The chipmaker beat third-quarter earnings expectations as demand for its AI chips increased, sending shares higher in extended trading. AMD forecast fourth-quarter revenue of about $17 billion, plus or minus 3%, according to Quartz. Third-quarter operating income rose 123% to $2.8 billion, according to Unite.AI.
US officials raised concerns with Oracle about the agreement, according to The Economic Times, citing the Financial Times. The Financial Times reported that the intervention came as US AI infrastructure companies faced growing tensions over doing business with Chinese technology giants, with the cancellation following pressure from the Trump administration.
Search, Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Gemini in Classroom will be off by default for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly enable them. Google has also made Guided Learning available worldwide in Classroom and plans to pilot the feature in Search at selected U.S. schools.
The investment, led by Capital One Ventures, brings Sentra’s total funding to more than $250 million.
Charge Robotics chief technology officer Max Justicz said he used a specialized OpenAI model to find a vulnerability in a popular open-source software that would allow someone to hack into major datacenters.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it plans to spend $15 billion to expand data center and cloud operations in Malaysia as the artificial intelligence boom fuels demand for digital infrastructure.
The bank acknowledged that hackers stole money after accessing its computer systems, according to Bloomberg. CoinDesk reports that Crypto.com blocked funds linked to the theft.
Texas elected Democrats as governor and U.S. senator for the first time in decades, according to The Information. Implicator.ai reports that the incoming governor pledged a data center moratorium.
Chinese AI developers expect to receive just a small fraction of the advanced Nvidia Corp.
Bloomberg ·The rumor comes from Digital Chat Station's Weibo post about Apple's base model.
MacRumors ·Attackers are exploiting a WordPress Core vulnerability that can let malicious code run on website servers.
BleepingComputer ·The exchange described a campaign lasting months that compromised an engineer’s work computer and internal systems before the theft.
BBC ·The updated app lets users save music playback settings for a particular room and volume, then start playback from the homescreen, according to The Verge.
The Verge ·Some employees in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland have been offered exit packages since June, extending a program previously run in the US and UK.
The Next Web ·Candidates opposing data centers won races across the United States in the 2026 midterm elections, according to Data Center Dynamics.
Data Center Dynamics ·Alex Schultz tells FT’s Future of AI summit that falling birth rates mean AI will be needed to support dwindling numbers of people
Financial Times ·The discovery risks further undermining faith in the integrity of January’s presidential election.
Semafor ·Tuesday's election was a wholesale rejection of Silicon Valley's worldview and AI-powered kleptocracy.
404 Media ·Chinese robotics sector fundraising decelerated sharply in past months to about 11 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in October, suggesting a cooling in the frenzied pace of investment since Unitree wowed the world with its Spring Festival humanoids showcase.
Bloomberg ·Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week.
The Verge ·Ride-hailing group aims to have 2,000 robotaxis on road by end of next year but will still trail rival Waymo
Financial Times ·To protect retail investors, we should stop permitting the deferral of stock-based employee compensation costs
Financial Times ·