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Weekly#670

  • Semafor Tech’s predictions for 2026
  • 2025: The year in LLMs
  • Meta’s deal for Manus AI could be worth $2.5 billion
  • Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (WSJ)
  • Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse works enter the public domain in 2026
  • Nvidia deal shows why inference is AI’s next battleground…”…Why it matters: Groq’s language processing unit (LPU) chips power real-time chatbot queries — as opposed to model training — potentially giving Nvidia an edge in the AI race…”
  • AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
  • Capital in the 22nd Century
  • Neuralink plans ‘high-volume’ brain implant production by 2026
  • Hasbro’s Secret Weapon for Training Its Next Leaders: A Board Game (WSJ)
  • UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space
  • Nvidia takes $1 billion stake in Nokia, sending the 5G equipment maker’s shares up 22%
  • No iPhone 18 Launch This Year, Reports Suggest
  • IDC estimates Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partner Luxshare stopped Vision Pro production in 2025 after selling 390,000 units in 2024
  • Australian pension giant grows bearish on stocks over AI
  • Advanced Prompt Engineering: Chain of Thought (CoT)
  • Best Prompt Engineering Resources (2026 Edition)
  • Tesla Car Sales Dropped 9% in 2025, Falling Behind China’s BYD (NYTimes)
  • France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
  • Some of your cells are not genetically yours
  • Poor sleep health is associated with older brain age: the role of systemic inflammation
  • Transformers v5: Simple model definitions powering the AI ecosystem
  • “..Microsoft 365’s AI assistant, Copilot, surpassed 150mn monthly active users, the company told investors in October. But this remains short of the around 650mn users reported by Google for its Gemini chatbot and the 800mn by OpenAI for ChatGPT… (FT)”

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