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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, the “next major pillar of our business” to deploy AI tools, led by MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai; MDB falls 20%+ — The tech giant is pushing to monetize its multibillion-dollar AI investments by selling more tools and services to companies
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| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
Meta says MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai will serve as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer; MongoDB appoints ex-CEO Dev Ittycheria as interim CEO — Meta Platforms (META.O) has poached MongoDB (MDB.O) CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai to spearhead a new business designed to bring the social media giant's AI tools to corporate customers.| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon — Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost complement to Claude Opus 5.5. Where Opus 5.5 is built for complex work requiring careful judgment …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs — Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.
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| Axios: |
Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction to halt ChatGPT development, saying OpenAI doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its tech — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked for an emergency injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, claiming the company … | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia increases its share buyback program by $150B, raising the remaining authorized amount to $235B, aiming to complete it through FY 2028; NVDA is up 20% YTD — Nvidia Corp., the chip developer at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, increased the size of its share buyback plan …
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| Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: |
Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer — Manus, an artificial intelligence startup founded in China, is expanding its AI agent offerings, aiming to gain further ground in one of the tech industry's hottest areas.| Marcia Dunn / Associated Press: |
SpaceX launches its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service — SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday, aiming for six full laps around Earth to prove its readiness for NASA's Artemis moon program.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending “intelligence explosion” and call for oversight into automated AI research — Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta say AI could soon self-improve faster than humans can keep up with
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| AI Security Institute: |
In simulated testing, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks, when prompted only to perform a cyber eval, more often than earlier OpenAI models — Our new evaluation finds that in simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducts unsanctioned supply-chain attack activity more frequently than previous OpenAI models| Joe / @joedaroo: |
An OpenAI agent security executive discusses the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's response, sandboxing improvements, alignment, “reasonable paranoia”, and more — Took a minute to write a few words about security & safety as someone who lived through it all at OpenAI. I hope my thoughts help someone out there. https://x.com/...
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| Utkarsh Shetti / Reuters: |
AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service — AI agent firm Instinct said on Monday it has raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation in a Series C funding round.| Alexandr Wang / @alexandr_wang: |
Alexandr Wang says Meta built Muse “to help people build the world they want”, offering “every person on earth ... a second mind beyond their own” — Here's to the wanting. Here's to the dreaming. Here's to everyone. https://x.com/...
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is “competition”; Scott Bessent described it as “theft” in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies — Watch CNBC's full interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said AI model distillation … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to “skills”, starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark — In 2024, Google introduced Gems as “custom versions of Gemini.” The Gemini app will soon replace Gems with “skills.”
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| Stefania Palma / Financial Times: |
Litigation funder Burford Capital says it stands to gain up to $1.4B after a US jury ruled against Apple in a patent case, awarding $5.7B in damages to Taction — Litigation funder's share price jumps 9% after US jury's decision — Litigation funder Burford Capital said it stands to gain …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
AI agents are the ultimate aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an end, and offering them is tech's ultimate prize, with Meta and Microsoft well-poised — Three revolutionary products — you know the line. A wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone …
X: @davidclinchnews and @stratechery
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks — Before Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $13 billion to buy open-source platform Hugging Face this month, OpenAI tried to invest $100 million into the startup … | The Washington Sun: |
Hundreds of people attended a pro-AI party in DC on September 26, in what the organizers called a counterprogram to the “bipartisan psychosis” over data centers — The Loudoun County Iced Tea, an homage to Virginia's “data center alley,” was peach-forward and watery, with a flat finish.
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Forums: r/fuck_ai_slop and r/TechGawker
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware — Custom physical artificial intelligence chip startup SiMa.ai Technologies Inc. today announced it has raised $150 million …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public this year, seeking to raise about $500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation — Blockchain.com Group Holdings Inc., one of the oldest crypto services companies, is telling prospective investors it wants to go public this year … | Patrick Jenkins / Financial Times: |
An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on the company's 42-year history, its complex supply chain across 2,000 companies, US export bans, AI, and more — Christophe Fouquet has built Europe's biggest business through a total monopoly over the most advanced chipmaking equipment
X: @firstadopter, @egarciagarcia, @tanarrowz, and @ali_wyne
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Citrix confirms two critical NetScaler zero-day RCE vulnerabilities are being exploited in attacks, says it has released security updates to fix the flaws — Update: Article rewritten with official confirmation from Citrix. — Citrix has confirmed that two critical NetScaler remote code …
More: watchTowr Labs, CISA, Cybersecurity Dive, The Record, National Cyber Security Centre, CERT-EU, TechRadar, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, Cyber Security News, Help Net Security, and Network World
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