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xAI unveils Grok 4.1, saying it's 3x less likely to hallucinate compared to its previous models and Grok 4.1 Thinking holds the top spot on LMArena's Text Arena — Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps.
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Amazon raised $15B in its first US dollar bond offering in three years; sources say the proceeds will be used for acquisitions, capex, share buybacks, and more — Amazon.com Inc. raised $15 billion in its first US dollar bond offering in three years, adding to a spree of jumbo debt sales …
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Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5B and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50B — Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence developer co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati …
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Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across 40+ topics; Claude 4.1 Opus takes first place in its key metric — Announcing AA-Omniscience, our new benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across >40 topics, where all but three models are more likely to hallucinate than give a correct answer Embedded knowledge in language models is important for many real world use cases. Without [image]| Financial Times: |
CoinGecko: the total market value of 18K+ tracked crypto coins fell 25% since October 6, wiping out $1.2T; bitcoin fell 28% to $89,500, its lowest since April — Bitcoin drops 28% in six weeks as worries over AI stocks spill into digital assets and high-octane bets backfire
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SCOTUS declines to hear an appeal by Gesture Technology Partners over the right to challenge expired patents, leaving in place a win for Apple, Google, and LG — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case involving the right to challenge expired patents, leaving in place a win for Apple …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Arm and Nvidia announce that Arm-based Neoverse CPUs will be able to integrate with AI accelerators using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion tech — Arm on Monday said that central processing units based on its technology will be able to integrate with AI chips using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on returning to Amazon post-burnout, his goal to “zero out crime”, privacy and the “surveillance panopticon”, and more — Today I'm talking with Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring, the video doorbell and security company.| Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs: |
Microsoft says it mitigated a 15.7 Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru botnet on a single Australian Azure endpoint in October, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded — Microsoft says the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps DDoS on Azure from 500k IPs, using massive UDP floods peaking at 3.6 B pps.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
NetChoice sues Virginia over a law that would require parental permission for minors to use social media for more than one hour per day, arguing it violates 1A — Virginia's law would require social media platforms to limit how much time kids under 16 spend on their sites, with parental permission required for longer sessions.| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Peec AI, which helps brands manage visibility in AI-powered search results, raised a $21M Series A led by Singular at a $100M+ valuation — With consumers increasingly asking questions of ChatGPT — not Google — product discovery is changing.
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Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise funds at a $130B+ valuation, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1B Series K at a $100B valuation — Databricks, a database provider whose tools help customers develop and use AI, is in talks to raise money at a valuation of more than $130 billion … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta launches a “content protection” tool to let creators detect and take action when their Reels are reposted on Facebook or Instagram without permission — The company's content protection program can identify reels lifting others' work. — Creators on Facebook and Instagram …
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Eric Gillespie, the founder of Govini, whose AI software is used by the US military, was arrested last week in PA for allegedly soliciting pre-teens for sex — Govini founder Eric Gillespie urged a person who he believed to be a dad offering his 10-year-old daughter to be sexually abused … Sponsor Posts
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