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Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more — Transcript 00:00:00 - AGI is still a decade away Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00 Today I'm speaking with Andrej Karpathy.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic's Claude Skills, which are conceptually extremely simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation — Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models:
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
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| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Docs: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to help the agency nearly triple its workforce by hiring 10K new officers, to improve investigations, and more — The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Marc Benioff apologizes for saying Trump should send the National Guard to SF, says the comments were made out of “an abundance of caution” around Dreamforce — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump sending federal troops … | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram — A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil its trifold phone at APEC later in October; attendees won't be allowed to touch it as it's expected to be displayed under glass — Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather …
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| Fortune: |
Sources: Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation — As fervor around stablecoins grows from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, one of the most high-profile new crypto projects has drummed …
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3 in December; it is expected to be more performant across the board, especially in coding and multimodal generation — Sources say that Google is targeting December for the release of Gemini 3.0, the next major version of its flagship AI model.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp is testing limits on how many messages a user or business can send monthly to unknown people without a response; nearing the limit displays a warning — WhatsApp is attempting to solve its spam problem by putting a curb on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response.| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Meta plans to add new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026 that let parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and get “insights” from teens' chats — From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo has asked its manufacturing partners to produce up to 25M Switch 2 units by the end of March 2026, surpassing analysts' estimates of 17.6M — Nintendo Co. has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026 …
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Forums: r/consoles, r/Handhelds, r/gaming, r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, and r/Switch
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs — On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.
More: Futurism, Lifewire, Computerworld, Business Standard, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Reuters, and The Verge
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Automaker Stellantis and Pony.ai sign a non-binding agreement to develop robotaxis for deployment in Europe, with plans to start testing in the coming months — Automaker Stellantis and Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai have signed a nonbinding agreement to build robotaxis for deployment in Europe.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale — Revolut Ltd. and its backers are nearing the end of a $3 billion fundraising spree that values the London-based fintech behemoth at $75 billion.| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
Nvidia and TSMC unveil the first Blackwell chip wafer made in the US, which will eventually become Blackwell chips — Nvidia and TSMC will announce on Friday their first completed U.S.-made wafer that will eventually become Blackwell chips for AI purposes, Nvidia first tells Axios.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Suno is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $2B+ valuation, quadrupling its previous valuation; it raised $125M in 2024 and is generating $100M+ in ARR — - The company is raising more than $100 million from investors — Effort comes as Suno and major labels discuss settlement| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $115M at a $1.3B valuation, bringing its Series A to $350M and total funding to $550M — - AI startup for science raises $115 million from Nvidia, others — Funds to build AI Science Factories, open platform to customers| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with 157M+ MAUs per QuestMobile, thanks in part to its deep Douyin integration — ByteDance's Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.| CoinDesk: |
Astra Nova, which develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences, raised $48.3M — The company develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences. — What to know:Sponsor Posts
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