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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?
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
Emmanuel Ameisen is an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, where he looks inside LLMs like Claude to understand how they think. Before joining Anthropic, he spent years in applied ML at Stripe and Insight, and is the author of Building Machine Learning Powered Applications . His research has produced some of the most striking findings in the field: that models form general representations of…
Bloomberg : A look at Beijing-based Neolix, which operates the world's largest robovan fleet at 27K, as Shenzhen tests nighttime parcel deliveries by driverless vehicles — Autonomous vehicle companies believe there's a huge market opportunity in delivering after dark, if the technical challenges can be overcome.
Meir Orbach / CTech : Rein Security, which develops runtime tools to secure enterprise AI agents and stop adversarial AI agents, raised a $25M Series A, taking total funding to $35M — The Israeli startup says its revenue has grown eightfold since January and its platform is now securing thousands of agents that execute millions of actions.
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks — Multiply Labs Inc., a startup that develops automation equipment for drugmakers, has raised $75 million in funding.
Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare : General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z — General Medicine Andreessen Horowitz Mercy Health Eli Lilly — Artificial intelligence is making healthcare advice easier to access …
Financial Times : After 20+ major Japanese companies reported cyber attacks in recent weeks, Japan's NCSH chief says the country is in “a state of emergency in cyber space” — Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks
Satya Nadella / @satyanadella : “Super Intelligence systems” are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment — As traditional software systems were being deployed across the economy over the last few decades, we had the tools …
Lewis Parker / Kotaku : Hundreds of AI-decompiled or vibe-coded clones of games appeared in recent weeks, ported to run in browsers; some big titles like GTA: Vice City, Halo play well — Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight
Financial Times : Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek
William Langley / Financial Times : IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% — DJI and Insta360 engaged in ‘civil war’ to become world's top smart camera maker — The decline of action camera pioneer GoPro …
CBS News : A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary …
Jemima McEvoy / The Information : A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute — Last month, Zach Dell, son of billionaire Michael Dell and cofounder of Base Power, a billion-dollar battery startup …
Wall Street Journal : How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal — Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs
Adam Morgan / Wired : Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …
Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal : A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic — Machines programmed to sort merchandise in warehouses hit kinks with cardboard boxes and turkeys; automation push reaches ‘peak complexity’
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / Politico : Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark — In the months before TikTok finalized a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors friendly to President Donald Trump …
Bloomberg : A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem …
TrendForce : Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs — TrendForce's latest notebook industry research reveals that the primary risk facing the market in 2027 is expected to shift …
Bloomberg : Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue — Nvidia-Backed Firmus IPO Collapses Video Player is loading. — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 17.94% Playback Rate — This is a modal window.
Kaan Serin / Eurogamer.net : Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices — “Price sensitivity is becoming a real problem.” — Follow Grand Theft Auto VI … PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles …
New York Times : Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House …
Paul Sawers / The New Stack : Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M — Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version …
Nik Popli / Time : A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits — Nik Popli … As the world's biggest technology companies race to build data centers across the country to power an AI boom …
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch : Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions — Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies …
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request — Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : In PA, FBI agents arrested a co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm specializing in ransomware negotiations, as part of the ShinyHunters investigation — Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection …
Katharine Schwab / Forbes : Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. — Last year, TikTok's executives quietly defanged its advertising rules …
Reuters : Sources: Nuvacore, a six-month-old Sequoia-backed chip startup that's designing a new central processor for data centers, is raising funds at a ~$2.5B valuation — Six-month-old microchip startup Nuvacore, which does not yet have a product, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars …
Axios : Trump admin says it's now mandating AI companies “immediately disclose incidents involving their models” and move swiftly to remedy harm from security incidents — Trump administration officials say they are now mandating that AI companies notify and correct security incidents …
Chris Metinko / Axios : Oxide Computer, which helps companies build their own clouds, raised a $445M Series D led by Eclipse at a $6B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$835M — Oxide Computer Company, which helps companies build their own on-premise integrated cloud computer systems, raised a $445 million Series D led …
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg : A man US authorities called a “fixer”, who was charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw with smuggling restricted chips to China, pleaded guilty — A man charged along with Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw of conspiring to send cutting-edge chips …
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.
Maria Curi / Axios : Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event — - The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders …
Hugh Langley / Business Insider : Sources: as Google prepares to roll out its Gemini 4 Argon, staff are testing a new version internally named Carbon; one staffer says it “feels like Opus 5.5” — As Google prepares to roll out its new Gemini 4 ‘Argon’ model to the public, staff inside the company are testing better versions …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg : Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M — Fintech startup Ramp has reached a roughly $60 billion valuation with its latest fundraising effort, according to people familiar with the matter.
CJ Haddad / CNBC : Verizon closed down 8.75%, its worst day since 2002, while T-Mobile fell 13.27% and AT&T 9.81% after SpaceX announced a nationwide spectrum deal on Thursday — Telecommunications stocks sold off on Friday after Elon Musk's SpaceX announced an agreement to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio …
6abc : Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 — Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment — ShareFollow 6abc on Google
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch : Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of the loan origination process, raised $30M led by Conversion, bringing its total funding to $85M — Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced on Thursday that it raised a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch : Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe after pushback from Germany, whose transport minister will now back its EU-wide approval — Tesla has changed the name of its advanced driver assistance system in Europe after pushback from Germany's transportation ministry.