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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model, with details like estimations of compute spent in terms of ChatGPT Pro usage — We're releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
More: OpenAI on GitHub, Engadget, agmai.org, New Scientist, New York Times, Quartz, The Rundown AI, The Verge, The Decoder, Newser, Gizmodo, The Information, RuntimeWire, and Unite.AI
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LinkedIn: Ritendra Datta and Bojan Tunguz
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| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's smart home push includes a doorbell, a thermostat, a deadbolt, security cameras, and accessories developed with LG that will carry the LG brand — Apple Inc.'s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Stratechery, Android Police, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, Forkast, T3, Android Authority, RuntimeWire, iThinkDifferent, Seoul Economic Daily, MacRumors, Business Today, Bloomberg, iClarified, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, Engadget, iPhone in Canada, CNBC, The Verge, and AppleInsider
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Forums: r/HomeKit, r/smarthome, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
| Financial Times: |
Sources: SpaceX is seeking to raise $40B, including ~$10B in bank loans and ~$30B in investment-grade debt, to purchase Nvidia chips, in a deal led by Apollo — Blockbuster debt deal is the latest sign of the vast spending on chips and other infrastructure underpinning AI
More: Bloomberg, Barron's Online, CoinDesk, Investor's Business Daily, Coinpaper, MarketWatch, Financial Mirror, Quartz, The Crypto Basic, Proactive, Financial Express, Daily Sabah, Political.org, CTech, The Coin Republic, Seoul Economic Daily, Chip Briefing, Reuters, The Information, The Straits Times, and Finimize
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says his business empire will build and operate the Texas-based Terafab chipmaking project, quashing speculation about TSMC having an operational role — Elon Musk said his business empire will build and operate Terafab independently, quashing speculation about industry leader …
More: Bloomberg, Quartz, Dow Jones Newswires, Automotive World, Barron's Online, Seoul Economic Daily, Reuters, CTech, Channel NewsAsia, and Finimize
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @the_ai_investor, and @mzuhair123
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or “Le Chonk”, a 1T model it says tops any open model developed in the US or Europe, with weights due October 27 — Mistral is launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model code-named …
More: Reuters, Wired, Silicon Republic, CNBC, The New Stack, Courthouse News Service, Wccftech, Tech.eu, The Decoder, Finimize, Wall Street Journal, Unite.AI, Quartz, ZDNET, RuntimeWire, and The Deep View
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Forums: r/singularity, r/BuyFromEU, r/SillyTavernAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLaMA, r/accelerate, r/technology, and r/MistralAI
| Mistral Blog: |
More: Fortune, ITPro, API Evangelist, Artificial Lawyer, Silicon UK, RuntimeWire, and Tech in Asia
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk”, saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework — ChatGPT's teen-focused experience 'doesn't send alerts to parents when it should,' according to an assessment.| Bill Donahue / Billboard: |
A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison — Michael Smith admitted earlier this year to using bots to stream fake songs billions of times in a first-ever criminal case over streaming fraud.| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1, based on Gemini 3.6 Flash, saying it improves on previous versions “across the board”; pricing is ~50% lower than Nano Banana 2 — Google has released Nano Banana 2.1, a new model for image generation and editing.
More: Google DeepMind, The Peninsula Newspaper, The Hans India, Unite.AI, RuntimeWire, Decrypt, and Android Authority
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Meta, Walmart, Instinct, Shopify, Sierra, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure how AI bots interact with businesses — A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies …
More: Sierra, Facebook, Constellation Research, Forkast, Implicator.ai, PYMNTS.com, Decagon, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, and The Verge
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Xreal opens preorders for its Android XR-powered Aura glasses with a compute puck, starting at $1,279 for 12GB/256GB, in the US, Canada, Japan, and South Korea — The glasses are now available for pre-order. — Xreal has officially launched its Android XR-powered Aura smartglasses …
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, GamesBeat, XREAL, MobileSyrup, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Notebookcheck, and CGMagazine
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic expands its Cyber Verification Program by integrating Project Glasswing and offering three tiers, all with access to its most capable Claude models — We're launching a new, expanded version of our Cyber Verification Program (CVP), which makes advanced cyber capabilities …
More: CSO, Security Affairs, Fast Company, The Decoder, Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, Cyber Security News, The Register, SiliconANGLE, and Bloomberg
X: @anthropicai, @choblin29, @andrewcurran_, @adnanthekhan, @iam_zachi, @lainshawty, @ustas_eth, @pandare__, @andrewmohawk, @azakasekai_, @cjav_dev, and @jun_song. LinkedIn: Curt B.. Bluesky: @k8em0
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — Google Playground is a browser-based tool for making games from AI prompts. … Google today announced Playground … | Financial Times: |
Sources: the European Commission considers taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations to avoid singling out individual companies — European Commission considers a broad levy on all large companies to avoid singling out US digital services groups
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, RTÉ, Ukrainian National News, and MacTech.com
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Finland orders Google subsidiary Tuike Finland Oy to halt data center construction in Muhos and Kajaani by October 23, pending environmental impact assessments — Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed …
More: Quartz, TheEnergyMag, Capacity, Macau Business, Political.org, Reuters, CGTN, and Hürriyet Daily News
| Sammy Barker / Push Square: |
PS5 modders using AI tools have rapidly installed emulators, as jailbreaks spread across social media; recent games requiring newer firmware are inaccessible — This is fine.png — A game of cat-and-mouse between Sony and hackers is very much underway, as the PS5 has been jailbroken to a massive degree in the past week.
More: Ars Technica, Gameranx, Tom's Hardware, and iXBT.games
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| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
A Taiwan union representing Micron workers says it has secured member authorization to strike over the company's bonus scheme; the details are under discussion — A Taiwan union representing workers at Micron Technology (MU.O) said on Wednesday it had secured authorisation from its members …
More: Finimize, Barron's Online, Seoul Economic Daily, and Focus Taiwan
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who spent 12 years helping build and expand Alexa, as its CEO, after Robert Playter stepped down — Boston Dynamics appointed former Amazon.com Inc. executive Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer to lead the Hyundai Motor Co … | Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
GLM-5.3 has not resulted in any major public cyberattacks despite Anthropic's warnings about its Mythos-level cyber risk, undercutting calls to ban open models — Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs. … Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
More: The Business Times. X: @jessi_cata, @ramez, @bahradx, @stevesi, and @natolambert
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @natolambert
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest $300M and the US invests $500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training — The US government and tech heavyweights Meta Platforms (META.O) and Google parent Alphabet are joining nonprofit Biohub …
More: Unite.AI
| Reuters: |
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is partnering with 17 companies, including US-based Synopsys, to help customers design chips; Rapidus has $15B+ in state funding — Japan's Rapidus, with $15 billion in state backing, is tying up with chip design firms as it seeks to answer a major question hanging …
More: Finimize
| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
North American startup funding hit $92B in Q3, down 35% QoQ but up 50% YoY, with $61B to AI startups; there were 11 $1B+ acquisitions and IPOs remained quiet — Funding to North American startups declined sequentially in the third quarter and came in well below the all-time peak.
More: Inc42
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