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Apple launches the M5 chip, featuring a 10-core GPU with over 4x the peak performance of the M4, up to a 10-core CPU, and a ~30% increase in memory bandwidth — M5 delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4, featuring a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core …
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X: @awnihannun, @mark_k, @supersaf, @mkbhd, @maxwinebach, @juniperphoton, @zaidmukaddam, @benbajarin, and @louis__meyer. LinkedIn: Jordy Thery
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/hardware, r/apple, r/macbook, r/MacOS, and MacRumors Forums
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Apple refreshes the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, offering up to 3.5x more AI performance and faster storage, for the same $1,599+, shipping October 22 — With up to 3.5x more performance for AI workflows, faster storage, up to a phenomenal 24 hours of battery life, and macOS Tahoe, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even better
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Forums: Hacker News, r/macgaming, r/gadgets, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Apple: |
Apple upgrades the Vision Pro with an M5 chip for rendering 10% more pixels and a Dual Knit Band for a more comfortable fit, available on October 22 for $3,499+ — The latest version improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort, while offering innovative features …
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X: @aaronp613, @parkerortolani, @neilcybart, @aaronp613, @stevemoser, @spatiallyme, @kylebrussell, @ijustine, @sadlyitsbradley, @markgurman, @aaronp613, @sadlyitsbradley, @vyyyper, @dylanmcd8, @markgurman, @mgsiegler, @spatiallyme, @dylanmcd8, @neilcybart, @m1astra, @brandonbutch, @maxwinebach, @stevemoser, @bzamayo, @stevemoser, @benbajarin, and @sadlyitsbradley
Forums: Hacker News, r/psvr2, r/apple, r/PSVR2onPC, r/virtualreality, and MacRumors Forums
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple updates the iPad Pro with an M5 chip, its new C1X modem, and an N1 chip, priced at $999+ for the 11" and $1,299+ for the 13", shipping from October 22 — The Pro is becoming a showcase for Apple's new chips — and seems poised to remain the company's best tablet.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, claiming it offers similar levels of coding performance to Sonnet 4 at “one-third the cost and more than twice the speed” — On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Haiku 4.5 can serve as a subagent for Sonnet 4.5, which can break down problems into multistep plans and orchestrate a team of Haiku 4.5 agents — Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users. — What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster.
More: VentureBeat, Ars Technica, TestingCatalog, The New Stack, Neowin, MacStories, AI, Robotics & …, Simon Willison's Weblog, ZDNET, and Tom's Guide
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/ChatGPTCoding, and r/singularity
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
US cybersecurity company F5 discloses a cyberattack in August by suspected nation-state hackers that stole undisclosed BIG-IP vulnerabilities and source code — U.S. cybersecurity company F5 disclosed that it suffered a cyberattack in early August, where suspected nation-state hackers breached …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/cybersecurity
| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
US bank Erebor, founded by Palmer Luckey, Joe Lonsdale, and others, wins conditional OCC approval to offer services to emerging tech companies in crypto and AI — A new US bank that aims to serve emerging tech firms in sectors such as crypto and artificial intelligence has received conditional approval …
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X: @goldman, @usocc, @brendanpedersen, @chadsteingraber, @the_bank_slate, @willtdbn, @cathyreisenwitz, @shivnull, @nic__carter, @cryptogucci, @martypartymusic, @rongplace, and @diogomonica. Bluesky: @tonytassell. Threads: @benedictevans. Forums: r/politics
| Financial Times: |
An investment consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft says it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal — Buyer consortium also includes Nvidia and Microsoft and plans to expand Aligned Data Centers to meet computing demand
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X plans to show new info about accounts, including their creation date and which country they are based in, “starting next week” on select X employees' profiles — As AI makes it easier to create bots that act ever more human-like, Elon Musk's X is developing a new feature …
More: The Register, Mashable, Garbage Day, and WeRSM
X: @nikitabier, @nikitabier, @mostlymonkey, @nessakins_, @mmjukic, @siddharth3, @neontaster, @stephen_taylor, @katexbt, @maxnordau, @byzantinespirit, @owenevanger, @boredelonmusk, @lucienwolfe111, @aghamilton29, @jeremyredfernfl, @prmshra, @nikitabier, @marytilestexas, @pandemona, @theisaacmed, @mwseibel, @prestonjbyrne, @sondreb, @sonnybunch, @moghaoui, @chrishohnholz, @iloveairbagged, @joshuatopolsky, @marcidale, @talhagin, @danfriedman81, @reddirtsport, @alexgodofsky, @jonatanpallesen, @zachxbt, @negroprogrammer, @shanemac, @byrnehobart, @kashprime, @chrisjbakke, @stephenj_caruso, @govpressoffice, @adamscochran, @billybinion, @iamdcinvestor, @mayazi, @astoraaron, @timcast, @esjesjesj, @isfjcutebear, @signulll, @ericlevai, @fenng, @pumatheuma, @bx_on_x, @sethsetse, @pikacap, @zerobeta, @zbruhnke, @avidseries, @cdinewsletter, @the_transit_guy, @prestonstew_, @punishedmother, @jesse_leg, @lundukejournal, @michaelgmcquaid, @_jaybaxter_, @thejasonanspach, @yashar, @colecameron, @brandonlbradfor, @jason, @yimbyland, and @highyieldharry. Threads: @wongmjane
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is “not the elected moral police of the world” after receiving backlash for saying ChatGPT will allow “erotica for verified adults” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that the company is “not the elected moral police of the world” …
More: CNET, Financial Express, Fortune, Forbes, PC Gamer, The Tab, The Post Millennial, and The Algorithmic Bridge
| Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic is on track to meet an internal goal of $9B in annual revenue run rate by the end of 2025 and is targeting $20B to $26B for 2026 — - Anthropic projects as much as $26 billion in annualized revenue in 2026 — Anthropic projects $9 billion in annualized revenue by end of 2025| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in 2026, its first international expansion, after human-supervised cars first collect data — It's good timing too. The UK is ready to start piloting fully driverless vehicles. … London's iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo.
More: CNBC, Waymo, PCMag, Forbes, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Dow Jones Newswires, ianVisits, and London Centric
LinkedIn: Didi Denham, Claire Wren, Richard Coates, Trent Victor, and Sarah-Jayne Williams
Bluesky: @spinninghugo and @nvondarza
| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; OpenAI currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumer ChatGPT use — New revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising targeted to cover enormous costs
More: TechCrunch, The Register, NDTV Profit, and CNBC
X: @litcapital, @antoniogm, @highyieldharry, @cramforce, @pitdesi, @eric_seufert, @goldman, @dirkdevos, @aadilbrar, @dkthomp, @nitro_sam, @growing_daniel, @ecommerceshares, and @thinkfinance999. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| The Keyword: |
Google introduces Veo 3.1, with improved audio output and stronger prompt adherence, and rolls out new updates to its AI video editor Flow — We're rolling out significant updates to Veo that give people even more creative control. … Five months ago, we introduced Flow …
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X: @geminiapp, @officiallogank, @googledeepmind, @demishassabis, @googledeepmind, @officiallogank, @googledeepmind, and @emollick. Forums: r/singularity
| April Roach / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.52B, vs. €7.79B est., and €2.13B net profit, vs. €2.11B est., and says it expects a “significant” China sales decline in 2026 — Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday looked to calm concerns over 2026 growth …
More: ASML. X: @tacticzh, @rwang07, @fbermingham, @asmlcompany, @thetranscript_, and @qualityinvest5
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
UK-based cloud provider Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal — Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’
More: Nscale, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, TheMinerMag, Sifted, Benzinga, and Dow Jones Newswires
LinkedIn: Alex Sharp and Brian Dervan
| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says Anthropic is running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”, responding to Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's post on AI policy — On Tuesday, White House AI “czar” and venture capitalist David Sacks intensified a frustration that has been building for months.
More: Gizmodo. X: @jackclarksf, @jason, @idrawcharts, @s_oheigeartaigh, @jonst0kes, @s_oheigeartaigh, @shakeelhashim, @silvermanjacob, @robinhanson, @davidsacks, @sriramk, @deanwball, @deryatr_, @austinc3301, @dareasmunhoz, @rabois, @rabois, @s_oheigeartaigh, @hamandcheese, @doodlestein, @daniel_mac8, @bscholl, @basedbeffjezos, @humanharlan, @jackclarksf, @tszzl, @jackclarksf, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, @sundeep, @pmarca, @jackclarksf, @ericnewcomer, @luke_metro, @chamath, @buccocapital, @s_oheigeartaigh, @scott_wiener, and @rabois. LinkedIn: Dave Lee
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it is investing $1.5B+ to set up a 1GW data center in El Paso, Texas, and expects it come online in 2028 — Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a string of significant investments … | Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
A US judge sentences Matthew Lane, a 20-year-old Massachusetts man, to four years in prison after he pled guilty to hacking two companies, including PowerSchool — A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions …
More: BleepingComputer, The 74, Canadian Press, The Record, and WPXI-TV
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Viven, which builds AI “digital twins” that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed — While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects … | Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Meta announces a partnership with Arm to power AI ranking and recommendation systems across Meta's family of apps using Arm-based data center platforms — Meta Platforms (META.O) said it is partnering with chip tech provider Arm Holdings to power the systems that drive personalization across its apps …
More: Arm Newsroom, The Information, Benzinga, InsideHPC, MediaPost, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, and Sherwood News. X: @arm
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 28K+ adults in 25 countries: 34% are more concerned than excited about AI, including 50% in the US, and 42% are equally concerned and excited — More are concerned than excited about its use, and more trust their own country and the EU to regulate it than trust the U.S. or China| Verity Townsend / IGN: |
Japan says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IP, including anime, manga, and games, calling them “irreplaceable treasures” — “We are a country that has captivated the world with the creative power of anime, games, and music.”
More: The Register, Engadget, Neowin, Plagiarism Today, and Digital Music News
Forums: r/technology, r/japannews, r/Games, r/news, and Slashdot
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta adds group chats to Threads with support for up to 50 followers, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia, and expands DMs to the EU — Users can add up to 50 people into a single conversation. … Threads users can create a group chat by starting a new message …
More: Android Headlines, Social Media Today, Neowin, TechCrunch, Android Central, Engadget, and 9to5Mac
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
ROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and a half-baked UI — What does “Xbox” mean? Some might say it can only refer to a box-shaped Microsoft game machine.
More: Polygon, Windows Central, IGN, Xbox Wire, Engadget, Windows Central on YouTube, Ars Technica, Kotaku, XboxEra, Game, PC Gamer, Wired, T3, Video Games Chronicle, CNET, Pure Xbox, The Shortcut, GameSpot, The Phawx on YouTube, and Dave2D on YouTube
X: @crecenteb, @carygolomb, @bdsams, @zacknarltree, @jezcorden, @ijustine, @tomwarren, and @jonvaliagas
Bluesky: @wire.xbox.com, @klobrille, @papapishu, @seanhollister, and @dmc-ryan
Forums: r/gaming, r/consoles, and r/Handhelds
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