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AWS says it is “seeing connectivity and API recovery” for AWS services following a huge US-EAST-1 outage that started since at least 3:11am ET — The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear. … A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services …
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users — Today, Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company's mobile app.
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: iPhone 17 models outsold the iPhone 16 by 14% in the first 10 days of US and China sales; base iPhone 17 sales nearly doubled over the 16 in China — Apple Inc.'s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity.
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| Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder: |
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute — Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle …
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| Bloomberg: |
Nexperia accuses ousted CEO Zhang Xuezheng of spreading “falsehoods” that the chipmaker is now operating independently in China and of “unauthorized actions” — Chipmaker Nexperia has accused its ousted chief executive officer of spreading “falsehoods” … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency — Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company's artificial intelligence technology …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Oura launches a redesigned app with a new feature showing a weekly overview of stress management and says it's working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study — The company is launching a study that uses ring data to detect ‘early signs of hypertension.’| Reuters: |
Evernorth, a digital asset treasury backed by Ripple, says it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger with a blank check company and expects to raise $1B+ — Evernorth, a new crypto venture backed by digital asset firm Ripple, said on Monday it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger … | Reuters: |
A lawyer says 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed an antitrust complaint in China, alleging Apple abuses its market dominance by restricting app distribution — A group of 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed a complaint with China's market regulator on Monday, a lawyer representing the group said …
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps to real-time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation — LangChain, one of the earliest breakout startups of the generative AI era, announced a $125 million Series B funding round on Monday at a $1.25 billion valuation.| Financial Times: |
Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is “top of our list” when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI — Jonathan Gray says private capital group has put risks from the technology ‘top of our list’ when evaluating deals
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| Webb Wright / ZDNET: |
Adobe launches AI Foundry, a program that helps enterprise customers create bespoke, commercially safe, Firefly-based generative AI models trained on their IP — ZDNET's key takeaways — Adobe assures its new AI model service is copyright-safe. — Foundry models leverage Firefly and are trained on brands' IP.
More: VentureBeat, Investor's Business Daily, The Decoder, and The AI Economy
| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers — Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure …
More: The Block, Blockworks, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, CleanSpark, Inc., and Benzinga. LinkedIn: Jeffrey Thomas
| The Verge: |
Opera Neon hands-on: the $20-per-month agentic AI browser can take over users' browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI bots can be confusing and unreliable — Neon is three AI tools dressed up as one, with a $20-per-month subscription attached. … The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser …
More: XDA Developers, KnowTechie, Implicator.ai, and XDA Developers
| Ian Walker / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA says Getty Images and Shutterstock's $3.7B merger raises competition concerns and gives the companies until October 27 to make a plan to address them — The regulator says it will refer the deal for further investigation if the companies don't provide an acceptable undertaking to address concerns
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