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A look at Apple's smart home strategy, centered on a HomeView display hub, with a new HomePod mini, Apple TV, and second-party accessories from LG and Schneider — Fresh details on Apple's HomeView, HomePod mini and new Apple TV, including release dates, colors, chips and features.
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
How Musk and Benioff pledged to rename SpaceXAI and AIForce, while Nadella and Nvidia adopted “super intelligence”, as Silicon Valley falls in line with Trump — Musk, Benioff, Huang, and now Nadella have all capitulated to Trump's ‘super intelligence’ rebrand.
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| Tymur Dubovyk / Kyiv Post: |
Yandex says a drone strike shut down a third data center, disrupting 80+ services like Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT; users report banking and taxi app outages — A Ukrainian drone strike targeted a major Yandex data center in the Russian city of Vladimir early Sunday morning, Oct. 11 …
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are “starting to do phones” and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 — Cristiano Amon on the China vs. US AI sentiment, how AI is changing smartphones and wearables, Qualcomm's data center strategy, and what 6G will unlock.
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Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September — San Francisco company's software makes it easier for developers to switch between different AI chips| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Hardware wallet maker Ledger says the $86M+ theft from hundreds of its wallets involved devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis and confirms a “hardware implant” — A spy implant in some Ledger crypto wallets may be the root of an $86 million supply chain attack.| Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: |
A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN — Why is Anthropic driving its partners to speed up the $530 billion of data center leasing deals it has signed?| Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: |
Vitalize, an AI platform that helps hospitals manage labor and capacity in real time, raised a $31M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, with YC and others participating — Hospital staffing and scheduling is unglamorous, complex and tedious work, and Veeraj Shah, co-founder and CEO of startup Vitalize …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PCB maker Dongshan is eyeing to raise $2B to $3B in a Hong Kong listing as soon as this month; Dongshan is listed in Shenzhen with a $39B valuation — Printed circuit board maker Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co. has started gauging investor interest for a Hong Kong listing …
| Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Bain's Bridge Data Centres is in talks to upsize an existing loan from $2.8B to ~$6.6B, in what would be one of the largest data center deals in Asia — Bain Capital-owned Bridge Data Centres is in talks with banks to more than double the size of an existing loan to about $6.6 billion … | CBS News: |
Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more — The following is the full transcript of the interview with Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir, a portion of which aired on … | Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Anchorage Digital buys B2B payments automation startup Routable for an undisclosed sum; Anchorage CEO calls it its largest acquisition by team size and revenue — Anchorage Digital has acquired Routable, a startup that helps businesses automate payouts to vendors, contractors and other recipients … | Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes — ‘Physical AI’ developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics| Satya Nadella / @satyanadella: |
“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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