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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.| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
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Sources: Apple's push into smart home devices includes a doorbell, thermostat, and other accessories developed with LG; the products will carry the LG brand — Apple Inc.'s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through an unusual partnership with LG Electronics Inc.| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple's upcoming smart home products co-developed with LG are “at least a few more months” away; LG is handling manufacturing and product support — Bloomberg reports that Apple's plans for smart home products include devices, sensors, and cameras codeveloped in partnership with LG.| 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 … | Mistral Blog: |
Mistral says it trained ML4 “from scratch” using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual — Le Chonk — Today, we're launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4. Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk.| 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 … | 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| 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.| 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 … | 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.| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major attacks 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.| 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 … | Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Sources: Singapore distances itself from regulating Hyperliquid, citing its “decentralized nature”, even as the crypto futures DEX confirms it is based there — City-state averse to risk and scandal tries to distance itself from homegrown Hyperliquid Labs and its popular ‘perps’| 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 … | Google: |
Google DeepMind launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter model to map code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space, under an Apache 2.0 license — EmbeddingGemma 2 is the most capable model for on-device multimodal embeddings, natively mapping combinations of text, images … | Associated Press: |
A September 24 cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole PII for 1.3M people, including 30K orders of protection and 150K reports from a foster care board — A cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole personal information for more than a million people and is believed to have started … | 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 … | 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| Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: |
Turba Labs, which develops tech for optimizing AI infrastructure by creating digital twins of data centers, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed and Series A — The data center build-out is exploding across America. But what if AI didn't need more—more chips, more energy, more resources …
Beyond violation rates: Are your AI evaluations measuring the right things? — Structured eval design can improve both the breadth of behaviors tested and the interpretability of resulting failures.
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Ask an Expert: How to effectively recover stuck TDS refunds with reduced TDS reconciliation time — The 26AS/Form 168 gets updated quarterly and often gets checked only during the time of ITR filing.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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