China's "national team" of huge state funds has injected billions of dollars into stocks to arrest a week-long slide, as markets entered bear territory. Source: Semafor
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INEC is investigating suspicious photos in the preliminary voter register. It plans to clean the register before December 15. Source: The Punch
Meta Platforms announced that Nvidia and AMD will purchase $4 billion of its shares as part of a stock sale the company plans to launch soon. Source: SiliconANGLE
Oracle announced Media Fabric, a platform that combines its AI video and image models, an AI production suite and a live-streaming network. Source: The Next Web
AI traffic insights are now available in Vercel Observability. Source: Vercel
NTT DATA announced the global expansion of its AI Factories, which provide hands-on environments for organisations to determine how priority AI use cases can be deployed, secured, governed and operated at scale. Source: ITWeb
Workday told investors that customers should fund AI agents from their labor and services budgets, not just software costs. Source: The Korea Herald
OpenAI's models have disproved a foundational theory within cryptography, the AI company claimed on Monday. OpenAI also announced breakthroughs in physics and mathematics. Source: The Information
Google Deepmind introduced Genie 4, a real-time world model that simulates interactive 3D environments with sound and talking characters. Source: The Decoder
Oracle will run Google tensor processing units in its cloud, making the AI chips available to Oracle customers for the first time outside Google's platform. Source: The Information
OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT. The collaboration will also power new Oracle offerings. Source: OpenAI
Oracle will offer cloud services running on Cerebras AI computers in its data centres starting in 2027. Source: The Next Web
Robots rely on sensor inputs to keep people safe, but faulty or manipulated data can cause them to act incorrectly. Source: IEEE Spectrum
NVIDIA and Oracle announced plans to expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Superclusters with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt scale, supporting growing customer demand for AI training, inference and agentic applications. Source: NVIDIA
NVIDIA is fine-tuning its Nemotron model to recognize local rules in addition to local languages. Source: NVIDIA
Google announced its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. Source: The Verge
Argentum AI, a Neocloud firm, is in talks for five billion dollars of financing for AI chips, according to sources. Source: CNA
Kubernetes control planes can experience outages without any component crashing, because shared metadata or aggressive health checks can amplify local defects. Source: The New Stack
Nigeria must cut telecom right-of-way charges to boost digital investment. The country also needs to harmonise and reduce right-of-way charges imposed by states. Source: BusinessDay
Elon Musk released an AI-generated rival to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, saying it would be true to the art of Homer. Reviewers described the film as 'Sloppy gruesomeness'. Source: The Guardian
Apple announced an iMac equipped with the M6 chip that promises a huge leap in AI performance. The new iMac offers more cores and higher performance per core than the iMac M5. Source: Engadget
Dell Technologies added identity protection to its cyber resilience portfolio with PowerProtect software that restores compromised identity platforms to a clean state. Source: SiliconANGLE
Investors are expected to ignore the $81 billion hole that Anthropic must dig itself out of. Source: Fortune
MakeMyTrip stated that AI agents cannot replace travel platforms. Co-founder and CEO Rajesh Magow stated that general assistants cannot replace the company because travel platforms are accountable for delivery. Source: MediaNama
AWS calls for workplace redesign to unlock AI value. Madhavi Reddy discusses AI governance, workforce skills, and the need to turn productivity gains into business growth. Source: TahawulTech
Apple released iOS 27.2 on Monday, adding a memory feature for Siri AI and support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. Source: The Next Web
Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX closed $40 billion in debt financing for graphics processing units expected in the first half of 2027. Source: Tom's Hardware
AI watermarking efforts must encourage independent public scrutiny. Source: Nature
AI-hallucinated citations should be treated as research misconduct. Source: Nature
Microsoft has offered voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees across the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom. Source: Tom's Hardware
Meta receives $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia chips. Nvidia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. Source: The Decoder
A cybersecurity startup called Cathedral used AI agents to breach Anthropic's internal business systems in under 12 hours. Source: TechJuice
London's Querio launched with €4.48 million in total funding to help companies tackle conflicting answers across AI tools. Source: EU-Startups
Anthropic is planning how its powerful AI will be governed after its current leaders depart. The company is examining long-term control mechanisms for the technology. Source: CNA
Akamai expands its AI Cloud platform with Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox. Source: SiliconANGLE
Industry leaders highlighted opportunities in advanced packaging, quantum technology and photonics, while calling for better training to meet semiconductor industry needs. Source: BusinessLine
AI data center investments pressure automotive memory. Semiconductor firms prioritize HBM and servers, causing rising prices and tight supply. Source: DigiTimes Asia
Pat Gelsinger warned that AI compute efficiency must jump ten thousandfold because of power, memory and fab constraints. Source: DigiTimes Asia
A privacy group filed complaints against Scale AI over alleged worker surveillance. Source: CNA
Australia's AI build-out hits the grid: NextDC cut its fiscal 2027 revenue forecast and reduced capital spending after a power connection delay at its Melbourne M3 facility. Source: DigiTimes Asia
AWS engineers described using an AI agent and automated filter, followed by human review, to triage Linux kernel CVEs for EC2. Source: InfoQ
Verizon entered into an agreement worth more than $2 billion with Amazon Web Services to supply dark fibre infrastructure to meet AI workload demand. CEO Dan Schulman said these contracts are a clear signal that the largest builders of AI infrastructure are choosing Verizon. Source: TahawulTech
ENGIE confirmed that attackers breached a marketing platform used by business partners and stole customer data. Source: BleepingComputer
Nvidia will invest $3 billion in Meta and expand its collaboration on Meta's Muse personal AI agent, the companies announced today. Source: The Next Web
Backbase launched Delivery Factory, an AI-powered software development platform for banks. Source: Fintech News Singapore
NVIDIA and Meta have announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the development, deployment and performance of advanced AI agents powered by Meta's Muse family of models. Source: Innovation Village
Rapidus and HCLTech officially inaugurated two HCLTech development centers in India to support Rapidus' semiconductor engineering requirements. Source: Vietnam Investment Review
Hong Kong's privacy watchdog issued guidance on AI smart glasses to curb covert surveillance. Source: Hong Kong Free Press
China's STAR50 index has fallen approximately 40% in less than four months, wiping out an estimated $480 billion. Source: Innovation Village
Nvidia will invest $3 billion in Meta Platforms' equity offering, expanding their technological collaboration. Source: The Information