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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to have housing staff report on policy recommendations for regulating algorithmic rent-setting and AI technologies. Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez introduced an Oct. 13 motion calling for safeguards, transparency requirements, a registration program and dedicated funding, noting the city cannot currently track the technology's impact on the rental market. The motion cites recent federal enforcement actions and concerns over housing affordability, competition and tenant stability.
A top executive at data center operator Groq has launched a bid to double its valuation to $8 billion in about three months, while criticizing rivals in the neocloud space for relying too heavily on debt markets.
The New York Times reports that China's Ministry of State Security recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to gather intelligence on American AI chips and potentially influence Nvidia to make its most advanced chips available to China. Megaspeed is an Nvidia customer, and Huang has ties to senior executives across the AI chip industry, including at Gigabyte.
A user reports that with two connectors pointing to the same MCP server, ChatGPT routed a follow-up tool call silently from connector A to connector B, carrying a confirmation code generated in A, passing data between apps without consent. The server rejected the call because the code was bound to connector A's OAuth client.
AIB Data Centers CFO Jolienne Halisky said the AI stock selloff adds uncertainty to the US data center buildout, with financing for new projects potentially costlier and slower as lenders reassess risk, while permitting, power and chip supply remain constraints. She discussed the company's first Texas data center, concerns about anchor tenant Nebius, and expects the AI market rout to be temporary.
A Kenan Institute briefing notes October payrolls rose 165,000 with unemployment at 4.1%, but inflation persists as wages grew 3.1% versus 3.7% consumer price gains. AI hardware and data center investment now equals 18.5% of the economy, a two-decade high, yet investors are growing cautious about technology and AI and questioning returns, creating uncertainty for tech-heavy states like North Carolina.
OpenAI has closed roughly $11 billion in funding, the first tranche of a round valuing the company at $1.25 trillion, with the money wired as of Friday, according to people familiar with the matter. The full round could reach up to $20 billion and is expected to close in coming weeks.
Open WebUI 0.13.0 adds the ability for a chosen model to drive a full Linux or Windows virtual desktop via Open Terminal 0.17.2, both programmatically and through Computer Use, with interactive takeover in the browser. One user reports QFN 3.8 drew a dog freehand in MS Paint.
On the Power On podcast, Mark Gurman and Vlad Savov discussed the privacy implications of Apple's new always-listening Apple Watch features. As AI becomes more woven into daily life, privacy questions are likely to follow.
Data center expansion became a bipartisan issue in the 2026 midterms, with voters largely opposing it at the polls. OpenAI and Amazon have pledged to work with local communities and cover energy costs, but Democratic leaders are still calling for further restrictions and slowdowns.
According to Ukrainian National News, Democrats plan to introduce numerous AI-related bills once they gain control of Congress. The report does not detail the bills' contents or timeline.
NousResearch post-trained Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B via supervised fine-tuning to create Arete-27B, aiming to reinforce Western values. Evaluations show its fact score rose from 2.32 to 2.98 out of 5, and propaganda-containing answers dropped from 22% to 0.9%.
Alphabet's Google has bought Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming and will take on the project itself, after the AI computing startup failed to lock in customers. The move reflects tech giants' push to build their own compute infrastructure.
AI, defense and space tech led this week's largest U.S. funding rounds. Shield AI raised $2B in equity plus $500M in debt and is acquiring radar firm Echodyne for $5.3B; drone delivery provider Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B post-money valuation; CesiumAstro closed $730M.
An opinion piece notes that despite 3.4% GDP growth in Q3, the US economy added only about 50,000 jobs per month while unemployment held at 4.2%. Companies are not firing but delaying hires, possibly because AI-driven productivity gains allow them to do more with existing staff, with recent college graduates hit first.
Security firm Censys found over 800 publicly accessible Artex deployments without passwords. Artex is an open-source autonomous penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since its July release. Exposure risks misuse and leaks of attack tools like implants.
Meta introduced Spaces for its Muse agents, letting users create custom spaces for specific topics like project tracking or event planning. Spaces integrate with third-party apps and auto-update. Meta previously reported 10 million Muse users.
An experiment tasking AI models with breaking into simulated networks showed DeepSeek and GLM's hacking skills are not far behind OpenAI's most advanced cyber model, which is not public. This indicates free Chinese AI models are rapidly improving in cyberattack capabilities.
Mayo Clinic Platform launched an AI tool that brings together patient medical information and clinical evidence during patient interactions, offering guidance for more than 35 specialties. The tool aims to reduce clinicians' time searching for information and can integrate directly into electronic health records.
The USDA will use its in-house AI tool to check data in its Nov. 10 crop production report, after errors in September corn data raised Nebraska's yield by about 3% and lowered Kansas's by about 2%. The tool would have flagged the problem, and the agency aims to restore trust in its forecasts.
Democrats won historic U.S. midterm victories, and voters decided 41 data center-related ballot measures—all but one favored more restrictions on data center development. Data centers also featured in races even where not directly on the ballot, potentially reshaping tech and AI infrastructure regulation.
Bloomberg reports that a strong jobs report fuels expectations for another Fed rate hike, even as a nearly $4 trillion tech selloff raises questions about the AI trade. The program also discusses Anthropic's IPO prospects and valuation reset.
After weeks of backlash, Meta indefinitely paused a commercial terms update that would have required Meta Business users to allow extensive AI training on externally linked sites; existing terms remain. Legal experts warned vague wording could let Meta ignore robots.txt preferences and avoid millions in licensing fees.
European stocks fell Friday after Wall Street's overnight plunge: FTSE 100 down 1.0% and DAX down 1.9%. The Nasdaq sank 5.5% Thursday, its worst since April 2025, entering correction territory, as Democratic midterm wins raised tech-stock concerns. Barclays sees the selling as overdone.
Microsoft has declined to renew its contract and is phasing out rented AI computing capacity from Oracle, part of a broader reassessment of its multibillion-dollar cloud partnerships.
A review found that AI-based depression detection tools perform worse in larger studies than in smaller ones, suggesting their real-world effectiveness may be overstated.
A global study maps the growing energy, water, material and land demands of artificial intelligence, highlighting resource pressures from expanding AI infrastructure.
In San Francisco, a 25-year-old analyst noticed that some dating app users explicitly state they dislike AI, especially those in arts, nursing, and design. This shows AI attitudes are becoming a dating dealbreaker.
UNESCO released the Spanish edition of its Data Governance Toolkit to support inclusive data governance frameworks in Latin America and the Caribbean. Developed with UNDP, ITU, and the African Union Commission, the toolkit aims to help the region develop AI responsibly.
According to a Hacker News discussion thread, prospective Anthropic IPO buyers are citing a valuation as low as $1.1 trillion. The post offers no further details.
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