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Apple launches the M5 chip, featuring a 10-core GPU with over 4x the peak performance of the M4, up to a 10-core CPU, and a ~30% increase in memory bandwidth — M5 delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4, featuring a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core …
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| Apple: |
Apple refreshes the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, offering up to 3.5x more AI performance and faster storage, for the same $1,599+, shipping October 22 — With up to 3.5x more performance for AI workflows, faster storage, up to a phenomenal 24 hours of battery life, and macOS Tahoe, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even better
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| Apple: |
Apple upgrades the Vision Pro with an M5 chip for rendering 10% more pixels and a Dual Knit Band for a more comfortable fit, available on October 22 for $3,499+ — The latest version improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort, while offering innovative features …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple updates the iPad Pro with an M5 chip, its new C1X modem, and an N1 chip, priced at $999+ for the 11" and $1,299+ for the 13", shipping from October 22 — The Pro is becoming a showcase for Apple's new chips — and seems poised to remain the company's best tablet.
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, claiming it offers similar levels of coding performance to Sonnet 4 at “one-third the cost and more than twice the speed” — On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Haiku 4.5 can serve as a subagent for Sonnet 4.5, which can break down problems into multistep plans and orchestrate a team of Haiku 4.5 agents — Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users. — What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
US cybersecurity company F5 discloses a cyberattack in August by suspected nation-state hackers that stole undisclosed BIG-IP vulnerabilities and source code — U.S. cybersecurity company F5 disclosed that it suffered a cyberattack in early August, where suspected nation-state hackers breached …
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| Financial Times: |
An investment consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft says it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal — Buyer consortium also includes Nvidia and Microsoft and plans to expand Aligned Data Centers to meet computing demand
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| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
US bank Erebor, founded by Palmer Luckey, Joe Lonsdale, and others, wins conditional OCC approval to offer services to emerging tech companies in crypto and AI — A new US bank that aims to serve emerging tech firms in sectors such as crypto and artificial intelligence has received conditional approval …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; OpenAI currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumer ChatGPT use — New revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising targeted to cover enormous costs
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in 2026, its first international expansion, after human-supervised cars first collect data — It's good timing too. The UK is ready to start piloting fully driverless vehicles. … London's iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic is on track to meet an internal goal of $9B in annual revenue run rate by the end of 2025 and is targeting $20B to $26B for 2026 — - Anthropic projects as much as $26 billion in annualized revenue in 2026 — Anthropic projects $9 billion in annualized revenue by end of 2025| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X plans to show new info about accounts, including their creation date and which country they are based in, “starting next week” on select X employees' profiles — As AI makes it easier to create bots that act ever more human-like, Elon Musk's X is developing a new feature …
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| The Keyword: |
Google introduces Veo 3.1, with improved audio output and stronger prompt adherence, and rolls out new updates to its AI video editor Flow — We're rolling out significant updates to Veo that give people even more creative control. … Five months ago, we introduced Flow …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
UK-based cloud provider Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal — Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’
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| April Roach / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.52B, vs. €7.79B est., and €2.13B net profit, vs. €2.11B est., and says it expects a “significant” China sales decline in 2026 — Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday looked to calm concerns over 2026 growth …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is “not the elected moral police of the world” after receiving backlash for saying ChatGPT will allow “erotica for verified adults” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that the company is “not the elected moral police of the world” … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it is investing $1.5B+ to set up a 1GW data center in El Paso, Texas, and expects it come online in 2028 — Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a string of significant investments …
More: Meta Newsroom, Livemint, Neowin, KFOX-TV, Fierce Network, Social Media Today, Reuters, Blockchain.News, Proactive, and El Paso Matters
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 28K+ adults in 25 countries: 34% are more concerned than excited about AI, including 50% in the US, and 42% are equally concerned and excited — More are concerned than excited about its use, and more trust their own country and the EU to regulate it than trust the U.S. or China| Verity Townsend / IGN: |
Japan says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IP, including anime, manga, and games, calling them “irreplaceable treasures” — “We are a country that has captivated the world with the creative power of anime, games, and music.”
More: The Register, Engadget, Neowin, Digital Music News, and Plagiarism Today
Forums: r/technology, r/japannews, r/Games, r/news, and Slashdot
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Viven, which builds AI “digital twins” that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed — While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects … | Alex Wickham / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese state actors compromised UK government servers for at least the last 10 years, routinely accessing low- and medium-level classified information — Chinese state actors systemically and successfully compromised classified UK government computer systems for more than a decade …
More: NewsMax.com
| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Meta announces a partnership with Arm to power AI ranking and recommendation systems across Meta's family of apps using Arm-based data center platforms — Meta Platforms (META.O) said it is partnering with chip tech provider Arm Holdings to power the systems that drive personalization across its apps …
More: The Information, Arm Newsroom, Benzinga, InsideHPC, MediaPost, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, and Sherwood News. X: @arm
| Reuters: |
Sources: Rakuten began considering a US IPO of its credit card business after SoftBank announced plans to launch an IPO for its mobile payment app PayPay — - IPO considerations in early stages -source — Other options include a stake sale -source — SoftBank is preparing to list PayPay in US
More: PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, and Tech in Asia
| Reuters: |
China's Industry Ministry says that during a visit, Tim Cook pledged to boost Apple's investment in China, but offers no details, amid the US-China trade war — - Apple seeks to balance US, Chinese interests amid trade war — iPhone shipment in China grew in third quarter
More: AppleInsider, 36氪_让 …, Forbes Middle East, Al Jazeera, South China Morning Post, and Forbes
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta adds group chats to Threads with support for up to 50 followers, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia, and expands DMs to the EU — Users can add up to 50 people into a single conversation. … Threads users can create a group chat by starting a new message …
More: Android Headlines, Social Media Today, Thurrott, Neowin, TechCrunch, Android Central, Engadget, and 9to5Mac
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