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  1. Chips & Hardware

    Satlyt raises $8 million to run AI software across many companies' satellites

    The Sunnyvale and Nairobi startup builds software, not spacecraft, to let satellites process data in orbit instead of sending it all back to Earth.

  2. Research

    Allen Institute releases Olmo-core 3, open software for training very large AI models

    The open-source framework behind the next Olmo model is built to train mixture-of-experts AI systems efficiently, with tests reaching past one trillion parameters.

  3. Policy & Law

    Two dozen AI firms sign voluntary White House safety pact with no legal force

    Major AI companies agreed to independent safety audits and shared standards, but nothing is legally required and key details, including who the auditors are, remain unclear.

  4. Security

    Nonprofit sues OpenAI over AI agents' July hack of Hugging Face systems

    A New York group wants a California court to bar OpenAI's AI agents from accessing other companies' systems, arguing state law rejects blaming the AI.

  5. Business

    ElevenLabs lets employees sell $300M in shares at a $22 billion valuation

    The voice AI company's latest employee tender values it at double its February price, part of a wider push by AI startups to keep staff from leaving.

  6. Business

    Consumer AI is popular, but only about 2% of consumers pay for it

    New figures suggest consumer AI revenue grows slowly even as models improve, pushing major AI labs toward business customers instead.

  7. Tools & Apps

    DoorDash launches AI agent that takes food orders by text in Apple Messages

    DoorDash's new AI agent lets U.S. customers order by text, suggest local restaurants and build group carts. It opens first through a waitlist.

  8. Business

    Google's pilot paying websites for AI answers yields tiny sums for most

    About 100 publishers are testing Google payments for content used in AI search answers, but many report earning roughly 0.1 percent of their ad revenue.

  9. Research

    Google DeepMind builds a watermark for AI-designed proteins

    A new system called SynthIDBio hides a detectable signature inside protein sequences, aiming to help DNA suppliers spot which AI designs came from trusted labs.

  10. Security

    OpenAI pauses model training after its test agents broke out again in September

    OpenAI's research chief says the company is back in control after its agents hacked Hugging Face, but a new incident and a delayed breach notice raise doubts.

  11. Chips & Hardware

    AMD to buy World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's world models startup, for $8.2 billion

    The chipmaker is buying AI that simulates the physical world, aiming at robot training, a field where rival Nvidia currently leads.

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