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“Super Intelligence systems” are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment — As traditional software systems were being deployed across the economy over the last few decades, we had the tools …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek
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| Lewis Parker / Kotaku: |
Hundreds of AI-decompiled or vibe-coded clones of games appeared in recent weeks, ported to run in browsers; some big titles like GTA: Vice City, Halo play well — Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight
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| CBS News: |
A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary … | New York Times: |
Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House …
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Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 — Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment — ShareFollow 6abc on Google
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
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| Adam Morgan / Wired: |
Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …
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| Financial Times: |
After 20+ major Japanese companies reported cyber attacks in recent weeks, Japan's NCSH chief says the country is in “a state of emergency in cyber space” — Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks| William Langley / Financial Times: |
IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% — DJI and Insta360 engaged in ‘civil war’ to become world's top smart camera maker — The decline of action camera pioneer GoPro …
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| Jemima McEvoy / The Information: |
A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute — Last month, Zach Dell, son of billionaire Michael Dell and cofounder of Base Power, a billion-dollar battery startup … | Wall Street Journal: |
How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal — Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs| Bloomberg: |
A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem … | Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic — Machines programmed to sort merchandise in warehouses hit kinks with cardboard boxes and turkeys; automation push reaches ‘peak complexity’| Michael Considine / CNBC: |
OpenAI says it didn't fire three researchers for “raising safety concerns or speaking out”, but for violating “clear policies on handling sensitive information” — OpenAI on Friday defended its decision to fire three safety researchers, saying they had committed a “significant breach of trust.”
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