Cloudflare discloses cross-request KV-cache exposure in Workers AI’s GLM-5.3 model, affecting 155 responses.
Nvidia expands its Meta partnership, backs Meta’s equity raise with $3B, and adds Vera Rubin deployments.
Wall Street Journal : Nvidia and Meta expand their Muse partnership, including Meta deploying more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs; Nvidia will invest $3B in Meta's planned equity fundraise — Investment comes as Facebook's parent seeks up to $95 billion via stock offerings — Nvidia and Meta Platforms are expanding …
Intel agrees to acquire quantum-software startup Classiq, which had raised more than $200M.
Ian King / Bloomberg : Intel agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Classiq; Classiq has raised more than $200M in funding and has about 130 employees — Intel Corp. agreed to buy Israeli startup Classiq Technologies Ltd. as part of a push to capitalize on quantum computing, a still-nascent field that is seeking commercial applications.
Microsoft patches an Android Authenticator flaw that let untrusted apps impersonate Microsoft apps for delegated tokens.
Abinaya / Cyber Security News : Microsoft patches a severe flaw in its Android Authenticator app that could let untrusted apps impersonate Microsoft apps and obtain delegated account tokens — Microsoft patched high-severity flaw CVE-2026-80097 (CVSS 8.6) in Authenticator for Android, allowing malicious apps …
UK law-enforcement AI startup 22one reportedly reaches a nearly $400M valuation with Sequoia and Lux backing.
Financial Times : Sources: UK stealth AI startup 22one, which is building law enforcement tools, hit a nearly $400M valuation after raising funds from Sequoia, Lux, and others — Steven Richardson has raised funds from investors including Sequoia for company providing tools for police forces
Brown profiles a student’s mapping of the hidden global labor force used to train and operate AI systems.
Ubicloud details a fix for tool-call accuracy in vLLM, a key reliability problem for agentic inference.
Type Server Protocol proposes a GitHub-hosted protocol for communicating type information across tooling.
A hands-on implementation brings SIMD-accelerated computer vision to a $2 microcontroller.
Entire introduces a Git forge designed around collaboration between coding agents and human developers.
Hob is an open-source, on-device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT.
ChatGPT now renders election-interference and voter-suppression imagery as cartoons rather than photorealism.
Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET : Ahead of US midterms, ChatGPT draws images “depicting election interference or that may discourage voting” in a cartoon style, ignoring photorealism requests — ChatGPT is cracking down on photorealistic, political deepfakes ahead of next week's US midterm elections. — Reporter 2
Proton reportedly plans AI-focused re-interviews of staff to determine who keeps their jobs.
Microsoft reportedly offers voluntary buyouts to roughly a quarter of its workforce.
Stalwart ships version 1.0 of its mail server, positioning it as a high-performance modern alternative.
The American Photonic Council launches standards work intended to speed photonics manufacturing.
The US designates helium a critical material, elevating a vital input for semiconductors, research, and cooling.
Apple announces a new iPad mini.
The DOJ argues presidents should be able to sell classified secrets, a consequential claim about executive power.
A federal judge halts a Pentagon ban targeting companies that lobby for Alibaba.
Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg : A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt a ban prohibiting the Pentagon from doing business with companies lobbying for Alibaba — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. won a US court ruling in its challenge to a Department of Defense blacklist, testing Washington's ability to curtail Chinese companies' activities.
NBC reports more than $100M in US data-center freight has been stolen since June.
Lisa Cavazuti / NBC News : Experts: since June, $100M+ in US data center freight has been stolen; in two successful heists, robbers struck escorts protecting trucks hauling $10M+ in goods — Trucking, supply chain and security industry veterans detailed to NBC News how thieves staged dramatic robberies as part of the growing theft of tech equipment.
The NBA partners with Kalshi and Polymarket, bringing prediction markets into a major US sports league.
An AI-era reassessment of The Mythical Man-Month examines whether agents change Brooks’s software-management lessons.
Murat Buffa revisits John Backus’s critique of abstraction and its relevance to modern programming.
A GitHub project runs 16-bit Windows releases, including Windows 1.x through 3.1, on 64-bit Windows.
A practitioner explains why they still teach OpenGL ES 3.0 despite modern graphics APIs.
A compact 64K Lisp system demonstrates how much language tooling fits in extremely constrained memory.
A practical write-up on Pratt parsing documents the technique through an implementer’s lens.
LimonOS is a custom x86-64 kernel project published with its source on GitHub.
Encarta 95 Web recreates Microsoft’s classic multimedia encyclopedia for the browser.
Financial Times : S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability — Prospectus details AI lab's ‘mission’, $800bn data centre commitments and extraordinary governance structure
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan held 11th-hour talks and agreed to higher rates and loan guarantees to secure bank participation in the $63B Anthropic debt deal — The deal, announced on Monday, is the biggest ever to raise money for AI infrastructure — Hock Tan was running out of patience.
Reuters : China's Star 50 index of AI and chip leaders is down by 40% in under four months, losing ~$480B in market value; chipmaker CXMT is down ~25% in the past month — While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker : Fitbit Edge review: notable upgrade over the Charge 6 for GPS and heart rate and Google Health app is an improvement, but lacks software polish and NFC payments — The Fitbit Edge could most easily be called the Fitbit Charge 7, but sometimes switching things up is a good refresh for companies and brands, and so here we are.
OpenAI : OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false — We are announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics about harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg : Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle — Chipmaker Broadcom Inc. has arranged a $63 billion deal with Bank of America Corp., Blackstone Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley …
Anna Tong / Forbes : Anthropic's IPO outlines an unusual succession plan: confidential, ranked lists of up to 10 successors per co-founder, subject to approval from five co-founders — Anthropic's IPO includes a private line of succession: confidential lists of would-be heirs to its founders' voting power …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg : Sources: Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments startup RedotPay plans a US IPO filing by year-end and is in talks for a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation — Crypto firm Redotpay is considering filing confidentially for a US initial public offering by year-end, according to people familiar …