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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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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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 …
More: Unite.AI. X: @mwaldman130, @arctotherium42, @leahmcelrath, @deobfuscately, @basedjensen, @scaling01, @logangraham, @andrewcurran_, @benjaminmmurphy, @billkristol, @smokeawayyy, and @hamandcheese. LinkedIn: Michael Barnathan
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Forums: Hacker News, r/antiai, r/neoliberal, r/artificial, r/singularity, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/accelerate, and r/ClaudeCode
| 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 …
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| 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.
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LinkedIn: Bobinder Singh, Andrei Yarantsau, Alexey Gubarev, Francois Mahieu, and Noah Presler. Forums: r/fitbit
| 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 …
More: BBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes Europe, Barron's Online, Yahoo Finance, and The Information
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| 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 …
More: CNBC and Associated Press
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Forums: r/thebulwark, r/centrist, r/MarchAgainstNazis, r/democrats, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/politics, and r/nytimes
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build a data center for Anthropic in Osaka of up to 500 MW, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B — TOKYO/OSAKA — NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in western Japan for U.S. AI company Anthropic, multiple sources have told Nikkei.
More: Reuters
| 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 … | 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
More: CyberScoop, Investor's Business Daily, SecurityWeek, The Quantum Insider, Motley Fool, Bloomberg, IonQ, CNBC, and Bloomberg
X: @jrouldz, @laurenthomas, @ionq_inc, @elisityinc, @ionq_inc, @elisityinc, @ionq_inc, and @ionq_inc. Forums: r/IonQ
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
X has refound 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 …
More: Dan Sinker's Blog, Lex on Tech, Life on the Wicked Stage, Scripting News, Tedium, and Manton Reece
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Threads: @technologizer, @thejeffhou, and @karaswisher
| Claire Ruckin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B — JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have taken a rare move to limit their exposure on a $5 billion loan sale … | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: |
Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a $90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects $60M-$80M in revenue this year — Suki, a health care AI and scribe company, raised a $90 million Series E round to scale and add agentic workflows, CEO Punit Soni tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Inc.com
| Chao Kong / South China Morning Post: |
Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, to focus on developing specialized AI models for math — Leading China's mathematicians joined forces in Beijing on Sunday to launch an alliance aimed at integrating artificial intelligence into mathematical research.| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Getty enters a restructuring agreement to take the company private, with Getty family and Koch Equity committing to invest up to $533M to own 100% of Getty — Getty Images (GETY.PK) said on Monday it had secured support from major creditors and investors for a comprehensive restructuring that will cut debt …
More: The Hollywood Reporter, Quartz, and Bloomberg
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% — In recent months, we've made substantial progress on reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks on Claude using new methods, as we outline in this blog.
More: Business Standard, Reuters, and RuntimeWire
X: @anthropicai and @hesamation
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
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