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ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation

Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple

University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk

Perplexity launches AI agents for work

ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card

Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity

Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs

Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign

FAA begins retiring decades old floppy disks from air traffic control

Anthropic IPO valuation talks drop to $1.3T

The company is obviously busy building out the user experience around the agents. Spaces is actually the second new Muse feature that Meta has debuted over the last week. On Thursday, the company also announced Muse Voice, which allows users to video chat with their agent and give it commands verbally. The company is in competition with other cute and cuddly AI agents — including OpenAI’s dots an

Amazon is jumping on the currently most popular bandwagon for interacting with AI agents: texting. The company on Friday said it is launching a feature that lets customers chat with its Alexa AI agent over text messages to help them shop, much like you can with AI agents like Muse or Instinct. The move comes after Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse from querying its site in September. The company is roll

# China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang Nvidia’s CEO is reportedly the target of a ‘Chinese spy plot’ for intelligence on American AI chips. Nvidia’s CEO is reportedly the target of a ‘Chinese spy plot’ for intelligence on American AI chips. [...] China’s intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York

OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion in a new round of funding that has raised another $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would make it one of the world’s most valuable companies, not long after raising $122 billion from investors in March at a valuation of $852 billion. [...] Echoing FT and Wall Street Journal reports from last week, Bloomberg says OpenAI is still pursuing additional inv

# Fox completes its $22B acquisition of Roku. Fox has completed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku, wrapping up one of the biggest media deals in recent years and giving the company a major boost in the streaming and connected TV space. Announced Friday, the deal brings the streaming company founded in 2002 formally under Fox’s ownership. Fox says the combined company now ranks as the third-large

An infant in Wisconsin has died of measles, the first measles death in the state since 1990, officials reported Thursday. “Any death of a child is a tragedy, and even more so when it is related to a vaccine-preventable disease,” Wisconsin Health Secretary Kirsten Johnson said in a statement. The baby’s death is the third measles fatality nationally just this week, following the death of a New York

# Meta’s Muse AI can create custom ‘spaces’ for the version of the app you need right now. You can create things like a shopping hub, school dashboard, or music tracker directly within Muse. The new feature, called “spaces,” allows its AI assistant to build things like a shopping hub, school dashboard, music tracker, trivia game, and more, which you can interact with directly in the Muse app. Meta

On the other end, some researchers and startups are creating smaller models that can run on edge devices, like your phone or computer. One such startup, Underdog, has released a game built with its new voice model called Woof that’s only 32MB large. The game features a room with a retro tech theme, a typewriter, and a CRT monitor. You can interact with the typewriter and music tuner. Sigil Wen, th

The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and Anthony Ha discuss what the election will mean for the tech industry moving forward — not just when it comes to data centers (which OpenAI is already

Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access, potentially allowing outsiders to launch cyberattacks against unsuspecting targets. The hacking software, called Artex, is an open-source autonomous penetration testing tool, meaning software that automatically probes computer systems for weaknesses, and

Companies are using more AI than ever, but they’re not spending more on it. A new report from Ramp shows AI spending flatlined over late summer even as token volumes rose, a sign that price competition and savvier customers may be capping revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. Kharazian said he’s already seeing evidence that the top 1% of firms — the most “AI-pilled” — have stuttered slightly in their

# OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation. OpenAI has reportedly raised $11 billion so far in a new funding round that values the AI lab at $1.25 trillion. The $11 billion is part of a larger funding round that hasn’t closed yet, according to the outlet. The round is expected to close in the coming weeks and could total about $20 billion, a source told Bloo

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DeepMind AI Agents Find 2 Weaknesses in Legacy 1024-Bit RSA - FourWeekMBA

Google DeepMind finds 1,600x faster way to expose encryption flaws - Interesting Engineering

Google DeepMind adds drug discovery tools to Antigravity - MobiHealthNews

Generative AI as Siren Servers - Substack

My local LLM turns my voice notes into to-do items automatically, and nothing falls through the cracks - XDA

Building an LLM-Powered Content Moderation Bot in the Classroom - - Political Science Now

How training approaches have shaped the evolution of large language models - sociable.co

AI is the new dating dealbreaker - The Verge

If I Could Buy and Hold Only 1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Through a Democratic Congress, It Would Be This One - Yahoo Finance

Fearing AI disruption, white-collar workers are quitting their jobs - The Guardian

After a $2.5 Trillion Wipeout, Tech Investors Brace for More Pain - The New York Times

AI stocks bounce back after trillions wiped from market values - BBC

AI-powered fitness uses adaptive technology to support healthy aging - 6abc Philadelphia