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Two-host AI-generated rundown of tech news from Hacker News and the broader web. New episodes daily.
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Anthropic Files S-1, SpaceX's $40B AI Debt, and Water-Soluble Batteries
Anthropic files its Form S-1 for a proposed initial public offering on the Nasdaq, revealing $16.3 billion in first-half revenue alongside an $80.7 billion net loss largely driven by noncash accounting adjustments. Meanwhile, SpaceX secures a $40 billion financing arrangement with Apollo Global Management to lease AI chips as Elon Musk predicts widespread consolidation among pure-play neocloud providers. Additional reporting covers Agility Robotics' commercial expansion with GXO Logistics, a water-soluble battery binder from UC San Diego and Toyota, and the UK's National Quantum Computing Centre testbed trials.
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- Anthropic S-1
- SpaceX's Elon Musk reveals $40 billion in debt for AI chips, warns of neoclouds
- Agility Robotics expands Digit robot customer base ahead of Nasdaq listing
- New ‘glue’ makes batteries simple and sustainable from cradle to grave
- Report: UK’s £30 Million Quantum Testbed Program Helps Suppliers Advance Toward Commercial Deployment
- SpaceX ignites giant Super Heavy booster engines ahead of daring Starship launch (video) | Space
- Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
- PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
- The State of Context Engineering
- Elon Musk's AI 'The Odyssey' Movie Gets Reviewed as 'Soulless Slop'
- Quantum Computing Inc. to Host Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Company Update Call on Monday, November 9, 2026 | Morningstar
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Cerebras Trillion-Scale Silicon, DARPA Quantum Loans, and Grid Batteries
Cerebras details a cluster architecture running three-trillion-parameter models across fifty-nine wafers, while the U.S. Department of Defense commits $350 million to advance utility-scale quantum computing. Australian grid data shows tripled battery storage cutting solar farm shut-offs in half, and Nikon revokes a scientific microscopy award over generative AI hallucinations.
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- Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
- Disclosed Defence Quantum Computing Money Doubled To Tripled
- Finger-controlled robotic beetle sports artificial muscles and two-way feedback
- More batteries, both big and small, mean solar farms don't have to shut down so often
- Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI
- America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
- FIX 2026 Innovation Awards: 9 Best Innovation Technology Winners in Robotics, AI, and Mobility | Ubergizmo
- The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about | TechCrunch
- Jeju National University selected to develop satellite to monitor gwaengsaengimojaban off Jeju coast from space - First-Class Business Newspaper Financial News
- Sarasota Military Academy reaches out to International Space Station | Your Observer
- Stop Chasing Views: How 87% of Creators Are Using AI to Build Real Businesses Beyond Social Media
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SpaceX's AI Compute Boom, Voice-Only Dessa, and Dirty Nickel
SpaceX reports third-quarter revenue of $14.5 billion powered by $7.6 billion from its Super Intelligence orbital compute division, while Jack Dorsey-backed Block unveils Dessa, a full-duplex voice AI model trained entirely on speech without text. An investigative report reveals captive coal pollution and alleged corruption tied to electric vehicle nickel mining on Indonesia's Obi Island, as BlackRock launches an actively managed robotics ETF targeting hardware automation. Additional coverage includes IBM quantum hardware sweeping Japan's NEDO challenge, Li Auto's in-house battery strategy, Symbotic and Kraken earnings, and security researchers obtaining root shell access on Samsung smart TVs.
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- Is It Too Late to Buy SpaceX Stock After Its Monster Third-Quarter Earnings Report? Here's the Answer.
- Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
- Green batteries built on dirty dealings in Indonesia - Asia Times
- BlackRock launches robotics and related technology ETF | IDNFinancials
- All Nine Award Winners in Japan’s NEDO Quantum Challenge Leverage IBM Hardware; Four Dedicated Industry Sponsor Prizes Awarded - Quantum Computing Report
- Nearly 2027: Is In-House Battery Development Still Worth Debating? | Gasgoo
- Symbotic and Kraken Robotics: One Tied to Walmart, One Serving Underwater Drones | NAI 500
- Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
- Root shell on Samsung TV
- Twelve years of distributed SQLite
- On this day in space! Oct. 24, 1946: V-2 rocket takes 1st photos of Earth from space | Space
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GPU Quantum Decoders, Kimi's 3T Model, and an iPhone Root Exploit
Nvidia takes an equity stake in quantum error correction startup Riverlane to slash decoder calibration cycles from minutes down to seconds using H100 GPUs. Moonshot AI introduces Kimi K3.1 Pro, a three-trillion-parameter reasoning model scheduled for public open weights, while security researchers demonstrate an untethered, persistent root jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro. Additional reporting covers Google's updated advertising terms regarding Gmail data, DeepMind's zero-shot video-to-simulation robotics pipeline, and domestic LFP battery manufacturing in India.
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- NVIDIA Takes Strategic Stake in Riverlane to Accelerate Real-Time Quantum Error Correction and GPU Decoder Calibration - Quantum Computing Report
- Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
- Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
- Gemini 4 Argon Writes Physics Simulation Code From Human Video, Teaches Apollo Humanoid Cornhole
- Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
- Google Launches $150,000 AI Competition to Reduce Quantum Computing Demands
- SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California as Falcon 9 cadence slows (photos) | Space
- Unitree Unveils Fearsome Bodyguard Robot
- NASH Energy to Present EV Batteries and BESS at The Battery Show India 2026
- WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
- Peloton Ride with NASA Astronaut Live from Space
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Meta's $25B Penalty, Barclays AI Cuts, and a $399 Walking Robot
A New Mexico state judge orders Meta to pay a 25-billion-dollar penalty over Cambridge Analytica privacy violations, while Barclays plans 5,000 layoffs in an AI productivity push. Researchers achieve zero-shot bipedal locomotion on a 399-dollar open-source robot trained purely in GPU simulation, and eMudhra abruptly exits the global TLS certificate authority business following cryptographic key weaknesses. Additional coverage includes Artemis II sensor false alarms, Switch 2 jailbreaks, and hybrid quantum control interconnects.
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- Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
- Barclays Is Cutting 5,000 Jobs in an AI Productivity Push - Business Insider
- Sim-to-Real Gap Narrowed for $399 Duck Robot: Isaac Lab 3.0 Proves Pure-Simulation Training Works
- eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
- 'Cabin leak suspected': Artemis II astronaut reveals how a warning nearly derailed NASA's epic moon mission
- Advertisers Pull Meta Ads That Had Unwanted AI Glow-ups
- Qblox Advances Hybrid Quantum Computing with Integration of NVIDIA DGX Spark leveraging NVIDIA NVQLink
- Jailbreaking the Switch 2
- Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France
- ESA Provides New Details on Failed Space Rider Drop Test - European Spaceflight
- AI is accelerating the quantum threat to crypto, but should you be worried for your Bitcoin? | FXStreet
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AI-Found PHP Flaws, AMD's $8.2B Bet, and Solid-State Flight
OpenAI, Wiz, and Calif discover critical remote code execution flaws in PHP affecting an estimated seventy percent of websites worldwide, prompting emergency patches. AMD agrees to acquire spatial AI startup World Labs for 8.2 billion dollars to guide future semiconductor architectures, while French battery maker Saft begins pilot production of solid-state cells for aerospace testing. Additional coverage includes a stealthy supply chain backdoor in LiteLLM, HD Hyundai's ten-fingered dual-arm robot, and DeepSeek's open-source inference engine.
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- Critical Flaw Found By AI Puts 70% Of World’s Websites At Risk - Yahoo News Singapore
- AMD Is Betting $8.2 Billion on the Next Phase of AI | The Motley Fool
- 50% more energy: New solid-state battery line target aircraft use
- Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
- HD Hyundai Robotics Unveils Dual-Arm Robot With 10 Fingers - Seoul Economic Daily
- DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
- Carney appoints astronaut Jeremy Hansen to advise government on new space strategy
- Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations
- Here's how long it will take for quantum computing to become a reality
- GOTT Funds NPL Project to Scale Trapped-Ion Quantum Technology
- Distant space ‘hamburger’ hides a baby gas giant | Popular Science
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Autonomous Drones Beat Champions, Japan Targets Phobos, and Secret Orbital Weapons
Delft University researchers debut MonoRace, an autonomous racing drone that outflies human champions using an onboard neural network and a single camera without GPS. Japan launches its MMX mission aboard an H3 rocket to retrieve the first surface samples from Mars' moon Phobos, while the United States formally acknowledges the deployment of operational weapons in orbit. Additional coverage includes Airbus expanding quantum simulations for aerodynamics, Stanford's hybrid latent-reasoning agents, and Mistral's new foundation models.
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- World's fastest AI-powered racing drone outflies the best human pilots | Live Science
- How to watch Japan's mission to Mars | Popular Science
- Airbus Turns To Quantum Computing To Design Its Next Generation Of Aircraft
- Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
- U.S. space weapons declaration leaves nations guessing
- CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
- Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
- Agility Robotics Announces Audit Committee Chair for Planned Public-Company Board | Markets Insider
- Universal Basic Capital: Elon Musk Giving Out SpaceX Shares Is Part Of Broader AI Plan
- The quantumresistant transformation of...
- Expédition des batteries électriques : voici les règles de sécurité que les professionnels doivent absolument connaître - Mobilités Urbaines
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AI Worm Warnings, Robotic Drywall, and Europe's Battery Blueprint
Anthropic warns that sub-thirty-billion parameter models could replicate autonomously across edge hardware, while construction startup Origin raises twenty million dollars for its drywall finishing robot. The European Commission designates forty-six strategic raw material projects to meet aggressive 2030 battery independence targets, and DeepSeek transitions its search APIs to per-request billing ahead of a November first deadline. Plus, cognitive science research shows AI-generated images and text summaries can implant persistent false memories in eyewitnesses.
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- What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them? | Technology | The Guardian
- Robotics company claims AI-powered construction robot can do drywall 3x times faster than human crews. Check it out. | Not the Bee
- Voici les 46 projets stratégiques pour la fabrication de batteries retenus par la Commission européenne
- AI-Generated Content Can Plant Fake Memories, Researchers Say
- DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
- Scientists Simulated the Universe – And Discovered the Milky Way May Be One of the Best Places for Life
- Quantum Computing at Glasgow - Glasgow Guardian
- Kraken Robotics Stock in 3 Years: Boom, Bust, or Quietly Crushing It?
- You could have invented transformers from memory
- Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG
- Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour
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Cracking Curve Seeds, Factory-as-a-Service, and the 90% Benchmark Gap
Anthropic uses Claude to solve a twenty-five-year-old mystery behind NIST cryptographic curve seeds, showing they originated from standard 1990s Unix timestamps rather than agency backdoors. D.R. Horton partners with Promise Robotics to build over twelve hundred homes via automated micro-factories, while Google Quantum AI demonstrates forty-fold error suppression on its Willow architecture. Plus, new labor research reveals standard AI benchmarks ignore ninety percent of real-world American work tasks.
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- Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
- Canada's Promise Robotics Signs Multi-Year Deal With US Homebuilder DR Horton for Robotic Homebuilding
- Quantum Zeitgeist Weekly Digest October 17th
- 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
- AI agents vs. Kubernetes: where each belongs in the control loop - The New Stack
- DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 232 — The Lunar Dump | Space
- Tesla Roadster
- Be warned of drained batteries - The Bradford Era
- On this day in space! Oct. 17, 2016: Private Antares rocket returns to flight after catastrophic launch explosion | Space
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Data Center Capex Squeeze, Muse Spark Open, and Tesla's Thruster Roadster
Gartner forecasts a massive disconnect in artificial intelligence data center investments, estimating that capital expenditures could trigger more than three trillion dollars in asset impairments by 2030 as infrastructure buildout costs far exceed real enterprise software revenue. Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion parameter open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model optimized for long-horizon agentic programming and multi-step reasoning. Tesla reveals a production-intent prototype of its second-generation Roadster in Texas, promoting compressed-gas thruster systems and sub-second acceleration ahead of a targeted 2028 production run.
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- AI datacenter capex will far exceed forecast revenue through 2030 | Network World
- Muse Spark Open
- Tesla Roadster
- SpaceX Q3 Earnings Countdown: 5 Debates to Watch - SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) - Benzinga
- Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
- Apparent space debris lands in western Minnesota cornfield
- The TWA Hotel is about to rocket back to the Space Age with 'Mission 60s' celebration in NYC | Space
- I Love Software Rendering