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Amazon is restructuring its marketing roles for AI efficiency. The description also notes Anthropic's valuation hitting the high $2T range by December at 70.5% YES.
Read the original →Anthropic's S-1 filing says Claude can accelerate drug discovery and biology research. This makes life sciences central to the company's IPO pitch.
Read the original →S&P Global cut its outlook on Meta to "negative" from "stable" late Friday.
Read the original →Starting November 29, OpenAI will use data from Daybreak Blue sessions to train its models, even when users have turned off training. After backlash, a follow-up email promised a separate opt-out. The move revives concerns from the dispute with mathematicians who suspected OpenAI used their unpublished research for training without consent.
Read the original →Drivers using iPhones will be able to ask natural-sounding questions. Gemini will reply with relevant information.
Read the original →Strava now connects with Google Gemini in the US, letting cyclists analyze their training history with AI. The article covers how it works, what it reveals and its limitations.
Read the original →Former Meta AI researcher Stephen Roller admitted in a deposition that he torrented the pirated Books3 dataset during his tenure and deleted his copy as litigation mounted. The testimony could reshape Meta's fair-use defense in federal copyright cases over Llama training.
Read the original →The reviewer says the bot read 102 emails and caught every hidden instruction planted in them. It then told the reviewer that calls only work in the US.
Read the original →An AI code security benchmark for 2026 shows Opus 5.5 and GPT-6-Sol tied at 73%. The article compares how each model handles vulnerabilities and where they differ.
Read the original →The Rivian Assistant is arriving on the R1S and R1T.
Read the original →Grokbot's daily active users rose nearly ninefold in 50 days to about 600,000, closing in on Meta's Muse. Tesla is adding the agent to its vehicles.
Read the original →Microsoft's AI flywheel boosts Azure and Foundry growth, but rising AI CapEx pressures cash flow.
Read the original →DeepSeek costs from $0.15 per 1M tokens, compared with up to $50 for ChatGPT. The article gives a 2026 pricing breakdown and benchmarks to compare the two models by budget.
Read the original →Texas A&M has announced the Aggie AI Foundry, an automated metallurgy lab that uses AI and robots. It is backed by $2M and aims to produce alloys in a week or less.
Read the original →The weekly roundup covers tech stories including an AI breakthrough in computer science and a $6.3-billion crypto hack.
Read the original →Semiconductors have been one of the unquestioned winners of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, according to the article's description.
Read the original →The article argues that AI agents need permission rules before they act.
Read the original →The laboratory is funded by a $2 million grant and is described as the first of its kind in western academia. It is touted as democratizing metallurgy and freeing researchers to pursue bigger-picture questions without the labor of polishing metal alloys.
Read the original →Spotify is reportedly preparing to launch its AI-powered music remix tool in early 2027. A Financial Times report on 30 October 2026 says the company is targeting the first quarter of 2027, with a possible announcement around the Grammy Awards in February. The feature could let Premium subscribers transform existing songs into different musical styles and create AI-generated covers.
Read the original →OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the disruption AI was causing to mathematics but said the work must continue.
Read the original →A founder's post noted that Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai and Dario Amodei are vegetarians. It drew a steak-and-eggs reply from Elon Musk on X.
Read the original →Musk's comments suggest that demand for memory chips is sustainable over the long run, according to the article's description.
Read the original →Five tech giants are set to spend as much as $828 billion this year on infrastructure. The AI race is eating into cash flow and rattling Wall Street.
Read the original →Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues that Nvidia's competitive moat is widening, not narrowing. He says this is because it now sells a whole reinvented computing stack.
Read the original →S&P Global Ratings turned negative on Meta, the company controlled by Mark Zuckerberg. It warned that the company's AI spending could drain $71 billion in 2027.
Read the original →Isomorphic Labs was founded by Nobel Laureate Demis Hassabis. Its stated mission is to cure cancer, which is ambitious even by the standards of AI labs.
Read the original →Claude Duet is Anthropic's proactive chief of staff agent for Pro and Max users. The article covers the 6 reported apps, prices, rivals and what remains unconfirmed.
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