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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model, with details like estimations of compute spent in terms of ChatGPT Pro usage — We're releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
More: OpenAI on GitHub, agmai.org, New York Times, Quartz, Newser, The Verge, The Decoder, The Information, Gizmodo, RuntimeWire, and Unite.AI
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| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's push into smart home devices includes a doorbell, thermostat, and other accessories developed with LG; the products will carry the LG brand — Apple Inc.'s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through an unusual partnership with LG Electronics Inc.
More: Stratechery, AppleInsider, Android Police, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, MacRumors, T3, MacRumors, Android Authority, Forkast, iThinkDifferent, Bloomberg, Seoul Economic Daily, RuntimeWire, iClarified, Cult of Mac, Business Today, TechCrunch, Engadget, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, CNBC, The Verge, and AppleInsider
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Forums: r/HomeKit, r/smarthome, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple's upcoming smart home products co-developed with LG are “at least a few more months” away; LG is handling manufacturing and product support — Bloomberg reports that Apple's plans for smart home products include devices, sensors, and cameras codeveloped in partnership with LG.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or “Le Chonk”, a 1T model it says tops any open model developed in the US or Europe, with weights due October 27 — Mistral is launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model code-named …
More: Reuters, Silicon Republic, Wired, CNBC, The New Stack, Courthouse News Service, Wccftech, Tech.eu, The Decoder, Wall Street Journal, Finimize, Unite.AI, Quartz, ZDNET, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: r/singularity, r/BuyFromEU, r/SillyTavernAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLaMA, r/accelerate, r/technology, and r/MistralAI
| Mistral Blog: |
Mistral says it trained ML4 “from scratch” using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual — Le Chonk — Today, we're launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4. Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk.
More: Fortune, ITPro, Silicon UK, Artificial Lawyer, RuntimeWire, Tech in Asia, and The Deep View
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Forums: Hacker News, r/eutech, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/europe, r/MistralAI, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: SpaceX is seeking to raise $40B, including ~$10B in bank loans and ~$30B in investment-grade debt, to purchase Nvidia chips, in a deal led by Apollo — Blockbuster debt deal is the latest sign of the vast spending on chips and other infrastructure underpinning AI
More: Barron's Online, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, The Crypto Basic, CTech, The Coin Republic, Reuters, Financial Express, Chip Briefing, Seoul Economic Daily, Daily Sabah, The Information, The Straits Times, and Finimize
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says his business empire will build and operate the Texas-based Terafab chipmaking project, explicitly ruling out any operational role for TSMC — Elon Musk said his business empire will build and operate Terafab independently, quashing speculation about industry leader Taiwan … | Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Meta, Walmart, Instinct, Shopify, Sierra, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure how AI bots interact with businesses — A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies …
More: Sierra, Facebook, Constellation Research, SiliconANGLE, Decagon, Forkast, Implicator.ai, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, and The Verge
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| Bill Donahue / Billboard: |
A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison — Michael Smith admitted earlier this year to using bots to stream fake songs billions of times in a first-ever criminal case over streaming fraud.| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1, based on Gemini 3.6 Flash, saying it improves on previous versions “across the board”; pricing is ~50% lower than Nano Banana 2 — Google has released Nano Banana 2.1, a new model for image generation and editing.
More: Google DeepMind, The Hans India, The Peninsula Newspaper, Unite.AI, RuntimeWire, Decrypt, and Android Authority
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic expands its Cyber Verification Program by integrating Project Glasswing and offering three tiers, all with access to its most capable Claude models — We're launching a new, expanded version of our Cyber Verification Program (CVP), which makes advanced cyber capabilities …
More: Security Affairs, Help Net Security, Fast Company, SecurityWeek, Cyber Security News, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Quartz, and Bloomberg
X: @anthropicai, @ustas_eth, @choblin29, @pandare__, @andrewmohawk, @azakasekai_, @andrewcurran_, @adnanthekhan, @cjav_dev, @iam_zachi, @lainshawty, and @jun_song. LinkedIn: Curt B.. Bluesky: @k8em0
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk”, saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework — ChatGPT's teen-focused experience 'doesn't send alerts to parents when it should,' according to an assessment.| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Finland orders Google subsidiary Tuike Finland Oy to halt data center construction in Muhos and Kajaani by October 23, pending environmental impact assessments — Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed …
More: Quartz, TheEnergyMag, Capacity, Political.org, Reuters, CGTN, Macau Business, BBC, and Hürriyet Daily News
| Sammy Barker / Push Square: |
PS5 modders using AI tools have rapidly installed emulators, as jailbreaks spread across social media; recent games requiring newer firmware are inaccessible — This is fine.png — A game of cat-and-mouse between Sony and hackers is very much underway, as the PS5 has been jailbroken to a massive degree in the past week.
More: Ars Technica, Gameranx, Tom's Hardware, and iXBT.games
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| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
A Taiwan union representing Micron workers says it secured member authorization to strike over the company's bonus scheme; the details are under discussion — A Taiwan union representing workers at Micron Technology (MU.O) said on Wednesday it had secured authorisation from its members …
More: Finimize, Barron's Online, Seoul Economic Daily, and Focus Taiwan
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the European Commission considers taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations to avoid singling out individual companies — European Commission considers a broad levy on all large companies to avoid singling out US digital services groups
More: 9to5Mac, RTÉ, and Ukrainian National News
| Reuters: |
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is partnering with 17 companies, including US-based Synopsys, to help customers design chips; Rapidus has $15B+ in state funding — Japan's Rapidus, with $15 billion in state backing, is tying up with chip design firms as it seeks to answer a major question hanging …
More: Finimize
| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major attacks despite Anthropic's warnings about its Mythos-level cyber risk, undercutting calls to ban open models — Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs. … Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
More: The Business Times. X: @natolambert, @stevesi, @jessi_cata, @ramez, and @bahradx
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @natolambert
| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Sources: Singapore distances itself from regulating Hyperliquid, citing its “decentralized nature”, even as the crypto futures DEX confirms it is based there — City-state averse to risk and scandal tries to distance itself from homegrown Hyperliquid Labs and its popular ‘perps’
More: Blockhead
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dallas-based Disruptive is targeting up to $10B for a late-stage fund, and has secured $7.5B; founded in 2012, it has backed Groq and Reflection AI — Winning bets on hot AI startups are propelling a little-known Dallas firm into a small group of firms raising gigantic funds
More: RuntimeWire
| Associated Press: |
A September 24 cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole PII for 1.3M people, including 30K orders of protection and 150K reports from a foster care board — A cyberattack on Arizona's court system stole personal information for more than a million people and is believed to have started …
More: Bloomberg Law
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