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 Artificial Intelligence
80m ago: Open-weight frontier models surge with Mistral Large 4 (~1T params, 49B active) in API preview and Reflection AI Beam (501B MoE) claiming parity with Chinese models at lower cost. Pretraining compute share drops to 7% as post-training/RL dominates. Infrastructure investments accelerate in Indonesia ($3.1B for 100MW+ AI centers) and India/Malaysia. Regulatory focus includes EU AI Act watermarking, Anthropic's cyber verification program, and U.S. Super Intelligence Force task force.

 Samsung Expects Nearly Ninefold Profit Jump  - Samsung guidance projects nearly ninefold rise in third-quarter profit from a year earlier, amid worldwide memory shortages

 Breaking the AI Infrastructure Power Wall: From Grid to xPU  - Register now for our webinar to discover how Navitas 2.0 is revolutionizing AI infrastructure power delivery. The post Breaking the AI Infrastructure Power Wall: From Grid to xPU appeared first on EE Times .

 Kioxia LD4 E1.L QLC NVMe SSD Announced  - The Kioxia LD4 is a higher-capacity E1.L NVMe SSD designed to cram a lot of sorage while taking a minimal amount of faceplate area The post Kioxia LD4 E1.L QLC NVMe SSD Announced appeared first on ServeTheHome .

 Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop Ultra, Surface RTX Spark Dev Box  - Microsoft today launched its first two NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered systems, the Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev box. Aimed at developers and other professionals, the high-end systems offer a fresh face to NVIDIA and Microsoft's Arm ecosystem efforts The post Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop...

 Caller ID in the age of agents  - Introducing fleming-1, Sierra’s own model for detecting when the caller on a phone call is another agent.

 Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWS  - The fastest model in the Claude 5.5 family handles subagents and high-volume work at scale—now on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS.

 Spiking neural network learns to predict what will happen, when, and how likely it is  - Imagine hearing a familiar sound and expecting something to happen. Before the event arrives, the brain can predict what it will be, when it will occur and how likely it is. Yet computational models often treat these questions ...

 The Sixth Voice of the CISO Data Shows Cyber Risk Has Moved Inside the Workflow  - The 2026 findings are not just a year-over-year shift. They mark the latest point in a five-year arc where resilience, AI governance, human risk, and board scrutiny are converging inside the systems where work actually happens. For years, the enterprise cybersecurity story has been told as a straight...

 10/6: Le Chonk  - Anthropic is expanding its Cyber Verification Program, DeepSeek is looking to raise $12 billion, Moonshot is preparing for an early 2027 IPO, and OpenAI supports a mandatory data breach reporting law

 US, China, EU: Three paths to regulating AI  - The United States, China and the European Union are taking different paths to govern artificial intelligence, as calls grow worldwide to rein in its most powerful systems.

 Axelera AI: Data Center Inference Performance in the Power Envelope of Embedded Systems  - Axelera’s Europa brings 629 TOPS inference to 35W edge systems while Voyager cuts toolchain lock-in. The post Axelera AI: Data Center Inference Performance in the Power Envelope of Embedded Systems appeared first on EE Times .

 The Agentic Data Toll  - Agents need warm data, and the companies that own the systems of record have started to charge for access

 The Sierra partner ecosystem  - Today we’re introducing Sierra’s partner ecosystem: the technology platforms, marketplaces, and service partners bringing Sierra to more businesses worldwide.

 Meeting For Cheshire Green Belt Data Centre Sees Large Turnout  - More than 100 attend meeting held by Innova to discuss plans for 148-acre data centre complex in green belt area near Manchester

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2h: YYForce Expands 24iFM With Services Marketplace and Lifestyle Advertising

2¼h: US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft

2½h: Can AWS Transform Make NetApp (NTAP) the Default Storage Landing Zone in the Cloud?

2¾h: Google Workspace Gets AI Agents. What It Means for Alphabet Stock.

3h: Exclusive: Moomoo adds 24\/7 Apple Pay, Google Pay deposits via Visa, Checkout.com

3¼h: Oracle Insider Buys $3.5 Million in Stock Amid OpenAI Swings

3½h: Stuut’s $52.5M Series B Shows Microsoft Betting the Agent Economy’s Revenue Layer Is Already Here

3¾h: Market Chatter: Oracle Exploring Trucking Natural Gas to Project Jupiter in New Mexico

4h: Nvidia Stock Drops, but a Big Options Trade Bet Suggests It Could Go Higher

4h: What does Amazon's 'About You' feature say about your spending habits?

4¼h: Is Pepsi earnings setting off alarm bells? Putting in the extra work to be AI literate

4¼h: US freezes Microsoft green card program; Vance: 'You've got to hire American workers'

4¼h: Large-Cap Tech Still Leads as Apple and Amazon Eye Further Gains

4¼h: Oracle stock falls on more debt to fund AI chip buying, Open AI revenue disclosure

4¼h: Oracle stock falls on more debt to fund AI chip buying, OpenAI revenue disclosure

4¼h: Jeff Bezos issues blunt housing warning to young Americans: Don’t blame ‘greedy landlords’ — here’s his solution

4¼h: OpenAI Annualized Revenue $20 Billion Short, Says Report. AI Stocks Fall.

4¼h: Trump bars Microsoft from US green card scheme

4½h: Why Microsoft’s H-1B Issues Are Sending Infosys Stock to Near a Six-Year Low

4½h: Sector Update: Tech Stocks Fall Thursday Afternoon

 Nebius achieves NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud on NVIDIA HGX B300 for training workloads  - Nebius has achieved NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud on NVIDIA HGX B300 for training workloads, adding to existing Exemplar recognition on NVIDIA H200 and GB300 NVL72. The validation reflects ongoing engineering collaboration with NVIDIA to test and optimize production infrastructure for demanding AI training workloads....

 How AWS is helping companies build physical AI machines that think  - Amazon launched the Physical AI Toolchain on AWS, an open-source stack that helps manufacturers build machines that perceive, reason, and act in the real world.

 How Glean ensures skills stay secure and permissions aware  - Discover how Glean helps enterprises bring skills into everyday work by ensuring they're always within company security and governance controls.

 Tensorlake npm Package Compromised to Deliver Shai-Hulud Credential-Stealing Worm  - The npm package known as " tensorlake ," a TypeScript software development kit (SDK) for Tensorlake applications, sandboxes, and cloud services, was compromised as part of a ChainDrop / Shai-Hulud supply chain attack. The malicious version 0.5.144 "contains obfuscated malware that harvests credentials,...

 Singapore’s central bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review  - Failures of third-party services no excuse for island nation’s financial sector

 AI behaves more like a brain than a database—cognitive science's role in its origin story helps explain why  - When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it's common to reach for the language of computing. You might assume there is a database or a logical series of steps being ...

 CoreWeave Direct-to-Expert: Work With the Engineers Who Built CoreWeave Cloud  - CoreWeave Direct-to-Expert brings your team expert assistance in minutes from the engineers who built CoreWeave Cloud, via the channels you’re already using.

 CoreWeave Enters India, Expanding AI Cloud Platform With AdaniConneX  - CoreWeave enters India with AdaniConneX, planning a 240 MW deployment in Navi Mumbai to bring its purpose-built AI Cloud closer to customers.

 Introducing Mistral Large 4  - October 6, 2026

 Memory and dreaming: how Devin learns from working with you  - Memory lets Devin carry useful learnings about the way you like to work across sessions. Dreaming is a daily asynchronous process that improves the index of Devin's memories about you.

 Gigabyte W775-V10-L01 Hands-on Bringing NVIDIA GB300 Deskside  - We test the Gigabyte W775-V10-L01, including getting over 2.2B tokens/ day on the Blackwell Ultra GPU, 800Gbps from the ConnectX-8 SuperNIC, and testing the NVIDIA Grace CPU with the C2C link between it and the GPU The post Gigabyte W775-V10-L01 Hands-on Bringing NVIDIA GB300 Deskside appeared first on...

 France's Mistral unveils latest model in sovereign AI push  - French AI startup Mistral announced Tuesday its biggest open-weight model, dubbed "Chonk," claiming enhanced performance and security capabilities for clients seeking to keep their data private instead of relying on closed ...

 Bet on Bits, Part 2: What the Memory Stocks Are Pricing  - Our memory floor work turned into a valuation question. Micron, SK hynix, and Samsung trade at similar peak-cycle multiples, and those multiples imply very different downturns once they are set agains

 There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero  - The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work

 Biosecurity in the Age of AI: Q&A with Steph Guerra  - The question that drives Steph Guerra's work at RAND may be one of the most consequential for this moment in the AI era: How can we harness the full potential of AI for science and medicine—but also ensure it never helps anyone build a biological weapon?

 'Make this face look gay': AI models alter faces to give people stereotypical 'gay,' 'straight' or 'criminal' features  - Ask an artificial intelligence model whether a face looks gay or straight and it will refuse to answer. But ask it to alter a person's photo to make them look gay or straight—or criminal—and it often will, using stereotypical ...

 AI startup Manus raises $500 million after Meta acquisition blocked by China  - AI startup Manus, whose acquisition by Meta was blocked by the Chinese government, said Thursday it had completed a funding round that raised more than $500 million.

 10/7: Claude Haiku 5.5  - Welcome back, monitors.

 Can AI Be Trusted? Synopsys on Agentic AI and Autonomous Engineering  - See how Synopsys uses agentic AI to orchestrate trusted EDA tools for precise, explainable chip design, and faster engineering workflows. The post Can AI Be Trusted? Synopsys on Agentic AI and Autonomous Engineering appeared first on EE Times .

 How and why we built Managed PostgreSQL for AI workloads  - The team behind Nebius Managed PostgreSQL explains how and why it was built specifically for AI workloads.

 Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games  - Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.

 Expanding our enterprise inference capacity with IBM Cloud and NVIDIA  - Enterprises can now run open models at production scale on a dedicated B300 inference cluster, built by Together AI, IBM Cloud, and NVIDIA

 DeepL Voice named to Fast Company’s 2026 Next Big Things in Tech list  - Recognition highlights DeepL’s breakthrough voice-to-voice AI translation technology and its impact on how people communicate and work across languages in real time

 Fake ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude Ad Portals Capture Credentials and MFA Codes  - Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "human-operated phishing platform" that impersonates advertising products for artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta Muse, and Manus. The products, which claim to offer campaign...