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- A look at new tech-based mental health treatments like the Tetris method and Avatar therapy that are offering promising early results and possibilities (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
- OpenAI details "deliberative alignment", a new method it used to make o1 and o3 "think" about its safety policy before responding, to improve overall alignment (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
- Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has recently become singularly obsessed with how to build the next Nvidia and wants competitive AI chips ready to ship by 2026 (Bloomberg)
- Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says AI spending frenzy will continue until the decade's end, and downplays an Intel bid, saying he had his "hands very full" in AI chips (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
- Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- A survey of 501 organizations globally estimates organizations contribute $7.7B annually to open source software and 86% of contribution value is employee labor (The Linux Foundation)
- Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January (Financial Times)
- A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime (Bloomberg)
- A look at Amazon's revamped drone delivery program near Phoenix, Arizona, where the company's new MK-30 drones deliver dozens of packages a day to customers (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
- Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Google suggests fixes to its search monopoly
- Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service
- N Korea hackers stole $1.3bn of crypto this year - report
- AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests
- Man convicted for repeatedly lying about inventing Bitcoin