Tech

How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago Republican SpaceX

Meta Developing Compressed RAM 'CRAM' For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap? (hardware.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Linux

Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more (www.wired.com)
17 days ago AI

A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic (www.wsj.com)
17 days ago Walmart

Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark (www.politico.com)
17 days ago

A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago

10 Drowned Towns That Reappear When the Water Recedes (listverse.com)
17 days ago

Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs (www.trendforce.com)
17 days ago China

Chip design software leader Synopsys says it is exploring partnerships with Chinese AI labs to develop AI-powered chip design tools for the Chinese market (asia.nikkei.com)
17 days ago China AI

Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago IPO

Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices (www.eurogamer.net)
17 days ago Xbox

A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits (time.com)
17 days ago AI Senate

Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed (www.nytimes.com)
17 days ago AI

Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M (thenewstack.io)
17 days ago

AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say (yro.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Startup AI

Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago

Cloudflare debuts Clef-omni, supporting audio and video input alongside text and image, makes Clef up to 2x faster, and dramatically cuts Clef-flash pricing (blog.cloudflare.com)
18 days ago

Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago

In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation (krebsonsecurity.com)
18 days ago Canada FBI

Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams (www.forbes.com)
18 days ago

Sources: Nuvacore, a six-month-old Sequoia-backed chip startup that's designing a new central processor for data centers, is raising funds at a ~$2.5B valuation (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago Startup

Trump admin says it's now mandating AI companies “immediately disclose incidents involving their models” and move swiftly to remedy harm from security incidents (www.axios.com)
18 days ago Trump AI

Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago Google

A man US authorities called a “fixer”, who was charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw with smuggling restricted chips to China, pleaded guilty (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago China

Oxide Computer, which helps companies build their own clouds, raised a $445M Series D led by Eclipse at a $6B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$835M (www.axios.com)
18 days ago

Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event (www.axios.com)
18 days ago AI

Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it “feels like Opus 5.5” (www.businessinsider.com)
18 days ago Google

Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago

Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 2002, while T-Mobile fell 13.27% and AT&T 9.81% after SpaceX announced a nationwide spectrum deal on Thursday (www.cnbc.com)
18 days ago Mobile AT&T SpaceX

Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 (6abc.com)
18 days ago

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