DeepSeek open-sourced its inference engine, a consequential new option for serving open models.
Leaked documents describe ECHOTRIBBLE, a US Army program for agentic AI to move through networks and eliminate targets.
Sam Biddle / The Intercept : Leaked documents detail ECHOTRIBBLE, a nascent US Army Cyber Command program for agentic AI to autonomously spread across networks to find and eliminate targets — Documents obtained by The Intercept show the military is trying to deploy autonomous AI agents to hack its adversaries.
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent reportedly ordered 3M+ export-compliant Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 GPUs worth over $35B.
Reuters : Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent ordered 3M+ of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 GPUs worth $35B+, in a rush to secure less powerful, export-compliant chips — ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards with a collective sticker price …
OpenAI reports major new-model gains on legacy languages including COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic.
OpenAI : OpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments — Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.
Inception launched Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM claiming faster agentic performance than frontier small models.
Jason Hiner / The Deep View : Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster — W — hile the AI industry has bet heavily on LLMs and the massive data centers needed to scale them, one of the neolabs betting …
Google Research released Harness2, a framework for recursive agent harnessing.
Cloudflare introduced Clairic, System One extraction models for structured information tasks.
ProjectDiscovery shows how safety-abliterated models can turn malicious prompts into practical compromise paths.
RuneScape Bench introduces MMO gameplay as an environment for evaluating AI agents.
Maxwell presents a model architecture positioned between software code and hardware design.
Laminar launched an RL-trained model designed to identify errors in agent execution traces.
OpenAI is reportedly seeking a $30B round at a $1.4T+ valuation ahead of Anthropic's planned IPO.
Reuters : Sources: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's planned IPO in mid-November, aiming to raise ~$30B; the round may value it at $1.4T+ — OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before rival Anthropic's expected public market debut in mid-November …
The WSJ examines an obscure trust that could complicate Anthropic's planned IPO.
US civilian agencies were reportedly ordered to remove DeepSeek and tools built atop it.
The US sanctioned Chinese VC MiraclePlus over alleged links to a firm accused of stealing Google's AI secrets.
Bloomberg : The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft executive Lu Qi, over alleged ties to Zhisuan, accused of stealing Google's AI secrets — Washington has blacklisted a Chinese venture firm established by ex-Microsoft Corp. AI scientist Lu Qi for alleged ties …
Netflix details its ontology-driven observability knowledge graph spanning end-to-end operations.
Harness Engineering 101 argues that agent reliability depends on the surrounding harness, not just the LLM.
A technical explainer derives why speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference.
Go will reject certificate chains containing eight newly distrusted SPKIs.
Plex vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to deploy a cryptominer.
IPinfo found French supermarket refrigerators exposed online for months.
Amazon pledged over €16B for Germany in 2027, including AWS and AI data centers.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 on AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite program, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab — Amazon.com Inc. said it will invest more than €16 billion ($17.9 billion) next year in Germany for operations including data centers …
Chinese autonomous-delivery maker Neolix raised $400M and says it operates 30,000+ vehicles globally.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Chinese robovan maker Neolix raised a $400M Series E led by Boyu, taking total funding to $1.4B+; it operates 30K+ vehicles in 300+ cities across 20 countries — Neolix Technologies Co., a Chinese maker of driverless delivery vehicles, raised $400 million to fuel its global expansion.
Australia plans suits against major platforms over alleged breaches of its under-16 social-media ban.
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg : An Australian minister says the eSafety Commissioner plans to sue Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube over alleged breaches of the under-16 social media ban — Australia to Sue Social Media Firms on Alleged Breaches — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 100.00% Playback Rate
An investigation analyzes 421,179 hacked AfD emails and what they reveal about Germany's far right.
Reuters reports European EV sales rose 70.3% year over year in September to 32.6% market share.
Nature reports research on restoring retinal regenerative potential.
OpenBSD 8.0 will import Intel, Radeon and AMD GPU drivers from Linux 6.18.
One Hash Bloom Filters presents a space-efficient Bloom-filter construction using one hash.
A developer documents building an ad-free Android TV setup.
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch : Estonia-based web traffic security company Blackwall raised a $100M Series C led by AVP at a $2.2B valuation, after raising a $49.2M Series B in March 2025 — Estonia-based Blackwall, which builds web traffic security tools for hosting providers, said on Tuesday that it has raised $100 million at a $2.2 billion valuation.
Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center : Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020; 39% of those aged 18 to 29 and 25% of those aged 30 to 49 do so regularly — TikTok is primarily known for short-form video sharing, but it has also become a common place for many people to get news.
Luke Kehoe / Ookla : Analysis: London fell from 7th to last place out of 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed from 2021 to 2026; 5G adoption has outrun 5G capacity — London has slipped from seventh to last among 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed since 2021.
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal : Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCash, rose as much as 2.4% in Manila after raising $841M in the Philippines' largest-ever IPO, valuing it at ~$7B — The fintech company raised over $841 million from its IPO — A financial-technology company backed by Ant International climbed …
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer : Mercury CEO Immad Akhund says the fintech hit $1B in annualized revenue, up ~50% YoY, now has 450K+ customers, and is launching a payroll service — I sat down with Mercury CEO Immad Akhund — We just published my conversation with Mercury CEO Immad Akhund on the Newcomer Podcast.
Bloomberg : Korean data-center company Elice falls 30%+ in Kosdaq trading debut; sources: Australian data center operator AirTrunk delays real estate investment trust IPO — Shares of data-center infrastructure company Elice Inc. plunged in their trading debut, underscoring lingering concerns about whether …