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AI’s quiet safety gatekeepers are stepping into the spotlightCNBCFree6h agoAI
CNBCFreeSun Oct 11, 10:08 AM ET
AI’s quiet safety gatekeepers are stepping into the spotlight
The intensifying AI safety debate is bringing a small group of third-party evaluators into the center of a multitrillion-dollar industry.
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AI is automating coding. So why are software developer job postings on the rise?CNBCFree7h agoAI
CNBCFreeSun Oct 11, 9:30 AM ET
AI is automating coding. So why are software developer job postings on the rise?
Software developer job postings are rebounding, led by senior and AI-focused roles, even as AI automates more coding and entry-level hiring weakens.
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AI may change the price of your Big Mac and groceries — what this means for shoppersCNBCFree15h agoAI
CNBCFreeSun Oct 11, 1:00 AM ET
AI may change the price of your Big Mac and groceries — what this means for shoppers
As retailers turn to AI tools to streamline operations, experts warn that collecting more detailed consumer data increases the risk of personalized pricing.
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Microsoft's Nadella says AI needs an ‘emergency brake’ that humans controlCNBCFree23h agoAI
CNBCFreeSat Oct 10, 4:59 PM ET
Microsoft's Nadella says AI needs an ‘emergency brake’ that humans control
Nadella joined other tech moguls and researchers in calling for stronger safeguards and, in some cases, for the pacing of frontier development.
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Bloomberg

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Xpeng Says It Can Quickly Adapt Car Autopilot Systems for EuropeBloombergPaid6h ago
BloombergPaidby Bloomberg NewsSun Oct 11, 10:31 AM ET
Xpeng Says It Can Quickly Adapt Car Autopilot Systems for Europe
Xpeng Inc. can rapidly adapt its advanced driver-assistance technology to European roads using relatively small amounts of data, allowing it to modify its…
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Is AI Crowding Everyone Else Out of the Bond Market?BloombergPaid6h agoAI
BloombergPaidSun Oct 11, 10:03 AM ET
Is AI Crowding Everyone Else Out of the Bond Market?
Hyperscalers, data centers and chip companies are borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to finance the AI buildout, turning the technology boom into one of…
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Apple Smart Home Launch Oct. 13 Plans; HomeView Has Mid-November ReleaseBloombergPaid6h ago
BloombergPaidby Mark GurmanSun Oct 11, 10:00 AM ET
Apple Smart Home Launch Oct. 13 Plans; HomeView Has Mid-November Release
Fresh details on Apple’s HomeView, HomePod mini and new Apple TV, including release dates, colors, chips and features.
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Apple Supplier Luxshare Expects No Material Impact From US ProbeBloombergPaid18h ago
BloombergPaidby Bloomberg NewsSat Oct 10, 10:38 PM ET
Apple Supplier Luxshare Expects No Material Impact From US Probe
Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare Precision Industry Co. is facing a US patent investigation into data-center power technologies following infringement allegations…
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48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s nextTechCrunchFree1h agoNEW
TechCrunchFreeby TechCrunch EventsSun Oct 11, 3:00 PM ET
48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next
Less than 48 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your pass before prices increase at the door, plus get…
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Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?TechCrunchFree3h agoAI
TechCrunchFreeby Anthony HaSun Oct 11, 12:52 PM ET
Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
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These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yetTechCrunchFree6h agoAI
TechCrunchFreeby Ivan MehtaSun Oct 11, 10:00 AM ET
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’TechCrunchFree22h agoAI
TechCrunchFreeby Anthony HaSat Oct 10, 5:47 PM ET
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
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Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AIThe VergeLimited2h agoNEWAI
The VergeLimitedby Terrence O’BrienSun Oct 11, 2:33 PM ET
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would…
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Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustratingThe VergeLimited9h agoAI
The VergeLimitedby Antonio G. Di BenedettoSun Oct 11, 7:00 AM ET
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a…
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Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’The VergeLimited22h agoAI
The VergeLimitedby Terrence O’BrienSat Oct 10, 6:10 PM ET
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we…
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Ars Technica

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PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023Ars TechnicaFreeOct 9
Ars TechnicaFreeby Scharon HardingFri Oct 9, 2:54 PM ET
PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
"The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
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Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large servicesArs TechnicaFreeOct 6
Ars TechnicaFreeby Dan GoodinTue Oct 6, 3:21 PM ET
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with trafficArs TechnicaFreeOct 6AI
Ars TechnicaFreeby Dan GoodinTue Oct 6, 8:21 AM ET
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
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Wired

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I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI PlaygroundWiredLimited9h agoAI
WiredLimitedby Boone AshworthSun Oct 11, 7:30 AM ET
I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
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AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With CybercriminalsWiredLimitedOct 10AI
WiredLimitedby Lily Hay Newman, Matt BurgessSat Oct 10, 8:00 AM ET
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are RevoltingWiredLimitedOct 9AI
WiredLimitedby Adam MorganFri Oct 9, 3:28 PM ET
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior…
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Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AIWiredLimitedOct 9AI
WiredLimitedby Ej DicksonFri Oct 9, 6:00 AM ET
Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.
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Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending SpreeWiredLimitedOct 8
WiredLimitedby Zoë Schiffer, Leah FeigerThu Oct 8, 5:14 PM ET
Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against…
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She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the HateWiredLimitedOct 8AI
WiredLimitedby Zoë SchifferThu Oct 8, 3:30 PM ET
She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.
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Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’WiredLimitedOct 8
WiredLimitedby Paresh DaveThu Oct 8, 5:30 AM ET
Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’
The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for…
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These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-OutWiredLimitedOct 7AI
WiredLimitedby Will KnightWed Oct 7, 2:45 PM ET
These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.
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The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than TellWiredLimitedOct 7AI
WiredLimitedby Reece RogersWed Oct 7, 2:00 PM ET
The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.
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MIT Technology Review

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We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say noMIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 9AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedby Arthur Holland MichelFri Oct 9, 5:00 AM ET
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us…
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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed VirusesMIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 8AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedThu Oct 8, 8:08 PM ET
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a…
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AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soonMIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 8AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedby Jamie CondliffeThu Oct 8, 5:00 AM ET
AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how…
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Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AIMIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 8AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedby MIT Technology Review InsightsThu Oct 8, 4:17 AM ET
Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI…
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Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledgeMIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 5AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedby MIT Technology Review InsightsMon Oct 5, 11:47 AM ET
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than…
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Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI eraMIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 5AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedby MIT Technology Review InsightsMon Oct 5, 9:29 AM ET
Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question…
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People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?MIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 5AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedby Will Douglas HeavenMon Oct 5, 4:00 AM ET
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream…
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EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets EverythingMIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 5AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedMon Oct 5, 12:00 AM ET
EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why…
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Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AIMIT Technology ReviewLimitedOct 2AI
MIT Technology ReviewLimitedby MIT Technology Review InsightsFri Oct 2, 11:49 AM ET
Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight.
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48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s nextTechCrunchFree1h agoNEW
TechCrunchFreeby TechCrunch EventsSun Oct 11, 3:00 PM ET
48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next
Less than 48 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your pass before prices increase at the door, plus get…
Open article at TechCrunch →
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AIThe VergeLimited2h agoNEWAI
The VergeLimitedby Terrence O’BrienSun Oct 11, 2:33 PM ET
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would…
Open article at The Verge →
Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?TechCrunchFree3h agoAI
TechCrunchFreeby Anthony HaSun Oct 11, 12:52 PM ET
Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
Open article at TechCrunch →
Xpeng Says It Can Quickly Adapt Car Autopilot Systems for EuropeBloombergPaid6h ago
BloombergPaidby Bloomberg NewsSun Oct 11, 10:31 AM ET
Xpeng Says It Can Quickly Adapt Car Autopilot Systems for Europe
Xpeng Inc. can rapidly adapt its advanced driver-assistance technology to European roads using relatively small amounts of data, allowing it to modify its…
Open article at Bloomberg →
AI’s quiet safety gatekeepers are stepping into the spotlightCNBCFree6h agoAI
CNBCFreeSun Oct 11, 10:08 AM ET
AI’s quiet safety gatekeepers are stepping into the spotlight
The intensifying AI safety debate is bringing a small group of third-party evaluators into the center of a multitrillion-dollar industry.
Open article at CNBC →
Is AI Crowding Everyone Else Out of the Bond Market?BloombergPaid6h agoAI
BloombergPaidSun Oct 11, 10:03 AM ET
Is AI Crowding Everyone Else Out of the Bond Market?
Hyperscalers, data centers and chip companies are borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to finance the AI buildout, turning the technology boom into one of…
Open article at Bloomberg →
Apple Smart Home Launch Oct. 13 Plans; HomeView Has Mid-November ReleaseBloombergPaid6h ago
BloombergPaidby Mark GurmanSun Oct 11, 10:00 AM ET
Apple Smart Home Launch Oct. 13 Plans; HomeView Has Mid-November Release
Fresh details on Apple’s HomeView, HomePod mini and new Apple TV, including release dates, colors, chips and features.
Open article at Bloomberg →
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yetTechCrunchFree6h agoAI
TechCrunchFreeby Ivan MehtaSun Oct 11, 10:00 AM ET
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
Open article at TechCrunch →
AI is automating coding. So why are software developer job postings on the rise?CNBCFree7h agoAI
CNBCFreeSun Oct 11, 9:30 AM ET
AI is automating coding. So why are software developer job postings on the rise?
Software developer job postings are rebounding, led by senior and AI-focused roles, even as AI automates more coding and entry-level hiring weakens.
Open article at CNBC →
I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI PlaygroundWiredLimited9h agoAI
WiredLimitedby Boone AshworthSun Oct 11, 7:30 AM ET
I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
Open article at Wired →
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustratingThe VergeLimited9h agoAI
The VergeLimitedby Antonio G. Di BenedettoSun Oct 11, 7:00 AM ET
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a…
Open article at The Verge →
AI may change the price of your Big Mac and groceries — what this means for shoppersCNBCFree15h agoAI
CNBCFreeSun Oct 11, 1:00 AM ET
AI may change the price of your Big Mac and groceries — what this means for shoppers
As retailers turn to AI tools to streamline operations, experts warn that collecting more detailed consumer data increases the risk of personalized pricing.
Open article at CNBC →
Apple Supplier Luxshare Expects No Material Impact From US ProbeBloombergPaid18h ago
BloombergPaidby Bloomberg NewsSat Oct 10, 10:38 PM ET
Apple Supplier Luxshare Expects No Material Impact From US Probe
Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare Precision Industry Co. is facing a US patent investigation into data-center power technologies following infringement allegations…
Open article at Bloomberg →
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’The VergeLimited22h agoAI
The VergeLimitedby Terrence O’BrienSat Oct 10, 6:10 PM ET
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we…
Open article at The Verge →
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’TechCrunchFree22h agoAI
TechCrunchFreeby Anthony HaSat Oct 10, 5:47 PM ET
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
Open article at TechCrunch →
Microsoft's Nadella says AI needs an ‘emergency brake’ that humans controlCNBCFree23h agoAI
CNBCFreeSat Oct 10, 4:59 PM ET
Microsoft's Nadella says AI needs an ‘emergency brake’ that humans control
Nadella joined other tech moguls and researchers in calling for stronger safeguards and, in some cases, for the pacing of frontier development.
Open article at CNBC →