• 39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania
• Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model
• After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
• WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty"
• Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
• Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
• Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
• F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now
• Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air
• Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
• Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films
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• One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
• Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
• Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
• A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
• NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
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• AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
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| • IDC: China's Q3 smartphone shipments fell 15.4% YoY to 57.9M units, the sixth straight quarter of decline; Huawei led with a 21% share and Apple had 17.8% (Reuters)
• Singapore-based data center developer DayOne raises ~$3.67B, including a ~$2.4B offshore term loan facility, from seven banks to fund its Malaysia expansion (Jasmeen Ara Shaikh/Reuters)
• A deep dive on Amazon's robotics efforts, resulting in 1M+ active warehouse robots; Amazon is still the world's 2nd-largest corporate employer with 1.5M workers (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)
• A global chip stock sell-off deepens after Broadcom's CEO likened AI investing to a casino, with Samsung down as much as 8.8%, SK Hynix down 9.2%, and Micron 4% (Financial Times)
• Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale (Rhea Rose Abraham/Reuters)
• IDC: Nvidia's AI chip shipments in China fell 44% YoY to 678K in H1 2026, as its market share slid to 34% amid US export curbs and rising domestic competition (Reuters)
• China-based Transsion, which dominates the market for smartphones in Africa, raised $390M from a Hong Kong share sale after pricing the deal near the top end (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
• Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% (Anthropic)
• Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build an up to 500 MW data center for Anthropic in Osaka, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B (Nikkei Asia)
• Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang on the Muse app, Muse Wonder, the risks of committing $100B+ to AI, rebooting Meta's AI team, agentic commerce, more (Cheeky Pint)
• Japanese manufacturer Omron says it will acquire US industrial PC firm OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, for $675M, to boost its "physical AI" efforts (Anton Bridge/Reuters)
• Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, to focus on developing specialized AI models for math (Chao Kong/South China Morning Post)
• Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B (Claire Ruckin/Bloomberg)
• Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes (Anthropic)
• Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an "AI first" production model with "no more hand-written code" (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
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• Epic reportedly delays its Disney video game so it can be made using more AI
• Meta says it's caught up to the frontier with its latest Wonder AI models
• Norway fined a Microsoft subsidiary $9.6 million for allegedly misusing Grindr user data
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