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A look at OpenAI's safety concerns over loop transformers before shipping its next major model; Microsoft accidentally confirmed GPT-6.1 Sol uses the technique (The Information)
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Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's motion for expedited discovery, ordering OpenAI to hand over forensic images of devices and other documents (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
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The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)
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Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30 (The San Francisco Standard)
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OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to understand the device (@openainewsroom)
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Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2.5K in May to 30K+ (Anthropic)
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A Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages after finding Arm breached its architectural license agreement and sought to disrupt Qualcomm's business (Tom Hals/Reuters)
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Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
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Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
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Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
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Meta expands its AI-powered "Your Algorithm" feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
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Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)
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Apple says HomeView's facial recognition works only if users have a "registered personal device" with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI on the same Wi-Fi network (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)