☕️ Trump signs the 'Genesis Mission' order to accelerate AI

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📝 Trump signs the 'Genesis Mission' order to accelerate AI

🤖 Anthropic releases new flagship Claude Opus 4.5 model

🛍️ OpenAI launches a shopping research tool in ChatGPT

💥 Google in talks to sell custom AI chips to Meta

🍎 Apple cuts dozens of sales jobs in rare layoffs

❌ Nvidia denies Enron comparisons in staff memo

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• President Trump issued an executive order launching the Genesis Mission, a Department of Energy initiative that will build a centralized platform to train scientific foundation models using decades of collected federal datasets.
• This system connects to sovereign AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where AMD chips will help automate research workflows and create AI agents to solve major national security and health challenges.
• The directive requires the agency to show real-world results within nine months, prioritizing efforts to accelerate fusion energy, modernize the energy grid, and develop materials for defense and ensure nuclear weapons reliability.

• Anthropic released Opus 4.5, which scores 80.9 percent on the SWE-Bench Verified coding benchmark, beating OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max at 77.9 percent and Google's Gemini 3 Pro at 76.2 percent.
• Claude now summarizes earlier parts of long conversations instead of abruptly ending them when hitting the 200,000 token context window, keeping important information while discarding what it considers extraneous.
• The new conversation memory improvement works across all current Claude models in the web, mobile, and desktop apps, not just Opus 4.5, and developers can use similar features through the API.

• OpenAI launched Shopping Research, a feature that behaves like an autonomous agent to ask clarifying questions, browse the internet for information, and turn those findings into a visual shopping guide.
• It runs on a mini model post-trained on GPT-5-Thinking-mini that uses reinforcement learning to read reliable sources, scoring 64 percent on internal product accuracy tests compared to standard search features.
• The interface lets users tag items with "Not interested," but the system also accesses ChatGPT’s memory to shape results, aligning with reports that OpenAI is actively exploring personalized advertising for growth.

• Meta is in talks to spend billions on Google’s custom tensor processing units for data centers by 2027, a move that would create a rival to the industry’s bestselling AI accelerator.
• The company may also rent chips from Google’s cloud division next year, a report that caused Nvidia stock to slump while Alphabet shares gained on the news of a potential partnership.
• An agreement would help establish TPUs as an alternative for big tech firms that need computing power, following a similar deal to supply 1 million of the chips to the startup Anthropic.

• Apple cut roles within its sales organization, specifically targeting account managers responsible for significant businesses, schools, and government agencies, along with teams assigned to managing briefing centers used for product demonstrations.
• While management claims this strategy helps simplify the division, some impacted employees believe the move signals a shift toward using third-party resellers, known as the channel, to reduce internal operating costs.
• The layoffs heavily hit a group dealing with the US Department of Defense and the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, leaving those individuals until January 20 to find available jobs.

• Nvidia sent a note to analysts denying it is like Enron after a viral Substack post claimed the company is engaged in accounting fraud by using special purpose entities to hide debt.
• The memo states short-seller Michael Burry incorrectly added taxes on restricted stock units to get his numbers and insists the firm does not control neoclouds or provide financing for them.
• While the business invests in CoreWeave to prop it up, the story notes these relationships are plain sight arrangements rather than the illegal stuff found in secret corporate lies.

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• RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster LINK

• McKinsey explains why AI won’t take your job, even though it can already automate 57% of all U.S. work hours LINK

• Nvidia CEO told employees to use AI for 'every task that is possible' and says there will still be plenty of jobs LINK

• A new AI benchmark tests whether chatbots protect human wellbeing LINK

• Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims LINK

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• Amazon pushes in-house AI coding tool Kiro over competitors', memo shows LINK

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