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Bleecker Street says TikTok suspended the Musk documentary account for “political policy” violations and called the suspension “permanent”; Bleecker's appealing — Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
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Google says “magic state cultivation” works in practice on its Willow quantum processor, calling it a breakthrough that reduces errors by about 40x — We've shown that magic state cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware. — Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI Quantum Software Engineer, Google Quantum AI
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| Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: |
MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data — MapQuest will not go gentle into that good night. — The navigation software — which debuted in 1996 and was later eclipsed … | Bloomberg: |
Zelenskyy says Starshield restrictions remain and are affecting only Ukraine, leading him to believe they are a “planned operation” rather than technical issues — Restrictions on Ukraine's military use of SpaceX's Starlink system appear to be deliberate and not the result … | Joanna Stern / The New Things: |
An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, plans to make Windows a safer OS to run AI agents, and more — My exclusive interview with Satya Nadella on the new Surface Laptop Ultra and Microsoft's plan to make Windows safer for AI agents| Walter Schulze / Startup Fortune: |
Anomaly Innovations, behind coding agent OpenCode, says a breach hit ~1.4% of OpenCode Console users and their API keys, in a “large scale distillation attack” — A large-scale distillation attack against the company behind the open-source coding agent OpenCode exposed stored OpenAI …
More: Crypto Briefing, RuntimeWire, and Notebookcheck
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Turkish police detained Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart on Oct. 14, seizing $7M+ in cash and six cold wallets; HEX fell nearly 50% on initial reports — Turkey's justice minister said Heart's wife and three bodyguards were also detained, and that searches turned up guns, ammunition, watches and jewelry.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers “stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs” than its predecessor — DeepSeek released an update of its AI model this weekend that it says is faster and leaner, ramping … | Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal: |
As AI giants rack up potential legal liabilities of tens of billions amid safety incidents, insurers worry claims may outpace limits on existing coverage — The artificial-intelligence industry's phenomenal rate of growth means claims have the potential to outpace the limits on existing coverage| Preeti Singh / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Blackstone President Jon Gray, who is making AI his biggest bet, has built a $200B data center empire, and is building a cloud venture with Google — From data centers and chip financing to AI advice on potential deals, the technology is everywhere at the alternative-investment giant| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Meta removes ToS language that suggested it could scrape websites “associated with” business accounts, saying it applied only to “ads and business products” — Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta's terms.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with YouTuber Benn Jordan, who recently testified in Congress against license plate readers, on Flock, privacy, the surveillance backlash, and more — Today, I'm talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist.
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is “an operator”, had “all” of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor — The 29-year-old in charge of the company's Superintelligence Labs is being touted as a potential successor to Mark Zuckerberg
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| Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: |
Duvo, which develops tech to automate business processes across enterprise systems, including ERPs and legacy apps, raised a $32M Series A led by Balderton — He didn't get very far. He discovered that much of the company's operational knowledge just wasn't documented anywhere.
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