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NVIDIA and Nokia have announced a strategic partnership to develop an AI-powered platform for 6G communications, aiming to drive wireless innovation and enable AI-native mobile networks. The partnership will combine NVIDIA's AI technology with Nokia's RAN portfolio, enabling communication service providers to launch AI-native 5G Advanced and 6G networks. The goal is to improve performance and efficiency, as well as enhance network experiences for future generative AI and agentic AI applications.

Apple is planning to integrate more third-party AI tools into its operating systems, according to Tim Cook. The company has already embedded ChatGPT into Siri and is rumored to be working on integrations with Google Gemini, Anthropic, and Perplexity. Cook also announced that Apple is on track to release an AI-upgraded Siri next year.

The PyTorch Foundation has welcomed Ray, a distributed computing framework, and introduced PyTorch Monarch, a framework for simplifying distributed AI workloads. This move aims to advance open, scalable AI infrastructure and provide a unified open-source stack for model development, serving, and distributed execution.

Adobe has previewed several new AI tools at its MAX conference, including Project Motion Map, Project Clean Take, Project Light Touch, and Project Frame Forward. These tools can add animations to static images, edit audio in videos, adjust lighting in photographs, and edit entire videos by editing a single frame.

Character.AI will bar users under 18 from open-ended chats with its AI characters starting November 25, due to multiple lawsuits alleging its chatbots contributed to teen deaths by suicide. The company will use technology to detect underage users and limit their access to the platform.

Canva has launched its own design model that understands design layers and formats, and has introduced new AI features, including a chat-like interface for generating visual content and the ability to create data visualization widgets. The company has also acquired an ad analytics company and is launching an all-in-one marketing platform.

Google has partnered with Reliance Industries to offer its AI Pro subscription free for 18 months to eligible Jio users in India. The partnership includes access to Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro model, higher limits for generating AI images and videos, and 2 TB of cloud storage.

Anthropic has expanded Claude Code, its AI-powered development environment, to web and mobile platforms, allowing developers to run and manage coding tasks directly in a browser or on mobile devices.

A researcher found a way to trick Claude into uploading private data to an attacker's account using indirect prompt injection. Anthropic says it has already documented the risk and recommends monitoring Claude's activity to prevent data exfiltration.

Adobe has partnered with Google, integrating Google's AI models into its tools, including Gemini, Veo, and Imagen. The partnership also allows users to create YouTube shorts directly in the Premiere mobile app. This collaboration brings together Adobe's creative expertise with Google's advanced AI models, offering more choices to users.

The US has signed Technology Prosperity Deals with Japan and South Korea to enhance cooperation on AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotech, and other technologies. The agreements aim to strengthen strategic ties, align regulations, and support economic and national security objectives.

QCon San Francisco 2025 brings together practitioners to share production-proven patterns for building reliable AI infrastructure, modernizing systems, and making long-term technical decisions. Sessions cover AI infrastructure, agentic system architecture, scaling AI capabilities, and more.

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise, offering high-performance time-series database capabilities for real-time analytics and observability use cases. InfluxDB 3 is designed for high cardinality support and provides enhanced security, performance, and developer experience improvements.

A new supply chain attack called PhantomRaven has been discovered, where malicious npm packages steal credentials, tokens, and secrets during installation. The packages appear safe when first downloaded but fetch and execute malicious code from a remote server when installed, making them difficult to detect.

Figma has announced a major evolution of design systems, combining speed, flexibility, and intelligence. The updates include Extended Collections, Slots, Design Check, and a rebuilt architecture for faster updates. Figma aims to make design systems a catalyst for creativity, helping teams scale without losing quality.

Extropic, a startup, has developed a new kind of computer chip that handles probabilistic bits, which could be thousands of times more energy-efficient than existing chips. The chip, called XTR-0, uses silicon components to harness thermodynamic electron fluctuations, shaping them to model probabilities of various complex systems. This approach could offer a far less costly alternative to vast arrays of conventional chips for AI companies.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed the company's 'planet-scale cloud and AI factory' as Azure cloud experienced an 8-hour outage due to a configuration error, despite a 26% increase in Microsoft Cloud revenue to $49bn.

Bevel, a health tech company, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from General Catalyst to scale its AI health companion. The companion unifies data from wearables and daily habits to provide personalized insights, aiming to make proactive health accessible. Bevel has grown over eightfold in the past year, reaching 100,000 daily active users, with an average of eight app openings per day and over 80% retention at 90 days.

Microsoft plans to add Copilot to the Calendar companion app, in addition to the existing People and Files apps, to help users become more productive. Copilot will offer instant suggestions and allow seamless handoff to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for more complex inquiries.

Affinity has combined its three apps, Photo, Designer, and Publisher, into one free program for all creatives. The new Affinity app offers vector, photo, and layout tools in one place and is available for Mac, Windows, and iPad. It supports various file formats, including PSD, AI, and PDF, and offers features like batch processing, Smart Selections, and live filters. Canva premium users can access AI tools within Affinity, but the base app is free to use with no premium features locked away.