Meta just poached two of Apple’s most senior design leaders to build its future AI hardware. Meanwhile, AI pioneer Yann LeCun is starting a new company in Paris focused on advanced world models, independent of Meta’s funding.
Alex Karp, the outspoken CEO of Palantir, embraces the label of being an “arrogant prick.” He argues this arrogance is essential for leaders who make high-stakes, contrarian bets that others mock, pointing to his company’s 121% commercial revenue growth as proof.
Samsung DeX promises a desktop experience from your phone, but a long-time user says it’s still not ready to replace a laptop. Key features like proper drag-and-drop and window snapping are still missing, making it a compromise at best.
The developer of Let it Die: Inferno has issued a detailed statement on its use of generative AI. It reveals AI was used for specific character voices and as a starting point for some art and music, with human artists and composers heavily involved afterward.
The Mesa graphics driver project has released version 25.3.1, marking the first stable bug-fix update for the 25.3 series. Concurrently, the Mesa 25.2 branch has officially been discontinued, ending its support period.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a “code red” and is delaying the company’s advertising plans. The focus is now squarely on improving ChatGPT’s quality to compete with Google and Anthropic.
Amazon’s AWS has unveiled three new autonomous AI agents designed to handle the tedious work around code generation. They promise to operate for hours or days without human intervention. The move puts AWS in direct competition with a host of established DevOps and security partners.
Microsoft’s November 2025 update for Windows 11, released on December 1, is causing a major visual bug. The KB5070311 patch makes File Explorer in dark mode flash a blinding white screen during common actions. While improving dark theme support, the update also has a lock screen bug.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has signed a preliminary deal to provide up to $150 million to xLight, an EUV startup where ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is Executive Chairman. The funding, under the CHIPS Act, aims to develop a domestic free-electron laser light source for advanced chipmaking.
The Linux kernel is getting a tweak to improve storage performance, especially on rotational and zoned devices. A new patch for version 6.19 will let file systems override the default minimum writeback chunk size of 4MiB.
