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Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED XDR display, a light-up Apple logo, M5 Pro and M5 Max, for $2,899+ and $3,399+ — The world's best pro laptop now features an industry-leading tandem OLED display, an intuitive Touch experience, blazing-fast M5 Pro …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
John Ternus says the Mac is “first and foremost” a device “built around the trackpad and keyboard”, but sometimes “it's comfortable and handy to have touch” — An exclusive early look at Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro—the computer Apple said would never happen.
More: Gizmodo, MacRumors, Finimize, iThinkDifferent, and The Apple Post
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is the first Mac with the Dynamic Island, offering similar functionality to the iPhone; the Dynamic Island launched in 2022 — Apple today introduced the Dynamic Island to the Mac for the first time with its new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple says the touchscreen MacBook Pro has a “newly designed hinge” for stability and an “enhanced six-speaker” system; the 14" model is 3lb and the 16" is 4lb — Apple has long resisted the idea of touchscreen laptops — until now.
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| Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google: |
Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its “strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity” capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index — Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
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| Meredith Shubel / The New Stack: |
GitHub says Copilot Fusion, which handles model selection and orchestration, is now generally available, releases the GitHub Copilot app, and more — GitHub has debuted GitHub Copilot Fusion, a new system that handles model selection and orchestration for coding tasks so developers don't have to.
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
GitHub says it's seeing 7.4B commits per month, up from 2.9B in August, and has added 4M CPU cores and 160PB of storage in 2026 so far to support this growth — GitHub is seeing unprecedented demand and is updating its core infrastructure to keep pace. — In August, GitHub … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Amazon unveils the $500 Echo Show 16, the $200 Echo Time alarm, and the $200+ Alexa Photo Frame, raises smart speaker prices, and previews Alexa Home Map — With its latest devices, including a smart bedside alarm clock, Amazon looks to cement Alexa's presence in every room of the home
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google and Xreal launch the Xreal Aura wired XR glasses, with Android XR and a puck with Snapdragon Reality Elite, for $1,099+ through December, then $1,279+ — At the Android Developer Summit on Wednesday, Google's smart glasses partner Xreal launched its new Xreal Aura wired smart glasses …
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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 328% YoY to ~$78.8B, above ~$74.07B est., and operating profit up 632% to ~$62.76B, above ~$57.78B est. and a company record — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/wallstreetbets
| Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times: |
Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February — The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors. — 1.3k
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| Artificial Analysis: |
Artificial Analysis unveils the Intelligence Index v5 with new coding and science benchmarks; 60% of the Index is based on private test sets or held-out answers — The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is our composite measure of model capabilities across tasks reflecting real-world usage today. v5 …
More: Interconnects AI, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Anthropic: |
Research: professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned “leans” on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time; 77% used the agents' arguments — Amaç Herdağdelen, Hailey Joren, Alex Tamkin — When experts hand their work to an AI agent …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Reddit rolls out a dual-feed homepage, with For You and Following feeds, joining TikTok, Instagram, and others in offering a For You feed — Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the “For You” feed popularized by TikTok. The company announced on Wednesday that users will now see two options …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic's S-1 implies a $40T+ annual TAM based on knowledge work's economic value in 2025, topping SpaceX's $28.5T estimate, without explicitly naming TAM — The company's estimated market opportunity, tied to the economic value of work produced by knowledge workers, tops SpaceX's enormous figure from earlier this year
More: Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, MBI Deep Dives, CNBC, BBC, MIT Technology Review, and CNBC
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset — Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation …
More: Hugging Face, Hugging Face, The New Stack, TechCrunch, NVIDIA, and The Decoder. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple adds a 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip, starting at $22,299; the M5 Max model maxes out at 128GB of RAM — Starting today, the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip can be configured with 512GB of RAM on Apple's online store, but it is an expensive upgrade.
More: 9to5Mac, Macworld, AppleInsider, iDrop News, and iThinkDifferent
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and MacRumors Forums
| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
X adds an intrusive promotional animation of an arm reaching across the screen to direct users to a “promote” post button, targeting verified and Premium users — You have to hand it to X's latest promotional gimmick. — After Elon Musk warned that …
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The CFTC files a legal challenge to block Utah's attempt to restrict prediction market betting, asserting it is the sole US regulator of prediction markets — The U.S. agency that oversees derivatives has filed a federal legal challenge to halt Utah's attempt to stop prediction market betting in its state … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Meta quietly launched Waddle World, a Tamagotchi-like, AI pet-rearing game, in the Philippines in September, calling it a “daily journal disguised as a pet” — But it's only available in the Philippines for now. — Looks like a big part of Meta's AI strategy is to rely on … | Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Letter: Senator Elizabeth Warren asks Dario Amodei for “exhaustive responses” to four pages of questions by November 3 regarding existential risks in its S-1 — The Democratic senator told the AI giant to answer four pages of questions about its IPO filing by Nov. 3| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Discord says it will let public-channel messages from servers listed in Server Discovery appear in web search from mid-December; admins and members can opt out — Discord announced on Tuesday it will make some conversations in its public servers searchable and easier to find on the internet.
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| Raga Justin / Bloomberg Government: |
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bills banning AI chatbots from using “unsafe features” for minors and requiring security features in internet-connected baby monitors — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed two bills further curbing artificial intelligence risks for children … | Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike — Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch …
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6 — Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its first pair of cuff-style earbuds, adding to a growing category that includes products from Sony Group Corp. …
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| Dawn Kopecki / Reuters: |
Email: a hacker attack forced the FEC to temporarily take its filing system offline around 10pm ET on Monday, blocking groups from submitting reports — The US Federal Election Commission's website was targeted by a hacker or hackers, according to an email seen by Reuters …
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| Felix Rieseberg: |
An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that “hunger beats tenure” — This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest. As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them.
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| Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
AI and cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security raised $400M led by Bessemer at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January, for $830M in total funding — Upwind Security, a San Francisco-based startup offering cybersecurity for artificial intelligence and cloud applications …
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| Rozanna Latiff / Reuters: |
Malaysia says it seized ~$12.11M worth of AI chips this month, as authorities close in on a syndicate suspected of smuggling through the country's main airport — Malaysian customs said on Wednesday that it had seized about 49.5 million ringgit ($12.11 million) worth of advanced artificial intelligence chips …
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| Calder McHugh / Politico: |
OpenAI says it's launching an election “war room” ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections — OpenAI is standing up an election “war room” ahead of the midterms, the company exclusively told Decoded by POLITICO.| Nena Farrell / Wired: |
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft review: premium feel, lightweight, nice colors, and snappy performance, but expensive after price increases — The latest generation of Kindle's 7-inch e-readers have a new look and new accessories. But are they worth the upgrade given Amazon's new Kindle prices?Sponsor Posts
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