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Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says
TechCrunch – AI reports: Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has undergirded its business.
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
The Verge – AI reports: Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he also commented on AI's impact on…
Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3
The Verge – AI reports: Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors. The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3 beta that's set to launch on November 4th, with a full iOS 27.3…
I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
The Verge – AI reports: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I won't be buying one, because we have Muse Charm at home.…
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
Ars Technica reports: It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
How Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: Worldwide Express automated its less-than-truckload freight billing-exception process with a multi-agent solution built on Amazon Bedrock. Six months after launch, the company cut active exceptions by 75%, improved time-to-cash by four weeks, and unlocked $10 milli…
Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity
TechCrunch – AI reports: Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
TechCrunch – AI reports: OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.
Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
TechCrunch – AI reports: The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop
The Verge – AI reports: After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he sympathizes with researchers struggling to make sense of it all. But he has no intention of stopping - and hints there could be much more to come from the…
Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth
The Verge – AI reports: Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma 4 model to follow through on a prompt to create a haiku…
Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals
NVIDIA Blog reports: While science fiction lore tells us that humans will meet extraterrestrial life in the form of little green men, the detail that should raise hairs this Halloween is this: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence took a major leap forward with AI, and it increasingly focuses…