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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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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
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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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| 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 hit by cyberattacks on Sunday night that disabled refrigeration systems and forced stores …
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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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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an “AI first” production model with “no more hand-written code” — The company told the team behind the upcoming shooter that it will now be an ‘AI first’ production
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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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| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a ~$1B valuation by Ithaca Holdings, founded recently by two Silicon Valley execs; BMBL jumps 49.61% — Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd expected to stay involved with company as part of deal — Bumble , the dating app founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes — Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
X has refound 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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.| 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| 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
More: Telegraph, The Guardian, The Decoder, The Guardian, AI Security Institute, and Financial Times
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Forums: r/technology, r/Futurology, r/neoliberal, and r/ukpolitics
| Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: |
Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a $90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects $60M-$80M in revenue this year — Suki, a health care AI and scribe company, raised a $90 million Series E round to scale and add agentic workflows, CEO Punit Soni tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Inc.com
| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data center in Abilene, Texas, could cost ~$30B, including $17B on chips, $3B on power, and $2.4B on construction — Roughly $750 billion. That's how much Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google owner Alphabet Inc …
X: @business
| 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.
More: PC Gamer, BleepingComputer, Web3 is Going Just Great, CoinDesk, Decrypt, and Help Net Security
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| Claire Ruckin / Bloomberg: |
Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B — JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have taken a rare move to limit their exposure on a $5 billion loan sale … | 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.
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