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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)
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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)
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Sources: Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a ~$1B valuation; the buyer is Ithaca Holdings, a firm founded recently by two Silicon Valley execs (Cara Lombardo/Wall Street Journal)
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Muse Wonder Full (max) outperforms Fable 5.1 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, matches Sonnet 5.5 (max), and is just shy of Opus 5.5 (max) (@artificialanlys)
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Meta says Muse Wonder is available to Muse app subscribers, via Meta Model API, and Muse Code; Wonder Full is available to Muse Code subscribers (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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Meta says Wonder includes Active Memory and Active Focus, two features designed to help AI systems perform more useful work over extended periods (Ina Fried/Axios)
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Meta says it plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it "can bring to everyone using Muse" (Robert Hart/The Verge)
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An interview with Mark Zuckerberg, who says Meta has caught up with rivals at the frontier of AI with its Wonder model and rejects calls for a slowdown (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
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Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks (Meta AI Research)
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Getty enters a restructuring agreement to take the company private, with Getty family and Koch Equity committing to invest up to $533M to own 100% of Getty (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
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Microsoft says Maia 300 racks will hold 96 chips and use ~167 kW of power and plans to roll out "multi-gigawatt deployments" of the chip starting next year (Reuters)
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AI is supercharging a ~$442B scam economy that is bigger than the global cocaine trade, as the Chinese scam industry spreads beyond Asia's fortified compounds (Bloomberg)
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Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-managed refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, heating them to 50°C for roughly six hours (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)
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Googlebooks hands-on: a rocky start, with severe connectivity, file-sharing, and software stability issues; core productivity software lacks full desktop parity (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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Global smartphone shipments fell 20% YoY in Q3 to a 14-year low amid memory shortages; Apple's share crossed 20% for the first time in any Q3, reaching 22% (Counterpoint Research)
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Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data center in Abilene, Texas, could cost ~$30B, including $17B on chips, $3B on power, and $2.4B on construction (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
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A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
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Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
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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" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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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 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
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Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
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Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to capital and rising borrowing costs could become AI's main bottleneck (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
Lee Ying Shan / CNBC : Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to…
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Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions…
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)
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Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisity, which helps stop cyberattacks and ransomware from spreading, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
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Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards (Mitchell Labiak/BBC)
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As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human "verification tax" bottleneck (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)
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Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models (Bradley Olson/Axio
The U.S. Department of Justice is probing major broadcast networks for possible antitrust violations tied to a brief…
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Sources: Tencent is planning a ~$5B bond offering, including $1.5B to $2B in dollar tranches, to fund AI expenditures, with the bulk going toward chip purchases (Janice Huang/Bloomberg)
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Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
SWI, a digital infrastructure company, raised €800 million to upgrade its data centers, incorporating assets from…
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Christian leaders are weighing in on AI earlier than they did with other tech, as AI leaders' talk of creating a new consciousness fuels religious concerns (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
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X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
The US Department of Justice has confirmed an investigation into whether major news networks violated antitrust laws…
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US soldiers using AI tech during a July exercise say they encountered issues like drone overheating, highlighting challenges in the Army's modernization effort (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
US soldiers reported technical difficulties, including drone overheating, while utilizing AI technology during a July…
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A look at Uber's retreat in Africa, quitting Nigeria and Uganda abruptly after Tanzania and Ivory Coast, as price-sensitive riders pick Bolt, inDrive, and Yango (Bloomberg)
Uber has abruptly withdrawn its services from Nigeria and Uganda, following earlier exits from Tanzania and Ivory…
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How hacked civilian cameras became war tools, as Israel tapped Iranian traffic cameras before Khamenei's killing and Iran-linked groups hit 250+ Israeli cameras (Wall Street Journal)
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A look at China's bid to turn excess wind and solar energy into an AI edge via a $3.9T grid buildout through 2049, as ~9% of renewable output was wasted in 2026 (Bloomberg)
China plans a $3.9 trillion expansion of its power grid through 2049 to integrate excess wind and solar generation.…
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Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month (Tony Diver/Telegraph)
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An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI "super learner" using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
David Silver, a former DeepMind scientist, has launched a startup named Ineffable to develop an AI 'super learner.'…
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Sources: TSMC execs in charge of overseas operations met Texas officials and started more serious discussions in H1 2026, after talking on and off for 10+ years (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
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Sources: PCB maker Dongshan is eyeing to raise $2B to $3B in a Hong Kong listing as soon as this month; Dongshan is listed in Shenzhen with a $39B valuation (Bloomberg)
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Hardware wallet maker Ledger says the $86M+ theft from hundreds of its wallets involved devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis and confirms a "hardware implant" (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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Sources: Bain's Bridge Data Centres is in talks to upsize an existing loan from $2.8B to ~$6.6B, in what would be one of the largest data center deals in Asia (Kari Soo Lindberg/Bloomberg)
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are "starting to do phones" and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 (Alex Heath/Sources)
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Anchorage Digital buys B2B payments automation startup Routable for an undisclosed sum; Anchorage CEO calls it its largest acquisition by team size and revenue (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Anchorage Digital announced the acquisition of B2B payments automation startup Routable for an undisclosed amount. The…
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Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more (CBS News)
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Vitalize, an AI platform that helps hospitals manage labor and capacity in real time, raised a $31M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, with YC and others participating (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
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Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 (Etiido Uko/Tom's Hardware)
Google has temporarily suspended the acceptance of new product flaw submissions to its Open Source Software…
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Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks (Moneycontrol)
Walmart's Indian e-commerce subsidiary Flipkart is experiencing a significant decline in employee morale. This…
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