Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
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Last updated Oct 30, 2026, 6:00 PM
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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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Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds
No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
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How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the contractor who plugged their AI agent into a Pentagon system, Anthropic’s IPO filing, and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.
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Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.
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Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appea…
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A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices
Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines.
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US tech stocks see sharp falls as AI spending nears $1tn
Shares in Intel continue to fall while the tech-heavy Nasdaq opens at its lowest level in more than two months.
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The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this contro…
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AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal
Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI firm has entered the picture.
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Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth
Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowin…
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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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Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru
Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is going to explore…
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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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The Wikimedia Foundation weighs in on the NYT's case against OpenAI
The folks behind Wikipedia say that an extreme decision in either direction could threaten the open web.
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Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural
Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concerned Ghost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted loca…
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Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’
Pope Leo XIV says AI systems should be "disarmed," adding that humans "have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications." In Friday's Papal Address, Pope Leo encou…
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Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case
Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey says Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast Altering…
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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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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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Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app for virtually trying on clothes
Meta has launched an AI fashion app called Style Sketch in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
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Google value plunges by $500bn as its own AI search hits ad sales
Google spooked investors so badly that its stock hit a six-month low, after it revealed its AI own search summaries were affecting ad revenue.
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Senators are looking into 'serious privacy risks' with Meta's AI glasses
US senators have asked Meta to explain how it's mitigating 'serious' privacy risks with its AI glasses.
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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.
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AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
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More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result
Research finds 55% of lawyers are using AI in legal practices, up from 37% last year, though efficiency gains aren’t as high as expected Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Mor…
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VRChat says it's not adding AI labels despite user survey showing people want that
Trying to make everyone happy could make no one happy.
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Reddit will force users to log in as AI is killing search traffic
The company is starting with tests outside of the US.
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Google brings AI Mode advertisements to more countries
Adding sponsored content in more markets could make the feature profitable.
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Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream
This article is brought to you by Qualcomm Technologies. For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal. Consumers are looking past generic tools and want to know how these techn…
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A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.
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What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents?
Using AI for roles from executive assistants to chiefs of staff, companies are boasting about doing more with less, creating tension with their human workers On an average workday, Dhruv Amin chats wi…
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Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race
The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.
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The Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops
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. Opinion: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in rea…
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Computerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings
Human practitioners warn computer-generated offerings lack the empathy and connection central to divination “This journey isn’t just about algorithms or data,” an AI psychic named Urban Mystic recentl…
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An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’
Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.
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We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about…
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I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock
Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me.
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Creating AI value with enterprise context
Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process automati…
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Systems Thinking Is Vital in the Age of AI
Modern engineering projects increasingly combine human judgment with machine capability. An engineer can define a problem, then ask an artificial intelligence tool to search relevant research and tech…
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Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?
AI tools are making it easier to modify and recreate games, raising questions about piracy, copyright and how far the technology could disrupt the industry • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to you…
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Castle Walls review – Prime’s first fully AI-generated show is here, and it’s a Vaseline-smeared mess
Billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming service, this Turkish show looks like the result of the prompt ‘make it cinematic’ Just as the world reels from Elon Musk’s AI-pow…
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The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication
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. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their mode…
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‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity
The author believes we are at a turning point as a species – and even in the shadow of big tech it’s up to us how we want to proceed ‘I am a storyteller by trade,” writes Jeanette Winterson on the fir…
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‘Emotional intimacy’ from AI chatbots would be banned under Australia’s digital duty of care laws
Labor government under pressure to create social media watchdog as new online safety standards bill passes lower house Follow our Australia politics live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news…
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Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey review – the dullest, most pointless riposte possible to Christopher Nolan’s brilliant epic
It is hardly a shock that Grok AI’s interpretation of Homer is as meaningless as a laptop screensaver. The only surprise would be if Musk accepted defeat graciously. Which he won’t Think back. Do you…
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I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened
Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up. According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced conte…
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