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Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it could use data shared via Personal Intelligence from connected apps, including Gmail and Photos, to target ads (Shimul Sood/Android Authority)
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Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is "largely sold out" and a "good chunk" of 2028 capacity is also sold, though AWS reserves some capacity for on-demand (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
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The UK plans to invest ÂŁ100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind (Liv McMahon/BBC)
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OpenAI says it built an "offline world" from cached web content to train isolated frontier models to browse, search for information, and use web apps (OpenAI)
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Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
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Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
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Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber; CART jumps 9%+ (The Information)
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OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignment, monitoring, and security safeguards are established (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro "to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness" (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
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Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max) (@artificialanlys)
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Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline (Minsoo Kang/Counterpoint Research)
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Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again (Reuters)
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Moonshot unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by Nov. 4 (Kimi)
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Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so (Anthropic)