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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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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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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LinkedIn: Nathan Baverstock and Kevin Doar
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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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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple doesn't include a charger in the box with the new M5 MacBook Pro in European countries, making users pay extra; the company cites local regulations — The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K., Ireland …
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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/ChatGPTCoding, and r/singularity
| 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 … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Honor teases the “Robot Phone”, with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone's rear and can capture photos and video in any direction — But we'll have to wait until next year to find out more. … Honor has announced what it's calling the …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
| Ryan S. Gladwin / Decrypt: |
Paxos says it “mistakenly minted” $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and “burned” the tokens a little over 20 minutes later — Crypto industry observers were baffled Wednesday afternoon when an on-chain transaction showed that Paxos …
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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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| 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 …
More: The Register, WeRSM, and Garbage Day
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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” …
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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| 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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LinkedIn: Saul Fierstone and Loic Morel
| 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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| 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.
More: The Guardian, Waymo, CleanTechnica, PCMag, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Forbes, and Dow Jones Newswires
LinkedIn: Didi Denham, Claire Wren, Richard Coates, Trent Victor, and Sarah-Jayne Williams. Forums: Slashdot
| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says Anthropic is running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”, responding to Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's post on AI policy — On Tuesday, White House AI “czar” and venture capitalist David Sacks intensified a frustration that has been building for months.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing AI-driven web search for Siri, is leaving for Meta — The Apple Inc. executive leading an effort to develop AI-driven web search is stepping down, marking the latest in a string of high-profile exits …
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| 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 … | Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
A US judge sentences Matthew Lane, a 20-year-old Massachusetts man, to four years in prison after he pled guilty to hacking two companies, including PowerSchool — A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions …
More: BleepingComputer, The 74, CyberScoop, Canadian Press, and The Record
| The Keyword: |
Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models — We're launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.
More: Decrypt and bioRxiv
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Forums: Hacker News and r/accelerate
| 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 … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it is investing $1.5B+ to set up a 1GW data center in El Paso, Texas, and expects it to 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 …
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LinkedIn: Jon Barela, The Borderplex Alliance, and El Paso Electric Company
Threads: @robsherman and @joelkaplan
| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Documents: Rhoda AI, which raised a $162.6M Series A in April, and Genesis AI, which raised a $105M seed earlier this year, have been developing humanoid robots — Flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding, Rhoda AI and Genesis AI are developing humanoids they hope can go head …
X: @annatonger
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June — Campfire, an AI-powered accounting startup, has raised $65 million in a Series B round just months after closing on a Series A.
More: This Week in Fintech
| 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’| 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
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