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- Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a $40B-$50B valuation, up from $21B in August (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Analysis: Anthropic's subscriptions offer ~5x more API-equivalent value per month than OpenAI's for agentic workloads with Claude Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol (SemiAnalysis) [3d]
- SpaceX stock closes up 7.6% after Morgan Stanley called SPCX "cheap", reaching its highest level since mid-June and returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) [3d]
- TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max (Semafor) [3d]
- Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Claude; Meta employees using Claude Code have dropped to ~30K from ~60K earlier this year (The Information) [3d]
- Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [3d]
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- Google and Microsoft hit by fresh criticism of their AI data center plans [2d]
- After 3 months of using it as my shower speaker, the JBL Go 5 is now my favorite little Bluetooth speaker — and I'd doubly recommend it now it's had a price cut [2d]
- Finland drops first-come, first-served grid connections — leaving data centers way down the queue [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, October 6 (game #1716) [3d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, October 6 (game #1213) [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, October 6 (game #947) [3d]
- October Prime Day home office deals live — I found the best savings on Apple Mac minis, FlexiSpot chairs, Logitech gear and more [3d]
- ‘The keyword is speed to power’: Dell, Apollo, and Jera launch a $140 billion plan to build up to 4GW of AI data centers across Japan and Asia [3d]
- I love Lego, and these 27 Star Wars, Botanicals, Technic and more deals caught my eye [3d]
- Open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts hacked by a bored teenager — but he's been well-paid for his actions [3d]
- Nearly 40,000 phishing attacks hit US financial firms in H1 2026 — automated AI agents and a new Seychelles bulletproof host fuel aggressive new campaigns [3d]
- The Urevo Spacewalk E1L walking pad is now under $130 at Best Buy [3d]
- US counties are desperately trying to stop data centers from taking over: A look at how Charlotte, Pima County, and Guildford County are dealing with the onslaught - with an interesting catch [3d]
- Surprise surprise, AI data centers are still incredibly unpopular across the US — and nearly two-thirds of Americans say they oppose new facilities [3d]
- BYD is coming for Tesla's global EV sales crown, new sales figures reveal [3d]
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