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October 12, 2025, 3:40 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has left to join Meta; he reportedly declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package in August  —  Andrew Tulloch is the latest big-name AI researcher to join the social-media giant  —  A co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple discontinues Clips, a video editing app it launched in 2017, removing it from the App Store for new users, and says Clips will no longer be updated  —  Apple has essentially discontinued Clips, its video-editing app designed to allow users to combine video clips, images …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: xAI is building world models for use in gaming and robotics, and has hired two AI researchers, Zeeshan Patel and Ethan He, from Nvidia to work on them  —  Artificial intelligence group hired staff from Nvidia to work on advanced AI that can design and navigate physical spaces
Stephen Witt / New York Times:
Interviews with security researchers about AI's potential for large-scale destruction, as experts remain divided and global regulatory frameworks lag  —  How much do we have to fear from A.I., really?  It's a question I've been asking experts since the debut of ChatGPT in late 2022.
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B+ in liquidations, 10x+ the liquidations during the FTX crash  —  Trump's 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena's USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI software, designed with input from OpenAI, helped secure the multi-billion dollar deal with OpenAI  —  Chips aren't the only star of the massive agreement.  AMD's software efforts have slowly turned it into a more formidable competitor to Nvidia.

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