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Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, report says
The new report says the AI lab will likely qualify for a high junk rating.
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Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
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Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
OpenAI Commits to Honoring Shared robots.txt Signal, Letting Websites Express Training Preferences to Multiple AI Providers Uniformly
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal, __usage_ai-training, that lets websites communicate AI training preferences to participating providers. Google plans to support the same proposal in early 2027.
OpenAI Releases Semi-Annual Safety Report Update; Q3 Law Enforcement Referrals Top 200
OpenAI said it will update its community safety report every six months, with the first edition planned for early 2027. The company disclosed more than 200 law enforcement referrals in Q3 2026 and outlined tighter restrictions on violent content and protections for teens.
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Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Leads with 90.36: 2026-10-31 Smoke Rapid Test Data Brief
The 2026-10-31 YZ Index Smoke rapid test covers 14 models, with Gemini 3.1 Pro taking first place at 90.36. Because Smoke is a small daily sample, the results are best treated as short-term monitoring signals rather than final capability conclusions.
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Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.
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Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
The first TPU in space is a running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
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Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.
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Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
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Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.
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DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers
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The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals
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. Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse. GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinicians, they can…
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Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out
Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
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Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new report suggests that the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up between 1990 and 2023—by a whopping 71%. By 2023,…
GHC Adopts LLM-Assisted Contribution Policy, Requiring Human Authors to Explain Every Line of Code
GHC has adopted a policy that permits LLM-assisted code contributions while requiring human authors to explain every line of code and documentation and to take full responsibility. The policy emphasizes human-led review, disclosure, and reducing maintainer burden by raising contributors' upfront effort.
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You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.