ArsTechnica
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Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
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Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
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150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
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Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
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Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets
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VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent
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Just like a fruit fly, a new algorithm never forgets old scents
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Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
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Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn
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Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
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Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
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FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking
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Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design
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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks
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Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing
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US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case
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Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84
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The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones
Techmeme
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Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating (Bloomberg)
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Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (Axios)
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Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)
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Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world (Sam Sabin/Axios)
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Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform (Bloomberg)
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GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8% (Greg Kamradt/ARC Prize)
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DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
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A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance (Politico)
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Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
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OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas (Ina Fried/Axios)
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OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the "world's best computer use model"; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched job listings faster than the average person (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 (The Deep View)
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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a "generational leap" and "we are now in the AGI era" (Hayden Field/The Verge)
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Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the $50B+ valuation it sought last year (The Information)