Ai, Agents & ML
The public narrative around “AI Safety” is framed like a Hollywood extinction thriller. We are told, in grave tones by breathless podcasters and Silicon Valley altruists, that guardrails exist to stop bioweapons, prevent market collapse, and keep some emergent digital God-King from flipping the off-switch on humanity. Read this critique of frontier LLM safety tuning showing how refusal heuristics prioritize liability over physical reality in high-stakes engineering scenarios. { read-it:MontgomeryKuykendall }
Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT. { read-it:TechCrunch }
More than 20 venture capitalists share their thoughts on AI agents, enterprise AI budgets and more for 2026. { read-it:TechCrunch }
LG unveiled a whole new line of gaming monitors ahead of CES on Friday. The UltraGear evo line are all high-end monitors covering a range of technologies, but united by 5K resolution and AI upscaling. The three flagships under the new branding are the 39GX950B, the 27GM950B, and the 52G930B. The first number in the model name indicates the size. The rest of the letters and numbers, well, I’m sure they mean something to someone. The 39-inch GX9 is an ultrawide 21:9 5K2K dual-mode OLED screen. It can run at its full resolution at 165Hz, or jump to 330Hz for fast-twitch games at WFHD. The 27-inch GM9 uses “New” MiniLEDs, which promise to del … Read the full story at The Verge. { read-it:The Verge }
Tech in the World
Local police said they have charged an Illinois driver who struck and killed a pedestrian while she was livestreaming on TikTok. { read-it:TechCrunch }
Chinese household appliances maker Dreame Technology will present gifts of gold and a trip to Antarctica to employees, on top of their year-end bonuses, as the company boosted its position as one of the world’s leading vendors of robot vacuum cleaners.
The additional largesse was revealed over the weekend by Dreame founder and CEO Yu Hao in his WeChat Moments post.
Yu said every employee will receive a one-gram gold bonus in addition to their standard year-end payout. The company also planned to… { read-it:SCMP }
One of the biggest moments for China’s booming robotics industry this year was the catwalk performance by carmaker Xpeng’s new humanoid robot: it was so lifelike that founder He Xiaoping had to unzip its back to prove there was no person inside.
The reveal exposed what was under the covers: bionic “muscles” that enable such uncanny lifelikeness, made possible by the 3D printing technology and high-performance materials from Chinese start-up PollyPolymer.
Wang Wenbin, founder and chairman of… { read-it:SCMP }
Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game’s servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control over a significant chunk of the game’s systems, including the ability to ban and unban users, sending custom messages to ban ticker, unlocking all in-game items, and granting every player 2 billion R6 Credits and Renown.
Ubisoft sells R6 credits in its store, pricing 15,000 of them at $99.99. That means the actual cash value of 2 billion R6 credits is about $13.33 million.
Ubisoft made it clear that nobody would be punished for spending any c …
Read the full story at The Verge. { read-it:The Verge }
Tech companies are increasingly warning their customers that they have been targeted by governments with advanced government spyware, such as NSO’s Pegasus or Paragon’s Graphite. What happens after receiving a threat notification? { read-it:TechCrunch }
Tech companies are increasingly warning their customers that they have been targeted by governments with advanced government spyware, such as NSO’s Pegasus or Paragon’s Graphite. What happens after receiving a threat notification? { read-it:TechCrunch }
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Tools of Tech
In light of Google’s lawsuit against this awesome tool, we found it fitting to share SerpAPI — a tool that allows users to get all kinds of search results in real time straight inside an automation workflow. If you’re into SEO, content marketing and slamming up the ranks in search engine results, this is a game changer. { get-it-here:SerpAPI.com }
All-in-one solution to create viral posts, carousels, slideshows, and AI videos, so you can distribute 50+ pieces of content per week to build your brand. Sabrina Ramonov, the creative genius behind Blotato is a prominent advocate for women in Tech. { get-it-here:Blotato.com }
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