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| Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals — Alphabet Inc.'s Google doesn't have to sell off its advertising exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals …
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Bluesky: @robin.berjon.com, @caseynewton, and @leahnylen
| Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks — Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.
More: Google, The Verge, Thurrott, Android Authority, SammyGuru, Forkast, The Hacker News, Android Headlines, and Cyber Security News
LinkedIn: Srivarshan Selvaraj and Shawn Horton
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31 — After the last model release three weeks ago, Google today is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash. This marks the third Flash update in three months.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2 — Meta on Wednesday released Muse Spark 1.3, an update it says significantly improves performance in coding and agentic tasks.
More: Meta AI Research, Bloomberg, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
| Mark Zuckerberg / @finkd: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are “coming soon” — Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter. This is the biggest jump we've made so far on coding and agentic work. Try it in Muse Code and our API. Next up 🍉 and Muse Spark open weights releases coming soon.
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis — Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says “we trust Anthropic” as they are “back on the right side” with the administration and that “they've done what we asked” — - “They've done what we asked. … - “Really excited for our conversation …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
The Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with The New York Times, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works is generally fair use — The Trump administration has filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with the New York Times (NYT.N) …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The FBI is investigating Nexus, a new ID theft service on the dark web claiming to sell digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada — A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/news, r/onguardforthee, r/technology, r/privacy, and Slashdot
| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer.
More: OpenAI, The Verge, Gizmodo, Marcus on AI, Reuters, Don't Worry About the Vase, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Mashable, Wired, and Axios
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| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Wonderful, which helps enterprises deploy AI, raised a $550M Series C led by Insight at a $5B valuation; investors also paid $170M to buy shares from employees — Founded just last year, the startup already has 650 employees and is expanding its forward-deployed engineering teams around the world
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| Matthew Haag / New York Times: |
NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more — A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
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LinkedIn: Peter Gault and Carlo Salerno
Bluesky: @charleswlogan and @rweingarten
Forums: r/UpliftingNews, r/nyc, and r/newyorkcity
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources like RxNorm and PubMed — OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record (EHR) system …
More: OpenAI, Health API Guy, Neowin, Unite.AI, and PYMNTS
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, and Premiere, available via Slackbot prompts — Customers can now use Adobe's apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock …
More: The Adobe Blog, Digital Trends, WeRSM, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and iClarified. LinkedIn: Navin Watumull
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money — Elon Musk's social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app's payments service.| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
MrBeast, whose YouTube channel hit 500M subscribers in June, will put Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multiyear Google deal — One of YouTube's biggest creators has a new deal to promote Gemini and Google Health.
More: Google, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada, and Notebookcheck
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI is facing new lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect talked gun violence with ChatGPT for days — New lawsuits add to list of cases in which the chatbot maker faces questions about the safety of its products
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, the same as Fable 5's pricing, but cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens — On Tuesday, Anthropic launched the latest versions of its flagship Fable and Mythos models. Anthropic promises that the updated models …
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| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based HiddenLayer, which makes security tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital — When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether …
More: HiddenLayer, RuntimeWire, and Unite.AI
| Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: |
The US Army awards $192M in contracts to Palantir and Anduril to produce eight TITAN AI-powered mobile ground stations, to be delivered over the next 18 months — Watch out, world. The US Army's kill chain is going mobile. — On Tuesday, the Army awarded two contracts worth a combined $192M … | Ian Thomas / CNBC: |
Thyme Care, which focuses on filling cancer treatment gaps via a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation, up from $1B+ in 2025 — Despite recent advancements in oncology, the branch of medicine focused on the study, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, both set to launch in December — The half-inch thin laptop is joined by a new, much larger Swift Air 16 — both with Intel Wildcat Lake.
More: Tom's Hardware, T3, and PCWorld
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
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| Tyler Graham / CNET: |
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| Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
Letter: OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems — OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by Reuters … | Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a $100M+ valuation — The company, valued at more than $100 million, uses agentic AI to block threats — Blackstone is placing an early bet on Huskeys … | Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: |
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents without a human “owner” — The Coming of Userless Agents — The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident is an early example of an AI system that has “gone rogue.”
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