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China-Aligned Hackers Put AI Agents on the Kill Chain — and Got Inside 2,250 Microsoft 365 Tenants
Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used the agentic AI framework ARTEX to automate attacks through compromised ConnectWise app credentials — going from picking a target to privileged cloud access in under three hours.
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AI's Lobbying Era Is Officially Here — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia Just Set Spending Records in Washington
Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI each spent more lobbying Washington in Q3 than in any prior quarter — a combined $7.5 million as Congress weighs 99 AI bills and the midterms approach.
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Formic Raises $50M to Take Physical AI Past the Loading Dock
Formic rents robots to American factories for a flat monthly fee. Its $50M Series B says the real physical-AI bottleneck isn't smarter robots — it's getting them to work on the factory floor.
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Apple Shipped Its Biggest iWork AI Update Ever — Then Pulled All Three Apps From the App Store
Apple updated Pages, Keynote, and Numbers with a beta Intelligent Assistant on Thursday — then all three apps briefly vanished from the App Store entirely. A botched rollout for an update Apple wants subscribers to pay $12.99 a month for.
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SK Hynix Killed Solidigm's $150B IPO — and the Market Loved It
SK Hynix walked away from what would have been the largest semiconductor IPO in U.S. history, citing market conditions — and its shares jumped 4.4% on the news. The AI valuation reckoning is now arriving at the IPO window itself.
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Canva Built Its Own AI Image Model — and Says Only OpenAI Beats It Now
Canva unveiled Craft, the first image generation model built from scratch by its in-house lab — trained on design templates rather than photographs, with a two-stage "sketch before it draws" architecture. It's as much a margin play as a model release.
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France Just Became Europe's Robotaxi Battleground — Two Big AV Bets Landed in One Day
Wayve, Stellantis, NVIDIA, and the French government are building a full-stack autonomous-driving ecosystem in France — and on the same day, Bolt and Greater Paris announced a robotaxi pilot for 2028. Paris is officially in the race.
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Tesla Wants to "Own Transportation of Any Kind on Earth" — Starting by Selling Cybercabs to Fleet Operators
On its Q3 earnings call, Tesla said Cybercabs roll into Dallas in November — and that it will start selling them to outside fleet operators by year-end, even as Musk concedes the robotaxi business won't move the company's financials until mid-2027.
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Attackers Were Exploiting php2shell Four Days Before the Patch — the Embargo Leaked
PHP rushed out emergency fixes for two critical remote-code-execution flaws, both CVSS 9.2. But the embargo had already leaked — Amazon's honeypots caught an exploitation attempt four days before the patch shipped, and one flaw is now, in Amazon's words, being broadly exploited in the wild.
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SpaceX Launches a 130-Company Partner Network to Sell Grok to the Enterprise
SpaceX's AI division unveiled the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network with 130+ launch partners — Bain, NVIDIA, Databricks, Snowflake, Booz Allen — and a formal accreditation program to put Grok inside big companies. The model race is now a distribution race.
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Ex-OpenAI Science Chief Raises $215M to Put Robots in the Drug Lab — and Pull It Out of China
Kevin Weil, who ran OpenAI's science push until April, launched Warp Sciences with $215 million at an $865 million valuation to automate the molecule-optimization slog that biotech outsources to China — robots, sensor gloves, and cameras in a U.S. lab.
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Oppo's Triple-200MP Find X10 Pro Max Goes Global — and the Real Story Isn't the Megapixels
Oppo launched the Find X10 series in India today with the world's first triple-200MP camera system — but the phone's genuinely ahead-of-everyone trick is 8K and 4K120 video at every focal length, plus a screw-on Hasselblad teleconverter for photographers.
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Apple's iWork Gets an AI Assistant of Its Own — and It's Not Siri
Apple rolled out an "Intelligent Assistant" inside Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for Creator Studio subscribers — a separate AI from Siri that drafts, designs, and does math inside your documents. It's also opening up Keynote files with a new .keyx format.
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Washington Banned DeepSeek. Tencent and CATL Just Handed It $15 Billion.
Days after the U.S. ordered DeepSeek's AI out of federal systems, the Hangzhou lab closed one of the largest private AI rounds in Chinese history — anchored not by VCs, but by a battery giant, a chat empire, and a who's who of Chinese industry.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alibaba Just Surrendered Their Agent Specs to One Foundation — and It Says Everything About Where the Real Fight Is
At AGNTCon in San Jose, the Agentic AI Foundation added four new projects — Anthropic's Agent Skills, OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv, and Alibaba's OpenSandbox — taking the foundation from three projects to ten in its first year. Rivals keep donating their crown jewels to neutral ground, because the protocol war is over and nobody wants to lose it.
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Emulate Has No Website and No Product. VCs Just Bid Its Valuation Up 15-Fold.
Emulate, a three-month-old startup founded by DeepMind's Genie world-model team, has no website and no product — but according to Bloomberg, venture capitalists are fighting to get into its seed round at rapidly escalating prices, pushing the valuation from $200 million into the billions in a matter of days.
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Samsung and SK Hynix Are Upgrading Their China Plants to 286-Layer NAND — With Washington's Blessing
Samsung's Xi'an plant is converting to 286-layer V9 NAND under a project called 'Monami,' and SK Hynix is pushing Dalian past 240 layers — both confirmed 'in close consultation with Washington,' even though U.S. regulators said in 2025 they didn't intend to grant upgrade licenses for foreign chipmakers' China plants.
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Meta Just Posted Its Best Quarter Ever — With a $10 Billion Legal Asterisk
Meta's Q3 blew past revenue expectations with record engagement and a hit AI agent — then a nearly $10 billion legal charge nearly halved its profit margin. This is what winning while on trial looks like.
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Micron's Record Year Meets Taiwan's First Chip Strike — and Workers Want 15% of the AI Boom
Workers at Micron's Taoyuan DRAM plant walked out Thursday in Taiwan's first-ever semiconductor strike, demanding a permanent quarterly cut of 15% of operating profit — while the company settled with its bigger Taichung union under a confidentiality agreement that has Taoyuan furious.
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Siri AI Learns Korean on Monday — but It Still Can't Get Into KakaoTalk
Apple's revamped assistant adds Korean on October 26 alongside Japanese, and Korean testers found a smarter Siri — one whose personal-context magic stops at the door of KakaoTalk.