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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31 — After the last model release three weeks ago, Google today is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash. This marks the third Flash update in three months.
More: The Verge, The Register, Ars Technica, iClarified, Artificial Analysis, Android Authority, RuntimeWire, Search Engine Land, Forkast, Search Engine Journal, Unite.AI, Android Headlines, Google, SammyGuru, Quartz, Neowin, CNBC Television on YouTube, Blockchain.News, NPowerUser, The New Stack, and Wall Street Journal
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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks — Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2 — Meta on Wednesday released Muse Spark 1.3, an update it says significantly improves performance in coding and agentic tasks.
More: Meta AI Research, The Information, Bloomberg, Neowin, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
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| Mark Zuckerberg / @finkd: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are “coming soon” — Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter. This is the biggest jump we've made so far on coding and agentic work. Try it in Muse Code and our API. Next up 🍉 and Muse Spark open weights releases coming soon.
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| @artificialanlys: |
Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 — Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, their fourth Muse Spark model release in five months. Muse Spark 1.3 (max), which is in limited preview for Meta's partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5. The variant available now, Muse Spa...| Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals — Alphabet Inc.'s Google doesn't have to sell off its advertising exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
The Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with The New York Times, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works is generally fair use — The Trump administration has filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with the New York Times (NYT.N) …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/ChatGPT
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis — Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says “we trust Anthropic” as they are “back on the right side” with the administration and that “they've done what we asked” — - “They've done what we asked. … - “Really excited for our conversation …
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| 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 …
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| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Wonderful, which helps enterprises deploy AI, raised a $550M Series C led by Insight at a $5B valuation; investors also paid $170M to buy shares from employees — Founded just last year, the startup already has 650 employees and is expanding its forward-deployed engineering teams around the world
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at $157M before the sale — Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents to automate routine …
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| 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.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, and Premiere, available via Slackbot prompts — Customers can now use Adobe's apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers — The cars have no lidar and no geofence, but still will have human safety drivers for the initial launch.
More: CNET, Reuters, Bloomberg, Engadget, Wayve, Los Angeles Times, The Irish Times, RTÉ, and The Straits Times
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q3 revenue up 86% YoY to $29.59B, vs. $29.36B est., AI semiconductor revenue up 221% to $16.7B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates — Broadcom shares edged up in extended trading on Wednesday after the chipmaker issued a rosy forecast for the next fiscal year and hinted …
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
MrBeast, whose YouTube channel hit 500M subscribers in June, will put Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multiyear Google deal — One of YouTube's biggest creators has a new deal to promote Gemini and Google Health.
More: Google, USA Today, iPhone in Canada, and 9to5Google
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources like RxNorm and PubMed — OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record (EHR) system …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money — Elon Musk's social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app's payments service.| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B — Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint Inc. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis Systems Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.| MarketWatch: |
Snowflake reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to $1.55B, vs. $1.48B est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 20%+ after hours — Companies looking to build AI tools on top of their data are turning to Snowflake, driving robust revenue growth
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft will start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as part of a shift in its reporting structure, under which Azure revenue grew 42% YoY to $29.42B in Q4 — Microsoft will start disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time, providing investors …
More: The Information, Bloomberg, and Reuters
| 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.
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI is facing new lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect talked gun violence with ChatGPT for days — New lawsuits add to list of cases in which the chatbot maker faces questions about the safety of its products
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| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a $100M+ valuation — The company, valued at more than $100 million, uses agentic AI to block threats — Blackstone is placing an early bet on Huskeys … | Ian Thomas / CNBC: |
Thyme Care, which focuses on filling cancer treatment gaps via a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation, up from $1B+ in 2025 — Despite recent advancements in oncology, the branch of medicine focused on the study, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer …
More: MedCity News, Nashville Business Journal, FinSMEs, and HIT Consultant
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| 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, both 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.
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