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Daily Tech Newsletter - 2025-11-21
Concerns Mount Over AI Investment Bubble and Potential Financial Crisis
Wall Street and Silicon Valley's collaboration on high-risk "private credit" deals is fueling an AI buildout bubble. The unregulated private credit sector, now managing $1.6 trillion, is financing AI infrastructure with questionable terms and mismatched asset lifecycles. Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) are used to fund data centers, relying on Big Tech firm payments for debt repayment. Rapid GPU depreciation and extended depreciation schedules lead to overstated revenues and potential "stranded assets." Insufficient sector cashflow raises concerns, with some companies losing billions per quarter. Experts warn this has echoes of the 2000s housing bubble and unregulated lending of the 1920s. Private equity, REITs, and banks are also involved, potentially impacting individual investors' 401(k) plans.
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AI2 Releases Olmo 3: Fully Open Language Models with Complete Development Transparency
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has launched Olmo 3, a family of open-source language models (7B and 32B parameters) with complete transparency. This includes full access to training data, code, intermediate checkpoints, training logs, and a technical report. Key models include Olmo 3-Base (a performing base model), Olmo 3-Think (a leading reasoning model), Olmo 3-Instruct (for chat and tool use), and Olmo 3-RL Zero (for RL research). Olmo 3 aims to foster trust, adaptation, and innovation in open AI development.
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- https://www.interconnects.ai/p/olmo-3-americas-truly-open-reasoning
- https://allenai.org/blog/olmo3
- https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/11/20/allen-institute-for-ai-ai2-introduces-olmo-3-an-open-source-7b-and-32b-llm-family-built-on-the-dolma-3-and-dolci-stack/
Meta AI Unveils SAM 3: Unified Model for Image and Video Segmentation with Enhanced Concept Understanding
Meta AI has released SAM 3, an open-sourced foundation model (848M parameters) for promptable segmentation in images and videos. SAM 3 introduces Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS), allowing users to find, segment, and track objects based on text prompts and visual exemplars within large image and video collections. The model integrates a DETR-based detector and a SAM 2-style video tracker and is trained using the SA-Co dataset. SAM 3 enables advancements in autolabeling, model-in-the-loop annotation, and MLOps pipelines.
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Nano Banana Pro: Google's Advanced Image Generation Model with Text Rendering and Real-Time Data Grounding
Google released Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), an advanced image generation model, on November 20, 2025. It offers high-resolution output (up to 4K), advanced reasoning, multi-turn task capabilities, and legible text rendering. It utilizes Google Search for grounding imagery with real-time data and incorporates SynthID digital watermarks for content detection.
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Mozilla Revamps Strategy to Focus on Open, Public Interest, and Trusted AI
Mozilla is repositioning its strategy to ensure AI benefits humanity, fostering a more open and trustworthy ecosystem. The organization aims to empower people with AI while diversifying revenue and decentralizing the tech industry, using Firefox as an example. The strategy focuses on open source AI, public interest AI, and trusted AI experiences, including a Firefox AI Window.
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DOJ Charges Individuals with Illegally Exporting AI-Capable NVIDIA GPUs to China
Two U.S. citizens and two Chinese nationals were arrested for conspiring to illegally export advanced NVIDIA GPUs (used in AI applications) to the People's Republic of China (PRC). The individuals falsified documents and used a shell company to evade export controls. The PRC's push to become a global AI leader by 2030 drives this illegal pursuit of US technology.
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Adobe to Acquire Semrush for $1.9 Billion to Boost Digital Marketing Capabilities
Adobe is acquiring Semrush for $1.9 billion to integrate its digital marketing and SEO tools with Adobe's content creation and analytics platforms. This acquisition will create an end-to-end solution for the full digital marketing lifecycle.
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Debate Surfaces Regarding AI Work Culture and Work-Life Balance
The "9-9-6" work culture (9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week) in the AI industry is being challenged. Extensive research suggests individuals can only sustain 2-4 hours of focused work daily and that breaks are crucial for problem-solving. Overworking leads to burnout and does not benefit long-term productivity.
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Offline Multi-Tool Reasoning Agent Achieved
A tutorial (by Asif Razzaq) details the creation of a fully offline, multi-step reasoning AI agent using the Instructor library, showcasing robust tool selection, input validation, multi-stage planning, and error recovery. Pydantic schemas are crucial, and the architecture emphasizes modular schemas and validated tool calls.
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Google Allows Gmail Access to User Data Unless Opt-Out is Enabled
Google has begun automatically enrolling Gmail users to allow access to private messages and attachments for training its AI models. Users need to disable "Smart features" in two separate settings locations within Gmail.
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Microsoft AI CEO: Reacts to Negative Backlash of Announced Agentic-OS
After recent announcement by Microsoft about its new OS, Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman expressed his concerns of the negative response received from the public. Relevant URLs: