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⚠️ ChatGPT will now cut off chats that fixate on violence When a conversation shows someone fixating on violence or on seriously hurting another person, ChatGPT will be able to end the chat on its own. If it does that several times, OpenAI says it may pause the account for a while. Teens get tighter limits. ChatGPT will hold back practical details about weapons and security systems from users it thinks are under 18, even when the question looks harmless. OpenAI also plans to alert parents if a…

📊 The world's new AI computing power is doubling every 9 months AI chips sold in the second quarter of 2026 added about 6.3 million H100-equivalents of computing power (measured in Nvidia's H100 chips), Epoch AI estimates. In early 2024 a quarter added 0.8 million. That's a trend of 2.5x a year. In 2023, right after ChatGPT and GPT-4, it was roughly 6x. Nvidia still sells most of it: almost 4 million of the 6.3 million. Google's own chips come second with 1.6 million, then Amazon, AMD, Huawei…

💰 Anthropic now brings SpaceX more money than the US government Anthropic is the mystery "Customer B" in SpaceX's latest filing, a person familiar told Bloomberg. That one client paid about 34.5% of SpaceX's revenue last quarter, more than the US government, long its main source of income. It isn't buying rockets. Anthropic rents computing power from SpaceX's AI division, now called Super Intelligence, at data centers in Memphis. Anthropic's own IPO filing shows it could spend up to $120.5 bi…

🏦 Gave your AI agent your bank password? Bank of America says that's on you Bank of America emailed customers asking them never to share their login with anyone, "including an AI-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf." "If you do share your credentials, keep in mind that you're responsible for activity resulting from that access." The bank confirmed the email to TechCrunch after it surfaced online on October 27. Other banks go further. Morgan Stanley has started blocking th…

👁 Musk says Neuralink's Blindsight is ready and only waits for regulators Neuralink's second product, Blindsight, will "enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see," Elon Musk wrote. "It is ready from an engineering standpoint. Just waiting on regulatory approval." He gave no date. The first product, Telepathy, lets people use computers by thinking. Musk says its output "will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years." He posted it under a Neura…

😱 Lab-grown brain cells made this AI video model 5x faster, startup says The neurons don't make the videos. The Biological Computing Co. in San Francisco spent four years growing real brain cells on electrodes and measuring how they process information. It turned what it learned into a small software layer on top of an existing open video model, Wan 2.2, adding less than 0.1% to its size. The result, mischief 1, launched today on fal and OpenRouter. It turns an image into a 3- or 5-second clip…

🧠 Turn your notes into a Claude-run second brain with these free tools Obsidian keeps notes as plain text files on your own computer, so Claude Code can read and write them directly. Three free, open-source projects do the setup: 1. obsidian-skills by Steph Ango, Obsidian's CEO (50K GitHub stars). Teaches Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode Obsidian's own formats: wikilinks, Bases, Canvas, the Obsidian command line. Install: npx skills add https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills 2. claude-obsid…

📉 Google just lost $500 billion in a day, and its own AI is part of why Alphabet stock fell about 13% on Thursday, its worst day since Google went public in 2004. Roughly $500 billion in market value vanished, the second-biggest one-day wipeout in US history after Nvidia's $589 billion drop in January 2025. Searches grew at their fastest pace in five years. Search revenue still missed forecasts, growing 12%, down from 19% in the first quarter. A Google executive told investors part of the reas…

📰 Democrats want Trump's Grok chats saved after reports he asked it about Venezuela Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, the top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, sent Trump a letter asking him to preserve "any prompts" he gave AI chatbots such as Grok, ChatGPT and Claude for official duties, plus the answers, Politico reports. The trigger is a Time report. In December 2025, about a month before the US captured Nicolás Maduro, Trump spent hours talking to Musk's Grok, a sou…

⚠️ Hacks are piling up so fast that cyber rescue teams are turning work away Demand for the emergency teams companies call after a breach is at an all-time high, The Wall Street Journal reports. Insiders call this month "Black October," and many blame AI. Sophos security chief Ross McKerchar wrote that his own team handled seven incidents in seven days, from the PHP2Shell flaw to a GitLab bug. "A year ago, that would have been a quarter's worth." Former NSA cybersecurity director Rob Joyce wa…

💰 A 10-person startup spends 30x its payroll on AI agents that take Sundays off Spawn, which builds a multiplayer game creation platform, spent $3.1 million on AI tokens last month. Its founder says that makes it one of Anthropic's biggest customers. The work is done by "the fleet": permanent agents that each own a part of the company, from the game engine to finance to bug triage. They have names, memories and real access to company systems. In 30 days they shipped 77,000 substantial changes,…

😮 An AI agent did brain surgery on a live mouse. Two Claude models said no A startup gave an AI agent a mouse with epilepsy, 19 possible gene therapies in a spreadsheet and a motorized surgery rig with cameras. The only goal: fewer seizures. The agent picked the therapy, chose the brain region, worked out the coordinates from three papers and injected 250 nanolitres, watching the spot for bleeding through the camera. A human surgeon opened the skull, and a vet held a kill switch the whole time…

💻 Run Claude Code on Sonnet and bring in Opus only for the hard calls Claude Code has an advisor tool: your main model does the routine work and consults a stronger one at key moments. Claude decides when, usually before committing to a plan, when an error keeps coming back, or before calling a task done. The setup, from Anthropic's docs: 1. Launch with claude --model sonnet --advisor opus 2. Or type /advisor opus mid-session. It's saved as your default, and /advisor off turns it off 3. For fi…

⏰ Amazon's new Alexa clock wakes you when your sleep is lightest Echo Time senses lighter sleep with no wearable and wakes you within 10 to 60 minutes of your set alarm, while the screen brightens like a sunrise. It costs $199.99. It's one of five Alexa+ devices Amazon showed on Wednesday: • Echo Dot, $99.99: now also a smart home hub and a Wi-Fi extender for up to 1,000 sq ft • Echo Studio with Home Camera, $249.99: recognizes things you hold up, like a cereal box to reorder • Alexa Photo Fra…

❗️ US officials concluded a woman close to Jensen Huang was a Chinese asset Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen and top executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore data center company that buys Nvidia chips, was funneling information to Beijing, The New York Times reports. Surveillance showed she had built a close relationship with Nvidia's CEO. Trump was briefed roughly a year ago and chose not to act. Huang never got the warning Americans targeted by foreign spies sometimes receive, and the surveillance …

🤨 DeepSeek and Kimi reportedly trained on answers from OpenAI's top AI Both Chinese labs leaned heavily on outputs from GPT-6 Astra to build their newest models, The Information reported Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge. The trick is called distillation: a lab feeds a stronger model's answers to its own, so it learns the skills far more cheaply. The models named are Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro, released last week, and DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash 1017, out since October 17. OpenAI, DeepSee…

😎 Google's first Android XR glasses are on sale for $1,099 XREAL AURA weighs under 95 grams and puts virtual screens in front of your eyes, while the clear lenses let you see the room around you. The heavy work happens in a compute puck on a cable, which also holds the battery. Gemini is built in and understands what you're looking at, on your screens and in the real world. Google Play apps run on it, and you can plug a computer or a handheld game console into the puck to mirror it. Orders op…

Ask Google's AI Mode who won the 2020 election and it may not say Instead of naming Joe Biden, Google's AI search mode told users to check the Federal Election Commission's official results. Asked about 2016, it answered right away: Donald Trump. Google's standalone Gemini app, ChatGPT and Claude all named the 2020 winner in tests by Ars Technica. AI Mode often gave the answer when asked a second time, and answered straight away when Ars checked from other countries via VPN. Google says it's …

💳 Someone put a $59.7 million AI supercomputer on eBay. Free shipping IT hardware seller Core 4 Solutions listed a decommissioned cluster of 300 server racks with 9,600 Nvidia A100 chips and 4,200 AMD processors. Price: $59,700,000, "or Best Offer." FedEx Ground shipping costs nothing. That's about 1.4 petabytes of memory. The A100 is a 2020 chip, but Tom's Hardware calls it a real budget option: a single new Nvidia rack costs up to $6.5 million (Blackwell) or $7.8 million (Vera Rubin), with l…

🗣 Mark Cuban: "There will be the trillionaire in the basement" On an a16z podcast, Cuban says big companies struggle with AI until their bosses understand how it works. That leaves an opening: "There's no better time to be an entrepreneur than right now." He thinks AI still needs a person guiding it: "AI is not smart. It's book smart maybe, but it's not street smart. It's not entrepreneur smart." His demo for the head of a consumer food company: take their number one product, a cookie, and as…