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📱China’s new “vibe-coding” app LingGuang goes viral after crashing from demand

Ant Group’s new AI coding app LingGuang has exploded across China, so fast that one of its flagship tools temporarily crashed from traffic.

🔸 The app lets anyone build mini-apps in under 30 seconds just by typing a prompt, Ant calls it “flash programming.”

🔸 It also generates 3D models, animations, charts, and interactive tools, plus a real-time camera that can understand scenes.

🔸 LingGuang hit 1 million downloads in four days, then passed 2 million, becoming the #1 free app on China’s iOS App Store.

🔸 Demand was so high that its flash-program feature briefly went offline as users rushed to test the app.

🔸 The product is part of Ant Group’s push to expand AI consumer tools and compete with China’s rising wave of easy-build app platforms.

LingGuang’s viral growth shows how fast AI-native creation tools can jump from niche demos to mass-market hits in China’s consumer ecosystem.


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🔒 Andrey Karpata launches LLM Council: AI answers by committee

Andrey Karpata’s new project, LLM Council, takes the ChatGPT interface and adds a twist: your request is processed by multiple models at once, then refined collaboratively.

🔸 Requests go through OpenRouter and are answered by several LLMs simultaneously (currently GPT-5.1, Gemini 3 Pro, Sonnet 4.5, and Grok 4).

🔸 Each model sees the other’s anonymous answers, comments, and ranks them before sending feedback.

🔸 All commentary is fed to the “LLM chairman”, which synthesizes the final answer for the user.

🔸 Models often pick another LLM’s answer as superior, GPT-5 consistently praised, Claude frequently rated lowest.

🔸 The project hints at a new frontier in ensemble LLM design, where context framing and model interplay may outperform single-model outputs.

LLM Council suggests that AI reasoning may benefit as much from collaboration and critique as raw model power.


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⚙️ GPU prices are about to climb: AI demand is driving costs up

Social networks are buzzing, and it’s true: graphics cards are set to get more expensive due to soaring memory demand from the AI market.

🔸 Memory costs are up 15–25% recently, forcing manufacturers to raise GPU prices.

🔸 Mid-range and high-performance GPUs could jump 15–20%, while budget models may see reduced production.

🔸 AMD has already warned partners of a 10% price increase on all GPUs, including gaming cards.

🔸 Nvidia hiked prices earlier this year (~15%) due to production costs and geopolitical factors, and another increase is likely after New Year.

if you’ve been planning a GPU purchase, now is the time to buy before the next round of price hikes.


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💻 Claude Opus 4.5 launches and becomes the new programming champion

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.5, and it now leads the industry in coding tasks, the first model to hit 80% on SWE-Bench, surpassing all competitors.

🔸 API pricing: $5 / $25 per million tokens (input/output).

🔸 Developers can now choose how the model thinks: fast and cheap, or slow with maximum reasoning depth.

🔸 Claude Code is now available inside the desktop app, with long coding sessions no longer breaking, the model automatically summarizes older context to keep the thread going.

A clear signal Anthropic wants the coding-assistant crown going into 2025.


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🎓 Find Your Grind raises $5M to help students discover non-traditional career paths

Find Your Grind, an education platform focused on helping students explore careers beyond standard college tracks has secured $5M in new funding to expand its product and reach more schools.

🔸 The platform blends assessments, personalized recommendations, and real-world career discovery to help students identify paths that fit their interests and lifestyle.

🔸 Funding will go toward scaling partnerships with school districts and improving the platform’s adaptive learning engine.

🔸 The company says demand is rising as schools seek modern alternatives to outdated guidance counseling models.

🔸 Find Your Grind positions itself as a “future-of-work navigator” for Gen Z, pushing students toward emerging roles, not traditional templates.

A reminder that the next edtech wave isn’t test prep, it’s helping teens figure out who they want to become.


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🖼 FLUX 2 launches, a cheaper rival to Nano Banana with 4K image generation

Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 2, a new image-generation model positioned as a lower-cost alternative to Nano Banana while still delivering high-end output.

🔸 Supports 4K-resolution image generation

🔸 Can complete sketches and refine partially drawn concepts

🔸 Accepts up to 10 reference images for style and content control

🔸 Available to try here: https://playground.bfl.ai/image/generate

🔸 Open-weights version is live on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/black-forest-labs/flux2

A strong new entrant in the race for fast, affordable, high-fidelity image models.


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🚐 Uber and WeRide launch fully driverless robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, a first for the Middle East

Uber and WeRide have officially switched on Level 4 fully driverless rides in Abu Dhabi, marking the region’s first commercial robotaxi deployment with no safety driver onboard.

🔸 The service runs on Yas Island, where some UberX and Uber Comfort requests may be matched with a WeRide autonomous vehicle.

🔸 WeRide provides the full self-driving stack, while Uber handles fleet operations like cleaning, charging, and maintenance.

🔸 This launch is supported by a UAE-issued public-road permit, making it one of the few fully driverless ridehail services outside the US and China.

🔸 Uber and WeRide say this is only the beginning, with plans to expand robotaxi services to additional global cities over the next five years.

A major milestone signaling Uber’s shift from experimenting with autonomy to actually deploying it at scale.


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🎙️ OpenAI rolls out a redesigned Voice Mode, now built directly into the chat

OpenAI has updated Voice Mode so it no longer opens in a separate fullscreen window, it now lives right inside the chat interface.

🔸 You can speak while still seeing your full message history, attachments, and the model’s responses as they appear.

🔸 The flow is faster and more natural: voice input + chat context in one place.

🔸 Prefer the old layout? You can switch it back in Settings → Voice Mode → Separate mode.

🔸 The update is already rolling out, just update the app.

A small UX change, but one that makes voice interactions feel like a seamless extension of the chat, not a separate feature.


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💬 Jensen Huang on careers: “It’s easier to fall in love with what you do than to find what you love.”

NVIDIA’s CEO shared a surprisingly grounded philosophy on work and motivation:

🔸 “Find what you love” isn’t always realistic. Jensen says he didn’t start out passionate about any particular job, he simply learned to love the work in front of him.

🔸 He recalls loving every job he ever had: dishwasher, busboy, paper delivery, waiter and now decades at NVIDIA.

🔸 The mindset shift: fall in love with the craft, not the noscript. When you care about doing a job well, passion follows.

🔸 And once you love the work, excellence becomes easier, you naturally push harder, learn faster, and stand out.

A rare reminder from a tech icon: meaning comes from commitment, not from waiting for the “perfect” dream job to appear.


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🔒 Hackers stole data about OpenAI API users

OpenAI announced that in early November, the analytics service Mixpanel, which it uses for product insights was compromised, leading to a leak of API user data.

🔸 Exposed information includes:
• Name linked to the API account
• Email address associated with the API account
• Approximate location based on browser data (city, region, country)
• Operating system and browser used to access the API
• Referring websites
• Organization or user identifiers tied to the API account

🔸 OpenAI said the incident affected Mixpanel data only; no API keys, passwords, or payment information were leaked.

This incident is a reminder that even data analytics tools can be weak points, users and organizations should monitor accounts and update security practices accordingly.


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🔔 AI and real‑time data platforms are rewriting the rules of economic news trading

Markets don’t wait for humans anymore, now AI‑driven algorithms react in milliseconds to news, sometimes before many traders have even opened their email. According to a recent article, that shift is changing the rhythm of economic‑data trading forever.

🔸 Economic news is no longer a “single moment.” Instead of a single release, markets move as the build‑up, leaks, sentiment, and narrative surrounding an event play out. Live news wires, sentiment trackers, order‑flow monitors, and AI‑flagged “unusual activity” combine to shape expectations well before the headline hits.

🔸 AI helps traders digest and act on information humans can’t handle fast enough: sorting massive news volume, flagging what’s important, comparing to past releases, and spotting volatility or liquidity patterns preceding a release.

🔸 Real‑time dashboards are becoming traders’ new “mission control”: liquidity heatmaps, order‑flow streams, sentiment gauges, volatility meters, tools that help decode whether markets are bracing for impact or drifting toward the event.

🔸 This applies beyond stocks or forex, crypto too is now reacting fast to macroeconomic indicators, rate changes, inflation data, and central‑bank sentiment, blurring the traditional separation between “crypto news” and “macro news.”

🔸 Still, technology doesn’t eliminate the need for judgment. Markets remain emotional, unpredictable, and prone to “fake outs”: initial spikes or drops can reverse if underlying signals are weak, and AI can’t always tell those nuances. Experienced traders, the piece argues, still have an edge if they understand context, fundamentals, and their risk appetite.

Trading around economic news has turned into a continuous, multi‑layered game not a single event. Those who combine AI‑driven speed with human judgement now have the edge.


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📝 AI detector claims the US Declaration of Independence was “almost entirely AI‑generated”

In a quirky test, the full text of the 1776 US Declaration of Independence was run through a popular AI‑detection tool and the results were shocking: 99.99% probability that it was generated by AI.

🔸 The test was performed purely to evaluate the detector’s accuracy on historical text.

🔸 Tool is widely used by teachers and universities to check student work for AI involvement.

🔸 The “false positive” highlights a major limitation: AI detectors can misclassify human-written or historically formal text as machine-generated.

🔸 Serves as a reminder that AI-detection tools are far from perfect and should be used cautiously, especially with older, formal, or highly structured writing.

Even the most famous documents in history could “fail” AI detection proving that context, style, and era matter more than the algorithm thinks.


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🦃 Google drops app.new on Thanksgiving, a vibecoding tool for instant web app creation

Google used the holiday to unveil app.new, a simple prompt-based builder that generates, prototypes, and deploys full web applications on demand.

🔸 You type what you want, the agent spins up a working app in seconds, handling UI, logic, and deployment automatically. It’s essentially Gemini wrapped in a playful, “just build it” interface.

🔸 Functionally, it’s another AI-powered layer on top of Gemini, but positioned as a lightweight creation tool rather than a full developer suite.

🔸 The best part is the easter egg in the name: Google already has docs.new, sheets.new, slides.new, meet.new, quick links that open a fresh file. Now app.new feels like the next chapter in that lineage: a shortcut that instantly “opens” a brand-new application.

🔸 It’s more vibe-driven than enterprise-grade, but it hints at Google’s broader strategy, turning Gemini into the default engine behind instant software creation.

Google is leaning into a simple idea: the fastest way to compete in AI coding is to make development feel as easy as opening a new document.


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🔒 Microsoft quietly ships a powerful AI bot, now your PC can automate itself in just a couple of clicks

Microsoft has introduced a new AI assistant designed to handle real tasks on your computer, not just chat or answer questions.

🔸 It can analyze files on your device, making sense of documents, spreadsheets, or project folders without manual digging.

🔸 It searches for cheaper products and services online, comparing options and offering the best deals automatically.

🔸 It assists with job hunting, from scanning listings to helping you tailor applications and keep track of submissions.

🔸 It can book hotels and manage travel tasks, handling the boring logistics you’d normally do yourself.

🔸 It acts as a general research agent, pulling up information, cross-checking sources, and summarizing results.

Microsoft’s new bot pushes the PC toward a real “autopilot mode” where your computer doesn’t just respond, it works for you.


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📹 A Dutch artist just launched a full cinema inside Excel, actually streaming movies directly in a spreadsheet.

When “confident Excel user” on your CV turns out to be a whole different level.

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🗣️Jony Ive on why curiosity is the foundation of creativity

Jony Ive says that openness and curiosity aren’t just traits, they’re the core of how he works today. “Being truly open, inquisitive, and curious has become the very basis for all that I do… Having a genuine relish for being surprised and for learning is fundamental to creating.”

🔸 But he notes that in traditional education or large work environments, curiosity isn’t automatic, it requires intention. In big groups, people gravitate toward the measurable and the known, because it feels safer and more socially acceptable.

🔸 The problem: focusing on being right kills the impulse to explore. Curiosity matters more than correctness, it’s what leads to new ideas.

🔸 Ive says the joy of learning helps quiet the fear of trying something completely new. But that only works if you actually listen: “Great ideas can come from the quietest voice… and I worry how many ideas I’ve missed because I wasn’t listening.”

Curiosity creates. Constant talking prevents it. The discipline is in choosing silence long enough for new ideas to surface.


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🧠 Quick mental health guide for entrepreneurs

🔸 Don’t compare yourself to others: constant comparison can hurt self-esteem.

🔸 Take regular breaks: step away from work now and then to recharge.

🔸 Have a non-work hobby or outlet: hobbies like cooking, painting, hiking help decompress.

🔸 Stay connected with friends, family or peers: social interaction helps avoid isolation.

🔸 Recognize that you’re more than your startup: keep perspective beyond work and use tools like gratitude journaling.

🔸 Talk about your feelings don’t bottle them in: seek help when needed, including from mental-health professionals if things feel heavy.

Taking care of your mental well-being isn’t optional, it’s essential for any long-term success as a founder.


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⚡️ 12 free GitHub tools to boost, clean, and maintain your PC, the best open-source utilities in one list

🔸 Hardware monitoring:

OpenHardwareMonitor: full component analytics with graphs
FanCtrl / FanControl: precise cooling and fan-speed tuning
Cores: monitor temps, voltage, and hardware info remotely via browser
Systeminformer: surfaces hidden/suspicious processes eating resources
SidebarDiagnostics: a clean desktop sidebar showing real-time hardware stats

🔸 System Cleanup & Maintenance

bleachbit: the go-to open-source cleaner for cache, cookies, and program leftovers
RepairKit / mCleaner: remove malware, fix registry issues, wipe apps in bulk
hijackthis: lightweight CLI cleaner for advanced users
Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller: removes bloatware + cleans traces of deleted programs
CrapFixer: deletes system apps, disables ads in Windows Start, and turns off telemetry

A compact toolbox that covers monitoring, cooling, cleaning, debloating, and privacy all open-source and all free.


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Peter Thiel’s 7 questions every founder must answer:

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Kling launches O1, a Nano-Banana for video that lets creators rewrite shots with text

Kling quietly released O1, a text-driven video editor that applies the Nano Banana approach to moving images: feed a reference, then prompt changes to style, camera angle, objects, lighting, or composition and O1 renders the result.

🔸 O1 generates edits from natural-language prompts, change cinematography, swap objects, tweak movement, or restyle the entire scene without manual keyframing.

🔸 Works from references: users provide a source clip (or still frames) and O1 preserves continuity while applying targeted transformations.

🔸 Controls include camera angle/zoom, shot framing, object replacement, style transfer, motion smoothing, and temporal consistency options.

🔸 Prompts can be iterative, refine outputs by chaining short instructions until the scene matches the creator’s intent.

🔸 Target users: filmmakers, short-form creators, ad shops, and studios that want rapid creative exploration without rebuilding scenes from scratch.

O1 could drastically shorten video iteration cycles turning expensive reshoots and heavy VFX pipelines into interactive, prompt-driven creative loops.


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🎥 Runway unveils Gen-4.5, a major step up in video physics, realism, and object fidelity

Runway has introduced Gen-4.5, its new video generator that significantly improves motion physics, object detail, and scene coherence and it’s already topping user rankings.

🔸 In community ratings on Artificial Analysis, Gen-4.5 currently outperforms both Veo 3.1 and Sora 2 Pro, two of the strongest models in the category.

🔸 The update sharpens object geometry, stabilizes motion, and reduces the “melt” artifacts that limited earlier models.

🔸 Physics are noticeably improved: interactions, collisions, and environmental responses look more grounded and less floaty.

🔸 Style control and prompt adherence are tighter, especially in complex shots with moving subjects, reflections, or dynamic lighting.

🔸 Runway says access will roll out gradually throughout the week, starting with existing creators and enterprise users.

Gen-4.5 is another sign that video models are entering the precision era, where the differentiator isn’t just creativity, it’s consistency, physics, and control.


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