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| Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals — Alphabet Inc.'s Google doesn't have to sell off its advertising exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals …
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| Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks — Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.
More: Google, Thurrott, The New Stack, Search Engine Land, Android Authority, Forkast, Neowin, The Hacker News, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, Cyber Security News, and Android Headlines
LinkedIn: Srivarshan Selvaraj and Shawn Horton
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31 — After the last model release three weeks ago, Google today is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash. This marks the third Flash update in three months.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Uber is cutting ~3,300 jobs, or 10% of its staff globally, to reduce management layers and reallocate spending into ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis — Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
The Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with The New York Times, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works is generally fair use — The Trump administration has filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with the New York Times (NYT.N) …
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| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Wonderful, which helps enterprises deploy AI, raised a $550M Series C led by Insight at a $5B valuation; investors also paid $170M to buy shares from employees — Founded just last year, the startup already has 650 employees and is expanding its forward-deployed engineering teams around the world
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| Matthew Haag / New York Times: |
NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more — A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says “we trust Anthropic” as they are “back on the right side” with the administration and that “they've done what we asked” — - “They've done what we asked. … - “Really excited for our conversation …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The FBI is investigating Nexus, a new ID theft service on the dark web claiming to sell digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada — A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources like RxNorm and PubMed — OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record (EHR) system …
More: OpenAI, Health API Guy, Neowin, Unite.AI, and PYMNTS
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| The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer.
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| Wired: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money — Elon Musk's social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app's payments service.| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI is facing new lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect talked gun violence with ChatGPT for days — New lawsuits add to list of cases in which the chatbot maker faces questions about the safety of its products
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, and Premiere, available via Slackbot prompts — Customers can now use Adobe's apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock …
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, the same as Fable 5's pricing, but cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens — On Tuesday, Anthropic launched the latest versions of its flagship Fable and Mythos models. Anthropic promises that the updated models …
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
MrBeast, whose YouTube channel hit 500M subscribers in June, will put Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multiyear Google deal — One of YouTube's biggest creators has a new deal to promote Gemini and Google Health.
More: Google, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada, and Notebookcheck
| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based HiddenLayer, which makes security tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital — When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether …
More: HiddenLayer, RuntimeWire, and Unite.AI
| Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: |
The US Army awards $192M in contracts to Palantir and Anduril to produce eight TITAN AI-powered mobile ground stations, to be delivered over the next 18 months — Watch out, world. The US Army's kill chain is going mobile. — On Tuesday, the Army awarded two contracts worth a combined $192M …
More: Breaking Defense, Axios, and U.S. Army
| Ian Thomas / CNBC: |
Thyme Care, which focuses on filling cancer treatment gaps via a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation, up from $1B+ in 2025 — Despite recent advancements in oncology, the branch of medicine focused on the study, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer … | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Robotics startup Lyte, founded by former Apple Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M — Lyte, a fast-growing robotics and artificial intelligence startup from top members of Apple Inc.'s Face ID team …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, both set to launch in December — The half-inch thin laptop is joined by a new, much larger Swift Air 16 — both with Intel Wildcat Lake.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
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| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a $100M+ valuation — The company, valued at more than $100 million, uses agentic AI to block threats — Blackstone is placing an early bet on Huskeys …
More: Ynetnews, Pulse 2.0, CTech, Globes, HackerNoon, and The Next Web
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2 — Meta on Wednesday released Muse Spark 1.3, an update it says significantly improves performance in coding and agentic tasks.
More: Bloomberg Law and Meta AI Research
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Snap's Specs AR glasses bet; sources: Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, while the planned outside funding never came — As company struggles with profitability, Snap CEO is doubling down on a hardware play that has made some investors wary
X: @_iainmartin, @tomaxwell, @tradfi, and @jtoonkel
| Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: |
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents without a human “owner” — The Coming of Userless Agents — The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident is an early example of an AI system that has “gone rogue.”
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| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
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