Anthropic analyzes GLM-5.3’s role in spreading advanced cyber capabilities.
DeepSeek and Huawei partner on Ascend programming tools, including the open-source CUDA alternative TileLang.
Reuters : DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative — Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said on Wednesday it has partnered with Huawei Technologies to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips …
NYT reports Meta is claiming AI data centers as experimental facilities to secure tax credits and write off Nvidia chips.
New York Times : 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 — Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors.
Goldman estimates AI-linked groups have raised about $500B in financing during 2026.
Financial Times : 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 — The sector's huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money.
OpenAI- and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on US midterms while largely avoiding AI messaging.
New York Times : 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 — See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress. — Leading the
Casey Newton tests Dots, OpenAI’s work-focused agentic product embedded as a ChatGPT conversation.
Casey Newton / Platformer : Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT — With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
ModelScope and MoArk compete to become China’s Hugging Face alternatives, with 170K+ and roughly 20K hosted models.
Viola Zhou / Rest of World : 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 — AI model platforms ModelScope and MoArk are competing to serve Chinese-speaking developers behind the Great Firewall.
Book excerpt revisits the Altman–Amodei feud and OpenAI founders’ 2017 proposal to auction future AGI rights to states.
Kevin Roose / The Atlantic : 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 — A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it. — Being in San Francisco …
PaleBlueDot AI seeks $600M in private credit for Korean chips intended to serve Xiaohongshu.
Megawati Wijaya / Bloomberg : 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 — US-based PaleBlueDot AI is in talks with potential lenders including Brookfield Asset Management for $600 million of private credit …
OpenAI’s help center details the new ChatGPT Pro 500 offering.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will delay an IPO until it can make confident model-safety claims.
Hayden Field / The Verge : 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” — The OpenAI CEO said he didn't want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. … For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public.
Financial Times examines Singapore’s chipmaking expansion amid AI demand, land and labor limits, and US scrutiny.
Owen Walker / Financial Times : 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 — City-state's economy is getting an AI uplift but costs and labour are constraints to its industrial growth
RFK Jr. says AI can provide better-informed medical second opinions than any doctor in the country.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times : US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country” and “free us from medical tyranny” — The health secretary, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials addressed a conference sponsored by corporations …
Jeeves presents reasoning improvements for Jev-like decision models in an open-source implementation.
PSSA implements a non-transformer language model from scratch in Rust.
Cloudflare explains how it is building a certificate authority intended for the whole Internet.
GE Vernova reports the NRC’s first US construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor.
Backblaze publishes its Q2 2026 fleet reliability statistics across hard-drive models.
Tcl/Tk 9.1 is released, a major update to the longstanding scripting language and GUI toolkit.
Mozilla unveils Firefox’s new design.
The Register reports Google is ending ChromeOS support two years earlier than expected.
Armin Ronacher proposes Deser, a rethinking of Rust serialization.
Matt Keeter shows how Facet tests WebGPU data layouts.
NAND-16 documents a computer constructed from 277,248 individual NAND gates.
An interactive real-time solar-system model renders 526,000 asteroids and all tracked satellites.
NSL offers a WSL-like environment for running Linux workflows.
A Show HN project uses DFT and dithering techniques to maximize manga image quality on e-ink.
Jevstiller distills Jev into a local model while providing a disagreement bound.
Pi.dev examines the claim that its approach avoids MCP.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : 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 — Vishal Sankhla led product at a digital life insurance distributor Ethos before it went public earlier this year.
Financial Times : 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 — Kospi tumbled almost a fifth in three months to September after July sell-off but is still up 60% this year
Dhruv Mohan / The Economic Times : Apple launches Apple Pay in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Watch — Apple Pay has finally launched in India, more than a decade after its US debut. The service is initially available on iPhone …
Brandon Pho / Mission Local : A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025 — In a hot and dry border town at the base of California's Imperial Valley, the list of powerful alumni at Calexico High School is short.