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Qualcomm unveils two AI inference chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, and says Humain is the first customer; QCOM jumps 12%+ — Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia …
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Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options — - Microsoft 365 personal plan price increased by 45% — Cheaper ‘classic’ plan only revealed during cancellation process
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OpenAI estimates that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a week show “severe mental health symptoms” like mania, and details its safety improvements — We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress, respond with care … | Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: |
In Vietnam, 65 countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite tech companies' and activists' privacy and security concerns — HO CHI MINH CITY — Under a new United Nations treaty, 65 countries have agreed to fight cybercrime, including by sharing data … | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Meta launches “ghost posts” on Threads, letting users share “unfiltered thoughts” in posts that disappear after 24 hours; replies will appear as a DM — Threads is rolling out ghost posts, which get automatically archived after 24 hours. Here's how it works.| MiniMax: |
China's MiniMax releases MiniMax M2, an open source model optimized for AI agents and coding and priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens — From Day 1 of our founding, we have been committed to the vision of “Intelligence with Everyone.”
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Anthropic expands Claude for Financial Services with a beta Claude for Excel integration, additional data connectors, and new pre-built Agent Skills — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic's Claude chatbot just got a suite of finance updates. — Claude can draft financial reports, access new data, and more.| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands — The rigged-poker-game indictment unveiled on Thursday reads like a Hollywood heist film, featuring NBA stars and famous Mafia crime families.| Will McCurdy / PCMag: |
X prompts users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that are not updated by Nov. 10, allowing it to retire the Twitter.com domain — If you're using a hardware security key as your two-factor authentication (2FA) method on X, you'll need to re-enroll by Nov. 10 or your account will be locked.
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IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies — International Business Machines Corp. is launching a digital assets platform to allow financial institutions, governments and companies …
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Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors — Founded in 2023 by three college dropouts, Mercor recruits humans to train chatbots, a new industry gold mine
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The US forms a $1B partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, accelerating research in fusion energy, drug development, and more — - Supercomputers to help harness fusion energy, treat cancer — Lux supercomputer to come online in six months
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Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process — Move allows employees to use bank's large language model to generate reviews from their own prompts| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Citigroup and Coinbase say they are exploring on-chain stablecoin payments and simpler crypto-fiat transfers for Citi's institutional clients — Citigroup Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc. are teaming up to provide expanded digital-asset payment capabilities to the bank's corporate clients …
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Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models — Business software groups warn that top AI models are increasingly being used to create ultra-realistic fake receipts
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