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| Meta AI Research: |
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window — Muse Spark Open is available today and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop for the first time on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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| CNBC: |
Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair two to four Studios to code or do agentic work — Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have clashed for years, but with John Ternus taking the reins at Apple, the rivals are finding common ground in artificial intelligence.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now at Meta, helped bring Meta and Apple together: “we're excited for mommy and daddy to be playing nice again” — Apple and Meta, whose leaders have spent years trading barbs over privacy and the future of computing … | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Memo: Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude — Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.
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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Current and former a16z partners and others say Marc Andreessen is driven by grievances that don't quite match reality, as his White House influence grows — The prominent investor has said the Biden administration pushed him to the political right, but sources say his grievances don't always match reality.
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Bluesky: @mattmday and @karlbode.com
| Washington Post: |
Docs: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top amount, to Trump's White House ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir each committed $10M, and Meta and Amazon $5M — The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity. — Loading... $2.5M
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| Andrew R. Chow / Time: |
John Ternus discusses the iPhone Duo, memory shortages, AI, and more; he says “all options should be on the table” after reports that Apple tested Chinese chips — Andrew R. Chow/Cupertino, Calif. … Just below the broad smile he's been wearing all morning, John Ternus' hands are shaking.
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| Wired: |
Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices — Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription — Amazon.com Inc. launched two new wearables that use artificial intelligence to record and analyze a person's day …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: some Anthropic investors discussed a ~$1.5T valuation for its IPO, down from ~$2T they had expected, after disclosures showed slowing Q3 revenue growth — Some current Anthropic investors and prospective investors in its upcoming initial public offering are weighing a lower valuation …
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| Financial Times: |
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos — Bank of America has hired an army of external contractors to help it patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced artificial …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Register, and TechRadar
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices — Last month, we committed to stronger independent, third-party assessment of our models and safety practices.| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers — THE SCOOP — Perplexity is giving away the software it has been using to combat rogue AI agents, the company told Semafor Thursday.| Nick Cammarata / Goodfire: |
A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters — The cause of polysemanticity in early model organisms wasn't superposition, but several ordinary, mostly fixable issues.
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sony launches three new Android-powered Walkman music players, including the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 for $5,900, as it targets the audiophile market — Sony Group Corp. introduced a trio of premium digital music players priced from $1,900 to $5,900, marking the first new hardware in several years carrying the storied Walkman name.| New York Times: |
Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons from history, AGI, the mood in San Francisco, the Hugging Face hack, Chinese AI, pacing the frontier, and more — Dwarkesh Patel on what the public doesn't know about A.I. — Produced by Sophia Muniz — Dwarkesh Patel is one of the …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering — Atom is a data-only Android device designed to work alongside your smartphone. … Ledger has announced its latest crypto …
More: Ledger, Ledger, The Block, Gizmodo, CoinGape, Bitcoin News, Cointelegraph, Protos, Business Wire, and CoinDesk. X: @ledger
| Nieman Lab: |
Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out — Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.| CNBC: |
Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries mount; SK Hynix falls 10%+ on the KRX, while Samsung drops ~10% — Stocks tied to the artificial intelligence trade sank on Thursday, continuing a global sell-off. — Collectively, 20 …
More: Bloomberg, PC Gamer, New York Times, Quartz, Financial Times, The Korea Herald, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal
Forums: r/StockMarket and r/technology
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky expands Attie, its AI tool for building custom feeds, with a “social vibe coding” feature to create sites, games, quizzes, and more on the AT Protocol — Open social network Bluesky is once again expanding beyond its flagship app. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Thursday … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter open model for enterprise agents, and says it outperforms frontier models on specialized benchmarks — An enterprise agent reviewing a credit agreement may need to extract figures from tables, interpret a chart, check a related webpage … | Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: |
Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents — The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom.
More: Chainalysis, PYMNTS.com, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, CoinDesk, CNBC, and PaymentsJournal
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A hack of Internet-connected fridge controllers across ~700 European supermarkets exploited critical vulnerabilities in three models flagged by Claroty and CISA — Earlier this week, a mass hack of refrigeration systems at an estimated 700 supermarkets throughout France caused them to suddenly malfunction … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, targeting a ~$1B valuation in the private round, as it aims to expand its US business; WLF is not participating — Binance.US is looking to raise as much as $100 million as the crypto exchange seeks to beef up its US business amid intensifying competition for digital-asset customers.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures — From ‘honey pots’ to insider threats, Silicon Valley was on espionage alert even before the FBI's arrest of an OpenAI employee
More: Washington Post, HotAir, New York Post, Business Insider, and Bloomberg
| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint plans to buy data security firm Varonis Systems in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3B — Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint will buy data security firm Varonis Systems (VRNS.O) in all-cash deal valued at about $6.3 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
More: CTech and CyberScoop
| Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune — In December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News.| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection — - The FTC sought documents from Anthropic and OpenAI with the scope of the probe focused on potential consumer protection violations, a person familiar told Axios.| Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
A US official says Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield; Elon Musk said any limits are ultimately decided by POTUS — President Donald Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield satellite technology, according to a senior US official.
More: The Hill, Associated Press, Euronews, and Al Jazeera
| CTech: |
Two workers have been killed and another seriously injured at Intel's Kiryat Gat fab in Israel in an explosion resulting from a gas cylinder malfunctioning — A 49-year-old man died Thursday from injuries sustained in Wednesday's blast, which also killed a gas technician and left a third worker in serious condition.
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