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Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks — Fourteen months ago, we began a ground-up overhaul of our artificial intelligence efforts. In that time, we've gone from rebuilding our stack from first principles to pushing the frontier.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system” — The new Maia 300 chip will start rolling out to production AI workloads in 2027.
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| Jenny Che / Bloomberg: |
Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-managed refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, heating them to 50°C for roughly six hours — Hundreds of supermarkets in France were targeted by cyberattacks on Sunday night, disabling refrigeration systems and forcing stores to throw out damaged food.
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line — The Edge, which replaces the Fitbit Charge 6, offers consumers another vehicle for trying out the recently revamped Google Health app.
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| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking — The company also announced a new metal mesh band for the Fitbit Air. — Google is rolling out a pair of updates …
More: PCMag, Gizmodo, CNET, Trusted Reviews, Tom's Guide, The Independent, TechRadar, CGMagazine, Android Police, Mashable, Droid Life, and iPhone in Canada
| Mitchell Labiak / BBC: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards — Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said.
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| Tony Diver / Telegraph: |
Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month — US had blocked regulators from reviewing frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind
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| Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach — The world's richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans' Senate majority …
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Forums: r/democrats, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/nytimes, and r/politics
| Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs — The AI boom has attracted investors whose strategies resemble those of gamblers, Broadcom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan said … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms — Upon taking the CEO helm last month, John Ternus began tweeting on X. He tweeted “hello”, posted an iPhone event eve teaser …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Googlebooks hands-on: a rocky start, with severe connectivity, file-sharing, and software stability issues; core productivity software lacks full desktop parity — As an Android devotee, I want to love Googlebooks — but they don't make it easy. … My first week with the new Android-powered laptops …
More: Android Police, Chrome Unboxed, Tech Advisor, PCMag, Android Central, Trusted Reviews, and SamMobile
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Hardware wallet maker Ledger says the $86M+ theft from hundreds of its wallets involved devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis and confirms a “hardware implant” — A spy implant in some Ledger crypto wallets may be the root of an $86 million supply chain attack.
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year — In the summer of 2025, Microsoft was fielding customer complaints that its AI assistant, Copilot, was buggy and not good enough at automating work in Excel or PowerPoint.| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy — Data-center company sees potential in what has been described as one of Sam Bankman-Fried's ‘most reckless investments’
More: DatacenterDynamics, Fortune, Cryptonews, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, and Blockhead
| Bloomberg: |
How the Chinese scam industry is spreading beyond Asia's fortified compounds as AI makes it cheaper and easier to run fake investment schemes and other scams — Samsung computers, Huawei smartphones, Redmi handsets and dozens of Chinese and Malaysian passports.| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Quantum computing company IonQ agrees to buy Elisity, which helps stop cyberattacks and ransomware from spreading, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3B — Privately held Elisity stops cyber attackers and ransomware from spreading across organizations| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Christian leaders are weighing in on AI earlier than they did with other tech, as AI leaders' talk of creating a new consciousness fuels religious concerns — Religious leaders are weighing in, creating a new political risk for the creators of the technology
X: @rohanpaul_ai, @spirosmargaris, and @aogarza
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September — San Francisco company's software makes it easier for developers to switch between different AI chips
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 20% YoY in Q3 to a 14-year low amid memory shortages; Apple's share crossed 20% for the first time in any Q3, reaching 22% — - The global smartphone market declined 20% YoY in Q3 2026, reaching its lowest Q3 level in 14 years, as continued memory shortages constrained supply for most OEMs.
More: Finimize, MacTech.com, Nairametrics, Reuters, and Hindustan Times
| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
Getty enters a restructuring agreement to take the company private, with Getty family and Koch Equity committing to invest up to $533M to own 100% of Getty — Getty Images (GETY.PK) said on Monday it had secured support from major creditors and investors for a comprehensive restructuring that will cut debt …
More: Finimize
| Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human “verification tax” bottleneck — As artificial intelligence automates office tasks, it is also creating a new type of human work.Sponsor Posts
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