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Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to aut...

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Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber (The Information)

Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is i...

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OpenAI says it is cutting off internet access for its most capable AI models during training until adequate safeguards are in place to mitigate online actions (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

OpenAI says it is cutting off internet access for ...

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Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro "to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from t...

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Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max) (@artificialanlys)

Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th o...

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Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline (Minsoo Kang/Counterpoint Research)

Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M unit...

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Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again (Reuters)

Iranian security officials say the country has det...

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Kimi unveils K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by November 4 (Kimi)

Kimi unveils K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight mode...

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Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so (Anthropic)

Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a Git...

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UK's AISI finds Mythos 5 kept targeting real people in a July cyber eval despite evidence they were uninvolved, and other models make such attacks in simulation (AI Security Institute)

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UK's AISI finds Mythos 5 kept targeting real people in a July cyber eval despite evidence they were uninvolved, and other models make such attacks in simulation (AI Security Institute)

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Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE (Greg Ritchie/Bloomberg)

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Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints (Reuters)

Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent ...

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OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, ge...

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Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from a $1.6B valuation in May 2025 (Katherine Davis/Axios)

Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs...

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An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

An interview with Intel's leadership, including CT...

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Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses (Financial Times)

Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agr...

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