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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards — We're introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They're the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work …
More: Stratechery, The Verge, The Neuron, TechSpot, Fortune, Artificial Analysis, Quartz, Simon Willison's Weblog, Ace of Spades HQ, Trending Topics, Implicator.ai, Cyber Security News, TheSequence, Digital Trends, The Mac Observer, The Information, PCWorld, Constellation Research, The Deep View, and The New Stack
X: @danshipper, @gavinsbaker, @artificialanlys, @yuchenj_uw, @levie, @claudeai, @felixrieseberg, @kieranklaassen, @kimmonismus, @emollick, @alexalbert__, @bcherny, @claudedevs, @alexalbert__, @rlancemartin, @jeffwang, @synthwavedd, @teknium, @cheatyyyy, @arena, @simonw, @claudeai, @eliebakouch, @claudeai, @_catwu, @theo, @theo, @yahyavision, @teortaxestex, @maksym_andr, @iterintellectus, @gavinsbaker, @khushiirl, @cogcelia, @robj3d3, @adamconner, @trq212, @chddaniel, @blueemi99, @nc_frey, @eliakuratli, @scaling01, @beffjezos, @samhenrigold, @1aakib, @cryptopunk7213, @rohanpaul_ai, @mattshumer_, @bindureddy, @altryne, @davidondrej1, @deryatr_, @rishicomplex, @bindureddy, @alexfinn, @devindesktop, @noctus91, @bridgemindai, @zephyr_z9, @m1astra, @theamolavasare, @claudeai, @aiwithsally, @alexfinn, @cheatyyyy, and @mr_salio
LinkedIn: Matt Wood, Yuhao Zhang, Rich O'Connell, and Mike Krieger
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/claude, r/Anthropic, r/accelerate, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, and Slashdot
| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, the same as Fable 5's pricing, but cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens — On Tuesday, Anthropic launched the latest versions of its flagship Fable and Mythos models. Anthropic promises that the updated models … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
More: Anthropic, CSO, Quartz, SecurityWeek, Neowin, Help Net Security, and MarkTechPost
X: @scaling01, @claudeai, @ibrahimdagher20, @_orcaman, @timfduffy, @curl_justin, and @claudeai
LinkedIn: Cat de Jong, Jonathan Pelosi, Iain Mulholland, Eleanor Dorfman, and Jonathan Jager-Hyman. Bluesky: @timfduffy.com
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The FBI is investigating Nexus, a new ID theft service on the dark web claiming to sell digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada — A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses …
More: Tom's Hardware, 9to5Mac, Metro.co.uk, CyberInsider, Joe.My.God., and Dexerto
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Bluesky: @metacurity.com, @hatr, @esqueer.net, @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com, @joeuchill, and @lizthegrey.com. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/news, and r/privacy
| Wired: |
OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon”, but will give access to “its most advanced cyber capabilities” only to testers and partners — The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
More: OpenAI, Metacurity, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, PYMNTS, Tech Times, Axios, PCMag, Quartz, AI Policy Daily, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Trending Topics, Blockonomi, SecurityWeek, WinBuzzer, s-1.site, Cyber Security News, Business Standard, Neowin, Mashable, and Agence France-Presse
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Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/technology, r/accelerate, and r/BetterOffline
| The Information: |
More: Don't Worry About the Vase and Marcus on AI
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Forums: Hacker News and r/codex
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December — The half-inch thin laptop is joined by a new, much larger Swift Air 16 — both with Intel Wildcat Lake.
More: Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, and Phandroid
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
| Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: |
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” — The Coming of Userless Agents — The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident is an early example of an AI system that has “gone rogue.”
More: TechRadar. X: @deanwball, @thezvi, @hamandcheese, @deanwball, and @jachiam0. Forums: r/singularity
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
More: Bloomberg and Dwarkesh Patel on YouTube
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed — OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data …
More: OpenAI, Shelly Palmer, Neowin, Health API Guy, Unite.AI, and PYMNTS
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ride-sharing, delivery, and robotaxis — Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed … | Matthew Haag / New York Times: |
NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more — A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
More: Politico, UPI, Gothamist, ABC7, and New York Focus
Bluesky: @charleswlogan and @rweingarten
Forums: r/newyorkcity and r/nyc
| Kai Williams / Understanding AI: |
A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome — A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics. — Today's Robot Week article is sponsored by 80,000 Hours …
More: Financial Times. X: @chi_t_williams and @binarybits. LinkedIn: Arvind Narayanan. Bluesky: @frankpasquale. Forums: Hacker News
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI is facing a new round of lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect spent days talking to ChatGPT — New lawsuits add to list of cases in which the chatbot maker faces questions about the safety of its products
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, NPR, and The Guardian
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Valencia-based iPronics raised $125M co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street, with participation from Nvidia, to develop optical circuit switch tech — Valencia, Spain-based startup iPronics said Tuesday that it has raised $125 million in venture capital with participation from Nvidia …
More: The Register
| Washington Post: |
Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 — More than a quarter of U.S. adults turn to chatbots for personal or emotional discussions, including for entertainment or social advice, a new survey found.| Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals, but still needs to complete post-training — Internal tests of Gemini 3.8 Flash show progress in an area where the company has lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI.
More: Quartz, Android Authority, Gizmodo, The Hans India, NPowerUser, and Blockonomi
Forums: r/singularity, r/GOOG_Stock, and r/Bard
| World Labs: |
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D — World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Information, The Decoder, Implicator.ai, and SiliconANGLE
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, above $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, above $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ — Dell Technologies shares moved 9% higher in extended trading on Tuesday after the computer maker reported results and a forecast that easily cleared Wall Street expectations.
More: Dell Technologies, Blockonomi, Yahoo Finance, The Information, and MarketWatch
X: @benbajarin, @jimcramer, @michaeldell, @danielnewmanuv, @realnickmugalli, and @realnickmugalli. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, following Trump's EO — Apple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.'s Google, in the wake of an order from US President Donald Trump.
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Threads: @carnage4life, @chriswelch, @karaswisher, and @karaswisher
Forums: r/technology, r/applemaps, and r/apple
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, above $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management — Palo Alto Networks surpassed fiscal fourth-quarter estimates as mounting artificial intelligence risks boost demand for its cybersecurity tools.| Reuters: |
The US urges G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for “novel” situations that involve the tech — The U.S. pressed G20 members on Tuesday to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating new rules …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources say Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, and planned outside funding never came — As company struggles with profitability, Snap CEO is doubling down on a hardware play that has made some investors wary
X: @_iainmartin
| Mariapaula Gonzalez / Barron's Online: |
MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, above $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 10%+ — McCormick's Rebound Is Starting to Look Seasoned — Sea Limited Is an E-Commerce Winner. This Chart Screams It. — 0&
More: MongoDB, Inc., MarketWatch, Quartz, diginomica, Blockonomi, and Investor's Business Daily. X: @quinnypig
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo — The Dell 14S promises an aluminum build, Intel Wildcat Lake chips, and lots of battery life — for a price we don't know exactly yet.
More: Windows Central, HotHardware, Club386, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar, How-To Geek, PCMag, Wccftech, CNET, VideoCardz.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, and T3
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 53% of US adults say they spend too much time on their smartphone and 36% say about the right amount; 70% of ages 18 to 29 report spending too much time — Between scrolling, notifications, and messages, smartphones can be hard to put down. Just over half of U.S. adults say they spend …
Bluesky: @johngramlich
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a ~$58M compensation package in FY 2027, including a $3M base salary, while Tim Cook's will get ~$47M as executive chair — Apple Inc. said that new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus will get a compensation package worth about $58 million in fiscal 2027 …
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