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Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30 (The San Francisco Standard)
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Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30 (The San Francisco Standard)

The San Francisco Standard : Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive…

10/13/2026 · 27 views
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OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to identify who placed it (@openainewsroom)

10/13/2026 · 18 views
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Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

10/13/2026 · 240 views
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Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2.5K in May to 30K+ (Anthropic)

10/13/2026 · 16 views
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A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

10/13/2026 · 22 views
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Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow (Katie Roof/Business Insider)

10/13/2026 · 525 views
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Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

10/13/2026 · 17 views
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Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)

10/13/2026 · 58 views
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Meta expands its AI-powered "Your Algorithm" feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

10/13/2026 · 28 views
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Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)

10/13/2026 · 150 views
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Apple says HomeView's facial recognition works only if users have a "registered personal device" with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI on the same Wi-Fi network (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

10/13/2026 · 63 views
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Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon globally via the Gemini API and to Google AI Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode, and in Antigravity for Ultra users (Robert Hart/The Verge)

10/13/2026 · 20 views
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says "I now think it's more likely we'll see full RSI become possible in 2027", earlier than his previous prediction of 2028 (Jack Clark/Import AI)

10/13/2026 · 23 views
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Scuba, which is building a "context engine" designed to serve as a shared memory hub for human workers and AI agents, raised $34M across pre-seed and seed (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

10/13/2026 · 13 views
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Bumble says Ithaca Holdings will pay $6.05 per share, a 138% premium to Bumble's Friday close; BMBL jumps 56% to $5.94, after a 50% jump Monday on sale reports (Bloomberg)

10/13/2026 · 19 views
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Bumble says it has agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings in a $1.3B deal; Ithaca co-founders Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will become Bumble's co-CEOs (Reuters)

10/13/2026 · 23 views
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Sources: Rockstar plans to release the PC version of GTA 6 within the first three months of 2027, after releasing it on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 19 (Alexander Lee/GamesBeat)

10/13/2026 · 11 views
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Apple says the HomeView will not be available in the EU because Siri AI is currently unavailable on iOS there and it is "working constructively with the EU" (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

10/13/2026 · 22 views
Uber's head of autonomous mobility and delivery, Sarfraz Maredia, is leaving on November 16 after 12+ years at Uber, the latest exit from its autonomous unit (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Uber's head of autonomous mobility and delivery, Sarfraz Maredia, is leaving on November 16 after 12+ years at Uber, the latest exit from its autonomous unit (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : Uber's head of autonomous mobility and delivery, Sarfraz Maredia, is leaving on November 16…

10/13/2026 · 565 views
Apple HomeView demo: a square screen with a personalized, iPhone-like experience based on facial recognition, up to six users, Siri AI, and a closed ecosystem (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
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Apple HomeView demo: a square screen with a personalized, iPhone-like experience based on facial recognition, up to six users, Siri AI, and a closed ecosystem (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal : Apple HomeView demo: a square screen with a personalized, iPhone-like experience…

10/13/2026 · 25 views
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Apple unveils the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K, with Siri AI, an A19 chip, 128GB of storage, far-field mics, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6, shipping November 13 for $299 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

10/13/2026 · 12 views
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Apple unveils the $149 HomePod mini 2, with an S10 chip, "Sound Glow" interactive lighting, and Siri AI via a future update, in five colors, shipping October 30 (Apple)

10/13/2026 · 10 views
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Apple unveils the Apple Home Collection, a lineup of smart home accessories made with LG and Schneider, including cameras, thermostats, a doorbell, and a lock (Apple)

10/13/2026 · 28 views
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Apple unveils the $299 Apple HomeView, a 7" smart display with an A18 chip, tabletop and wall-mounted versions, and "HomeView software", shipping November 13 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

10/13/2026 · 18 views
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Sources: Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed for substantial control over what external AI evaluators can publish, out of concern that trade secrets could leak (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

10/13/2026 · 20 views
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Sources: US banking regulators are questioning banks about their deployment of agentic AI, use of Chinese-developed AI models, and autonomous system safeguards (Reuters)

10/13/2026 · 22 views
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The IMF lifts its 2026 global GDP growth forecast to 3.1%, up from 3% in July, citing an AI boom that offsets Middle East war disruptions and high energy costs (Anniek Bao/CNBC)

10/13/2026 · 25 views
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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 (David Segal/New York Times)

10/13/2026 · 21 views
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Accenture's market cap rebounded from $76B in June to ~$130B ahead of its investor day, where it seeks to reassure investors that AI won't threaten its business (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

10/13/2026 · 138 views
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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" (Reece Rogers/Wired)

10/13/2026 · 163 views
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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 (Bloomberg)

10/13/2026 · 15 views
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SpaceXSI launches a unified X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium, with tiers at $8, $30, $100, and $200 per month; the $30 tier includes Grok Bot (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

10/13/2026 · 136 views
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Sources: Chinese tech companies bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming and workstation chips, mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro, for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage (Financial Times)

10/13/2026 · 20 views
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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 (Bloomberg)

10/13/2026 · 15 views
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% (Reuters)
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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% (Reuters)

Reuters : IDC: China's Q3 smartphone shipments fell 15.4% YoY to 57.9M units, the sixth straight quarter of decline;…

10/13/2026 · 25 views
Singapore-based data center developer DayOne raises ~$3.67B, including a ~$2.4B offshore term loan facility, from seven banks to fund its Malaysia expansion (Jasmeen Ara Shaikh/Reuters)
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Singapore-based data center developer DayOne raises ~$3.67B, including a ~$2.4B offshore term loan facility, from seven banks to fund its Malaysia expansion (Jasmeen Ara Shaikh/Reuters)

Jasmeen Ara Shaikh / Reuters : Singapore-based data center developer DayOne raises ~$3.67B, including a ~$2.4B…

10/13/2026 · 17 views
A deep dive on Amazon's robotics efforts, resulting in 1M+ active warehouse robots; Amazon is still the world's 2nd-largest corporate employer with 1.5M workers (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)
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A deep dive on Amazon's robotics efforts, resulting in 1M+ active warehouse robots; Amazon is still the world's 2nd-largest corporate employer with 1.5M workers (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)

Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica : A deep dive on Amazon's robotics efforts, resulting in 1M+ active warehouse robots; Amazon…

10/12/2026 · 139 views
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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 9.2%, and Micron 4% (Financial Times)

10/12/2026 · 32 views
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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 (Rhea Rose Abraham/Reuters)

10/12/2026 · 132 views
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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 (Reuters)

10/12/2026 · 134 views
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China-based Transsion, which dominates the market for smartphones in Africa, raised $390M from a Hong Kong share sale after pricing the deal near the top end (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

10/12/2026 · 22 views
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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% (Anthropic)

10/12/2026 · 150 views
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Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build a data center for Anthropic in Osaka of up to 500 MW, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B (Nikkei Asia)

10/12/2026 · 16 views
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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang on the Muse app, Muse Wonder, the risks of committing $100B+ to AI, rebooting Meta's AI team, agentic commerce, more (Cheeky Pint)

10/12/2026 · 190 views
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Japanese manufacturer Omron says it will acquire US industrial PC firm OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, for $675M, to boost its "physical AI" efforts (Anton Bridge/Reuters)

10/12/2026 · 142 views
Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, to focus on developing specialized AI models for math (Chao Kong/South China Morning Post)
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Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, to focus on developing specialized AI models for math (Chao Kong/South China Morning Post)

Chao Kong / South China Morning Post : Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and…

10/12/2026 · 99 views
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Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B (Claire Ruckin/Bloomberg)

10/12/2026 · 11 views
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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 (Anthropic)

10/12/2026 · 15 views
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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" (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

10/12/2026 · 11 views
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Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a $90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects $60M-$80M in revenue this year (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

10/12/2026 · 95 views

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