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APPLE TO REVAMP AI TEAM AFTER ANNOUNCING TOP EXECUTIVE'S DEPARTURE

Apple's senior vice president in charge of AI strategy has stepped down. His duties will be split among other senior vice presidents responsible for software engineering, services, and operations. Amar Subramanya, who was involved with developing Google's Gemini chatbot, will join Apple as vice president of AI. The reorganization signals a new era for Apple's AI work, which has so far failed to keep up with the industry.

DEEPSEEK DEBUTS NEW AI MODELS TO RIVAL GOOGLE AND OPENAI

DeepSeek has unveiled two new models. The startup claims DeepSeek-V3.2 matches the performance of OpenAI's GPT-5 across multiple reasoning benchmarks. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is designed for mathematical computations and matches the performance of Google's Gemini-3 Pro. It also performed at gold medal levels on the International Math Olympiad.

SAMSUNG REVEALS GALAXY Z TRIFOLD, CONFIRMS US LAUNCH IN EARLY 2026

The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is set to launch in the US early next year. Its inner display measures 10 inches across. The phone's specs are overall pretty similar to the Galaxy Z Fold 7, though the battery is quite a bit bigger at 5,600 mAh. The device will come only in 'Crafted Black'. It only measures 3.9mm at its thinnest unfolded point. When folded up, the device measures 12.9mm thick, which is markedly thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold 5, which was only released two years ago.

NEURALINK'S FIRST PATIENT COULD RECEIVE AN UPGRADE

Neuralink is considering an upgrade for its first human patient. Since receiving the implant, the patient has been able to play games, attend classes, and work. He is currently studying neuroscience and maintaining good grades, something that would be impossible without Neuralink. An upgrade would allow him to perform even more sophisticated tasks using only his mind.

PUNYCODE: MY NEW FAVORITE ALGORITHM

Punycode is a special encoding used to convert Unicode characters to ASCII. It's deceptively simple on the surface, but there's real sophistication in how it manages the problems inherent in encoding arbitrary Unicode within DNS' ASCII-only infrastructure. The algorithm uses adaptive bias adjustment, variable-length encoding, and delta compression to achieve extremely dense results. This article looks at how to encode arbitrary Unicode within DNS's ASCII-only infrastructure. It provides a step-through visualizer at the end that lets readers watch the algorithm encode domains from various scripts.

TREAT TEST CODE LIKE PRODUCTION CODE

The same coding standards applied to production code should also be applied to test code. Test code needs to be readable, well-factored, and reviewed, just like production code. Good code makes it easier for people working on the code to read, understand, and update. Applying coding standards and design principles to test code makes maintainability easier.

COLLEGE STUDENTS FLOCK TO A NEW MAJOR: AI

Interest in understanding, using, and learning how to build AI technologies is soaring. Schools are racing to meet rising student and industry demand. Dozens of universities and colleges in the US have announced new AI departments, majors, minors, courses, interdisciplinary concentrations, and other programs. Students hope that the AI branding will open up more job opportunities.

INSTAGRAM MANDATES TOTAL RETURN TO OFFICE FOR EMPLOYEES IN 2026

Instagram employees will be required to return to the office beginning February 2. Employees will still be able to work remotely when needed, but they have been asked to use their best judgment on when to take advantage of that flexibility. Other planned changes intended to make Instagram more nimble and creative next year include the scaling back of recurring meetings and a faster process for unblocking and decision-making. While executives insist that in-person work has important benefits, employees often disagree.

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AWS ANNOUNCES PREVIEW OF AWS INTERCONNECT - MULTICLOUD

AWS Interconnect - multicloud provides simple, resilient, and high-speed private connections to other cloud service providers.

OPENAI TAKES STAKE IN THRIVE HOLDINGS, A BUYER OF SERVICES FIRMS

Thrive Holdings was created to buy up and consolidate providers like accounting firms.

SHOPIFY BREAKS DOWN ON BUSY CYBER MONDAY

Shopify experienced an outage on Cyber Monday that interrupted operations for some merchants.

GOOGLE UNKILLS JPEG XL?

The Chromium team has reversed the Obsolete tag for JPEG XL as it has decided to support the format in Blink, the engine behind Chrome.

GOOGLE, NVIDIA, AND OPENAI

The heroes of the AI story over the last three years have been OpenAI and Nvidia, but Google is now striking back.