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UPDATED 2026-11-03 03:13 PST

2026-10-28 · WEDNESDAY · 21:13 PDT

  1. 1 FuriosaAI raises $620 million in a Series D that quadruples its valuation to $2.9 billion BLOOMBERG South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has raised $620 million in a Series D round that quadrupled its valuation to $2.9 billion. Founder and chief executive June Paik discussed the round and the company's growth plans on Bloomberg's The Asia Trade.
  2. 2 Samsung plans to lift capital spending more than 60 percent after selling out high-end chips for 2027 BLOOMBERG Samsung Electronics said it will raise capital spending more than 60 percent this year after selling out of its high-end chips for 2027. Its chip profit still missed estimates, and the stock fell because the company set out no plan for sharing its growing profits with shareholders.
  3. 3 MicroZig adopts a code of conduct that bars all LLM-generated contributions GITHUB · VIA HACKER NEWS · 49 PTS · 61 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION The embedded Zig toolkit MicroZig merged a code of conduct with a strict no-LLM policy effective October 28. It bars LLM-generated code and prose, paraphrasing model output, and using LLMs to edit, translate, brainstorm or find bugs, and asks contributors not to discuss chatbot use. Posting in a native language is welcomed in place of machine translation.
  4. 4 New York Times Cooking adds an AI tool that modifies its recipes, and subscribers push back NIEMAN LAB · VIA HACKER NEWS · 47 PTS · 81 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION NYT Cooking has launched an AI feature that applies modifications to its recipes, with ingredient substitutions the most common request so far. It is rolling out gradually and is open to all Cooking subscribers on iOS, after earlier AI tools for unit conversion and scaling. Nieman Lab reports that commenters were largely unconvinced.
  5. 5 Prime Video releases Castle Walls, billed as the first end-to-end AI-generated series on a major streamer THE GUARDIAN Prime Video has released Castle Walls, a Turkish production billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming service. The Guardian's reviewer found the footage visually degraded and unconvincing, and compared it to Elon Musk's seven-minute AI remake of The Odyssey.

2026-10-28 · WEDNESDAY · 18:14 PDT

  1. 1 Microsoft says it booked $10 billion of revenue from OpenAI in the September quarter TECHCRUNCH Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue sharing, brought in $10 billion in the quarter ended September 30, about 11 percent of its $92.3 billion total. Revenue from OpenAI reached $24.1 billion across Microsoft's 2026 fiscal year, and receivables owed by OpenAI rose to $7.2 billion from $6 billion in June.
  2. 2 Marvell is in advanced talks to buy data center optics maker Lumentum BLOOMBERG Marvell Technology is in advanced talks to buy Lumentum Holdings, which makes optical components for data centers, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Terms were not disclosed. Bloomberg described the prospective deal as a megadeal driven by the race to scale up in the AI sector.
  3. 3 Anthropic launches reporting tools that show companies what their token spending produced TECHCRUNCH Anthropic announced a suite of reporting tools that let managers see what a team produced over a chosen date range, what it cost and where its workflows broke down, drawing on internal analytics and employee surveys. The reports also recommend improvements, and Anthropic is adding pooled group budgets for token spending. The company says it will not use the data for model training by default.
  4. 4 Apple lists the 512GB Mac Studio at $22,299, its largest unified memory configuration APPLE · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION Apple's store lists a Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra, 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 512GB of unified memory and 1TB of storage at $22,299. It is the top memory tier Apple said in August would arrive in October, without naming a price at the time. The 512GB pool is the largest single-machine memory Apple sells.
  5. 5 OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership across both companies' platforms OPENAI BLOG OpenAI said it is expanding its partnership with ServiceNow, bringing OpenAI models and agents into the ServiceNow platform and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex. No terms were disclosed. The move follows a similar expansion with Oracle this week.

2026-10-28 · WEDNESDAY · 15:11 PDT

  1. 1 Microsoft discloses Azure's dollar revenue for the first time at $33.2 billion a quarter TECHCRUNCH Microsoft disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars for the first time, reporting $33.2 billion for the July-September quarter, up 48 percent from a year earlier. The figure beat the $32.3 billion analysts expected and puts Azure slightly ahead of Google Cloud's $30.7 billion. Azure now accounts for about 36 percent of Microsoft's $92.3 billion in quarterly revenue.
  2. 2 Banks shelve a bond sale tied to a $15 billion loan for an Anthropic-linked Texas data center BLOOMBERG Banks are delaying plans to offload part of a $15 billion loan that funds a Texas data center tied to Anthropic, Bloomberg reports. The hold-up follows the state pausing new projects while it assesses risks to its power grid. It is an early case of grid constraints reaching the financing of AI data centers.
  3. 3 Google takes ads in AI Mode global as Search advertising growth slows to 12 percent TECHCRUNCH Google said it will expand ads in its AI Mode search experience to international markets for the first time, alongside multi-turn ads in the US. The announcement came on Alphabet's third-quarter earnings call, where revenue rose 25 percent to $127.6 billion but Search advertising growth slowed to 12 percent from 17 percent a quarter earlier. Alphabet shares fell 8 percent after the results.
  4. 4 Google's AI Mode in Search sends US users to the FEC instead of naming the 2020 election winner ARS TECHNICA · VIA HACKER NEWS · 66 PTS · 36 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Ars Technica found that Google's AI Mode in Search will not say directly who won the 2020 or 2024 US presidential elections, pointing users to Federal Election Commission records instead. AI Mode answered other cycles back to 2000 directly, and which years drew an evasive reply varied by user. The same questions got straightforward answers over a VPN from Taiwan, Russia, France and Canada.
  5. 5 Meta delays its AI training terms for business accounts to November 20 after backlash 404 MEDIA Meta updated the commercial terms for business accounts this month to let it use content from connected domains and pages to develop and train its products, a change Nieman Lab first reported. After backlash Meta moved the effective date from October 30 to November 20, removed the word train and limited the uses to advertising and business products. Users in the UK and EU can object through Meta's privacy center.

2026-10-28 · WEDNESDAY · 12:15 PDT

  1. 1 Anthropic weighs putting 15 to 20 percent of its IPO in retail hands, with JPMorgan leading BLOOMBERG Bloomberg reports that Anthropic is considering allocating 15 percent to 20 percent of the shares in its IPO to retail investors. People familiar with the plans say the company has tapped JPMorgan Chase to lead the US retail offering. The sizing and the lead bank go beyond what Anthropic's prospectus disclosed.
  2. 2 Palantir's defense chief says AI advances make a Chinese move on Taiwan more compelling BLOOMBERG Palantir head of defense Mike Gallagher warned that gains in AI capability have made it more compelling for Xi Jinping to seize Taiwan, the chipmaking hub behind the AI boom. Speaking at an Indiana defense event, he argued China could control or disable TSMC and hold the world economy hostage. He said Beijing may prefer to act before it falls further behind in AI.
  3. 3 Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model it says leads on cybersecurity work GOOGLE · VIA HACKER NEWS · 435 PTS · 366 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, which it says ranks first on version 5.0 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59. The company reports leads of 88.2 percent on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities and 71.0 percent on CWE-bench for patching. Access starts this week with a subset of cyber defenders rather than a general release.
  4. 4 An IT vendor lists a 300-rack AI supercomputer with 9,600 A100 GPUs on eBay for $59.7 million TOM'S HARDWARE · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION Core 4 Solutions has listed a 300-rack AI cluster on eBay for $59.7 million, Tom's Hardware reports. The system packs 9,600 Nvidia A100 accelerators and 4,200 AMD EPYC Rome 64-core processors, with free shipping by FedEx Ground. Nvidia and AMD have since moved on to Blackwell, Vera Rubin and EPYC Turin parts.
  5. 5 Surge AI's DAYJOB: Tax benchmark has its best agent passing 10.8 percent of professional tax jobs SURGE AI · VIA HACKER NEWS · 101 PTS · 58 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Surge AI released DAYJOB: Tax, a benchmark of 50 tax assignments built from 1,789 workspace files across eight areas of practice. Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads at a 10.8 percent pass rate, ahead of Fable 5.1 at 9.6 percent and Opus 5.5 at 9.2 percent, where passing means meeting 95 percent of a task's criteria. The tasks reward spotting consequential issues clients did not raise.

2026-10-28 · WEDNESDAY · 09:15 PDT

  1. 1 A fresh wave of cyberattacks hits South Korean brokerages and the crypto exchange Bithumb TECHCRUNCH Daishin Securities, Mirae Asset Global Investments and the crypto exchange Bithumb all reported cybersecurity incidents, about a month after an earlier wave hit South Korean financial firms. Daishin says the breach exposed names, email addresses and mobile numbers for 38,490 customers. Officials are still investigating the cause; researchers tied the September wave to an AI penetration testing tool.
  2. 2 NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open model that transcribes 40 languages and labels speakers HUGGING FACE BLOG NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight speech model that combines transcription, speaker attribution, translation and audio question answering in one checkpoint. It transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 to or from English, labels speakers in 13, and handles hour-long recordings but not live audio. NVIDIA also published Granary v2, the data pipeline behind it.
  3. 3 Valve tells developers worried about AI clones to compete on community and updates INVEN GLOBAL · VIA HACKER NEWS · 49 PTS · 50 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Valve's Steam Business Team told developers at the Steam Indie Connect event in Korea on October 27 that community building and consistent updates are the strongest defense against AI-generated clones, because a game that keeps changing cannot be copied like a single mechanic. Valve said making the genuine version the best version is a long-standing principle. Steam recently peaked at 43.5 million concurrent users.
  4. 4 A 2.4 MB add-on is reported to lift Google's 577M EmbeddingGemma 2 to the top of an audio embedding benchmark R/LOCALLLAMA A developer says bolting a 2.37 MB file of frozen PCA matrices onto Google's 577M EmbeddingGemma 2, without retraining any weights, raised its MAEB audio score from 49.3 to 54.4 percent and moved it from rank 26 to first on the audio-only board. Unsupervised voice clustering went from 0.05 to 63.1 percent. The result is self-reported and the MTEB submission is still an open pull request.
  5. 5 Microsoft and Epic file DMCA takedowns against AI-made game ports while promoting their own AI use KOTAKU · VIA HACKER NEWS · 44 PTS · 14 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Kotaku reports that publishers have sent hundreds of DMCA notices over a flood of AI-generated game recompilations, with Microsoft targeting browser ports of Minecraft, Call of Duty and Halo and Epic taking down a Fortnite web port on October 10. Open-sourced versions of Slay the Spire 2, Celeste and RimWorld also appear in GitHub's takedown logs. Both companies build with AI themselves.

2026-10-28 · WEDNESDAY · 06:13 PDT

  1. 1 Mississippi residents say xAI offered to buy their homes if they agree not to sue over noise THE GUARDIAN Residents of a Mississippi neighborhood next to a power plant that serves Elon Musk's xAI data centers say real estate agents have gone door to door offering to buy their houses, the Guardian reports. Residents say the offers came with a condition not to sue over turbine noise, and one said an agent described a target of more than 400 homes.
  2. 2 AI and cloud security startup Upwind raises $400 million at a $3.8 billion valuation BLOOMBERG Upwind Security, a San Francisco startup that sells cybersecurity for AI and cloud applications, has secured $400 million in fresh financing, Bloomberg reports. The round values the company at $3.8 billion.
  3. 3 Moore Threads says quarterly sales grew 1,774 percent on Chinese AI hardware demand BLOOMBERG Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads Technology said sales grew 1,774 percent in the three months through September. The company credited accelerating domestic demand for AI hardware, Bloomberg reports.
  4. 4 Macmillan staff say the publisher celebrated a workplace AI assistant it later killed WIRED Macmillan employees told Wired that the publisher threw a party for an in-house AI assistant called NOA, or 'No Ordinary Assistant', which was later shut down. Staff told the magazine the assistant was unhelpful, and bestselling authors said publishers' use of AI is damaging their relationships with the Big Five.
  5. 5 Anthropic expands its GSA deal, giving US governments a 40 percent discount on Claude ANTHROPIC · VIA HACKER NEWS · 44 PTS · 29 COMMENTS · DISCUSSION Anthropic signed a new agreement with the US General Services Administration that takes 40 percent off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API. The discount applies across every product surface for the first time and extends to state, local, tribal and territorial governments, with no minimum spend commitment. Anthropic estimates it will save governments $1 billion.

2026-10-28 · WEDNESDAY · 03:12 PDT

  1. 1 Microsoft and Alphabet shares have diverged as Wall Street turns to the AI cash flow drain BLOOMBERG Bloomberg reports that Microsoft and Alphabet shares have moved in opposite directions since the two companies last reported earnings, as Wall Street increasingly focuses on how heavy AI spending weighs on corporate bottom lines. It frames the coming results as a test of how much cash flow drain investors will accept from AI build-outs.
  2. 2 DiffuSpace releases Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, an open-weights diffusion language model with a 128K context HUGGING FACE · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION DiffuSpace released Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, its first model, an Apache 2.0 diffusion language model derived from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. It pairs a 35B-parameter mixture-of-experts backbone with about 3B active parameters per token, block diffusion decoding that fills confident positions in parallel, and a 128K context window. The company says it leads open-source diffusion language models at release.
  3. 3 Emergency managers are already using chatbots for public alerts, and one hurricane graphic was wrong WIRED Most emergency management agencies bar generative AI, but experts told Wired and Grist it is already common in state and local disaster offices. After Hurricane Isaias hit the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm, an Alabama county emergency manager published a chatbot-generated graphic of a sting jet wind threat that was not meteorologically accurate.

2026-10-28 · WEDNESDAY · 00:11 PDT

  1. 1 England's outgoing Master of the Rolls says AI could decide low-value civil cases WIRED Geoffrey Vos, who retires in days as Master of the Rolls, told Wired that AI could adjudicate personal injury claims and low-value professional negligence cases, while complex commercial and family disputes still need a human judge. Guidance confines judges in England to administrative uses, but Vos says a visit to a Shenzhen court where AI assists civil decisions convinced him other courts should consider it.
  2. 2 Australia's digital duty of care bill clears the lower house and would ban chatbots that simulate emotional intimacy THE GUARDIAN Australia's digital duty of care bill passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, placing an overarching safety obligation on social media, games, apps and chatbots. An amendment from crossbencher Kate Chaney adds material or conduct that simulates emotional intimacy and fosters a child's dependence on it to the list of harms. It now goes to the Senate, where a Greens inquiry reports in late November.
  3. 3 ASMPT posts its fastest revenue growth of the year on AI hardware demand as its chip unit misses BLOOMBERG Chip-equipment maker ASMPT reported a 49 percent sales jump, its highest revenue growth of the year, on surging demand for AI hardware. Bloomberg says a slight miss in the company's semiconductor division underscored the high bar analysts have set for the manufacturer.
  4. 4 Delta Inference Engine runs DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at 41 tokens a second on one RTX 3090 GITHUB · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION A developer published Delta Inference Engine, an MIT-licensed C++ and CUDA server that runs DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on a single Nvidia GPU natively on Windows. The author reports 41 tokens a second from a Q2 GGUF on an RTX 3090 with 192 GB of system memory, the full 1M-token context, and next-token agreement with DeepSeek's own API of 90.2 percent on general text and 92.4 percent on code and math.
  5. 5 SenseNova 6.8 Code2Video makes video by writing and revising code HUGGING FACE · VIA R/LOCALLLAMA · DISCUSSION SenseNova released SenseNova 6.8 Code2Video under an Apache 2.0 license, which its authors call the first open-source model for code-driven video creation. It writes code that rendering tools turn into motion graphics, revises a result from natural-language requests covering styling, timing and scene elements, and can rebuild a reference video's treatment as editable code. INT4 and INT8 weights are planned.