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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's smart home strategy, centered on a HomeView display hub, with a new HomePod mini, Apple TV, and second-party accessories from LG and Schneider — Fresh details on Apple's HomeView, HomePod mini and new Apple TV, including release dates, colors, chips and features.
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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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| 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
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes — ‘Physical AI’ developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics
More: KED Global and RuntimeWire
| 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
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| 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.| 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, HLTH, General Medicine, Endpoints News, RuntimeWire, and FinSMEs
LinkedIn: General Medicine and Heather Landi
| 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
More: PCMag
| 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
| 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
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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, and SiliconANGLE
| 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 … | 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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| 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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Forums: r/Futurology, r/technology, r/technology, and r/Pennsylvania
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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