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| MiniMax: |
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers “a generational leap” in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23 — Space Bunny 🐰, which processed more than 200 trillion tokens while operating anonymously, was an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash.
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| Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Anthropic's opaque, five-member Long-Term Benefit Trust, where members own no Anthropic equity but hold enormous sway by appointing most of its board — AI company has shared few details on the dynamics of the five-person trust empowered to shape its board and block major moves| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says “I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America” in 2027, a gift worth ~$10.5B, after Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to APBF — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a “Pro and tell” event on October 28 at 10am PT in LA, where its first touchscreen MacBook, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, and more are expected — Apple today announced its second experience of the month, taking place next Wednesday, October 28 at 10 a.m. PT. The tagline for this event is: “Pro and tell.”
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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, like Deere and SharkNinja, spending ~$5,000 in tokens — Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft debuts new security tools in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception system that treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments — Microsoft is coming out with new security tools that treat AI agents as potential insider threats, continuously assessing …
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price — The Google Deepmind team dropped the agents into a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies, or game-specific tools.
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: Anthropic is preparing a model with better intuition and reasoning that can discern underlying intentions and is better at thinking outside of the box — In the last month, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have released more than a dozen new models. If you thought that pace was crazy …
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| Financial Times: |
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer “direct-to-device” satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink — Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone to explore joint bid for spectrum to provide mobile satellite coverage
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| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek's tech from their IT systems and prohibits future procurement of its products and services — The Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove artificial-intelligence technology developed …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches TorchNeuron, an open-source framework that lets developers run PyTorch code on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewriting needed, in public beta — A new software tool from Amazon aims to make switching from Nvidia to the company's own AI chips about as simple as changing a setting.| Bloomberg: |
AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024 — AI chip startup Tenstorrent Inc., after attracting takeover interest earlier this year, has raised $1.5 billion from investors …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Sources: US investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which stole FBI data, identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms who had unusually close ties — U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI …
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member — The Saudi national charged with planting a recording device in a sensitive OpenAI executive conference room in San Francisco was … | Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Sam Altman's World debuts a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools for verifying human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering — The identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman named Bain Capital and VanEck Funds among its design partners …
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X: @worldnetwork, @bitpaine, @nazo_ku, @jeffjohnroberts, @world_id, and @tiagosada
| Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: |
CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of 235,786 roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared 268.3% — CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It's a mixed bag.
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| ProPublica: |
Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on — Reporting Highlights — An Unusual Request: Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security wanted the agency … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases a code execution model for improving GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M, using ~50% to buy 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips — DoubleAI, a startup based in Tel Aviv, is set to debut what it calls a new category of artificial intelligence that can help companies lower their computing costs.
More: PYMNTS.com, Quartz, Globes, CTech, and doubleAI
| Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: companies are set for a massive acceleration of 50GW+ in data center capacity additions in 2027; 24GW+ across 40 campuses are in the advanced stages — 60GW Under Construction, SemiAnalysis Leading Indicators, 1.3T of Lease Contracts Signed YTD, The Shortage Could Move to Chips
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US — The US Supreme Court rejected on Monday a challenge by a group of music labels to a judicial decision that said a law allowing creators … | Wccftech: |
Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design back to prioritizing single-threaded performance over core counts, and more — NVIDIA's Vera CPU heralds a redefinition of computing architecture from a traditional, task-isolated paradigm to an orchestrated …
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| Maddy Varner / Wired: |
Character.AI's Chapter 11 court filings indicate a two-part deal with Disney to transfer talent and tech, shielding Disney from Character.AI's legal liabilities — The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens …
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| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures — Prism Data, which helps lenders assess credit risk using bank transaction data, raised $20 million in Series A funding, CEO Jason Rosen tells Axios Pro exclusively.| The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs; DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as 2026's end — DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei Technologies to shape the design of future AI chips, two people familiar with the matter said … | Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Tolan, an AI assistant focused on users that are not tech-savvy, raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures, and Homebrew, and says 70% of its users are women — Far from Silicon Valley's echo chamber, about 250,000 everyday people turn to AI app Tolan as a friendly voice, or to help organize their lives and families.
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