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Google satellite sends its first SI response from orbit

Orbital SI computing has passed its first working test; reliability testing comes next.

The Project Suncatcher prototype ran the open Gemma 4 model and returned a haiku in response to a prompt from Earth. Google will test the accelerators under radiation and thermal stress; the next stage is two interconnected satellites in 2027.

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A genomic model can turn examples into new biological designs that are already being tested in living cells.

Evo 2 designs regulatory DNA from a few dozen examples

A genomic model can turn examples into new biological designs that are already being tested in living cells.

The preprint authors show that the genomic model can design regulatory sequences without additional training. After strengthening the method with reinforcement learning, they tested constructs in three human cell lines and in the mouse cortex: the designed sequences selectively activated genes in the target neurons.

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A mass-market carmaker is preparing a dedicated production chain to scale robotaxis.

Toyota and Waymo to test driverless bZ4X vehicles in Japan in 2027

A mass-market carmaker is preparing a dedicated production chain to scale robotaxis.

Toyota will assemble the vehicles and integrate Waymo hardware at a single plant in Takaoka. After testing in Japan, the partners plan to expand to the UK and other Waymo markets; the vehicles target Level 4 autonomy.

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A scientific instrument gains a single workflow from a researcher’s request to analysis of incoming observations.

SI agents control a radio telescope and analyze signals in real time

A scientific instrument gains a single workflow from a researcher’s request to analysis of incoming observations.

According to Nvidia, Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute have linked Allen Telescope Array control to GPU data processing: an agent can point the antennas, calibrate the instrument and correct stream errors from a natural-language request. The system processes up to 2.4 Tbps; this pipeline has already detected the Crab Nebula pulsar in real time.

The market is demanding clearer returns in current company results from rising SI spending.

Intel loses 28% in a day as the tech sell-off continues

The market is demanding clearer returns in current company results from rising SI spending.

Alphabet fell another 1.4%, Amazon 1.4% and Reddit 29% by Friday’s close, BBC reports. Investors are comparing company results with spending by Meta, Alphabet, Oracle, Amazon and Microsoft, which together have planned around $800 billion in investment for 2026.

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Nvidia’s partnership with the South Korean platform is moving from an agreement to an equity investment.

Nvidia to complete its $1 billion Naver investment next week

Nvidia’s partnership with the South Korean platform is moving from an agreement to an equity investment.

According to Naver’s Friday filing, the share purchase will make Nvidia its third-largest shareholder. Completion is linked to Naver securing at least $9 billion in computing infrastructure; the partners are building a global SI factory.

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Terms for using publishers’ content in SI will be tested against competition law.

UK regulator investigates Meta’s publisher-content terms

Terms for using publishers’ content in SI will be tested against competition law.

The CMA will examine whether access terms for Meta’s platforms could force publishers to allow use of their material in company products, including SI. Implementation is paused; no finding of a legal breach has been made. Meta says it will consult publishers and other stakeholders about changes.

One of the largest electronics manufacturers is making SI servers its main growth business.

Foxconn aims for half of the global SI server market

One of the largest electronics manufacturers is making SI servers its main growth business.

Chairman Young Liu told CNBC that its current share of around 40% could rise to 45% next year and 50% in a couple of years. He says capacity is already booked for at least a year and a half, while SI infrastructure could deliver 60–65% of revenue in three to five years, excluding edge devices.

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Hyundai is preparing its own computing base for training autonomous vehicles and robots.

Hyundai to establish two companies for its Saemangeum SI data center

Hyundai is preparing its own computing base for training autonomous vehicles and robots.

Five group affiliates have approved participation; one company will handle construction and the other GPU purchases and computing services. According to the group’s announcement reported by The Korea Times, construction starts in March 2027 and full operation in early 2030. The center is part of a 9 trillion won ($6.3 billion) technology hub plan.

Demand for SI servers is turning into long-term orders for power components.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics signs a $659.3 million SI server contract

Demand for SI servers is turning into long-term orders for power components.

The one-year supply of multilayer ceramic capacitors begins on December 21, Yonhap reports, citing the company. These components stabilize current in circuits. The total value of the company’s long-term agreements announced in 2026 for SI server components has reached 5.18 trillion won.

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Website operators will find it easier to communicate the same training preference to several SI providers.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a shared SI training opt-out signal

Website operators will find it easier to communicate the same training preference to several SI providers.

According to The Verge’s account, a robots.txt signal proposed in an IETF working group will let sites express a preference to multiple crawlers at once. Anthropic already uses it; OpenAI promises support in the coming months, and Google and Microsoft next year. Existing rules for individual crawlers continue to work.

ChatGPT will gain stricter safeguards against preparations for violence, and the company will regularly disclose their results.

OpenAI tightens teen weapons safeguards in ChatGPT and plans safety reports

ChatGPT will gain stricter safeguards against preparations for violence, and the company will regularly disclose their results.

According to Unite.AI’s account, the company will further restrict practical weapons information for minors and detailed accounts of past mass attacks for all users. OpenAI reported more than 200 law enforcement referrals in the third quarter. The first public violence-prevention report is planned for early 2027, followed by updates every six months.

Wikimedia supports the ability to train new models while protecting source licensing terms in generated answers.

Wikimedia asks court to distinguish model training from chatbot reproduction

Wikimedia supports the ability to train new models while protecting source licensing terms in generated answers.

The foundation filed its position in the consolidated case against OpenAI: it considers training models that produce something new to be fair use. For retrieving and reproducing material in answers, it calls for compliance with licenses, including attribution and Wikipedia’s share-alike terms. Publishers contest use of their texts, while OpenAI and Microsoft invoke fair use.

A small local model can turn document pages into data for other programs.

Xiaomi opens a 0.8-billion-parameter document model

A small local model can turn document pages into data for other programs.

OCR-0 combines text recognition, field extraction and document question answering, producing Markdown, LaTeX and JSON. It is built on Qwen3.5-0.8B and trained on around 170 million examples; code and weights are available under Apache 2.0. The package includes tools for local use and agent integration.

Research on living neural networks has reached a commercial video service; the claimed speed advantage needs independent verification.

TBC launches a video model with software optimizations derived from neuron research

Research on living neural networks has reached a commercial video service; the claimed speed advantage needs independent verification.

Mischief 1 is based on Wan 2.2 and is available through fal and OpenRouter at $0.005 per second of video. The company says it runs five times faster than the base model at comparable quality. Living neurons are used in laboratory research, while customers receive software for conventional SI accelerators.

Model deployment in large enterprises gains a dedicated team at industrial scale.

Cognizant assigns more than 25,000 professionals to OpenAI delivery

Model deployment in large enterprises gains a dedicated team at industrial scale.

The new OpenAI Frontier Capability Group will focus on development with Codex, legacy application modernization, and agentic sales and customer-service systems. Cognizant says more than 21,000 employees have earned over 40,000 OpenAI training badges; engineers will review consequential modernization decisions.

Mandatory interviews have been canceled, but SI use remains part of management’s expectations.

Proton cancels employee re-interviews about SI use

Mandatory interviews have been canceled, but SI use remains part of management’s expectations.

According to 404 Media, Andy Yen acknowledged a communication failure at an all-hands meeting and canceled the interviews while maintaining the push to adopt SI. He also said the reorganization would not cause job losses from SI. Some employees told the outlet that SI usage assessments would move into regular performance reviews.

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Purchases through third-party agents still account for a small share of DoorDash’s actual order flow.

DoorDash reports only a few hundred orders from outside SI agents

Purchases through third-party agents still account for a small share of DoorDash’s actual order flow.

CEO Tony Xu disclosed the figure on the quarterly earnings call, TechCrunch reports. For comparison, DoorDash’s 2025 report put average deliveries at 3 million per day. The company will keep exploring partnerships with agent developers and advertising within their services.

The statement marks the next development stage for a visual interface; medical clearance remains essential.

Musk says Blindsight vision implant is engineering-ready

The statement marks the next development stage for a visual interface; medical clearance remains essential.

In an October 30 post, Neuralink’s head said the device is ready from an engineering standpoint and awaiting regulatory approval, iXBT reports. He describes Blindsight as the company’s second product, intended to include people who are completely blind or have never had sight.

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Model answers about politics can be compared across users and tracked over time.

MIT opens an observatory for chatbot election answers

Model answers about politics can be compared across users and tracked over time.

Every few days, the LLM Election Observatory asks models the same questions about the US midterms while varying the user’s location, party affiliation and other characteristics. The team publishes responses and preliminary observations about differences in tone, framing and sources even when the facts match.

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The driverless freight project is refining its infrastructure location to connect highway transport with conventional delivery.

Driverless truck hub on the M-12 moves closer to Yekaterinburg

The driverless freight project is refining its infrastructure location to connect highway transport with conventional delivery.

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the 500 million ruble center is now planned near Revda: its more developed road network should simplify final delivery by conventional vehicles. Tractors will move trailers between highway hubs; drivers will control the first and last vehicles in each convoy at the initial stage.

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Apple gains a team and technology for automating enterprise data work.

Apple acquires data-agent developer Ascend.io

Apple gains a team and technology for automating enterprise data work.

The acquisition was disclosed in a European Commission notice on October 30, MacRumors reports. Ascend.io developed automation for collecting and analyzing business data, then added agents to assist engineers; the company’s website says it is winding down its previous operations.

According to North Korea’s leadership, SI and unmanned systems are part of the further development of its military technologies.

North Korea demonstrates attack drones and calls for faster military SI development

According to North Korea’s leadership, SI and unmanned systems are part of the further development of its military technologies.

France 24 reports, citing KCNA, that the demonstration used loitering and multipurpose drones, cruise missiles and rocket launchers. KCNA claimed the island target was hit with 100 percent accuracy. Kim Jong Un called for faster development of drone and SI technologies for the military.

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Coordination of Russian SI policy is assigned alongside the state’s digital transformation.

Chernyshenko assigned state SI policy and digital development

Coordination of Russian SI policy is assigned alongside the state’s digital transformation.

According to Interfax, Mishustin approved the division of responsibilities among deputy prime ministers. Chernyshenko will oversee the Ministry of Digital Development, Roskomnadzor and the Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State national project, and coordinate the Digital Economy nonprofit organization.

Verified Ultra users can work longer without stopping at the five-hour boundary.

Anthropic renames Max 20x to Ultra and removes verified accounts’ five-hour limit

Verified Ultra users can work longer without stopping at the five-hour boundary.

According to Bothub’s Habr post, Max 5x is now Max at $100 a month, while Max 20x becomes Ultra at $200. The five-hour restriction is removed after account verification; weekly limits remain.

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The bank tailors contact methods to customer behavior instead of sending everyone the same mass messages.

VTB uses machine learning to choose customer contact channels

The bank tailors contact methods to customer behavior instead of sending everyone the same mass messages.

According to the bank’s statement carried by BankInformService, its CRM already recommends SMS, push notifications, calls or email based on interaction history. By year-end, VTB plans to expand personalization of contact times, days and frequency; more than 30 thousand features were analyzed to develop the models.

The Vatican backs an international ban on weapons that independently decide to use lethal force.

Pope Leo XIV calls for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons

The Vatican backs an international ban on weapons that independently decide to use lethal force.

Addressing participants in a Vatican meeting with the scientific community, he urged states meeting in Geneva in November to take concrete steps toward a ban. He also called for independent oversight and developer accountability, arguing that decisions about human life and the use of force must remain under human control.

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