runs partly on the Canton Network.
Waymo confirms it will split with Uber in January 2028
The split will set up direct competition in those markets, as Uber has many other autonomous vehicle partners on its network.
‘You Can See Everything’ is getting an outer space release and it hasn’t even come out in Europe yet
It is easier to watch the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” in low Earth orbit than in London.
Circle’s ARC token sale lifts earnings as lower yields weigh on USDC income
Circle is looking to payments fees and future staking rewards to diversify revenue as its core stablecoin business faces pressure from lower yields and growing competition.
ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs
ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot. The update, which is rolling out alongside OpenAI’s new Images 2.6 model, allows you to adjust the GIF’s animation speed, edit individual frames, and share it with others. Before this change, ChatGPT couldn’t natively generate GIFs in a single … Read more
My therapist thinks I should chuck the Amazon Bee Frontier out a window
Also, can I just say this LED indicator light is way too small and unnoticeable? This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. “How does that make you … Read more
What Is x402? How AI Agents Pay With Crypto
Coinbase’s x402 protocol puts the web’s long-unused 402 code to work so AI agents and apps can pay for APIs and data in stablecoins like USDC.
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Sequoia hits rewind, undoing 20 years of expansion
Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Area–centered firm, shutting down the programs and offices it built during a 20-year expansion while announcing roughly $10 billion in new funds.
God of War Laufey delayed until May
God of War Laufey‘s release date is being delayed to May 20th, 2027, developer Santa Monica Studio announced today. It was set to launch on PlayStation 5 on February 16th. Here is Santa Monica Studio’s full message about the delay: Since the reveal of God of War Laufey in June, we’ve been deeply grateful to … Read more
Tech, AI Stocks Split After Democratic Sweep: Microsoft Jumps, Tesla and Nvidia Tank
Microsoft and Alphabet surged while Nvidia and Tesla fell, highlighting a divided market as investors reassess Washington’s approach to AI and Big Tech.
I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
Apple’s AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there’s still room for improvement.
Bitcoin Rebounds After Democratic Midterm Sweep, But Crypto Faces Tougher Fight in Washington
Bitcoin bounced back after Democrats won control of Congress, but a stalled market structure bill and heavy industry campaign spending reveal crypto’s exposure to shifting US political power.
Anker’s new window-mounted camera monitors the outside of your home from within it
Anker announced a new indoor security camera that’s designed to watch your yard, driveway, or front porch through a window, instead of monitoring what’s inside your home. The new Anker Eufy Window Camera E10 takes a similar approach to the Wyze Window Cam that launched nearly a year ago. It installs right against a window … Read more
Smart Approvals in Amazon Quick: Human oversight where it matters
How should security leaders preserve human oversight as AI agents take on more work? Permissions establish which actions agents can take, but a permitted action can still warrant a person’s judgment. Requiring approval for every step might seem like the safest approach, yet multi-step tasks can produce repeated prompts, even for routine actions. Research on … Read more
Four layers of context engineering for production AI agents: How Deep Insight applies them in working code
When production AI agents handle tasks such as data analysis and report generation, context management can become a major bottleneck. A 200K-token window sounds generous until a real-world task burns through most of it in minutes. Data analysis and report generation leave the agent failing mid-execution, losing accuracy, or driving up costs. A body of … Read more
Wall Street’s Plumbing Goes Onchain as Morgan Stanley Tokenizes Securities
Morgan Stanley says it has converted U.S. equities and Treasuries into tokenized form through the newly launched DTCC Tokenization Service, which 20 Wall Street firms have signed up to use.
How Indegene is modernizing and scaling enterprise data quality in life sciences
This post is co-written with Shravan K S from Indegene Limited. Enterprise AI is creating new opportunities for life sciences organizations to improve decision-making across commercial, medical, market access, and other business functions. But the quality of every AI model, dashboard, and business insight depends on one thing: trusted data. As enterprise data grows across … Read more
How U Mobile built agentic telco operations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
U Mobile, Malaysia’s newest 5G network provider, has always run its telco operations lean, doing more with less through continuous automation. When new AI capabilities became available, U Mobile explored how to enhance operational efficiency beyond basic productivity gains. The real opportunity was further upstream, in how operations teams diagnose and resolve problems in the … Read more
Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
U.S. Democratic sweep could be the final nail in the ‘Clarity Act’s coffin’
Industry experts warn the Clarity Act is likely dead in its current form as incoming Democratic majorities eye tighter scrutiny of crypto markets and tokenized stocks.
Rian Johnson explains why he had to build his own iPhone camera app
Rian Johnson. Rian Johnson is an analog photography devotee. The director of Knives Out and The Last Jedi can often be spotted on set with a Leica M6 at his side, documenting production on film. But sometimes, it’s still easier to reach for a phone. So Johnson started wondering if the photos from his iPhone … Read more
Wall Street rethinks AI data center boom as Texas election raises new risks
Bitcoin miners pivoting to AI face new uncertainty over power access and construction permits, while companies with approved projects could benefit from tighter supply.
Data centers lost the midterms
Data center developers are poised to face a more restrictive building environment after voters across the country voted in candidates who favor moratoriums and ballot measures that put more obstacles on their expansion, delivering a stinging blow to a central pillar of the AI industry. Of voters polled by NBC News on Election Day, 76 … Read more