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Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs (Cloudflare)

Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extr...

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The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisi...

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Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures (John Koetsier/Forbes)

Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 ro...

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Ramp says it applied to the US OCC for a trust bank charter that, if approved, would allow it to offer fiduciary investment management and digital asset custody (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Ramp says it applied to the US OCC for a trust ban...

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Sources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips (Bloomberg)

Sources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with...

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Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale supercluster in Ohio, which will have ~1M GPUs at full scale and was used to train its Muse foundational models (Engineering at Meta)

Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale superc...

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Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation, after announcing a $55M Series A in June (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, rai...

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Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like...

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Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and...

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Tolan, an AI assistant focused on users that are not tech-savvy, raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures, and Homebrew, and says 70% of its users are women (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

Tolan, an AI assistant focused on users that are n...

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Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs; DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as 2026's end (The Information)

Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on ...

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SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, ...

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Apple announces a "Pro and tell" event on October 28 10am PT in LA, where its first touchscreen MacBook, a 14" MacBook Pro with M6, and more are expected (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple announces a "Pro and tell" event on October ...

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Amazon introduces TorchNeuron, an open-source tool that will allow developers to run code written in PyTorch on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewrite (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Amazon introduces TorchNeuron, an open-source tool...

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AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside existing Intel and AMD chips (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to s...

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MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers "a generational leap" in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23 (MiniMax)

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers "a...

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Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on (ProPublica)

Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting...

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The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to remove any DeepSeek tech from their IT systems and prohibits future procurement of its products and services (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to...

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