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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: The Verge, Stratechery, Fortune, TechSpot, Quartz, TheSequence, Artificial Analysis, Simon Willison's Weblog, Ace of Spades HQ, PCWorld, Trending Topics, Implicator.ai, Cyber Security News, Digital Trends, The Information, The Mac Observer, 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, @cheatyyyy, @teknium, @arena, @claudeai, @simonw, @eliebakouch, @claudeai, @_catwu, @theo, @theo, @yahyavision, @teortaxestex, @maksym_andr, @iterintellectus, @gavinsbaker, @khushiirl, @cogcelia, @robj3d3, @adamconner, @trq212, @cryptopunk7213, @chddaniel, @blueemi99, @nc_frey, @eliakuratli, @scaling01, @beffjezos, @samhenrigold, @1aakib, @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: Rich O'Connell and Mike Krieger
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @tedunderwood.com, @pekka, and @isolyth.dev
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/claude, r/Anthropic, r/accelerate, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, and Slashdot
| 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, Joe.My.God., and Dexerto
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Bluesky: @metacurity.com, @esqueer.net, @hatr, @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, Moneycontrol, PYMNTS, PCMag, Axios, Quartz, Reuters, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Trending Topics, Blockonomi, SecurityWeek, WinBuzzer, s-1.site, Cyber Security News, Neowin, Agence France-Presse, and Mashable
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Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/technology, r/accelerate, and r/BetterOffline
| 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: |
| 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, Neowin, Health API Guy, Unite.AI, and PYMNTS
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more — “This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get.” — Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling …
More: Bloomberg and Dwarkesh Patel on YouTube
| 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 … | 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.
More: Status, Michael Geist, 9to5Mac, The Joy of Tech, iPhone in Canada, Fox Business, Axios, Notes from the Circus, Reuters, MacDailyNews, UPI, Newser, RuntimeWire, Wall Street Journal, and AppleInsider
X: @markgurman, @snazzylabs, @michaelcollado, @simonowens, @davidshepardson, @gregorymcfadden, @north0fnorth, and @aaronp613. Bluesky: @ianbetteridge.com
Threads: @carnage4life, @chriswelch, @karaswisher, and @karaswisher
Forums: r/technology, r/applemaps, and r/apple
| 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, 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
| 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
X: @davidpantera_, @theworldlabs, @eerac, @venturetwins, @drfeifei, @yunzhuliyz, @erynqian, @benmildenhall, @haozhang623, @mtslive, @dr_singularity, @dan_jeffries1, @benmildenhall, @keunhongp, @jcjohnss, @jpatel41, @jasteinerman, @davidpantera_, @a16z, @tamrrat, @petergyang, @ccatalini, @benmildenhall, @xrarchitect, @neilsonks, @davidpantera_, @yunzhuliyz, @davidpantera_, @scobleizer, @xrarchitect, @sarahdingwang, @ychngji6, @martin_casado, @davidpantera_, @kaiwynd, @venturetwins, @gowthami_s, @k_s_schwarz, @chaoyuaw, @brittaninatali, @ziqi__ma, @wendlerch, @theworldlabs, @theworldlabs, @theworldlabs, @theworldlabs, and @theworldlabs. Forums: Hacker News
| 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
| 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, The Hans India, Gizmodo, NPowerUser, Android Authority, Blockonomi, and RuntimeWire
Forums: r/singularity, r/GOOG_Stock, and r/Bard
| 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, Seoul Economic Daily, The Information, and MarketWatch
X: @benbajarin, @michaeldell, @realnickmugalli, @danielnewmanuv, @jimcramer, and @realnickmugalli. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| 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.| 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.| 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 Law, NPR, and The Guardian
| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer.
More: Reuters and Marcus on AI
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Forums: Hacker News and r/codex
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, PYMNTS, Wall Street Journal, CNET, The Autopian, TechRadar, Agence France-Presse, Seeking Alpha, CoinGape, MediaNama, Benzinga, and Quartz
| 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, SiliconANGLE, and Investor's Business Daily. X: @quinnypig
| 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
| Meta AI Research: |
Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages — Experience Muse Voice Transcribe in real time … We're excited to introduce Muse Voice Transcribe, the first real …
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Implicator.ai, MarkTechPost, Seeking Alpha, Gadget Review, and The Information
X: @artificialanlys, @hbredin, @supbagholder, @luminabench, @himanshustwts, @sbaji, @hiteshdotcom, @ivanfioravanti, @aleximarkett, @adarmouni, @finkd, @deliprao, @rohanpaul_ai, @plumberbutt97, @alexandr_wang, @alexandr_wang, @alexandr_wang, @finkd, @finkd, and @finkd
LinkedIn: Ozlem Kalinli and Johan Schalkwyk
| 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
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