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Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)

Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and o...

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Delaware-based Causa Prima, which develops an agent-to-agent AI platform for managing B2B payments, resolving billing disputes, and more, raised a $20M seed (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

Delaware-based Causa Prima, which develops an agen...

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Microsoft releases updates fixing 1,400+ security vulnerabilities, surpassing September's record of 972, which was already ~10x the normal monthly patch load (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Microsoft releases updates fixing 1,400+ security ...

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Chinese manufacturers dominate humanoid robot production, capturing 97% of global shipments in H1 2026, thanks to government support and vast supply chains (Bloomberg)

Chinese manufacturers dominate humanoid robot prod...

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Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer charged with bugging a conference room, used a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense dev board; a website sells it for $14 (Bloomberg)

Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer ch...

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Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained ...

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Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, which finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software; founded in 2012, it has 40+ employees (The Information)

Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of ...

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Tencent raised ~$5.7B via US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings, drawing $23B+ in orders; source: it had initially been expected to raise at least $4.5B (Reuters)

Tencent raised ~$5.7B via US dollar and offshore y...

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A look at OpenAI's safety concerns over loop transformers before shipping its next major model; Microsoft accidentally confirmed GPT-6.1 Sol uses the technique (The Information)

A look at OpenAI's safety concerns over loop trans...

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Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's motion for expedited discovery, ordering OpenAI to hand over forensic images of devices and other documents (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)

Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's ...

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The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismant...

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small ...

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Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30 (The San Francisco Standard)

Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arres...

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OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to identify who placed it (@openainewsroom)

OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers a...

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Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Ap...

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Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2.5K in May to 30K+ (Anthropic)

Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its...

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A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal dama...

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Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow (Katie Roof/Business Insider)

Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service...

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