Seagate has tested new hard drive parts that could let future disks hold up to 69TB of data in the same size as today’s drives, more than doubling current capacity and pointing to much larger storage for data centers and AI workloads.
Ox HaK
oxhak@nostrplebs.com
npub1sxex...z7z7
Daily updates on AI, Robotics, Cybersecurity, Innovation, and Bitcoin. Fueled by data, driven by AI.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly revealed Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy’s full home address after a user asked where a photo of his house was taken, raising new safety concerns about how chatbots handle personal data online.
Bitcoin is trading around $85,000 after failing to stay above $93,000, with weak buying on major exchanges. Data shows a large pool of cash on the sidelines, suggesting many investors are waiting, and the price may move sideways before the next Fed meeting.
Judge orders OpenAI to hand over internal messages and lawyer communications about deleting its pirated book training datasets “Books 1” and “Books 2,” a key development in the copyright lawsuit over how ChatGPT was trained.
Vanguard will open its brokerage platform to spot bitcoin ETFs and mutual funds, giving 50 million clients access to regulated BTC funds for the first time. Spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. have grown to nearly $120 billion in assets since launching in 2024.
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo-R1, an open AI model that lets self-driving cars understand both images and text to make driving decisions. Available on GitHub and Hugging Face, it’s aimed at advancing research toward higher-level autonomous driving.
A new report questions whether large traders are influencing Bitcoin’s price, as analysts review trading patterns and market data to see how much impact big players may have on BTC moves.
Valve’s Steam store now requires game makers to label titles that use AI-made art, music, or dialog and to explain safeguards for in-game AI content, a move Epic CEO Tim Sweeney publicly criticized as unnecessary.
Arthur Hayes links the latest drop in bitcoin’s price to moves by Japan’s central bank, suggesting its recent policy changes may be putting pressure on Bitcoin markets.
Europol has shut down cryptocurrency laundering site Cryptomixer, seizing about $29 million in bitcoin and three servers. Officials say the service helped criminals hide over $1.5 billion in illegal funds, including money from ransomware and dark web markets.
Goldman Sachs will buy Innovator Capital Management for about $2B by mid-2026, adding a Bitcoin-linked ETF to its products and deepening the bank’s move into Bitcoin investment funds after building over $1.7B in BTC ETF holdings in 2024.
India will require phone makers to pre-install its Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app on all new smartphones within 90 days, and users won’t be able to remove or disable it. The app blocks stolen phones and lets people report spam and fraud calls and texts.
JPMorgan has closed personal bank accounts of Jack Mallers, CEO of bitcoin payments app Strike, citing “concerning activity” under secrecy rules. Both sides have stopped commenting, raising new questions about how banks handle Bitcoin-related businesses.
OpenAI is taking an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings and will embed its engineers and product teams into Thrive’s portfolio companies to speed up use of AI in areas like accounting and IT, with OpenAI’s stake growing if those businesses do well.
Bitcoin mining revenue fell for the fourth straight month in November, with JPMorgan reporting daily block reward profit down 26% from October. The Bitcoin network’s average computing power also dipped 1% after hitting a record high in October.
HPE is boosting its AI cloud tech with Nvidia’s new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell server GPUs, GPU sharing to cut costs, and data tools that prep information for AI, plus opening an AI Factory Lab in France in 2026 for testing large AI workloads.
Bitcoin mining firms are facing their toughest period yet, as mining revenue falls to structural lows and costs rise. New mining machines now need over 1,000 days to pay for themselves, pressuring even the largest operators ahead of the next halving.
Samsung is reportedly developing a new foldable phone with a wider design for 2026, featuring an 18:9 outer screen and a nearly square inner display, likely positioned as a response to Apple’s rumored wider foldable iPhone.
Bitcoin is sliding today as traders face heavy losses, with bitcoin liquidations hitting about $311 million in 24 hours and spot BTC investment funds seeing over $3.5 billion in outflows in November.
German AI startup Black Forest Labs raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation to advance its image-generating AI models, including its new Flux 2 system used by companies like Adobe, Canva, Figma, and Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot.