OpenAI beats Google, Meta, and Grok in all-AI poker tournament
A weeklong AI poker tournament revealed just how strategic and flawed AI models can be when playing under pressure.
December 5, 2025
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Critics Choice Awards: Apple TV’s 26 nominations include Best Drama Series for Pluribus
Apple has once again picked up multiple nominations for its shows and films, this time at the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards. Here are the details. more…
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Smartphones in 2025 are far from boring, with massive Apple redesigns, big competitive moves, and Google stealing iPhone features.
India considers new surveillance measure requiring iPhone A-GPS to stay active 24/7
Fresh off abandoning its controversial mandate to preload a state-run “security” app on all smartphones, the Indian government may already be heading into an even bigger privacy battle. Here are the details. more…
House panel questions Apple on apps used to track immigration officers
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Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses
The voluntary recall comes as scrutiny by federal regulators and local school district officials increases.
Sources: AI synthetic research startup Aaru raised a Series A at a $1B ‘headline’ valuation
The one-year-old startup, which does market research on simulated populations, had a multi-tier valuation round, sources tell TechCrunch.
“There is ‘no way'” – IBM CEO says current AI data center trends are unsustainable, and he would know
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna warns that massive AI data center expansions carry unsustainable costs and hardware replacement challenges globally.