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This collection of links, largely from the Futureseek Daily Link Review, offers a sweeping overview of recent news, with a heavy emphasis on Artificial Intelligence developments and their growing societal impact. Multiple entries showcase significant advancements from tech giants like Google’s “Nano Banana Pro” image generation model and updates to models like Grok and Gemini, alongside warnings about AI hype, safety, and potential economic disruption to college degrees and employment. The sources also cover Space news, detailing setbacks and ambitious goals for SpaceX’s Starship program, and touch on other diverse topics including global politics, financial anxieties, housing crises, and Black Friday consumer warnings. Finally, there are reports on autonomous technology, such as improved Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities and pilotless air taxis.
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* A new Stargate series is officially in development at Prime Video: Everything to know about ‘Stargate’ from Amazon MGM Studios >>
* Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to employees in internal memo: We need to rapidly rethink the… – The Times of India >>
* What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality – The New York Times >>
* Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend – The New York Times >>
* Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up – The New York Times >>
* Opinion | America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart – The New York Times >>
* Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to employees in internal memo: We need to rapidly rethink the… – The Times of India >>
* Black Friday warning ahead of busy shopping period – NZ Herald >>
* Owning a house is set to become riskier. These big changes could hit your property values | Stuff >>
* Multimillion-dollar Remuera home seeks bitcoin bids | BusinessDesk >>
* Dead rats and discord: What next in the Peters-Seymour stoush? | RNZ News >>
* I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI Startups. 73% Are Lying | Towards AI >>
* ChatGPT told them they were special — their families say it led to tragedy | TechCrunch >>
* Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors >>
* We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same. >>
* Kicking Robots, by James Vincent >>
* A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On >>
* Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda | Russia | The Guardian >>
* Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft? >>
* US Researcher Proposes Detonating Massive Nuclear Bomb Under Ocean To Save Earth – Slashdot >>
* Shedeur Sanders Confident He Can Deliver Everything Browns Fans Have Come To Expect – The Onion >>
* A Swath of Bank Customer Data Was Hacked. The F.B.I. Is Investigating. – The New York Times >>
* A.I. Toy Bear Speaks of Sex, Knives and Pills, Consumer Group Warns – The New York Times >>
* Australian Prisoner Sues For Right To Eat Vegemite – The Onion >>
* ‘Wicked: For Good’ recaptures box office magic with $150 million opening weekend | CNN Business >>
* The Secret Language of Cells — and How to “Speak” It | Chris Bahl | TED – YouTube >>
* The Human-AI Alignment Problem | TIME >>
* Walmart CEO teases the future of retail – TheStreet >>
* A Swath of Bank Customer Data Was Hacked. The F.B.I. Is Investigating. – The New York Times >>
* World Labs Founder Fei-Fei Li Wants AI to Be More Democratized >>
* I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI Startups. 73% Are Lying | Towards AI >>
* US president Trump says Ukraine has shown ‘zero gratitude’ to the US | Euronews >>
* Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From A Mystery Investor. Now That Investor Is Gone >>
* AI rivals like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Oracle are collaborating to build ‘Stargate’—but a Yale expert says it violates 135 years of antitrust law | Fortune >>
* Six-figure earners are ‘living the illusion of affluence’ while privately struggling | Fortune >>
* Analyst who called the dot-com bubble says Americans are turning a deaf ear to AI warnings—and a worse meltdown than 2008 looms | Fortune >>
* As Google eyes exponential surge in serving capacity, analyst says we’re entering ‘stage two of AI’ | Fortune >>
* The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame | Fortune >>
* Why investors are increasingly fatalistic >>
* Raycast for Windows will instantly improve your PC | The Verge >>
* This Air Taxi Can Fly Without a Pilot: An Exclusive Look Inside Wisk’s Newest Aircraft – CNET >>
* Amazon’s 2025 Black Friday deals are shockingly good: Shop some of my favorites up to 60% off | ZDNET >>
* Roku vs. Fire Stick: I compared the best streaming devices in 2025, and here’s the winner | ZDNET >>
* Reddit – The heart of the internet >>
* Scammers are going to love this : r/ChatGPT >>
* Did you get it? : r/SipsTea >>
* Inside LLM … how it generates text! : r/AI_Tips_Tricks >>
* A big collaboration : r/AgentsOfAI >>
* OpenAl planning to 125x energy capacity in 8 years (more than India’s energy capacity today) : r/ProfessorFinance >>
* Each time AI gets smarter, we change the definition of intelligence : r/artificial >>
* Every AI Breakthrough Shifts the Goalposts of Artificial General Intelligence | Scientific American >>
* Human vs. Humanoid Basketball : r/aiecosystem >>
* Why Google is Quietly Winning the AI Race : r/singularity >>
* AI wars: Microsoft pitches the agent superstore, Google models ace tests and OpenAI looks over its shoulder – SiliconANGLE >>
* China’s new hybrid EV offers 1056-mile range, adds 280 miles in 5 mins >>
* AI wars: Microsoft pitches the agent superstore, Google models ace tests and OpenAI looks over its shoulder – SiliconANGLE >>
* China’s new hybrid EV offers 1056-mile range, adds 280 miles in 5 mins >>
* 3 analysts on why AI debt isn’t a bubble >>
* Vox’s Future Perfect 25 lists the world’s most inspiring changemakers | Vox >>
* Cyberattacks’ harm to universities is growing — and so are their effects on research >>
* Paper page – SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images >>
* Paper page – Agent0: Unleashing Self-Evolving Agents from Zero Data via Tool-Integrated Reasoning >>
* Nano Banana Pro changes the image generation game (again) >>
* Category: AI – Ars Technica >>
* Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now – Ars Technica >>
* Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand – Ars Technica >>
* Google debuts Nano Banana Pro on Flow for Ultra subscribers >>
* The Information on X: “The prediction market category is becoming increasingly crowded, with Polymarket, >>
, and others also offering similar products. Full details: >>
” / X >>
* The Information (@theinformation) / X >>
* Chaos and Competition: The Future of AI Agents in 2026 — The Information >>
* Titanic passenger’s pocket watch fetches £1.78m at auction >>
* When AIs become consumers – Fast Company >>
* Titanic passenger’s pocket watch fetches £1.78m at auction >>
* When AIs become consumers – Fast Company >>
* DealBook Summit 2025: David Ellison, Scott Bessent, Erika Kirk and More – The New York Times >>
* SpaceX Might Lose Almost No Time for Booster Shell, COPVs and Test Tank Loss | NextBigFuture.com >>
* How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories – The GitHub Blog >>
* SpaceX Might Lose Almost No Time for Booster Shell, COPVs and Test Tank Loss | NextBigFuture.com >>
BettingMarkets:
* Which companies announce bankruptcy before 2027? | Polymarket >>
* What will Kevin Hart say during his interview with Ziwe? | Trade on Kalshi >>
* What will Larry Fink say during the NYT DealBook Summit? | Trade on Kalshi >>
* What will Alex Karp say during the NYT DealBook Summit? | Trade on Kalshi >>
* What will Dario Amodei say during the NYT DealBook Summit? | Trade on Kalshi >>
* How many Grammy awards will Bad Bunny win? | Trade on Kalshi >>
* Will Kim Kardashian pass the Bar Exam before 2027? | Trade on Kalshi >>

X/Social:
* Nic Cruz Patane on X: “After driving FSD V14.2 for a couple of days, I can confidently say this is the best version of FSD yet—by far. It’s much better than 14.1x around town and now exceeds the comfort seen in V13. >>
” / X >>
* Chubby♨️ on X: “Agibot A2 wins a Guinness World Record for traveling 106.3km (~66 miles) Suzhou to Shangai – using battery hot-swapping. 2026 will be the year of robotics. >>
” / X >>
* Pia, M.D. on X: “When I watch this FSD 14.2 clip driven in mad max by @01Ananto @WholeMarsBlog in the busy city of NYC among pedestrians, bicyclists and carts, I realize that @Tesla_AI may have just solved self driving! >>
” / X >>
* Mario Nawfal on X: “ELON ON FSD: MOST PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN “Almost the entire fleet, which will pass 10 million vehicles next year, is capable of full autonomy. So, even without the Cybercab, we still actually have a gigantic fleet that is capable of being autonomous. >>
” / X >>
* Min Choi on X: “Holy moly… Nano Banana Pro is wild “Create an image at 31.7785° N, 35.2296° E, April 3, 33 CE, 15:00 hours.” >>
” / X >>
* Chubby♨️ on X: “Gemini 3 code a visualization of plasma flow in a tokamak Seriously, at this point I can’t even imagine what Gemini 4 will be capable of. >>
” / X >>
* Sawyer Merritt on X: “NEWS: Elon Musk calls on talented engineers to apply and help @Tesla design and build next-gen AI chips. “Our (Tesla’s) goal is to bring a new AI chip design to volume production every 12 months. We expect to build chips at higher volumes ultimately than all other AI chips” / X >>
* Min Choi on X: “Education will never be the same Nano Banana Pro >>
” / X >>
* Justine Moore on X: “Can’t stop watching the time lapse videos of “construction” from the AI interior design accounts (from inspiringdesignsnet) >>
” / X >>
* Whole Mars Catalog on X: “Preparations are underway for Tesla FSD Unsupervised” / X >>
* Alex Patrascu on X: “I asked Gemini 3 to analyze the latest @MrBeast video and generate a comic book based on it. No references. >>
” / X >>
* Chubby♨️ on X: “Pretty much confirmed Opus 4.5 tomorrow, release table found on epochAI >>
” / X >>
* Nic Cruz Patane on X: “Elon Musk: “We (Tesla) expect to build chips at higher volumes ultimately than all other Al chips combined. Read that sentence again, as I’m not kidding.” Holy shit. >>
” / X >>
* Akshay 🚀 on X: “Google just dropped “Attention is all you need (V2)” This paper could solve AI’s biggest problem: Catastrophic forgetting. When AI models learn something new, they tend to forget what they previously learned. Humans don’t work this way, and now Google Research has a solution. >>
” / X >>
* x.com/AIslop_ >>
* Marcus House on X: “Would be pretty sad slicing up the gigantic machine you just spent months building and rolled out days earlier. 😢” / X >>
* Andrej Karpathy on X: “Gemini Nano Banana Pro can solve exam questions *in* the exam page image. With doodles, diagrams, all that. ChatGPT thinks these solutions are all correct except Se_2P_2 should be “diselenium diphosphide” and a spelling mistake (should be “thiocyanic acid” not “thoicyanic”) :O >>
” / X >>
* Javi Lopez ⛩️ on X: “It’s game over.” / X >>
* Dirty Tesla on X: “Tesla with an “unsupervised” map 👀 That can only be good news.” / X >>
* Elon Musk on X: “Thanks Jack ❤️” / X >>