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🤖 Nvidia becomes a major model maker with Nemotron 3
🛰️ Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided
🧹 Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy after 35 years
🏬 Netflix to open physical stores in American malls
💎 5D glass storage lasts 13.8 billion years
🛑 China rejects Nvidia H200 chips despite US strategy
🎁 + 12 other news you might like
🧰 + 6 trending tools
📚 + 3 trending papers
🤖 Nvidia becomes a major model maker with Nemotron 3 LINK
Nvidia cemented its role as a major model maker by unveiling Nemotron 3, a fresh family of open-source large-language models designed to perform coding and writing assignments across the industry.
The firm released the small Nemotron 3 Nano immediately to handle long jobs with multiple steps, claiming it runs cheaper than predecessors before two larger versions arrive in early 2026.
Executives say they are treating the project like a library by sharing training data, which allows government and business users to verify the security of the software before deploying it.
🛰️ Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided LINK
A SpaceX internet satellite avoided a Chinese spacecraft by just 200 meters in low Earth orbit, prompting a Starlink executive to call for better coordination between operators to prevent future crashes.
Michael Nicolls wrote that no deconfliction was performed, while CAS Space says it used a ground-based awareness system to select launch windows that avoid hitting any known satellites or space debris.
CAS Space notes the incident occurred 48 hours after payload separation, highlighting traffic risks as 13,000 satellites are now in Earth orbit, almost four times more than the number in 2020.
🧹 Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy after 35 years LINK
The Roomba maker has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after 35 years and says it will be wholly acquired by Shenzhen Picea Robotics and its subsidiary, Santrum Hong Kong.
Problems got worse when EU regulators blocked a $1.7 billion Amazon deal in January, causing shares to fall to just $1.40 and leaving the firm with less than $25 million to survive.
iRobot assures that it will continue operating without any anticipated disruptions to app functionality and product support for current customers, even as its common stock is wiped from stock exchanges.
🏬 Netflix to open physical stores in American malls LINK
Netflix is converting empty department stores at American malls into permanent entertainment venues called Netflix House that feature branded shops, themed restaurants, and live experiences based on its hit shows.
Inside the 100,000-square-foot space, visitors can try a One Piece escape room, walk through a Wednesday festival, buy Squid Game merch, or eat a Hellfire Club sandwich at the sports bar.
The project fits a growing trend of experiential retail where landlords replace shuttered anchors with interactive options like slime museums to attract foot traffic back to the huge shopping complex.
💎 5D glass storage lasts 13.8 billion years LINK
SPhotonix claims its fused silica glass platters can hold 360TB of data for 13.8 billion years by using a femtosecond laser to encode information into nanoscale structures across five dimensions.
While current prototypes only achieve write speeds of 4 MBps, the company has published a roadmap targeting sustained read and write speeds of 500 MBps within three to four years.
The startup has raised $4.5 million to pilot these glass-based cold storage systems in data centers, with early system costs estimated at $30,000 for a writer and $6,000 for a reader.
🛑 China rejects Nvidia H200 chips despite US strategy LINK
White House AI czar David Sacks says China has figured out the US strategy and is rejecting Nvidia H200 chips to prioritize semiconductor independence and subsidize local companies like Huawei.
The Trump administration hoped allowing exports of "lagging" H200 chips would hurt Huawei, but reports suggest Beijing will instead counter with a $70 billion package to support its local chipmaking industry.
Sacks cited reports that China plans to limit access to the chips through a local approval process, potentially costing Nvidia a $10 billion annual revenue opportunity in the Chinese data center market.
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- Toyota to Gain Apple Car Keys SupportLINK
- Why Facebook is a cesspool of scam ads — and it’s making billions off its phony ‘tax’ on fraudstersLINK
- Tech whistleblowers face million-dollar debts, job loss and isolationLINK
- A brief history of Sam Altman’s hypeLINK
- Palantir CIO Jim Siders leaves to become head of Thrive Capital's new IT services businessLINK
- AI models score off the charts on psychiatric tests when researchers treat them as therapy patientsLINK
🧰 Trending tools
ManyPI: a credit-based platform that appears to offer API or computational services, though specific functionality isn't clear from the launch announcement alone.LINK
Syllaby V3.0: automates video content creation from topic research to scripted visuals, helping creators produce consistent faceless or cinematic videos without manual editing overhead.LINK
Justblank: tracks how your brand appears in AI chatbot responses and identifies which prompts drive visibility to optimize your AI discoverability strategy.LINK
RSTGameTranslation: a free overlay tool that captures and translates on-screen game text in real-time, helping players access Japanese and Chinese exclusive titles without language barriers.LINK
Recaply: transcription tool that identifies multiple speakers in recordings, useful for teams needing to distinguish who said what in meetings or interviews.LINK
a Pager: a minimalist pager tool for viewing and navigating text files in the terminal, similar to less or more.LINK
📚 Trending papers & reports
Language models leak personal details from preferences: researchers found that AI models can infer sensitive information like occupation or location from seemingly innocent preferences with concerning accuracy.LINK
Recreating a famous cooperation experiment from 1980: researchers reran a classic game theory tournament and found the original winner still dominates, validating decades-old cooperation strategies.LINK
Language models memorize hidden triggers during training: researchers found attackers can plant backdoors that activate on specific phrases, letting them control model outputs even after deployment.LINK
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