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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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X: @mark_k, @supersaf, @mkbhd, @maxwinebach, @juniperphoton, @zaidmukaddam, @tailosivetech, @benbajarin, @aaronp613, and @louis__meyer. LinkedIn: Jordy Thery
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/MacOS, r/macbook, and MacRumors Forums
| 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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Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: Digit, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, Wccftech, Mashable, iClarified, and 9to5Mac
Forums: r/technology, r/macbookpro, r/mac, r/apple, and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: AppleInsider, Washington Post, Six Colors, Android Headlines, iThinkDifferent, Appleosophy, Michael Tsai, Digital Trends, PCMag, The Verge, Notebookcheck, and MacRumors
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LinkedIn: Ryan Kopinsky, Ph.D., En Kelly, Kevin Doar, and Nathan Baverstock
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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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Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
More: UploadVR, Logitech International, The Verge, MacRumors, and AppleInsider
| 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 …
More: Anthropic, The GitHub Blog, The Decoder, The Verge, Every, BGR, Inc, Mashable, CNET, and CNBC
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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.
More: VentureBeat, Simon Willison's Weblog, Analytics India Magazine, Tom's Guide, MacStories, Neowin, Ars Technica, TestingCatalog, and The New Stack
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPTCoding, r/ClaudeAI, and r/singularity
| 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 …
More: Web3 is Going Just Great, CoinDesk, The Block, Engadget, Blockchain.News, Cryptonews, Bloomberg Law, BeInCrypto, Blockchain.News, The Defiant, Cointelegraph, and Blockonomi
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| 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 …
More: HONOR on YouTube, CNBC, Liliputing, Mobile World Live, Android Police, TechEBlog, CNET, Droid Life, GSMArena.com, and 9to5Google
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Honor unveils its flagships Magic8, with a 7,000mAh battery, and Magic8 Pro, with 7,200mAh, both featuring an AI button, launching in China for ~$630 and ~$800 — The Magic 8 Pro fits in a 7,200mAh battery, though the European version will be smaller.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
US cybersecurity company F5 discloses an attack it discovered on August 9 by nation-state hackers who 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 …
More: CISA, National Cyber Security Centre, BleepingComputer, Nextgov/FCW, The Record, CyberScoop, The Hacker News, Cybersecurity Dive, SiliconANGLE, CSO, Ars Technica, Axios, Security Affairs, CRN, and The Cyber Express
LinkedIn: Sean Letona, Sagar Sethi, and Robert Morgan
Forums: Hacker News and r/cybersecurity
| 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 …
More: Moneycontrol, Reuters, Livemint, Digit, Cult of Mac, Axios, AppleInsider, Reuters, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada
X: @stephenrobles, @provisionalidea, @parkerortolani, @jbulltard1, @tbpn, @zerohedge, @tbpn, @patrickmoorhead, @chatgpt21, @markgurman, @kantrowitz, and @zachweinberg. Mastodon: @markgurman@mastodon.social
| 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 …
More: Financial Times, OCC.gov, Cryptonews, Blockonomi, New York Post, The Crypto Times, Business Insider, and The Information
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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” …
More: Moneycontrol, Business Insider, BMI, Financial Express, Fortune, and CNET
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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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| 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.
More: Gizmodo. X: @jackclarksf, @thezvi, @dissenter_hi, @davidsacks, @jackclarksf, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @rabois, @doodlestein, @sundeep, @jason, @pmarca, @jackclarksf, @deanwball, @tszzl, @daniel_mac8, @rabois, @ericnewcomer, @s_oheigeartaigh, @idrawcharts, @s_oheigeartaigh, @luke_metro, @austinc3301, @chamath, @bscholl, @jonst0kes, @jackclarksf, @buccocapital, @basedbeffjezos, @dareasmunhoz, @deryatr_, @sriramk, @s_oheigeartaigh, @hamandcheese, @s_oheigeartaigh, @humanharlan, @shakeelhashim, @silvermanjacob, @robinhanson, @scott_wiener, and @rabois. LinkedIn: Dave Lee
| 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, bioRxiv, and The Decoder
X: @sundarpichai, @iterintellectus, @osanseviero, @googleaidevs, @googleresearch, @bryan_johnson, @kate_rouch, @kimmonismus, @sundarpichai, @azizishekoofeh, @andrewmayne, @david_van_dijk, @google, @david_van_dijk, @deryatr_, @bowang87, @ymatias, @clementdelangue, @patloeber, and @parikpatelcfa. LinkedIn: Michael Galkin. Bluesky: @gusthema
Forums: Hacker News, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
| 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, Canadian Press, CyberScoop, and The Record
| 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 …
More: Moneycontrol, Ars Technica, Digit, Google Developers Blog, Analytics India Magazine, CNET, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, Android Headlines, Mashable, BGR, 9to5Google, and TechCrunch
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation — Liberate, an AI startup automating insurance operations, has raised $50 million in a round led by Battery Ventures as it looks to scale … | David Wheeldon / YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K+ full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics — YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.| Bloomberg: |
Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products — Huawei Technologies Co.'s key partners are showcasing a dizzying array of products from software to chip gear just days … | Financial Times: |
Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is “probably more” — The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration's industry-friendly policies| 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 …
More: SiliconANGLE and Viven
| Wall Street Journal: |
The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump — Dinner set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir
More: The Indian Express, CBS News, The Independent, New York Times, The Hill, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
X: @dave_brown24, @ewarren, @dave_brown24, and @jason_kint
| 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: Arm Newsroom, The Register, The Information, Social Media Today, MediaPost, and TechCrunch
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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