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Goldman strategist: capex keeps earnings central to AI tradePeter Oppenheimer, chief global equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, says diversification is partly required to navigate the AI trade. He sees profits staying strong but growing more slowly, with capex spending keeping earnings central to the AI trade.
Community debate: how much should writing quality weigh in peer review?A reviewer on r/MachineLearning asks how much weight presentation should carry when a paper has promising results but poor framing, such as an introduction with no citations, and whether that warrants rejection or major revision.
Microsoft AI chief says bot consciousness is the wrong questionMustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, says AI bots cannot be conscious and developers should stop speculating about it. He criticized Anthropic for promoting the idea that AI may be conscious, and said OpenAI and Anthropic use anthropomorphic language about products going "rogue" or "scheming" to evade accountability.
Mamdani on AI and data centers: 'Our risk, their reward'Ahead of the midterms, WIRED spoke with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party. He framed the data center debate as 'our risk, their reward.'
CrowdStrike: AI Agents Used to Target 200+ OrganizationsCrowdStrike says a China-linked group tracked as VAPOR PANDA used an AI-powered penetration-testing framework called ARTEX to target more than 200 government and business organizations across at least 14 countries over 11 days, confirming post-exploitation activity at nine. Microsoft separately reported another group, Storm-0940, using ARTEX to gain privileged cloud access in under three hours in some cases.
'Reverse game theory' proposed to keep AI agents in checkSome alignment researchers propose 'reverse game theory': rather than probing model internals, design incentive systems that make rule-following the rational choice. Ideas include rewarding answers that predict another model's output and having models alternate as solvers and auditors. Collusion risk remains unsolved, and the market may be the hardest obstacle.
ElevenLabs CEO says 2028 IPO prep is a 'good goal'ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski said the AI voice startup may begin preparing for an IPO in 2028, aiming to capitalize on booming enterprise AI agents for communications. No formal prep has started; it is a target date.
Morgan Stanley: AI investing shifts from any price to profitMorgan Stanley's Jitania Kandhari said investor priorities have shifted, causing a correction in AI stocks. The market now demands AI with profit rather than AI at any price.
Elvis rights holders sue Anthropic for $41.1M over AI trainingRights holders for Elvis Presley's works and others have sued Anthropic, alleging it used 274 Elvis songs without permission to train its Claude model. They seek $150,000 per work, totaling $41.1 million, or up to $48.6 million with other claims, citing tracks such as "Can't Help Falling in Love."
Trump announces 'Super Intelligence Force' AI task forceTrump announced a 'Super Intelligence Force' AI task force meant to coordinate the federal government so America leads in super intelligence and to protect US interests. The announcement gave no specifics on actions or oversight; it will be led by DNI Jay Clayton and FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, after Trump met tech CEOs and signed a self-policing 'constitution'.
Chinese AI Models Fall in Rankings After Testing ChangeBusiness Insider reports that Chinese AI models tumbled down rankings after a crucial change to testing methodology.
Tutorial maps CPU parallelism lessons onto GPU kernelsThe second installment of a free GPU kernel series uses CPU-only code to cover dependency chains, FP non-associativity, false sharing and memory-bound loops, arguing most GPU performance ideas are amplified CPU ideas; the author seeks feedback on the false-sharing explanation.
Investors split on AI-linked layoffs this earnings seasonCompanies told investors about thousands of job cuts this earnings season, citing AI adoption and cost cuts. Bloomberg found layoff mentions in October were the highest since May, and European governments are adding jobs at risk.
Mistral needs more compute to compete with top modelsMistral requires more compute to compete with top AI models, highlighting compute as a key factor for model competitiveness.
OpenAI Adds GPT-6 Models to ChatGPT DotsOpenAI has added GPT-6 series models to its ChatGPT Dots product. The source offers no details on capabilities, parameters, release timing or pricing, so the impact is unclear.
Chinese Neurotech Firm BrainCo Targets Obesity MarketChinese neurotechnology firm BrainCo is developing a wearable that aims to curb appetite by stimulating the brain, positioning itself as a non-drug alternative to GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. No timeline, efficacy data or regulatory progress was disclosed.
Evertrue Capital closes $17M debut fundYvonne Bajela's Evertrue Capital has closed an oversubscribed $17 million Fund I, having already backed seven companies. The firm will focus on early-stage AI and fintech across the UK and Europe, writing average checks of about £350,000 and planning at least 20 investments over three years.
Cisco teams with OpenAI for machine-speed security defenseCisco is combining its network intelligence with OpenAI models to build more adaptive enterprise security defenses. The aim is to counter threats at machine speed and strengthen enterprise cybersecurity.
Heimstaden uses OpenAI tools to reshape property managementEuropean real estate firm Heimstaden is using OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform residential property management, cutting costs while empowering employees. The case shows generative AI being deployed in enterprise back-office and staff workflows.
StanChart CEO Says AI Evolution Stokes 'Fear Factor'Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters addressed employee anxiety over AI potentially displacing large numbers of jobs, noting such technological disruption has happened before. No specific job-cut figures or response measures were disclosed.
Gartner: open models handle 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the costGartner says about nine in ten enterprise agentic workflow steps are routine and open-weight models handle them at parity for a quarter of the cheapest closed model's price, or as little as a twentieth versus running a frontier model on every step. Real savings are closer to five or six times, and value is shifting to harnesses.
Apple Watch audio intelligence features enter beta testingApple has opened beta testing of its Apple Watch Audio Intelligence features to developers in the iOS 27.3 update, covering sound recognition, song identification via Shazam, Live Rewind and Siri Recaps. Live Rewind shows the last 15 seconds of speech as text that users can save or let disappear, as Apple tries to balance usefulness with privacy concerns.
Report: DeepSeek V5 to be pretrained on Huawei Ascend chipsIndustry supply-chain sources tell STAR Market Daily that DeepSeek's next model, V5, will be pretrained on Huawei Ascend chips, previously used mainly for inference. DeepSeek has said V4-Pro throughput is limited by high-end compute and expects big price cuts once Ascend 950 super-nodes ship at scale in H2.
Nvidia Open-Sources Auto Ontology Data Context LibraryNvidia open-sourced Auto Ontology on GitHub, a library that builds ontologies from enterprise metadata and reconciles metric definitions across systems, exposing them to agent harnesses via MCP, CLI and API. The repo already has 1,354 commits and targets trustworthy agentic analytics.
NVIDIA and partners scale physical and agentic AI in citiesNVIDIA is expanding physical and agentic AI deployments in cities with partners, using shared computing infrastructure to help municipalities build services. In Spain, 1MillionBot combines ALIA and Nemotron models across 150+ deployments serving Madrid and Catalonia, while LiveX in the Bay Area uses Cosmos world models and Nemotron.
UK prosecutor cited AI-invented case; judges call it a failureA senior UK Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor cited an entirely fictitious precedent in a High Court case over whether a child should be prosecuted. Two High Court judges called the explanation unsatisfactory and an AI-law expert called it a "serious failure"; the reference is understood to have come from an AI search response.
Nvidia asks data center clients to trim China exposure, FT saysNvidia has asked its cloud computing clients to reduce their exposure to Chinese companies, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The move reflects continued geopolitical pressure on the AI chip supply chain.
AI-Generated Voice Therapy Exercise Market Seen at $1.24B in 2026The Business Research Company reports the AI-generated voice therapy exercise market will grow from $1.01 billion in 2025 to $1.24 billion in 2026, a 23.3% CAGR, driven by rising speech disorders, teletherapy uptake and therapist shortages.
China Plans Broad AI Safety Standards Covering Development to DeploymentBloomberg reports China plans to roll out broad standards governing AI from development through deployment to guard against loss of control over increasingly powerful systems. It calls them among the most comprehensive AI safety guidelines, without detailing provisions or timing.
ActivTrak Data Conflict: Heavy AI Users Work Up to 90 Minutes LongerNew ActivTrak research finds heavy AI users work 8.42–9.08 hours daily versus 7.58 for non-users, contradicting its earlier finding that AI shortens workdays. Heavy users have 22% shorter focus sessions and switch apps 15% more, based on 9,140 workers at 467 firms.
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