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OPENAI DECLARES ‘CODE RED' AS GOOGLE THREATENS AI LEAD

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a 'code red' effort to improve the quality of ChatGPT. Other products will be delayed as a result. OpenAI is facing immense pressure from competitors, who have narrowed the gap in the AI race. Google Gemini last month surpassed OpenAI's models in industry benchmark tests. OpenAI is also facing pressure from Anthropic, which is becoming popular among business customers.

ANTHROPIC REPORTEDLY PREPARING FOR ONE OF THE LARGEST IPOS EVER IN RACE WITH OPENAI

Anthropic is in early talks to launch an IPO next year. It has engaged a law firm that previously worked on high-profile tech IPOs such as Google, LinkedIn, and Lyft. The company has also discussed a potential IPO with major investment banks, but the discussions are in an informal preliminary stage. The potential listing will test investors' appetite for loss-making AI startups amid growing fears of an AI bubble.

HOW BLUE ORIGIN PLANS TO BEAT SPACEX TO THE MOON

Blue Origin sees the Moon as an opportunity to gain an edge over SpaceX. It is currently working on a bigger, more powerful version of its New Glenn rocket. The formerly slow-moving company is now transitioning into a production organization. It has planned several orbital missions, including an early 2026 cargo flight to the Moon.

WAYMO'S SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE SUDDENLY BEHAVING LIKE NEW YORK CABBIES

Waymo has been trying to make its cars more confidently assertive. The move is necessary to scale up in some cities because of how busy they are. Passive vehicles can be disruptive. The vehicles are now programmed to make common-sense decisions, which can involve trade-offs.

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AWS RE:INVENT 2025: LIVE UPDATES ON NEW AI INNOVATIONS AND MORE

AWS re:Invent 2025 will run throughout this week. The cloud service company has already unveiled groundbreaking innovations such as frontier agents that can run autonomously for days, an expansion of the Amazon Nova model family, the availability of Trainium UltraServers, and the launch of AWS AI Factories. More announcements are expected throughout the week. This page contains live updates from the event.

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WHY LOCAL TECH SCENES HAVE CHANGED

AI has changed the relationship between local tech scenes and San Francisco. The opportunity cost of being anywhere other than San Francisco is now at an all-time high. However, it is also much easier for players who want to stay local to start a one-person business and grow it themselves. AI will enable local tech scenes to produce promising startups and select for promising talent in very different ways than they used to.

THE JUNIOR HIRING CRISIS

AI is accelerating the erosion of the traditional apprenticeship model in tech. This puts the 10- to 20-year talent pipeline at risk. Students and early-career professionals need to start building relational intelligence now. Relationship skills have always been a differentiator, but now they're a necessity.

BIG TECH'S ‘SPEND LITTLE, EARN LOTS' FORMULA IS THREATENED BY AI

Investors are giving tech giants the benefit of the doubt on their AI plans despite the uncertainty of future payoffs.

GOOGLE SEARCH ADDING SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM AI OVERVIEWS TO AI MODE

Google is testing a new design on mobile that brings users into AI Mode when they tap an AI Overview's 'Show more' button.

‘REVERSE MATHEMATICS' ILLUMINATES WHY HARD PROBLEMS ARE HARD

Mathematicians have used reverse mathematics to prove that many distinct theorems in complexity theory are actually exactly equivalent.

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VANGUARD WILL NOW ALLOW CRYPTO ETFS ON ITS PLATFORM

Vanguard will allow ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold select cryptocurrencies starting on Tuesday.

ANOTHER OPEN SOURCE PROJECT DIES OF NEGLECT, LEAVING THOUSANDS SCRAMBLING

Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller in March.

ANDROID JUST ENTERED A NEW ERA OF FREQUENT UPDATES WITH THE LATEST ANDROID 16 RELEASE

Starting with Android 16, Google will deliver multiple Android releases throughout the year containing new system features and developer APIs.