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💻 Nvidia to launch its first laptops with its own processors 💧 Sam Altman dismisses AI water-usage concerns as fake 👓 Apple bets on Visual Intelligence for future AI wearables 🏗️ Stargate $500B AI project stalls over partner disputes 💡 ASML's breakthrough could boost chip output 50% by 2030 🏛️ Defense Secretary summons Anthropic CEO over military AI 🎁 + 11 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 5 trending tools 📚 + 2 trending papers & reports
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💻 Nvidia to launch its first laptops with its own processors
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- Nvidia is reportedly working on laptops powered by its own processors, which would mark the company's push to become a recognizable consumer brand beyond its existing GPU business.
- The company is partnering with both Intel and MediaTek on chip efforts, but the MediaTek deal is arguably more interesting because it involves actual Nvidia CPUs built on ARM designs.
- Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are reportedly circling the full Nvidia SoC, likely hoping the company's AI reputation creates a halo effect that boosts their laptop sales.
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💧 Sam Altman dismisses AI water-usage concerns as fake
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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called concerns about AI water usage "fake" and "totally insane" during an interview at the India AI Impact summit, dismissing claims that ChatGPT consumes 17 gallons per query.
- Altman compared AI energy costs to the energy it takes to "train a human," arguing that 20 years of food and life experience should factor into any fair efficiency comparison.
- Despite Altman's dismissals, the IEA projects global data center electricity use could roughly double by 2030 to around 945 TWh, and water drawn for cooling is expected to triple.
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👓 Apple bets on Visual Intelligence for future AI wearables
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- Apple is betting on Visual Intelligence as a core technology for its upcoming AI wearables, with CEO Tim Cook repeatedly promoting the feature as a sign of where the company is headed.
- Cook's pattern of talking up topics before launching related products — as he did with sensors before Apple Watch and AR before Apple Vision Pro — suggests new hardware is coming.
- Expected devices include AirPods with cameras and an AI pin or pendant, all designed to give Apple Intelligence a live view of the world for tasks like navigation and identification.
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🏗️ Stargate $500B AI project stalls over partner disputes
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- The $500 billion Stargate AI data center project, announced by President Trump in January 2025, has stalled because OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank kept arguing over responsibilities and how the collaboration should be structured.
- OpenAI tried to build its own data centers but couldn't get financing because lenders wouldn't back billion-dollar projects from a company with an unproven business model and heavy losses.
- To cover its computing power needs during the delays, OpenAI cut deals with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, AMD, and chip startup Cerebras, while a 1-gigawatt Texas campus broke ground in October.
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💡 ASML's breakthrough could boost chip output 50% by 2030
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- ASML researchers say they can make the light inside their chip-printing machines much stronger — going from 600 watts to 1,000 watts — which could let each machine produce up to 50% more chips by 2030.
- A stronger light means chips can be printed onto silicon wafers faster, so factories could process about 330 wafers per hour per machine by the end of the decade, up from 220 today.
- ASML faces new competition from U.S. startups Substrate and xLight, plus China's national effort to build its own chip-printing machines, making this power boost important for staying ahead.
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🏛️ Defense Secretary summons Anthropic CEO over military AI
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- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to talk about how the military will use the startup's AI models.
- Negotiations have stalled because Anthropic wants assurance its models won't be used for autonomous weapons or to spy on Americans, while the DoD wants no limitations on lawful use.
- Anthropic is the only AI company that has deployed models on the DoD's classified networks and was awarded a $200 million contract with the department last year.
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Apple's first event of the year will reportedly bring at least five products over a 'three-day blitz'
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OpenAI partners with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform
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Russian hacker uses multiple AI tools to break hundreds of firewalls
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Google spinout Aalyria valued at $1.3 billion as investors pour into space-based communications
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Galaxy S26 will add Perplexity to Samsung’s AI lineup
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Google Restricts AI Ultra Subscribers Over OpenClaw OAuth, Days After Anthropic Ban
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AI's Productivity Boom Is Real. The Prosperity Part Isn't.
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🧰 Trending tools
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Siteline: monitors AI agent and bot traffic on your website, showing which platforms visit which pages and how that drives human conversions.
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Shuru: spins up ephemeral Linux VMs on macOS using Apple's Virtualization.framework, booting in ~1 second with optional checkpointing.
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TypeBoost: a macOS tool that applies custom AI writing actions directly to selected text in any app, letting you edit and refine content without switching windows.
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Wispr Flow for Android: a voice-to-text tool that transcribes speech into formatted text across all apps with real-time editing and multi-language support.
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Grok 4.2: a free AI assistant with real-time search, image generation, and trend analysis capabilities focused on delivering objective, factual responses.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Humanity's Last Exam Gets Quality Check: researchers found and fixed over 1,000 errors in a benchmark designed to test superhuman AI, improving question accuracy and fairness.
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