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| Satya Nadella / @satyanadella: |
“Super Intelligence systems” are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment — As traditional software systems were being deployed across the economy over the last few decades, we had the tools …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes Europe, The Straits Times, RuntimeWire, and Bloomberg Law
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| Lewis Parker / Kotaku: |
Hundreds of old games were decompiled and ported to run on browsers in recent weeks, driven by Claude Opus 5.5; titles like GTA: Vice City and Halo: CE run well — Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight
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Bluesky: @kittywashere and @danstapleton
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: |
General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z — General Medicine Andreessen Horowitz Mercy Health Eli Lilly — Artificial intelligence is making healthcare advice easier to access …
More: a16z, General Medicine, Endpoints News, HLTH, RuntimeWire, and FinSMEs
LinkedIn: General Medicine and Heather Landi
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Beijing-based Neolix, which operates the world's largest robovan fleet at 27K, as Shenzhen tests nighttime parcel deliveries by driverless vehicles — Autonomous vehicle companies believe there's a huge market opportunity in delivering after dark, if the technical challenges can be overcome.| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks — Multiply Labs Inc., a startup that develops automation equipment for drugmakers, has raised $75 million in funding.
More: Business Wire, FinSMEs, and The Strange Review
LinkedIn: Tara Tan, Y Combinator, and Fred (Federico) Parietti
| Financial Times: |
After 20+ major Japanese companies reported cyber attacks in recent weeks, Japan's NCSH chief says the country is in “a state of emergency in cyber space” — Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Rein Security, which develops runtime tools to secure enterprise AI agents and stop adversarial AI agents, raised a $25M Series A, taking total funding to $35M — The Israeli startup says its revenue has grown eightfold since January and its platform is now securing thousands of agents that execute millions of actions.
More: Rein Security, Inc., Rein Security, SecurityWeek, FinSMEs, Forkast, SiliconANGLE, and VC News Daily
| Adam Morgan / Wired: |
Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …
More: Gizmodo. X: @dorotheabaur, @textually, @joeljmiller, and @dreamosaurus
Bluesky: @lilithsaintcrow.com, @arealmattgreene, @erikkennedy.com, @bakerdphd, and @tyleraking.com. Mastodon: @WeirdWriter@caneandable …
Forums: r/technology and r/publishing
| Achint Srivastava / Command Line: |
Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models — Decision models are quickly emerging as an important new category in AI. Unlike LLMs, which are designed to generate text …
More: Microsoft Foundry, The Register, OpenRouter, The Decoder, Neowin, The New Stack, Seeking Alpha, RuntimeWire, and TestingCatalog AI News
X: @suchenzang, @omarsar0, @scaling01, @dreamtgn, @msdev, @karankendre, @arindam_1729, @maximerivest, @openrouter, @matsonj, @deliprao, @msdev, @sudoingx, @msdev, @benscharfstein, @itsafiz, @hammer_mt, @airesearch12, @jacobandreou, @egafni, @mortezabihzadeh, @satyanadella, @xeophon, @aakashgupta, @msdev, and @satyanadella
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| William Langley / Financial Times: |
IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% — DJI and Insta360 engaged in ‘civil war’ to become world's top smart camera maker — The decline of action camera pioneer GoPro …
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| Jemima McEvoy / The Information: |
A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute — Last month, Zach Dell, son of billionaire Michael Dell and cofounder of Base Power, a billion-dollar battery startup … | CBS News: |
A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary … | Bloomberg: |
A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem …
More: Motley Fool, Middle East Monitor, Financial Times, Mashable, Techstrong.ai, TheStreet, Finimize, The Decoder, Newcomer, Tech Times, Barron's Online, and Proactive. X: @business
| 6abc: |
Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 — Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment — ShareFollow 6abc on Google
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X: @eriksherman, @jeffladish, @gerritd, @mackenz_arnold, @kateconger, and @hadas_gold
Bluesky: @jeffhauser, @justinhendrix, and @paulthedogman
Forums: r/Futurology, r/technology, r/technology, and r/Pennsylvania
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
More: Gizmodo, Anthropic, Washington Post, Marcus on AI, The Verge, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, Livemint, CoinGape, Business Today, The Information, and New York Times
X: @icleanai, @brklyn_bee, @sprice354_, and @anthropicai
Forums: r/Futurology, r/artificial, and r/singularity
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