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Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal : How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity   —  Chinese entrepreneur stirs controversy by amassing millions of IP addresses and leasing them to companies outside Africa; internet-service providers cry foul from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QzpB8LU via IFTTT

Richard Nieva / Forbes : Anthropic says over 60% of its business customers use more than one Claude product, a trend it began noticing after Claude Code's rise in popularity   —  Mike Krieger, who cofounded Instagram before joining Anthropic last year, wants the AI giant's Claude model to power workflows across entire companies. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/MkhOSQv via IFTTT

Cory Weinberg / The Information : Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins   —  Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi has been more vocal than other Silicon Valley executives about the dangers of an AI bubble. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/0lz1I4x via IFTTT

Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis : An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance   —  Potential End of the CUDA Moat?, Anthropic's 1GW+ TPU Purchase, The more (TPU) Meta/SSI/xAI/OAI/Anthro buy the more (GPU capex) … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/LCEUQuo via IFTTT

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative “off-label” uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more   —  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  —  In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/eRvzwPg via IFTTT

Abram Brown / The Information : A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels   —  “So here's a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Md2mzlI via IFTTT

Joan Verdon / Forbes : Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B   —  Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey.  —  Consumers spent record amounts online on Black Friday … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/9WgNmko via IFTTT

Nadeem Badshah / The Guardian : Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data   —  Immediate software change on ‘significant number’ of jets to result in disruption to half the worldwide fleet from Techmeme https://ift.tt/kqczQNu via IFTTT

David Streitfeld / New York Times : A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book Cyberselfish, warning about Silicon Valley's love for “techno-libertarianism”, finds a resurgence in interest   —  Even Silicon Valley dislikes Silicon Valley.  —  More than two-thirds of residents agreed in a 2024 poll … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/qQDbKBR via IFTTT

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024   —  Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/h9MYDpG via IFTTT

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters : SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher-margin opportunities ahead of a US listing   —  CoinShares filed on Friday to withdraw its plan to launch three exchange-traded funds, as the European cryptocurrency firm plans … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/eOSnBvk via IFTTT

Prime Intellect : Prime Intellect debuts INTELLECT-3, an RL-trained 106B parameter open source MOE model it claims outperforms larger models across math, code, science, reasoning   —  Today, we release INTELLECT-3, a 100B+ parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained on our RL stack, achieving state … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/WZmEPvk via IFTTT

Alex Forbes-Calvin / GamesIndustry.biz : Tim Sweeney says it “makes no sense” for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI “will be involved in nearly all future production”   —  “It makes no sense for game stores, where AI will be involved in nearly all future production.” from Techmeme https://ift.tt/LEeiaK7 via IFTTT

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg : Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May   —  Quantum Systems, a German drone maker backed by Peter Thiel, boosted its valuation to €3 billion ($3.5 billion) … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/IJdM45V via IFTTT

Wall Street Journal : Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems   —  The company's products have had breakdowns and safety issues, documents show  —  The Navy was attempting to launch and recover … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/jvxLgs8 via IFTTT

Blake Brittain / Reuters : The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor   —  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new guidelines on Wednesday outlining when inventions created with the help of artificial intelligence can be patented. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Pm4r9eo via IFTTT

Paresh Dave / Wired : Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents   —  Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/K4a9gqY via IFTTT

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal : Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July   —  The regulator began probing Meta over its WhatsApp AI messaging tool in July  —  Italy's competition regulator has broadened … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/hWgqJC8 via IFTTT

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg : In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military   —  The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Baidu Inc. and BYD Co. should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/B5pe4OK via IFTTT

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide : Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick   —  Warner Music Group and AI music generator Suno have struck what they call a “first-of-its-kind partnership”. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/x6SmLZV via IFTTT

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode   —  ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow.  The latest update to ChatGPT now combines voice mode with the main text mode by default. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/sK0yfpn via IFTTT

Ben Dickson / VentureBeat : Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry   —  Microsoft has introduced Fara-7B, a new 7-billion parameter model designed to act as a Computer Use Agent (CUA) capable of performing complex tasks directly on a user's device. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/7qn4Vsh via IFTTT

Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini   —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI released a shopping research feature in ChatGPT.  — The experience helps you find products and deals. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/eNQSD6O via IFTTT

Financial Times : Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents   —  AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots from Techmeme https://ift.tt/EmpbVPR via IFTTT

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed   —  Flexion, a startup that's “building the brain for humanoid and human-capable robots,” has raised $50 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/CYXH8cA via IFTTT