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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic's Claude Skills, which are conceptually extremely simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation — Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models:
More: Anthropic, Anthropic, The Verge, MediaNama, The Rundown AI, TestingCatalog, WinBuzzer, and Analytics India Magazine
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LinkedIn: Sue Turner Obe, Geordee Naliyath, and Ethan Mollick
Bluesky: @mmasnick, @prietschka, @markposts, @harsimony, and @jtlg. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeAI, and Lobsters
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
More: Anthropic, TestingCatalog, BGR, KnowTechie, Neowin, Tom's Guide, and Implicator.ai
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Bluesky: @squillace and @mergesort.me
Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeCode
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more — Transcript 00:00:00 - AGI is still a decade away Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00 Today I'm speaking with Andrej Karpathy.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …
More: Diff, The Verge, Engadget, WinBuzzer, and Implicator.ai
Bluesky: @josephcox, @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk, @jasonkoebler, @jmelville.science, @tilmanbayer, and @emanuelmaiberg
Mastodon: @knoppix95@mastodon.social, @ethanwhite@hachyderm.io, @gedankenstuecke@scholar …, @00Aaron@social.coop, and @JensB@openbiblio.social
Forums: r/antiai, r/wikipedia, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
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X: @brakehardblog, @cadillac_f1, @f1media, @jeff_gluck, @f1multiviewer, @sadlyitsbradley, @sherman4949, @bzamayo, @joepompliano, @stephenrobles, @sherman4949, and @appletv
LinkedIn: Magnus Svensson, Dan Rayburn, Kelly Mengel, and William Rusack
Forums: r/tvPlus, r/NASCAR, r/apple, r/formula1, r/technology, r/appletv, r/apple, and r/cordcutters
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @jeremylittau.com, @caseynewton, @daniloc.xyz, @socialmedialab.ca, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Threads: @joshpetersel
Forums: r/Fauxmoi and r/technology
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram — A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
More: PaymentSecurity.io, Mashable, Metacurity, and New Republic
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil its trifold phone at APEC later in October; attendees won't be allowed to touch it as it's expected to be displayed under glass — Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather …
More: The Elec (in Korean), Gizmodo, Digit, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada, Seeking Alpha, Tom's Guide, Tech in Asia, and Digital Trends. Mastodon: @ianb@mastodon.well.com
| Fortune: |
Sources: Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation — As fervor around stablecoins grows from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, one of the most high-profile new crypto projects has drummed …
More: Decrypt, The Block, The Block, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, and Crypto Briefing
X: @dankrad, @malekanoms, and @jevgenijs
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3 in December; it is expected to be more performant across the board, especially in coding and multimodal generation — Sources say that Google is targeting December for the release of Gemini 3.0, the next major version of its flagship AI model.| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Docs: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to help the agency nearly triple its workforce by hiring 10K new officers, to improve investigations, and more — The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff.
More: NextDraft, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The American Bazaar, Washington Examiner, Techstrong.ai, Business Insider, The A.V. Club, San Francisco Chronicle, Implicator.ai, KTVU-TV, The Economic Times, and Implicator.ai
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Forums: r/democrats, r/politics, and r/sanfrancisco
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp is testing limits on how many messages a user or business can send monthly to unknown people without a response; nearing the limit displays a warning — WhatsApp is attempting to solve its spam problem by putting a curb on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response.| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Meta plans to add new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026 that let parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and get “insights” from teens' chats — From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
More: Meta Newsroom, New York Times, CNBC, CNN, Windows Report, UPI, Quartz, Neowin, The Hill, iPhone in Canada, Engadget, Channel NewsAsia, RTÉ, TechCrunch, and Forbes Middle East
Bluesky: @outside2344 and @caseynewton
Threads: @alexanddeer and @crumbler
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo has asked its manufacturing partners to produce up to 25M Switch 2 units by the end of March 2026, surpassing analysts' estimates of 17.6M — Nintendo Co. has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026 …
More: Game Developer, TechRaptor, Engadget, GamingBolt, Kotaku, GameSpot, Nintendo Life, TheGamer, iPhone in Canada, Eurogamer.net, The Shortcut, and Media Play News
X: @gibbogame, @yoolimleenews, @kirpinkfury, and @omnipotentgam0r
Forums: r/consoles, r/Handhelds, r/gaming, r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, and r/Switch
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale — Revolut Ltd. and its backers are nearing the end of a $3 billion fundraising spree that values the London-based fintech behemoth at $75 billion.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Automaker Stellantis and Pony.ai sign a non-binding agreement to develop robotaxis for deployment in Europe, with plans to start testing in the coming months — Automaker Stellantis and Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai have signed a nonbinding agreement to build robotaxis for deployment in Europe.| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with 157M+ MAUs per QuestMobile, thanks in part to its deep Douyin integration — ByteDance's Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.| CoinDesk: |
Astra Nova, which develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences, raised $48.3M — The company develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences. — What to know:| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $115M at a $1.3B valuation, bringing its Series A to $350M and total funding to $550M — - AI startup for science raises $115 million from Nvidia, others — Funds to build AI Science Factories, open platform to customers| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs — On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Ars Technica, Windows Blog, PC Gamer, Futurism, SamMobile, KnowTechie, Guru3D, NDTV Profit, Implicator.ai, Digit, Windows on YouTube, The Register, PCWorld, VentureBeat, ZDNET, Computerworld, Windows on YouTube, Reuters, Windows Central, Fast Company, and GeekWire
X: @windows, @ryanshrout, @brandonleblanc, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @stevesi, @ghost_motley, @willoremus, @windowsdev, @tomwarren, @testingcatalog, @zacbowden, @tomwarren, @windows, @ecommerceshares, @zacbowden, @antonhand, @windowsblog, @obscuravpn, @itspaulai, @satyanadella, @zacbowden, @pavandavuluri, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @lanceulanoff, and @mustafasuleyman
LinkedIn: Eric Wise, Dang Ibana, Frank Brassart, Yash Misra, and Jeff Strasser
Bluesky: @nptwrites, @sadknob, @willoremus.com, @joshuafoust.com, @darthbluesky, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @pemryjanes.com, @greybrewer, @stevekovach, @reckless, @peterwartman.com, @brokenwing, @grumble.social, @geekelite.geekerific.com, @fredericl, @pabastien, @turfster, @partnardy, @andrewt.net, @aura.dog, @weirdnoirmaster, @ntpnate, @niceandinnocent, @benharris1, @smpritchard, @projectazar.com, @shredgnarly, @edzitron.com, @mustafasuleymanai, and @tomwarren.co.uk
Mastodon: @Catelli@social.vivaldi.net, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Forums: r/privacy, r/enshittification, r/technology, r/DailyTechNewsShow, r/microsoft, r/windows, and Slashdot
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