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Documents: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top contribution amount, to Trump's WH ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir committed $10M, Meta and Amazon $5M (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Is AI pentesting as good as a human pentester? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Portland-based Mueon, which says its AI server racks could fit up to 10x more computing capacity, raised $65M led by Maverick Silicon, with Intel participating (www.theinformation.com)
23 days ago Intel AI

Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 reached end of mainstream support (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons from history, AGI, the mood in San Francisco, the Hugging Face hack, Chinese AI, pacing the frontier, and more (www.nytimes.com)
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An interview with John Ternus, who says the memory shortage is “a crisis” and “all options should be on the table”, and that Tim Cook “has great relationships” (time.com)
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North.cloud, which helps companies watch their cloud, AI and data spend, raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $67M (www.axios.com)
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BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos (www.cnbc.com)
23 days ago AI

Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering (www.theverge.com)
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Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in the Surface Laptop Ultra outperforms Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro by ~25% in agentic AI completion benchmarks using Qwen models (www.tomshardware.com)
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Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription (www.bloomberg.com)
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Police arrests 95 suspects in international CSAM crackdown action (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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A profile of Marc Andreessen, who sources say is close to White House COS Susie Wiles and has publicly described a fallout with Biden officials over AI policy (www.bloomberg.com)
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Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures (www.wsj.com)
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Get a year of QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus 2024 for $299.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection (www.axios.com)
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Sources and docs: while Bo Hines helped craft the crypto-friendly Genius Act, he had a 33% stake in consulting firm Nxum, which received millions from Tether (www.wsj.com)
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Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Software Flaws Exposed By Anthropic's Mythos (it.slashdot.org)
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Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June (www.bloomberg.com)
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AI industry extinction warnings are genuine rather than corporate plots for regulatory capture or hype, and they go as far back as the mid-2000s and the 2010s (www.astralcodexten.com)
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Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices (www.wired.com)
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A hack of Internet-connected fridge controllers across ~700 European supermarkets exploited critical vulnerabilities in three models flagged by Claroty and CISA (arstechnica.com)
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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is in talks over Elon Musk's Texas-based Terafab project, but stresses that any participating fab “has got to be run by TSMC” (www.bloomberg.com)
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Survey: nearly 40% of US adults, and ~50% of those aged 18 to 29, participate in an online community; social media is the primary venue for online communities (www.pewresearch.org)
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Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at Meta and gained US residency in 2020, advised Saudi organizations and is listed as a venture partner at Riyadh-based RAED (www.nytimes.com)
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Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9 (www.bloomberg.com)
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Microsoft fixes bug causing Windows black screens, Explorer crashes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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TSMC says it plans to build an additional 3nm fab in Tainan, Taiwan, set for production in H1 2028, alongside its 3nm capacity in Arizona and Japan's Kumamoto (www.theinformation.com)
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UK Legal Aid Agency: Hackers stole records dating back to 1978 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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10 Period-Drama Details That Look Fake but Are Historically Accurate (listverse.com)
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