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| Meta AI Research: |
Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying that 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 …
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| Cheeky Pint: |
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
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| Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters: |
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale — Character.AI said on Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney (DIS.N) for $20 million.
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/BetterOffline, r/antiai, r/CAIRevolution, and r/characterai_lounge
| 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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| 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 …
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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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| Reuters: |
IDC: Nvidia's AI chip shipments in China fell 44% YoY to 678K in H1 2026, as its market share slid to 34% amid US export curbs and rising domestic competition — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) share of China's market for data-centre AI chips fell to 34% in the first half of 2026, as US export controls restricted supplies …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build an up to 500 MW data center for Anthropic in Osaka, 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: The Information
| 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%+ — Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd expected to stay involved with company as part of deal — Bumble , the dating app founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd …
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| 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: Reuters, Forbes Europe, RuntimeWire, and Business Standard
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Reuters: |
IDC: China's Q3 smartphone shipments fell 15.4% YoY to 57.9M units, the sixth straight quarter of decline; Huawei led with a 21% share and Apple had 17.8% — China's third-quarter smartphone shipments fell 15.4% from a year earlier to 57.9 million units, research firm IDC said on Tuesday.| Counterpoint Research: |
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| Bloomberg: |
CXMT says it plans to launch a 4F² design DRAM chip for data center servers before the end of 2026, achieving a breakthrough that rivals have pursued for years — CXMT Corp. declared it achieved a breakthrough in chip technology that rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. had pursued for years …
More: The Korea Times, Seoul Economic Daily, Korea JoongAng Daily, and Chip Briefing. Forums: r/technology
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Meta confirms Muse lets users “engage in adult conversations, if they choose, using a private and secure VM”, saying it doesn't block “legal adult behavior” — My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters.
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| 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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| Financial Times: |
A global chip stock sell-off deepens after Broadcom's CEO likened AI investing to a casino, with Samsung down as much as 8.8%, SK Hynix down 9.2%, and Micron 4% — Declines for Samsung and SK Hynix drag Kospi sharply lower as investors fret over scale of AI investment| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba unveils its next-gen Qwen Glasses N1, starting at ~$450, with 50MP cameras, sensors, and eye-tracking on the ~$520 Pro model, and Qwen Clip AI earbuds — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. on Tuesday unveiled the new generation of its smart glasses, deepening its foray into consumer electronics … | 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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| David Segal / New York Times: |
How crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne, who owns ~12% of Tether, and Ben Delo donated ~$100M to Nigel Farage's Reform, the largest donations in UK history — For a pub-going, cigarette-puffing man of the people, Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform U.K. party, sure has some very rich friends.Sponsor Posts
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