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Meta AI Research:
Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks  —  Fourteen months ago, we began a ground-up overhaul of our artificial intelligence efforts.  In that time, we've gone from rebuilding our stack from first principles to pushing the frontier.
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@artificialanlys:
Muse Wonder Full (max) outperforms Fable 5.1 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, matches Sonnet 5.5 (max), and is just shy of Opus 5.5 (max)
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
An interview with Mark Zuckerberg, who says Meta has caught up with rivals at the frontier of AI with its Wonder model and rejects calls for a slowdown
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system”  —  The new Maia 300 chip will start rolling out to production AI workloads in 2027.
Reuters:
Microsoft says Maia 300 racks will hold 96 chips and use ~167 kW of power and plans to roll out “multi-gigawatt deployments” of the chip starting next year
Bloomberg:
Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-managed refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, heating them to 50°C for roughly six hours  —  Hundreds of supermarkets in France were hit by cyberattacks on Sunday night that disabled refrigeration systems and forced stores …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line  —  The Edge, which replaces the Fitbit Charge 6, offers consumers another vehicle for trying out the recently revamped Google Health app.
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach  —  The world's richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans' Senate majority …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms  —  Upon taking the CEO helm last month, John Ternus began tweeting on X. He tweeted “hello”, posted an iPhone event eve teaser …
Gao Yuan / Bloomberg:
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs  —  The AI boom has attracted investors whose strategies resemble those of gamblers, Broadcom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan said …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an “AI first” production model with “no more hand-written code”  —  The company told the team behind the upcoming shooter that it will now be an ‘AI first’ production
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a ~$1B valuation by Ithaca Holdings, founded recently by two Silicon Valley execs; BMBL jumps 49.61%  —  Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd expected to stay involved with company as part of deal  —  Bumble , the dating app founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd …
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Googlebooks hands-on: a rocky start, with severe connectivity, file-sharing, and software stability issues; core productivity software lacks full desktop parity  —  As an Android devotee, I want to love Googlebooks — but they don't make it easy. … My first week with the new Android-powered laptops …
Anthropic:
Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes  —  Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices …
Tony Diver / Telegraph:
Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month  —  US had blocked regulators from reviewing frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind
Mitchell Labiak / BBC:
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards  —  Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said.
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisity, which helps stop cyberattacks and ransomware from spreading, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B  —  Privately held Elisity stops cyber attackers and ransomware from spreading across organizations
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.

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