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Top 10 — News
- FirstFT: US and Japan unveil $36bn in projects as part of trade deal Also in today’s newsletter: Spain first to enter ECB succession race and Trump renews attack on UK’s Chagos Islands deal
- Zuckerberg overruled 18 wellbeing experts to keep beauty filters on Instagram Big Tech chief takes stand in legal case over whether company’s products are addictive to children
- Zuckerberg defends Meta in landmark social media addiction trial The billionaire boss said he "always" regretted not making faster progress to identify users under 13.
- Why there’s no quick fix in sight for the problem of dazzling headlights Road users say headlight glare is an issue - but experts warn a solution might not be straightforward.
- OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.
- Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from a…
- Billionaire Les Wexner testifies before Congress about ties to Epstein Wexner, who has denied misconduct related to Epstein, is one of several subpoenaed by House oversight panel The former boss of the Victoria…
- Verizon acknowledges “pain” of new unlock policy, suggests change is coming Report: Verizon's goal is "immediate unlock for all payment methods really soon."
- Chevy Bolt, BMW i3, or something else? At $10K, you have lots of EV options Two of Ars' favorite electric vehicles are now available for not very much money.
- Introducing OpenAI for India
OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.
AI tools & model updates
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.80.11.gemini-metadata.dev Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.14.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.14.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.10 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.77.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.82.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- How NVIDIA Extreme Hardware-Software Co-Design Delivered a Large Inference Boost for Sarvam AI’s Sovereign Models As global AI adoption accelerates, developers face a growing challenge: delivering large language model (LLM) performance that meets real-w…
- Nvidia teams up with venture capital firms to find and fund India’s next wave of AI startups Nvidia is rapidly expanding its partnerships in India.
- Amazon Aurora DSQL now integrates with Kiro powers and AI agent skills Today, AWS announces Amazon Aurora DSQL integration with Kiro powers and AI agent skills, enabling developers to build Aurora DSQL-backed a…
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November's Opus 4.5 while maint…
Full list — News (50)
Also in today’s newsletter: Spain first to enter ECB succession race and Trump renews attack on UK’s Chagos Islands deal
Big Tech chief takes stand in legal case over whether company’s products are addictive to children
Insurrection ruling is most consequential in series of cases since emergency decree plunged country into political crisis
New York investment group backtracks from earlier plan to reopen to withdrawals
International concerns have mounted over the impact of the country’s economic policies
Kinetik Holdings receives takeover interest from Occidental Petroleum-backed Western Midstream Partners
Ministers warn platforms could have their services blocked in Britain if they fail to act
David Nemecek moves after private capital groups pushed back against his tactics
Under proposal, OBR watchdog would produce forecasts for up to 10 indicators to overhaul ‘dysfunctional’ policymaking
Assumptions underpinning valuations of big US groups might be too optimistic
U-turn comes after backlash from the company and US biotech industry
Conservative Matt Jeneroux will join Mark Carney’s government ahead of three upcoming by-elections
Warehouse owner refuses to let government use facility amid deepening unease over US president’s immigration policy
Several participants in the January meeting said they would have supported a ‘two-sided description’ for the rate outlook
Potential separation of sporting teams follows busy year for corporate spin-offs
US president says Diego Garcia military base may be needed for strikes on Iran
The billionaire boss said he "always" regretted not making faster progress to identify users under 13.
Road users say headlight glare is an issue - but experts warn a solution might not be straightforward.
During winter in Britain fresh produce is sent by cargo ship from the West African nation every week.
The "pre-loved" fashion firm has been sold by Etsy just five years after it bought the firm.
The government is proposing that intimate image abuse should be treated more severely.
Kevin Hassett criticised a New York Fed study into tariffs and the impact on US firms and consumers.
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.
The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from a…
Wexner, who has denied misconduct related to Epstein, is one of several subpoenaed by House oversight panel The former boss of the Victoria…
Report: Verizon's goal is "immediate unlock for all payment methods really soon."
Two of Ars' favorite electric vehicles are now available for not very much money.
EPA sued for abandoning its mission to protect public health.
Meta is planning to launch a smartwatch with health tracking and AI features later this year, along with an updated version of its Meta Ray…
The deal comes nearly five years after Etsy purchased Depop for $1.62 billion, at a time when secondhand clothing apps were gaining tractio…
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pr…
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Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.
Phison is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices - and CEO Pua Khein-Seng has now become a l…
Dyson has announced an alternate version of its skinny PencilVac that's designed to clean spills and stains on hard floors instead of sucki…
While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday, many great iPad deals are available outside of those tim…
A set of bellwether cases alleging that social media platforms harmed teens’ safety and mental health is going to trial this year, putting…
A leaked internal email obtained by 404 Media shows that Ring has bigger plans for its AI-powered neighborhood search capability than just…
If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup.
OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.
Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
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Amazon Bedrock now extends reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) support to popular open-weight models, including OpenAI GPT-OSS and Qwen models,…
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As AI workloads scale, achieving high throughput, efficient resource usage, and predictable latency becomes essential.
Python dominates machine learning for its ergonomics, but writing truly fast GPU code has historically meant dropping into C++ to write cus…
As global AI adoption accelerates, developers face a growing challenge: delivering large language model (LLM) performance that meets real-w…
Nvidia is rapidly expanding its partnerships in India.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements to coding, computer use, and web search.
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Google Deepmind's new Lyria 3 model creates 30-second tracks with vocals, lyrics, and cover art from a simple text prompt or uploaded media.
World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's AI start-up, raises one billion dollars in a new financing round to teach AI systems to understand and operate in…
Today, AWS announces Amazon Aurora DSQL integration with Kiro powers and AI agent skills, enabling developers to build Aurora DSQL-backed a…
Release update (see link for changelog).
The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or imag…
Warner Bros.
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November's Opus 4.5 while maint…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Ireland) region.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Enterprise data is inherently complex: real-world documents are multimodal, spanning text, tables, charts and graphs, images, diagrams, sca…