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Google's new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model is designed to better understand complicated questions, including those with multiple parts, typos, or specific requests. It can break down questions and address each part in its responses, providing more helpful answers. The model also conducts simultaneous queries across relevant subtopics, providing a wider range of links and more visuals in its responses.

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue has vowed to continue fighting for open source AI after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's exit. Huang was a strong advocate for open source AI and his departure has raised concerns about the future of open source AI models. Delangue stated that the company will keep fighting for open-source AI, harder than ever, despite the challenges ahead.

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang has resigned due to personal scandals, and CFO Colette Kress has taken over as interim CEO. Kress has been with Nvidia since 2013 and has a background in finance, having worked at Cisco and Microsoft. She will lead the company until a permanent successor is found.

Hannes Hapke discusses using sparse autoencoders to explain LLM agent decisions, providing a model-agnostic framework for understanding why agents make certain choices. The Kiji Inspector tool is introduced as a solution for explaining agent decisions, allowing for causal analysis and feature extraction.

NVIDIA's board of directors has announced that Jensen Huang is no longer CEO, effective immediately. Huang has resigned as president and CEO, and has also given up his board seat. Colette Kress, the company's current executive vice president and chief financial officer, has been named interim CEO. The board is initiating a search for a permanent CEO and will consider internal and external candidates.

The article discusses the future of human work in an AI-driven world, highlighting the importance of human judgment and intimacy in decision-making. It also touches on the idea of turning AI corrections into tests and the role of AI agents in various industries.

The article explores how CSS layout can be used to perform mathematical calculations, leveraging the browser's layout algorithms to compute values for stylesheets. It discusses how container queries and custom properties can be used to read an element's size as a number and use it in calculations, and provides examples of how this can be used to perform tasks such as sorting and ranking. The article also introduces dCSS, an open-source library of data functions that can be used to create data-driven stylesheets.

The article discusses the next two levels of AI adoption, which involve simulation and strategy testing. Level 9 pits strategies against each other, while Level 10 runs the competition multiple times to find consistent winners. These levels extend the autonomy and delegation of AI agents, allowing for more complex decision-making and problem-solving.

Security teams must shift focus from patching to mitigation due to AI-powered attacks, with the average time to exploitation falling to one day in 2026, and expected to be just one minute in 2027. Mitigation tasks include behavior blocking, default-deny, and least privilege.

A new zero-day vulnerability in N-able's N-central platform, dubbed 4EverAble2Shell, has been exploited by hackers just hours after a proof-of-concept (PoC) was released. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute commands as root on vulnerable servers, and has been used to deploy cryptocurrency miners on at least 21 production N-central servers.

Nectar, an AI-powered marketing operating system, has launched a new AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands. The 'Creator Agent' can search for creators, send personalized messages, and track campaign performance, aiming to reduce manual work in influencer marketing. The agent analyzes videos, checks brand safety, and remembers previous conversations to build relationships between brands and creators.

Norwest, a 65-year-old multi-stage investment firm, has raised a $4 billion fund to invest in AI startups across various sectors, including consumer, healthcare, and technology, with a focus on physical AI, voice AI, and cybersecurity solutions.

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang has resigned after admitting to a romantic affair with an alleged Chinese spy, sparking a US national security crisis. Colette Kress, the company's CFO, will take over as interim CEO. Huang's departure raises questions about the future of Nvidia's AI investments and the company's dominant position in the industry.

Google has open-sourced TPU Sync, a native C++ library for moving KV cache blocks and model weights between TPU HBM, host DRAM, shared storage, and the data center network. This library targets workloads where accelerators often wait on data, such as long-context and disaggregated LLM serving, and reinforcement learning loops.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has expanded the use of an AI tool, called SMART, to manage air traffic congestion across the entire national airspace system. The $875 million system combines weather patterns, flight paths, and traffic flow to predict air traffic patterns and make scheduling recommendations. The FAA claims that the system has saved an average of 10 minutes per flight and almost 80 gallons of fuel per flight since its initial rollout in September.

Nebius, a neocloud company, has announced $40 billion in planned spending for 2027, with plans to fund the buildout through customer pre-payments and loans backed by customer contracts. However, the company is facing delays in its projects, including a data center in New Jersey, which may impact its ability to meet its financial targets.

A state-level actor named SilentAir has been using compromised mobile operators in Asia to intercept calls and texts, mainly targeting subscribers in Taiwan. The actor, identified by Enea, launched SS7 and Diameter attacks from hijacked equipment in operators across at least six Asian countries. SilentAir's activity included interception, silent SMS, and attempts to break into targets' other accounts. Enea also reported on Liminal Panda, a group that has attacked mobile operators, and found a possible connection between the two groups.

A campaign dubbed 'wfx-loot' targeted tens of thousands of GitHub repositories, stealing secrets from at least 1,835 targets. The threat actor used malicious workflows to steal GitHub Actions secrets and cloud credentials, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud credentials.

A new Windows zero-day exploit, named SignDrop, can let attackers gain SYSTEM privileges. It exploits mitigations Microsoft introduced in October 2025 to defend against authentication attacks targeting vulnerabilities in the Common Log File System (CLFS) driver. The flaw is in how CLFS handles creating the authentication file when it creates a new log file. Approximately 80% of Windows installations are vulnerable, and there is currently no solution except waiting for a patch from Microsoft.

Meta's Muse AI agent can now place phone calls on behalf of users with a paid subscription, allowing it to schedule appointments, make reservations, and wait on hold. The feature is available to paid subscribers and has been tested by some users, who have reported success with tasks like calling a Volvo dealership.