🗞️ YOUR DAILY ROLLUP

Top Stories of the Day

🪴 Apple “Significantly Growing” AI Investments, Open to Acquisitions
During Apple’s Q3 2025 earnings call, CEO Tim Cook announced a sharp escalation in Apple’s AI strategy: “We are embedding it across our devices and platforms and across the company. We are also significantly growing our investments.” The company has already reallocated internal staff toward AI and completed seven small acquisitions so far this year, and Cook said Apple is “open to M&A that accelerates our roadmap.”

🔍️ Shared ChatGPT Conversations Indexed by Search Engines
A recent TechCrunch report reveals that some ChatGPT conversations shared publicly via the “create link” feature—and explicitly marked as indexable—are showing up in Google, Bing, and other search engine results. These links can include prompts and AI-generated answers, and in some instances, even details like user roles, personal names, or sensitive content.

🚀 OpenAI Launches Stargate Norway AI Hub
OpenAI is launching Stargate Norway, a renewable-powered data center set to deliver 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by 2026. Built with Nscale and Aker, it will support Norway’s AI growth and serve wider European demand. The facility boosts sovereign compute, aids startups and researchers, and reflects OpenAI’s expanding global AI infrastructure strategy.

📈 Startup, Nobel Winner Launch GPU Futures Exchange
OneChronos and Nobel laureate Paul Milgrom’s Auctionomics are creating the first exchange to trade GPU compute like commodity futures. Through auctions, firms can hedge prices, manage risk, and bid on GPU time. If widely adopted, it could stabilize costs and unlock financing for AI infrastructure, making GPUs truly tradable assets.

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🤔 FRIDAY FACTS

Who Spotted COVID-19 First?

In December 2019, before most of us had heard the word "coronavirus," one system had already flagged a mysterious outbreak in Wuhan.

It wasn’t the CDC. It wasn’t the WHO. So… who—or what—sounded the alarm first?

Stick around to find out! 👇

👾 FORWARD FUTURE ORIGINAL

Aaron Levie on AI Agents, the Collapse of SaaS, and Why Work Is Being Rewritten

Box CEO Aaron Levie joins Matthew Berman to discuss the real future of AI agents, the evolution of enterprise software, and why the job of the future isn’t doing the work, it’s managing the agents that do.

From bold takes on white-collar jobs to a deep dive into Box’s transformation into an AI-first company, Aaron Levie lays out one of the most compelling visions yet of how work will change in the age of AI. → Read the full article here.

👥 AGENTS

100+ AI Agents Working in Parallel, Not Just Deeply: Manus Launches ‘Wide Research’

Chinese AI startup Manus is rethinking how we research with AI. Its new “Wide Research” tool launches over 100 autonomous agents in parallel to handle large-scale tasks, like comparing sneaker prices or generating posters in 50 styles, at speed. Unlike “Deep Research” offerings from OpenAI or Google, which rely on a single agent working in depth, Manus’s swarm-style model favors breadth over depth.

Each agent is fully capable, not role-limited, and operates on a dedicated virtual machine. While promising in ambition, the system lacks benchmarks or evidence that it outperforms traditional methods. For now, Wide Research is more a bold bet on scale than a proven solution. → Read the full article here.

🗺️ GEOPOLITICS

Trump Loosens Chip Controls

Chinese labs like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI have developed world-class models such as Kimi K2, but U.S. export controls on NVIDIA chips have throttled their ability to run them effectively. Despite creative workarounds, including open-source releases and homegrown chips, China’s AI sector has faced a critical bottleneck in inference, the compute-heavy process of serving models to users.

Now, the Trump administration has reversed course, lifting the ban on NVIDIA’s H20 chips. While this won't immediately resolve shortages, it signals a shift: allowing China to buy American hardware may be preferable to seeing it build a self-reliant chip stack. If supply meets demand by year’s end, China’s AI could finally match its ambition with scale. → Read the full article here.

👓️ WEARABLES

Brilliant Labs Unveils $299 AI Glasses That See, Hear, and Remember—All Day Long

Brilliant Labs’ new Halo smart glasses pack a full AI assistant, Noa, into a sleek 40-gram frame—with 14 hours of battery life and zero bulk. Instead of chasing cameras or flashy visuals, Halo prioritizes contextual intelligence: it listens, sees, and remembers your daily life to help answer questions later, all via an open-source platform that invites developers to expand what’s possible.

With features like Vibe Mode for voice-coded apps and bone-conduction audio, Halo is more AI companion than content capture tool. → Read the full paper here.

🛰️ NEWS

What Else is Happening

🚀 Quora’s Poe Launches AI API: Developers can now tap into multiple chatbots, like GPT-4o and Claude, via one streamlined API, aiming to simplify access across top models.

🪦 Does AI Push 1:1s Toward Extinction? Once essential, the classic manager check-in is losing ground to AI tools, digital twins, and real-time data—turning ritual into redundancy in modern workflows.

🦾 LangChain Aligns AI with Human Judgment: New Align Evals tool lets users fine-tune LLM evaluators to match human preferences, cutting noise, false signals, and trust gaps in model assessments.

💼 Most Americans Still Skip AI at Work: Only 37% use AI on the job, per AP poll, with younger users leading adoption, mostly for brainstorming, not companionship or complex tasks.

🤔 AI’s Job Hit List Revealed: Microsoft study finds writers, translators, and customer service roles are most at risk, while dredge operators and bridge tenders face virtually zero AI threat.

📽️ VIDEO

The AlphaGO Moment for AI Models...

A new paper showcases an AI system that designs, tests, and improves model architectures on its own—marking a leap toward self-improving intelligence.

🧰 TOOLBOX

Personalized Hiring, AI Productivity, and Pro-Level Visuals

🤔 FRIDAY FACTS

An AI System Detected COVID-19 Before the World Did

A Canadian startup called BlueDot used AI to analyze global news reports, airline ticketing data, and health bulletins. In December 2019, its system flagged a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases in Wuhan, days before the World Health Organization made its first public statement. The AI parsed vast, unstructured datasets to spot a pattern no human had yet pieced together.

That’s a Wrap!

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