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SemiAnalysis: China has 24 GW of operational compute capacity and another 50 GW planned or under construction, compared to 56 GW operational in the US (www.ft.com)
20 days ago China

A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have quietly started probing whether their models can break important cryptographic protocols (scottaaronson.blog)
20 days ago AI

Vitalik Buterin says “we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously”, backing a “bunker mode” call for the blockchain industry (cointelegraph.com)
20 days ago Blockchain AI Mathematics Vitalik Buterin

Filing: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$515M in a new share sale; Biren's Hong Kong-listed stock is down 50%+ from a June peak but up ~70% YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Hong Kong AI Shanghai

Elon Musk claims “certain oligarchs” are stalling Starlink's India launch to protect a “monopolistic chokehold”; SpaceX signed MOUs with Jio and Airtel in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
20 days ago India Elon Musk SpaceX

German search engine Ecosia, used by government services, ditches Mistral for open-source models, including Chinese ones, citing Mistral's disappointing quality (www.politico.eu)
20 days ago China Germany

New US air-to-air missiles will finally overthrow China's range advantage (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
20 days ago China

Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Google Startup AI

NATO membership for Ukraine ‘not on the table' – Rubio (www.rt.com)
20 days ago Ukraine

Source: Nvidia considered a last-minute OpenRouter bid, telling its leadership it was prepared to make a generous offer, but OpenRouter didn't want to wait (www.theinformation.com)
20 days ago Nvidia

OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago

Australia is building green industries. Defence could make them strategic (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
20 days ago Australia

Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A (yro.slashdot.org)
20 days ago

Unsealed docs: in its lawsuit, New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including youth, non-functional safety features as part of placebo experiments (www.reuters.com)
20 days ago New York

Pure, Refined Profit (dailyreckoning.com)
20 days ago

Keyu Tian, a former ByteDance intern, raised ~$30M from 5Y and IDG for his unnamed AI lab that focuses on building world models, at a $200M post-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago AI IDG

Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago Robot Nvidia

When everyone is an ‘analyst', expertise loses meaning (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
20 days ago

Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago AI

Samsung reports preliminary Q3 operating profit up 782% YoY to ~$80.1B, vs. ~$81.2B est., and revenue up 127% to ~$145.7B, lower than expected (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago Samsung

Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90 (news.mit.edu)
21 days ago NASA

Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts (games.slashdot.org)
21 days ago Google

Bookshelf: The closing of the Russian mind (doesn't bode well for the future) (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
21 days ago Russia

Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
21 days ago

The AGs of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska sue TP-Link, alleging it deceptively marketed its routers' security and didn't properly disclose ties to China (www.theregister.com)
21 days ago China

The DOD offers chipmaker Wolfspeed, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a conditional loan of up to $1.5B in exchange for warrants for up to 7.5% of the company (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago

The West Confronted with Two Islams (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
21 days ago

Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago AI Oracle

Kremlin responds to French ballistic missile launch (www.rt.com)
21 days ago Russia France

FBI: Ongoing FortiBleed attacks lock out FortiGate VPN admins (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
21 days ago FBI VPN

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