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NY-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it claims rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4x less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks — Reflection AI, the startup billing itself as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, is releasing its first model, called Beam.
More: Reflection, SiliconANGLE, The Hill, Finimize, Financial Times, The Information, Reuters, Implicator.ai, Sources, Chip Briefing, Dow Jones Newswires, TechCrunch, Fortune, RuntimeWire, Bloomberg, Unite.AI, and Axios
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/accelerate
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Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z — For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one.
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To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally — - Starting today, API customers globally will be able to opt in to text watermarking for select models.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and r/ChatGPT
| Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
The CFTC proposes a federal framework for crypto exchanges to offer retail customers leveraged and margined spot trading, without requiring congressional action — The agency floated a new “crypto asset market” exchange category but said it can't require crypto to trade on CFTC platforms without Congress.| Bloomberg: |
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety — Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that the race to develop artificial intelligence poses risks that the industry itself …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
SpaceX stock closes up 7.6% after Morgan Stanley called SPCX “cheap”, reaching its highest level since mid-June and returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status — SpaceX shares rose almost 8% on Monday, reaching their highest since mid-June, shortly after Elon Musk's company held its record initial public offering.| The Information: |
Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Claude; Meta employees using Claude Code have dropped to ~30K from ~60K earlier this year — Meta Platforms and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest corporate customers, are working to cut their employees' use of Claude … | Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Huawei agrees to a multiyear patent licensing deal with Qualcomm covering AI, 5G, computing, and networking tech, its first 5G licensing deal with Qualcomm — China's Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) said on Monday it had agreed a broad multi-year patent licence deal with Qualcomm (QCOM.O) …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed — TikTok announced Monday that it's launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands.
More: TikTok, PYMNTS.com, WeRSM, and Unite.AI
| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
OpenAI says it will begin testing a visual ad format in ChatGPT later in October in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads while users generate images — OpenAI is expanding ads in ChatGPT, and one of the first new formats will show visual ads while you're generating images.| SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: Anthropic's subscriptions offer ~5x more API-equivalent value per month than OpenAI's for agentic workloads with Claude Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol — Limit testing every AI subscription plan from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, MiniMax, Moonshot, Z.ai, Cursor, and Cognition
More: Implicator.ai and XDA Developers
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| Vanity Fair: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on his kids, his rivalries, pronatalism, “prepping” for the apocalypse, new products, the IPO delay, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, and more — In an exclusive video interview, the OpenAI CEO discusses ChatGPT and suicide prevention, safety breaches … | BBC: |
An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthropic's tools; sources: Claude was in use as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran — Technology reporter in San Francisco and — The US Department of Defence is no longer using Anthropic's AI tools … | Annika Inampudi / Bloomberg: |
In a first-of-its-kind pilot in the US, Nolla Health will use AI to diagnose and prescribe acne medications to Utah patients without direct human oversight — In a first-of-its-kind pilot, Nolla Health lets AI diagnose and issue prescriptions. — An AI-based healthcare startup on Monday …
More: STAT, Nolla Health, The Daily Caller, Inc.com, The Verge, Digital Trends, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: r/accelerate and r/hospitalist
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a $40B-$50B valuation, up from $21B in August — Although it's only been a couple of months since Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers … | Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: |
OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE is seeking US SEC approval to offer tokenized shares of 63 NYSE-listed companies, leveraging new rules on tokenized stocks — OKX filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday to launch a tokenized-stock trading platform …
More: Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk, Fortune, Bitcoin News, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, The Coin Republic, The Crypto Times, Coinpaper, Wall Street Journal, Decrypt, Unchained, Bitcoin Insider, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, CoinGape, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and Tech in Asia
X: @andrewcuomo, @andrewcuomo, and @carlosdomingo
| Zoya Hasan / Forbes: |
Valon, which makes software to help US mortgage companies cut red tape and costs, raised a $150M Series D from Ribbit, a16z, and others at a $2.3B valuation — The U.S. mortgage market is massive, but its payment systems are antiquated and often analog. Valon raised a $150 million Series D …
More: Ventureburn, FinSMEs, Valon, Pulse 2.0, AlleyWatch, PYMNTS.com, and VC News Daily
X: @wangandrewd and @valon
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