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Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron Today's topics: Google TPU 8 chips challenge Nvidia - Google introduced TPU 8tx and 8i Max AI processors for large-context AI, coding assistants and drug discovery, adding cloud competition against Nvidia GPUs. Rapidus falls behind 2028 target - Japan's government-backed chipmaker Rapidus is reportedly behind its plan to mass-produce cutting-edge semiconductors by March 2028, a setback for Japan's chip strategy. Anthropic launches Fable and Mythos 5.2 - Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with a 20% price cut, limited Mythos access to vetted security and life-sciences groups, and Cisco AI Defense adopts Mythos for agent red-teaming. Anthropic IPO valuation comes down - Anthropic is pushing ahead with its IPO amid an AI stock selloff, with investors pressing for a valuation below the $1.5 trillion recently discussed and far under earlier $2 trillion talk. Nvidia faces shareholder lawsuit over Huang - A shareholder lawsuit accuses Nvidia of misleading investors about Jensen Huang's ties to Megaspeed and executive Alice Huang, raising governance and securities-fraud questions. Australia plans tough AI regulator - Australia's prime minister announced an AI safety regulator with significant penalty powers, plus mandatory reporting and criminal-law changes after an OpenAI and Medicare hack. Iran-linked attack on French refrigeration - France attributed an October cyberattack on refrigeration controllers at about 700 retail sites to an IRGC-linked Iranian unit, highlighting operational technology risks. N-able and SAP critical flaws - N-able took its hosted N-central platform offline after 30-plus zero-days were disclosed, while SAP patched four CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated flaws in NetWeaver and Web Dispatcher. CISA flags exploited Aspera, FreeSWITCH bugs - CISA added IBM Aspera Faspex and SignalWire FreeSWITCH vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a three-day federal patch deadline. North Korea launders crypto via memecoins - A suspected North Korean hacking group is laundering cryptocurrency from the record Binance hack through short-lived memecoins to obscure transaction trails. Wing builds Texas drone factory - Alphabet's Wing will invest up to $125 million in a Fort Worth, Texas drone manufacturing plant capable of producing tens of thousands of delivery aircraft yearly. Agent-ready tools and everflux software - Storybook 11 beta adds agent-ready skills and CLI tools, Chrome gains native tab video recording, and Thomas Wolf describes AI-driven 'everflux' software blurring open and closed source. Kevin Kelly on AI and difference - Kevin Kelly argues abundant AI creation makes difference the scarce value, with portable specifications and standards like MCP and Agent2Agent as new knowledge units. mRNA therapy helps hearts self-repair - Cambridge researchers used a temporary mRNA therapy activating Myc and Cyclin T1 to help heart muscle regenerate after heart attacks in mice, improving pumping function. Episode Transcript Google TPU 8 chips challenge Nvidia We'll begin with the hardware behind AI. Google has introduced two new members of its in-house chip family, the TPU 8tx and the 8i Max. Each is aimed at different kinds of work, from AI that has to keep very large amounts of context in view to coding assistants, mathematical reasoning and drug discovery. The bigger story is competition. Cloud customers want alternatives to Nvidia's dominant GPUs, and Google keeps expanding the options it builds itself. Japan's...

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Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad - SurveyMonkey, Using AI to surface insights faster and reduce manual analysis time - https://get.surveymonkey.com/tad Today's topics: China expands its internet constellation - China launched its twenty-ninth group of low-Earth-orbit internet satellites aboard a Long March 12 rocket, continuing the rapid construction of its Guowang broadband constellation. Keywords: China, Long March 12, Guowang, satellite internet. [121] Rubin spots a backward world - The Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered R631, a distant object traveling around the Sun in the opposite direction from most planets. Its unusual retrograde orbit could reveal how objects are scattered through the outer solar system. Keywords: Rubin Observatory, R631, Neptune, retrograde orbit. [77] Webb sets stellar-magnification record - The James Webb Space Telescope recorded 104 magnified stellar events in the distant Dragon galaxy, more than doubling the previous count. The observations offer a new way to study individual stars billions of light-years away. Keywords: JWST, Dragon galaxy, gravitational lensing, distant stars. [56] Asteroid defense requires precise aim - Simulations show that the effectiveness of a nuclear asteroid-deflection attempt could vary nearly fivefold depending on which side of an irregular asteroid is targeted. Keywords: planetary defense, asteroid deflection, nuclear burst, simulations. [151] Gravity may reconnect like magnetism - Physicists have described a theoretical process called gravitational reconnection, in which structures in a gravitational field could rearrange and transfer energy into matter. Keywords: Einstein equations, gravity, spacetime, gravitational reconnection. [166] NASA recruits new Moon explorers - NASA has opened applications for a new astronaut class as it prepares for more Artemis missions and longer-term activity around the Moon. Keywords: NASA astronauts, Artemis, Moon exploration, astronaut recruitment. [35] Episode Transcript China expands its internet constellation We begin in the outer solar system, where the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has identified an object provisionally labeled R631. It lies just beyond Neptune and follows a steeply tilted retrograde orbit, meaning it travels around the Sun in the opposite direction from most of the planets. Objects on paths like this are uncommon, and their orbits can preserve evidence of violent events in the solar system’s past. R631 may have been scattered by a planet, disturbed by a passing star, or pushed inward from a much more distant reservoir of icy bodies. Astronomers will need a longer series of observations before they can accurately trace its full journey. Even so, this is an early example of Rubin’s ability to uncover faint and unusual members of our cosmic neighborhood. The observatory is designed to repeatedly scan huge areas of sky, making it especially good at finding objects that move or change over time. [77] Rubin spots a backward world Staying with discoveries made through repeated observations, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified 104 magnified stellar events in a galaxy known as the Dragon, located about six and a half billion light-years away. That more than doubles the previous record for this galaxy. Webb is not seeing these distant stars under ordinary conditions. A massive cluster of galaxies between Earth and the Dragon bends and amplifies their light, while smaller objects within the cluster create temporary boosts in brightness. This natural magnifying effect lets astronomers detect individual stars that would otherwise blend into the...

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