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- Internal data: Meta's Muse now has 3M+ users who submit at least one prompt per week and 1M+ DAUs who have sent at least one prompt (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [1d]
- Slack message: Greg Brockman has no plans to donate beyond his initial $25M to Leading the Future, saying the PAC has become a "distraction" at OpenAI (New York Times) [1d]
- Sources: Trump's AI accord grew out of a talk between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson; Zuckerberg circulated a draft, and Huang helped build support (Ashley Gold/Semafor) [1d]
- Sources: Jensen Huang and other execs asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei said it's important to be honest (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Factory CEO Matan Grinberg alleges Cognition's new CRO Chris Degnan had been confiding with Cognition executives while advising Factory as a board observer (Rya Jetha/Business Insider) [1d]
- Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, vs. $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% to $37.7B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (CNBC) [2d]
- DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day study of capabilities the US may need in future wars (Luke Fountain/CNBC) [2d]
- Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks (Madison Mills/Axios) [2d]
- Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers (Ben Weiss/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) [2d]
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- I'm an audio reviewer and these are the best expert-approved headphone deals to shop in the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sale [1d]
- Opera adds a game-changing feature to its mobile browser that Chrome should absolutely copy — the browsing app has a built-in eSIM with free 3GB data that can be used worldwide [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, October 1 (game #1208) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, October 1 (game #1711) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, October 1 (game #942) [1d]
- Russia cracking down on drone usage as it makes ERA-GLONASS navigation tech mandatory — GPS rival can monitor up to 1 million drones on land, water, and in the air in real time [1d]
- European Space Agency signs up CGI and OVHcloud to build storage for the 500PB of Earth observation data it expects to have by 2035 [2d]
- $6,399 — that's how much GMKTec sells its EVO-X5 Pro mini PC with an AMD Max+ PRO 495 and 192GB RAM, and that's the cheapest fully loaded Gorgon Halo device [2d]
- Amazon AU's October Prime Day sale is now on — these are the 100+ expert-recommended deals on day 3 [2d]
- Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter review: yet another triumphant remake [2d]
- US government reveals $5.25 billion spending on boosting national grid to help power new AI data centers — money will cover 31 projects across 26 states, but how will it affect energy bills? [2d]
- Bambu Lab's Halloween Sale has up to 30% off supplies — I'd pair these 3D printers with all the deals [2d]
- Creators can save $100 on the powerful Ugreen DXP4800 GT NAS [2d]
- Moscow tightens regulation on SIM market to crack down on fraud and 'attackers' — Anti-Fraud 3.0 could see SIMs sold without money and a massive reduction in SIM card sellers [2d]
- Developers want to build this 1,300-acre AI data center so badly they offered every house in town $10,000 [2d]
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