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A profile of Garmin CEO Cliff Pemble, who helped d...

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The Association for Human Mathematics says OpenAI's new math documents show power, not scholarship, and urges mathematicians to stop working with the company (AHM)

The Association for Human Mathematics says OpenAI'...

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A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built (Cade Metz/New York Times)

A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, wh...

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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 (Financial Times)

SemiAnalysis: China has 24 GW of operational compu...

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A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have quietly started probing whether their models can break important cryptographic protocols (Scott Aaronson/Shtetl-Optimized)

A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, ...

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Vitalik Buterin says "we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously", backing a "bunker mode" call for the blockchain industry (Felix Ng/Cointelegraph)

Vitalik Buterin says "we should take the risks to ...

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German search engine Ecosia, used by government services, ditches Mistral for open-source models, including Chinese ones, citing Mistral's disappointing quality (Politico)

German search engine Ecosia, used by government se...

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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 (Bloomberg)

Filing: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~...

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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 (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)

Elon Musk claims "certain oligarchs" are stalling ...

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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 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery sta...

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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 (The Information)

Source: Nvidia considered a last-minute OpenRouter...

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OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

OpenRouter: the share of business spending between...

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Unsealed docs: in its lawsuit, New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including youth, non-functional safety features as part of placebo experiments (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)

Unsealed docs: in its lawsuit, New York alleges Ti...

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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 (Bloomberg)

Keyu Tian, a former ByteDance intern, raised ~$30M...

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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 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Mecka, which collects human motion data to train h...

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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" (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)

Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI lab...

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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 (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung reports preliminary Q3 operating profit up...

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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 (Janine Liberty/MIT News)

Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team fo...

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