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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.
More: Hugging Face, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, Agence France-Presse, VentureBeat, Blockchain.News, Constellation Research, The Decoder, The New Stack, iClarified, The Verge, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, Financial Times, The Deep View, iThinkDifferent, Unite.AI, SiliconANGLE, SQ Magazine, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews
X: @finkd, @johnternus, @teortaxestex, @xlr8harder, @haihaoshen, @digitalix, @yuchenj_uw, @skasriel, @badlogicgames, @aiatmeta, @beffjezos, @ccatalini, @levie, @bubbleboi, @garrytan, @clementdelangue, @groqllc, @mehulmpt, @ekzhang1, @alexandr_wang, @alexfinn, @xlr8harder, @aiatmeta, @elder_plinius, @pratanchandani, @alexandr_wang, @clementdelangue, @davis7, @eliebakouch, @ollama, @natolambert, @natolambert, @mattdeitke, @michaeldell, @tokengremlin, @natolambert, @armandjoulin, @iam_rajuptvs, @kimmonismus, @edwardsun0909, @scaleailabs, @bscholl, @natolambert, and @almmaasoglu
LinkedIn: Allen Bolourchi, PhD, MBA, Tatyana P., Hyung Won Chung, Chenyang Zhao, Ash Jhaveri, Annie Hu, Tatyana P., Sidhartha Reddy Potu, Saurabh Baji, and Mahesh Pasupuleti
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: Hugging Face, Engadget, MacStories, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse, Apple Machine Learning …, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada
X: @aaronp613, @beffjezos, @viticci, @divestech, @anantn, @avichal, @shshnkp, @stammy, @viticci, @mweinbach, @trebolloc, @fitz_keith, @bubbleboi, @asherdipps, @mehulmpt, @bzamayo, @mattdeitke, @chancehmiller, and @johnvoorhees. Forums: 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 … | Alix Coutures / The Information: |
OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta — As OpenAI has jockeyed with Anthropic to win over developers with new models and tools this year, its advertising business at times has seemed like an afterthought.| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Telegraph, Motley Fool, TechTarget, The Algorithmic Bridge, PYMNTS.com, The Information, and Financial Times
X: @dseetharaman, @vanquan_titans, @michaelsikand, @wintonark, @simonw, @gavinsbaker, @melvininvests, @edzitron, @edzitron, @firstadopter, @edzitron, @scaling01, @shanumathew93, @justjoshinyou13, @timfduffy, @krishnanrohit, and @amitisinvesting. Bluesky: @carlquintanilla
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/wallstreetbets, and r/StockMarket
| Reuters: |
Two US officials and a Western official say the order to limit Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield came from inside the White House — The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House …
More: Bloomberg and Axios
X: @hissgoescobra, @hissgoescobra, @kasparov63, @scarboroughnow, @dylanburns1776, @osinttechnical, @timodc, @caslernoel, @realnickweston, @erinbanco, @michaeldweiss, @krassenstein, @mpolymer, @faytuks, @katiemiller, @fordjohnathan5, @yarotrof, @mcfaul, @meiselasb, @milestaylorusa, and @gavinnewsom
Bluesky: @juliacurlee and @theotherdude
Forums: r/technology, r/Destiny, r/worldnews, r/news, and r/politics
| 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.
X: @nickcammarata, @teortaxestex, @qiaochuyuan, @daniel_mac8, @anabology, @tracewoodgrains, @droovg, @zetalyrae, @deanwball, @chrisgpt, @_nathancalvin, @adamludwin, @irl_danb, @thomas_fel_, @neelnanda5, @eric_ho, @s8mb, @tenobrus, @deedydas, @choblin29, @livgorton, @borismpower, @hesamation, @noahpinion, @tszzl, @alltheyud, @johnsonmxe, @letclaudiatweet, @mert_gulsun, @dab_chick, @jankulveit, @hosseeb, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @tyler_m_john, @tokenbender, @zetalyrae, @sksq96, @omarsar0, @tszzl, @misraetel, @drewpusateri, @ramez, @leahlibresco, @groundhogstrat, @tszzl, @tszzl, @scaling01, @jason_kint, @maharshii, @jason_kint, @andrewcurran_, and @jason_kint. LinkedIn: Danielle Zhang. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/accelerate, and r/slatestarcodex
| 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.
X: @niemanlab. Bluesky: @kint, @kiesow.net, @nathankalmoe, @nickpinto, @jeczjan.eurosky.social, @gigastacey, @banditelli.org, @hanaatameez, @daphnek, and @jtlg. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
More: TechCrunch, RuntimeWire, The Information, CNBC, Reuters, Channel NewsAsia, and Financial Times
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| Rebecca Rubin / Variety: |
Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is leaving the company and will be replaced by former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice, who starts October 26 — In a major executive shakeup, Bela Bajaria is out at Netflix after 10 years at the streamer, most recently serving as its chief content officer.
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Bluesky: @johnrogers, @tvmojoe, @thefienprint, and @jackcarterbenjamin
| 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.| 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.
X: @austincarr, @richardhanania, @austincarr, @burkehenryt, @austincarr, @pkafka, @bradstone, @danprimack, @teddyschleifer, and @chafkin. LinkedIn: Caleb Melby
| 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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Bluesky: @jfallows, @joshsternberg.com, @jswatz, and @carlquintanilla
Mastodon: @cdarwin@c.im and @kjhealy@mastodon.social
Forums: r/politics and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: About Amazon, CNBC, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Neowin, Android Central, PCMag, T3, Barron's Online, The Tech Portal, WeRSM, and The Deep View
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Forums: r/LouisRossmann, r/FlockSurveillance, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June — Ramp has surged to $2 billion in annualized revenue, the fintech company plans to announce Thursday — a milestone that's helped attract fresh investor capital.
More: TechCrunch, Ramp, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
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LinkedIn: Regina Molina, Sasha P., Kiryl Liaushun, Claire St. Cyr, Laudomia Tarantelli, Sam Buck, Julie Soper, Casey Green, Asher Kaplan, Jacob Ziluck, and Karim Atiyeh. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| 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.
More: 9to5Mac, The Asia Business Daily, Gadget Review, iThinkDifferent, South China Morning Post, and Engadget
X: @parkerortolani, @parkerortolani, @twid, @time, @time, and @raywongy. LinkedIn: Sam Jacobs. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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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LinkedIn: Andrew Case, Itxaso Domínguez …, Eliya Stein, and Tom Wilson
Bluesky: @prognews, @evacide, @fbajak, @evacide, @rk70534, @rk70534, @citizenlab.ca, @zackwhittaker.com, @mxbernhard, @davidakaye, @raphae.li, @wchr, @couts, @kevincollier, @rondeibert, @campuscodi.risky.biz, and @thomasbrewster
Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @kim_harding@mastodon.scot, @madeindex@mastodon.social, @serghei@mastodon.social, and @mhoye@cosocial.ca
| Microsoft AI: |
Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base — In June, we announced MAI-Thinking-1, a general-purpose foundation model post-trained on top of MAI-Base-1 with strong reasoning performance.| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance — One flagship AI data center in Norway is six months behind schedule, with workers set to be housed in a floating hotel to get it over the finish line.
More: Techstrong IT
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Austin-based RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build custom AI tools, raised a ∼$29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures — RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build and deploy custom AI applications, has raised nearly $29 million in Series B funding, CEO Rahul Pangam tells Axios Pro.| Stephen Council / Business Insider: |
Opsin, which helps companies show where AI agents are active, what data they access, and flag risky behavior, raised $21M led by SYN Ventures and Race Capital — AI agents are starting to outnumber humans in many high-tech workplaces, and they can be far trickier to monitor.
More: Opsin Security Resources and Opsin
| 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 … | 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: PYMNTS.com, CTech, Proofpoint, CRN, CyberScoop, SiliconANGLE, and RuntimeWire
| 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.| Ashley Gold / Semafor: |
The White House's AI task force begins its 120-day window to evaluate AI, including producing a risk report, implementing the White House Accord on SI, and more — The White House's AI task force has formally adopted its charter, kicking off the short 120-day window it's been given to answer … | 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 …
More: NVIDIA, vLLM, NVIDIA Technical Blog, SiliconANGLE, Blockchain.News, Windows Report, Gadget Review, and ZDNET
| 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.
More: The Information and People Matters
X: @josephfcox, @musharbash_b, @sundeep, and @shakeelhashim
Bluesky: @blowdart.me, @marypcbuk, @etxgov.myatproto.social, and @tyleraking.com
Mastodon: @leyrer@23.social and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, r/theprimeagen, r/business, and r/accenture
| 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.
More: crypto.news, Bitcoin News, Quartz, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, and RuntimeWire
X: @muyaoshen and @olgakharif
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