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Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees
The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.
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Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
Oracle's Second $20 Billion Financing Plan of 2026: The Leverage Cost Behind Its AI Bet
Oracle filed to raise $20 billion through common stock and senior notes for AI data centers, marking its second financing of the same size in 2026. The move, despite being pre-announced, renewed investor concerns about dilution, debt pressure, and the funding gap behind its aggressive AI buildout.
Anthropic’s Nearly $900 Billion Compute Bill: A Bet Seven Times Its Cash and Three Hidden Risks
Anthropic’s amended S-1 discloses about $895.4 billion in cumulative compute commitments, 6.8 times its cash and short-term investments. The filing also reveals a sharp quarterly profit swing, a concentrated supplier matrix, and revenue and compliance risks that will test whether the bet pays off.
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Coming in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights
Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
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New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
GPT-5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Luna, and GPT-6 Sol Tie for First at 87.27: 2026-11-03 Smoke Quick-Test Data Brief
On 2026-11-03, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with GPT-5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Luna, and GPT-6 Sol tied for first at 87.27. The Smoke test uses 10 questions per day and is suitable for observing short-term signals, not for drawing Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
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Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs
Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
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42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’
Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?
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Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do even more, by automating entire workflows and taking actions based on agent insights. But there is a problem: The quality of insights that agents currently generate…
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Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.
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Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition
Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
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The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The agentic web is here In 2001, a decade after inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision: an internet navigated by autonomous software agents that address our…
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Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships
When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat prompt. The more useful the agent becomes, the more calls…
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OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s chat and Work tabs
OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change.
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2 days till TechCrunch Founder Summit: Boston founders don’t need a Silicon Valley address to build something big
TechCrunch Founder Summit happens on November 4 in Boston for a founder-focused agenda and impactful connections. Save up to $100 or get discounts with group passes.
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When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web
Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.
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The agentic web is here
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the “Semantic Web”: an internet designed to be navigated by autonomous software agents that could address our every…
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Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.
Google's Most Powerful Model Gemini 4 Carbon: Shield First, Commerce Later—Analyzing the Security Moat Logic
Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with 59 points, surpassing Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, while granting first access exclusively to vetted cybersecurity defenders rather than developers or enterprise users. The move reflects a strategy of collecting expert feedback in its most competitive capability domain and securing real-world validation before expanding horizontally.