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Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, vs. $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% to $37.7B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day study of capabilities the US may need in future wars (Luke Fountain/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks (Madison Mills/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers (Ben Weiss/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M (Chris Metinko/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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CScale, which is developing optical interconnect for accelerators, emerges from stealth with a $145M Series C led by Atreides, Valor Equity, and Premji Invest (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-designed proteins to help with biosecurity and scientific integrity (John Timmer/Ars Technica) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne (Sam Sabin/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M (Chris Metinko/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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ElevenLabs says existing investors and employees have sold $300M worth of stock in a tender led by Wellington and T Rowe Price and valuing the startup at $22B (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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The UK's MI5 issues a rare espionage alert urging UK universities to cut ties with the China General Technology Research Institute, which funded AI research (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sources: the US FTC is expanding a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs, and plans to issue formal demands to turn over information (New York Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Amazon aims to have 5,000 drivers wearing its smart glasses in 2026, rising to 20,000+ in 2027; the glasses capture static images for its AI mapping platform (Dave Lee/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Amazon says Fire TV now offers integrated live content from 40+ apps, like YouTube TV and DirecTV, and plans a Music app with podcasts and concerts in the fall (Mariella Moon/Engadget) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Amazon unveils a faster, slimmer $60 Fire TV Stick 4K, simplifies its Fire TV Stick lineup, and plans to roll out an upgraded Alexa+ living room hub in November (Chris Welch/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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DoorDash unveils new retail partnerships to deliver clothing and footwear; Macy's is listing products directly on the DoorDash app for two-hour delivery (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent for ordering and a B2B API allowing assistants like Slack bots to execute bulk orders (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely (The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey (Sam Rutherford/Engadget) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sources and filings: Situational Awareness lacked an investment risk team; after the sell-off, the SEC sent subpoenas to major banks about trades they financed (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by ARCHIV with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC (Phoebe Liu/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume (Alex Williams/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, featuring a 6" smart home hub with an iMac G4-inspired design and a HomePod mini refresh (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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OpenAI and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms so far; of 95 ads, all avoided reference to data centers and only some mentioned AI (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be "bad for the world" (Hayden Field/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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A book excerpt details the Sam Altman-Dario Amodei feud, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever's 2017 plan to auction rights to OpenAI's future AGI to countries (Kevin Roose/The Atlantic) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Goldman Sachs: investors have provided ~$500B in financing to AI-linked groups in 2026 so far, as hyperscaler debt issuance spreads to the euro, CAD, and others (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Singapore doubles down on chipmaking as the AI boom lifts its economy, but high costs, scarce land and labor, and US trade scrutiny threaten its ambitions (Owen Walker/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K (Viola Zhou/Rest of World) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT (Casey Newton/Platformer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sources: US-based PaleBlueDot AI is seeking $600M in private credit to buy chips for its South Korea site, to be used by Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu (Megawati Wijaya/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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South Korea's Kospi was the world's worst-performing stock market in Q3, down 18.8% due to Samsung and SK Hynix sell-offs in early Q3, but remains up 60% YTD (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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