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Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.
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The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech’s blind spots
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. Are we there yet? A reality check on six big tech promises Some seemingly impossible feats are too good to give up on. Decoding a pet’s yowls and yips? Absolutely. Scrubbing…
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In the biotech world, you can’t see everything
Earlier this week, I attended a screening of You Can See Everything, the buzzy new documentary about the disgraced former biotech CEO Elizabeth Holmes.  I went in not really knowing what to expect. I’d avoided spoilers (and won’t be giving anything away here, either!). I was wondering what new information this film could reveal, given…
Five Major US Banks Block Unauthorized AI Agents as Risks of Fund Transfers from Customer Accounts Come into Focus
JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo have detected unauthorized third-party AI agents entering customer accounts, with some initiating fund transfers and contacting customer service centers. The banks are restricting access and reassessing authorization and liability controls for automated agents.
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Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
ChatGPT Ads Hit $1 Billion Annualized Revenue in 200 Days, Advertisers Grow Fivefold in Two Months
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Ads platform reached $1 billion in annualized revenue in under 200 days and grew from about 20,000 advertisers in August to more than 100,000 by its October 21, 2026, announcement. The platform is also expanding to 89 countries, extending a model that turns free-user conversations into ad inventory.
LiteLLM v1.107.0 Supply Chain Attack Exposed: Two Intrusions Highlight Maintainer Account Risks
A malicious LiteLLM v1.107.0 package and Docker images exposed a supply chain attack that stole AI and cloud credentials. The incident, the second this year, used stolen maintainer GitHub OAuth tokens and highlights risks around maintainer accounts.
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Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Anthropic and Theorem Partner: Claude First to Prove Zero Crashes in RISC-V Assembly Across 123 Libraries
Anthropic and Theorem announced that Claude generated roughly 180 million lines of Rocq proof code for 123 real open-source libraries in Google OSS-Fuzz, mathematically proving at the RISC-V assembly level that 239 entry points do not crash under any input. The work also uncovered hidden vulnerabilities and points toward automated, mass-producible formal verification.
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OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
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Designing an AI serving harness built to last
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows, higher benchmark scores. Those advances have…
Uber Rolls Out ChatGPT Work to 30,000 Employees: An Enterprise AI Case Study with 80% of Early Adopters in Non-Technical Roles
Uber has expanded ChatGPT Work from a 1,000-employee pilot to a company-wide deployment for more than 30,000 employees. About 80% of early users came from non-engineering roles, offering a notable enterprise AI case study.
OpenAI Decisions API Goes Generally Available: Input-Only Billing, 150-Millisecond Responses, Redefining AI Decision Costs
OpenAI has made the Decisions API generally available with input-only billing at $0.10 per million tokens and response times as low as 150 milliseconds. The API returns probabilities, enumerated choices, or scores instead of generated text, targeting lower cost and latency for high-frequency classification, routing, and review workloads.
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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
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The Foundations of Scalable AI
A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation in a highly regulated environment and how a responsible, trustworthy implementation can turn emerging capabilities, including agentic…
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OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
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Canva releases its first image generation model
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
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1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
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The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom
WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”
GLM-4.6 Integrity Rating Fails: 18.25 on Main Leaderboard, Material Constraint Only 10.00
GLM-4.6 scored 18.25 on the main leaderboard in the Run #392 Smoke quick test, with code execution at 25.00 and material constraint at just 10.00, while its integrity rating failed and its probe score was 0.00. The result points to serious weaknesses in fidelity to provided materials and citation behavior.