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Midea's new Miro U looks like someone freeze framed that shot, printed it, and walked it down the hall to the robotics lab with the caption "do this, but for factories." Six coordinated arms, a torso that feels almost cloaked, a wheeled base that spins 360 degrees in place, it reads less like industrial equipment and more like a concept sheet that escaped ArtStation.

The chatbot was drawing from a storm of headlines about Scale AI, which until this summer had been touted as one of the most ascendant startups in tech - the place Big Tech companies vying for AI supremacy went to when they wanted their chatbots stress-tested and perfected. Lately, it's lost some of its gleam, with investors significantly lowering valuations, workers sniping about pay, and rivals coming for its clientele.

Cities worldwide are adopting new technologies to improve quality of life and safety. By integrating data from connected systems, sensors and devices, 'smart cities' better understand how municipal resources are used and where problems arise. An example of this is the changing role of video management systems. Over the years, law enforcement agencies have pushed to install more cameras in high-traffic areas and develop real time crime centers to support more proactive interventions. Now cities are beginning to recognize the value of these cameras and analytics to solve municipal problems as well.

In a video posted to Instagram, EngineAI CEO Zhao Tongyang geared up in leg, stomach, and head pads. Workers taunted him, asking if he was nervous. The company's T800 robot then appeared to kick Tongyang in the stomach, and he can be seen falling to the ground. "Too violent!" Tongyang said in a translation. "Too brutal!" The video featuring its CEO came after EngineAI posted a separate video of its humanoid robot doing kicks and flips.

You'll now be able to do contactless credit and debit card payments on all Bay Area transit agencies. Also, if you use your Clipper Card, you can get discounted and free transfers between agencies. Riders will only be charged full fare for the first agency they use and if they transfer to a different agency, they will get a discount up to $2.85. If the fare of your next ride is below that, your ride would be free.

"Operation Gatekeeper has exposed a sophisticated smuggling network that threatens our Nation's security by funneling cutting-edge AI technology to those who would use it against American interests," said US Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. The investigation had been ongoing since at least last year and centers on the illicit export or attempted export of at least $160 million worth of NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs.

Intel has signed a term sheet to acquire the AI chip startup SambaNova Systems, two sources with direct knowledge of the agreement tell WIRED. The details of the term sheet are unknown. The agreement is non-binding, meaning the deal is not yet finalized and could be dissolved without penalty. It could take weeks or even months before regulatory approval, liability scrutiny, and financial due diligence are complete.

Looking to help modernise and future-proof campus networks across a range of use cases and industries, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) and Nokia have strengthened their strategic partnership to deliver an end-to-end portfolio of network services designed to support the digital transformation of critical industries such as transportation, smart cities, energy and utilities, healthcare, and hospitality. The joint networking services have been deployed by Ikos Resorts in Greece, Pantai Jerudong Hospital in Brunei and Wembley Park in the UK in deployments designed to help establish campus-wide fibre-based LAN networks capable of delivering multi-gigabit data speeds to customers.

Yesterday, the leading Digital Asset Treasury company for Ethereum, Bitmine (NASDAQ: BMNR), posted an update on its holding through December 8th. They possess nearly 4m in ETH, 192 BTC, $1b in cash, and a $36m stake in Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS). Tom Lee has stated the company's goal is to own 5% of the ETH supply, and they continue to purchase Ethereum on a weekly basis. As of yesterday, Bitmine had purchased 138,452 ETH over the prior week, the largest purchase week for Bitmine.

Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the company's chief revenue officer, multiple sources tell WIRED. Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, which owns Slack, shared news of Dresser's departure in a message to staff on Monday evening. At OpenAI, Dresser will manage the company's enterprise unit, which has been growing rapidly this year. She will report to chief operating officer Brad Lightcap. She starts next week.

"Last week, VSCO said goodbye to 24 employees as a result of a company restructure [sic],"

New Relic today announced the general availability of a new platform capability that allows users to directly query entity and relationship data within New Relic Database (NRDB) using the familiar New Relic Query Language (NRQL). This powerful capability allows users to seamlessly join this vital information with their telemetry data, all in one place.

Stanley Druckenmiller of Duquesne Family Office bought 76,100 shares of Meta Platforms and 102,200 shares of Alphabet. They collectively account for 2% of his portfolio. Israel Englander of Millennium Management purchased 793,500 shares of Meta Platforms and 2.2 million shares of Alphabet. They are now his eighth- and fifth-largest holdings, respectively, excluding options.

The Indian government has officially rescinded a controversial mandate that would have forced smartphone manufacturers to ship new devices with a state-run cybersafety tool preloaded. The decision, confirmed by India's telecoms ministry on Wednesday, marks a swift policy reversal following significant resistance from global tech giants and privacy advocates. The initial directive, issued confidentially on Nov. 28, set a 90-day deadline for vendors to integrate the Sanchar Saathi app into their firmware, with the stipulation that users must not be allowed to delete it.

Alphabet ( NASDAQ:GOOG) and Nvidia ( NASDAQ:NVDA) have been two of the best growth stocks to own this year. Both stocks have outperformed the S&P 500 over several years and have multiple AI catalysts that can lead to more gains. However, Alphabet has delivered higher returns than Nvidia over the past year, and that trend is likely to continue. Google's parent company looks like the better AI stock, and there are a few reasons why.

And while robotaxi rival Waymo recently partnered with DoorDash to test food deliveries with driverless cars, Levinson said that Zoox is "laser focused" on moving people around cities, an addressable market he sees as being "just profoundly huge." That directive has come "all the way from the very top" at Amazon, he added, despite the retailer's significant interest in driverless package delivery.

AWS CEO Matt Garman's annual re:Invent keynote was the best kind of keynote, in that you could have slept in for nearly all of it and still been thrilled to pieces, provided you caught the last ten minutes. He concluded what was otherwise an AI-palooza chock full of boring guest speakers with an Andy Jassy style "twenty-five releases in ten minutes," complete with a basketball-style ten-minute shot clock counting down the time.

Dr. Yang Zuoxing, Founder and CEO of MicroBT, opened the event with a keynote that highlighted the connection between technological leadership and long-term industry growth. He framed the conversation around energy innovation, presenting strategies that aim to integrate renewable sources into mining operations. Central to his remarks was an off-grid solar solution capable of 200kW output. This system, using an 800V DC supply and a "load-following-source" design, improves efficiency compared to traditional AC setups and enables uninterrupted operation.

"Whether you're pinpointing best practices from a recently completed campaign, surfacing trends in recent P1 incidents, or identifying which upcoming initiatives have the greatest potential for success, the Atlassian Rovo MCP Server and ChatGPT make it easy to connect the dots across your organization's knowledge," the firm in a blog post. Users can now summarize Jira work items or Confluence pages instantly within ChatGPT and go beyond a basic summary to make use of the AI tool's reasoning and research capabilities.

Finally, they've revealed the Mobile Eccentric Droid, a.k.a. MobED, a mobility robot platform tailored for a diverse range of industrial and everyday-use applications. The bot was shown off at the International Robot Exhibition 2025 (iREX 2025) in Tokyo. According to Dong Jin Hyun, Vice President and Head of Hyundai Motor Group Robotics LAB, the new robot will help "accelerate a future where humans and robots coexist." The most exciting bit, it'll be up for sale in the first half of 2026.

The increases, which will affect the company's commercial, frontline worker, and government customers, take effect from July 1, 2026, and range from a slight bump to an eye-watering hike. According to Microsoft, the rises (or "updates" in Micro-speak) are driven by expanded security, management, and AI capabilities. Microsoft said, "Organizations face an increasingly complex threat landscape, rising IT demands, and the urgent need for AI-powered transformation. "To help our customers meet these challenges head-on, we're enhancing our Microsoft 365 offerings with additional security and management capabilities empowered by AI."

Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff crowed to investors on Wednesday that the company's Agentforce IT Service, which debuted in October, was already winning customers and saving them money. He singled out PenFed, one of the nation's largest credit unions, as one of the early users and claimed PenFed is projecting a 30 percent cut in operating costs, and $2 million in savings.

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Friday said it was investigating an outage that took place in the morning that brought down several global websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and others, the second such crash to affect the company in less than three weeks.Cloudflare said the issue had been resolved, and that it was was "investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs," or application programming interface that allow software systems to communicate with each other.

The new Security+ 3.0 platform, launching alongside Chamberlain's latest openers, shuts down the workarounds that third-party accessory makers such as Tailwind, Meross, and Ratgdo developed to let you integrate your garage door with Apple Home, Home Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and others. Instead, you're pushed into Chamberlain's ad-stuffed MyQ app and a short list of partners and integrations, nearly all of which require paid subscriptions and none of which are the major ecosystems. (Controlling your door in the MyQ app itself is still free).

Billions of dollars are at stake in this battle. The Pentagon is preparing to spend $9.4 billion on aerial combat drones in fiscal year 2026 as part of its larger $13.4 billion investment in autonomous systems. Furthermore, the Air Force is seeking $789.4 million for research and development of autonomous "loyal wingmen" drones that can fly and fight alongside crewed combat aircraft or carry out missions alone. The Department of Defense also aims to invest $3.1 billion in counter-drone technology.

BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Vero Fiber Networks, a leading provider of fiber optic infrastructure solutions, announces the successful completion of a substantial AI - tailored network buildout in 2025, underscoring the company's strong execution capabilities and commitment to advancing digital connectivity and resiliency across the U.S. In 2025 alone, Vero delivered projects associated with 790 miles of high-capacity, underground, multi-conduit routes across five key states: Nevada, Iowa, California, Texas and Tennessee.

He told Business Insider that he personally calls some of the most in-demand candidates during the decision-making process to see where their head is at. That includes not just senior-level recruits, but also recent grads, he said. "I get on the call with them to understand how they're going to make the decision - what is driving their decisions," Subramanian said. "And oftentimes we win those candidates."

"In theory, it's what's most popular on Reddit, but it's actually what is liked by the most active users on Reddit-which is not the same thing," he said. "Having it as a default feed gives the false impression of a singular Reddit culture, one that is neither representative of Reddit nor appealing to new users (or anyone at all, IMO)."

Case in point: Palo Alto finalized a $25 billion deal to buy Israeli cybersecurity firm CyberArk in July, giving the Silicon Valley firm access to a leader in the identity security and management space for people, machines and AI agents. The deal highlights how, regardless of how good an AI model is, no one can win the AI race without solid supporting services.