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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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: |
Elon Musk and Mark Benioff pledged to rename SpaceXAI and AIForce, while Satya Nadella and Nvidia adopt “super intelligence”, as Silicon Valley follows Trump — Musk, Benioff, Huang, and now Nadella have all capitulated to Trump's ‘super intelligence’ rebrand.
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Constellation Research, Business Insider, Benzinga, and Pixel Envy
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Forums: r/politics and r/nvidia
| Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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.
More: YouTube, Wccftech, and SamMobile
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Forums: r/singularity, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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.
More: CoinDesk, Cryptonews, The Daily Hodl, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin News, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, CryptoPotato, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, and Inside Bitcoins
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Bluesky: @star86above and @lelonstoldt
| 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 …
More: Tom's Hardware, BBC, Reuters, Gizmodo, Reuters, DroneXL, RuntimeWire, Bloomberg, Türkiye Today, Firstpost, UNITED24 Media, Defense Express, The Sunday Guardian, CBS News, The Sunday Guardian, The US Sun, Associated Press, LIGA.net, Agence France-Presse, and The Kyiv Independent
X: @uk_daniel_card, @h_socraticus, @cloudflareradar, @teortaxestex, @tomshardware, @heroiam_slava, @delfoo, @netblocks, @front_ukrainian, @osinttechnical, @maks_nafo_fella, @exilenova_plus, @yoda69, and @letsarmukr. LinkedIn: Eric Wise
Bluesky: @johnvoelcker, @mattmcneilshow, @jentrification.com, @silent0siris, @rechelon, @robcyran, and @psguu
Threads: @amay.a100 and @sghallmark2023
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/thedavidpakmanshow, r/CollapseOfRussia, r/google, r/UkrainianConflict, r/democrats, r/WeirdGOP, r/behindthebastards, r/Britain, r/BrandNewSentence, r/NAFO, r/cybersecurity, r/UnderReportedNews, r/NewsD, r/tomshardware, r/Slovenia, r/TradingSphere, r/NAFO, r/DailyNews, and r/europe_sub
| 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
More: The Guardian, Financial Times, Reuters, GB News, Pathfounders, Political.org, and micahflee
| Bloomberg: |
A look at China's bid to turn excess wind and solar energy into an AI edge via a $3.9T grid buildout through 2049, as ~9% of renewable output was wasted in 2026 — To grasp the gargantuan scale of China's green-energy revolution, consider Gansu. In this arid strip on the edge …
X: @kyleichan and @pstasiatech
| 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 …
More: Business Wire, Vitalize, PYMNTS.com, MedCity News, The SaaS News, and FinSMEs
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI “super learner” using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more — The architect of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo on building machines that can teach themselves — and why he feels a moral obligation to advance the technology| Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: |
A look at Anthropic's data center lease economics, as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B per month; 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?| Bloomberg: |
A look at Uber's retreat in Africa, quitting Nigeria and Uganda abruptly after Tanzania and Ivory Coast, as price-sensitive riders pick Bolt, inDrive, and Yango — Kayode Emmanuel was parked outside the biggest hotel in Nigeria's capital, the Transcorp Hilton Abuja, waiting for ride requests on his Uber Technologies Inc. app.
More: Finimize
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
US soldiers using AI tech during a July exercise say they encountered issues like drone overheating, highlighting challenges in the Army's modernization effort — A desert trial exposed equipment limitations and institutional hurdles in the Army's push to modernize and keep pace with an AI-savvy adversary| Wall Street Journal: |
How hacked civilian cameras became war tools, as Israel tapped Iranian traffic cameras before Khamenei's killing and Iran-linked groups hit 250+ Israeli cameras — The highly vulnerable devices have turned into tools for combatants to track, surveil and attack the enemy
More: NewsMax.com and Seoul Economic Daily
X: @chelseakomlo, @spoogemanghost, and @aparanjape. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social
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