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Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 (6abc)
6abc : Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its mo…
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A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
Lucinda Shen / Axios : A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beatin…
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Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of the loan origination process, raised $30M led by Conversion, bringing its total funding to $85M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch : Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of…
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Trump says the WH considers as "THE ENEMY" anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence, not "the highly accepted" and "more accurate" Super Intelligence (Donald J. Trump/@realDonaldTrump ...)
Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com : Trump says the WH considers as …
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that …
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Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge : Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX…
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Anthropic integrates its Cyber Verification Program and Project Glasswing into a new, expanded version of CVP, with three tiers and access to its latest models (Anthropic)
Anthropic : Anthropic integrates its Cyber Verification Program and Project Glasswi…
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Meta, Walmart, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure interactions between AI bots and businesses (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
Kate Rooney / CNBC : Meta, Walmart, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent P…
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Flai, which makes AI tools for car dealerships to manage phone calls, emails, and texts, raised a $27M Series A led by Base10 Partners (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch : Flai, which makes AI tools for car dealerships to ma…
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Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen3.8-Max (Semafor)
Semafor : Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and…
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Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch : Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed f…
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Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthro…
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Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engine…
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Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico)
Owen Dahlkamp / Politico : Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-at…
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In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters)
Chandni Shah / Reuters : In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its …
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