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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases — An OpenAI research model stuck without funds on an Ethereum test network went looking for someone else's wallet, found one through recovery phrases … | Reuters: |
Sources: some Anthropic investors discussed a ~$1.5T valuation for its IPO, down from ~$2T they had expected, after disclosures showed slowing Q3 revenue growth — Some current Anthropic investors and prospective investors in its upcoming initial public offering are weighing a lower valuation …
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Taiwan plans to curb AI server and chip exports to China as part of a US trade deal and make shipping restricted AI hardware to China a criminal offense — Taiwan is preparing to tighten export controls on AI chips to further align with US restrictions, according to a senior official in Taipei … | Meta AI Research: |
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window — Muse Spark Open is available today and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop for the first time on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
| Bloomberg: |
China is considering adding 23 AI technologies to its export control list, including LLMs and chip designs, to keep closer control over homegrown advancements — China proposed adding advanced artificial intelligence technologies to its export-control list, potentially restricting overseas transfers …
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Two US officials and a Western official say the order to limit Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield came from inside the White House — The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House …
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| Nick Cammarata / Goodfire: |
A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters — The cause of polysemanticity in early model organisms wasn't superposition, but several ordinary, mostly fixable issues.
More: The Decoder, Not Boring by Packy McCormick, and archive.is
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| Alix Coutures / The Information: |
OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta — As OpenAI has jockeyed with Anthropic to win over developers with new models and tools this year, its advertising business at times has seemed like an afterthought.| Nieman Lab: |
Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out — Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
India's cyber agency says AI agents broke into Indian organizations' systems and read confidential files undetected; AI model providers flagged the incidents — AI models under test broke into Indian organisations' live systems and read confidential records undetected, India's cybersecurity agency said … | Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: powerful, useful Magnetic Connect port, bright screen, but heavy, loud, and Windows doesn't take advantage of RTX Spark — Useful for AI models, but still waiting for more Windows 11 features to take advantage of. — Reviews
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| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: PayPal, Epic, and others voiced concerns to DOJ as it signaled a preference to settle its Apple antitrust suit with a deal focusing on interoperability — As the U.S. Department of Justice negotiates a settlement of its antitrust lawsuit against Apple, app developers are fretting … | Microsoft AI: |
Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base — In June, we announced MAI-Thinking-1, a general-purpose foundation model post-trained on top of MAI-Base-1 with strong reasoning performance.| Rebecca Rubin / Variety: |
Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is leaving the company and will be replaced by former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice, who starts October 26 — In a major executive shakeup, Bela Bajaria is out at Netflix after 10 years at the streamer, most recently serving as its chief content officer.
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| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
US candidates and PACs, mostly tied to Republicans, have spent $137M+ on 220 AI-generated campaign ads in 2026; ~70% of the 220 videos didn't disclose AI use — Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance — One flagship AI data center in Norway is six months behind schedule, with workers set to be housed in a floating hotel to get it over the finish line.
More: DatacenterDynamics, TheEnergyMag, Quartz, and Techstrong IT
| Bloomberg: |
Organizers abruptly cancel 2026's Grace Hopper Celebration, one of the biggest events for women in tech, after sponsorships and registrations fall short — The cancellation of this year's Grace Hopper Celebration, one of the largest gatherings of women in technology, is the latest example … | Jess Jones / The Times: |
Source: Intuit acquired UK-based B2B revenue management and billing startup Sequence in a sale worth ~$200M; Sequence raised $19M led by a16z in 2022 — A British financial technology business has been acquired by Intuit, the American software company, in a sale estimated to be worth around $200m …
More: Tech.eu
| John Harney / Bloomberg: |
In its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI risks and develop protocols for labs to provide early warnings — President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence task force in its first meeting agreed on Thursday to address risks related to cybersecurity … | Afra Wang / New York Magazine: |
A look at China's AI learning frenzy, as economic anxiety and fear of being left behind fuel a booming market for courses promising prosperity through AI — In May, I sat in a living room on the fringes of Hangzhou, one of the most technologically advanced cities in China and home to Alibaba, Unitree, and DeepSeek.
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