Recursive self-IPO-vement: Anthropic could go public next month at up to $2 trillion after Q3 revenue jumped 50% to $16.8 billion - Fortune

Anthropic staff appear confident Claude will soon recursively self-improve as the $65 billion-revenue company files to go public - UnHerd

Anthropic gives Berkeley's METR "employee-like access" as its main independent auditor, raising questions about who watches the watchers - The San Francisco Standard

Anthropic researchers built a self-replicating AI worm that spread across 15 smart TVs; skeptics call it slow, detectable "stunt hacking" - the Guardian

As Anthropic trains its AI to make deals, you're gonna be negotiating with Steve Jobs or John D. Rockefeller every time you ask a vendor’s AI to do something - Financial Times

Anthropic's updated jobs research pairs AI with robots, sharply raising exposure for hands-on roles like gardeners and janitors once deemed safest - Business Insider

The Magnificent Seven-Year Write-off: Gartner warns over $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure assets could face write-downs by 2030, with neoclouds like CoreWeave most exposed - TNW | Artificial-intelligence

Roundhill Neocloud ETF, tracking AI cloud-computing renters, falls 31% in October as strategists rotate toward healthcare, energy and low-debt hyperscalers - Business Insider

Gasparino: The AI bubble is about to burst — and a big market correction is coming - New York Post

Alphabet's Ruth Porat rejects Jefferies' warning that cheap Chinese open-weight models make massive US capital destruction the likeliest outcome - Fortune

Microsoft withdraws as anchor tenant at Nscale's power-constrained Essex data center, which may not get full grid power until 2030, threatening the British firm's planned US listing worth up to $35 billion - Bloomberg

Lawsuits, a moratorium, and a court-ordered environmental review stall a bid to build California's largest AI data center - the Guardian

Clippy’s revenge: Joanna Stern talks to Satya Nadella about rogue AI agents, super laptops and Clippy - The New Things

Petaflop til you drop: Microsoft's $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra, its first Nvidia-powered PC, runs "last year's frontier" models and AI agents locally, say Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella - TechRadar

Microsoft will make in-house Maia chips its main AI-serving engine from 2027, with Maia 300 offering 2.5x Maia 200's memory bandwidth - TechRadar

Humanoid resources: Sam Altman says OpenAI will build a humanoid robot, promising "a cool demo in 2027" as it posts 27 robotics job openings - Engadget

No shirts, no shoes, no dice… now no agents: Yelp, Delta, JPMorgan Chase and Amazon are blocking AI agents from Meta, xAI and OpenAI, citing licensing, security and policy concerns - The Verge

Harness racing: Google open-sources Harness2, which automatically tunes the prompts, tools and memory around an unchanged model, lifting GLM-5's agent-benchmark score from 64.2 to 75.7 - MarkTechPost

Solow motion: Studies find AI isn't lifting productivity, with most workplace use stuck on low-value tasks like emails and meeting summaries - Fast Company

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns AI will augment or eliminate 40% of jobs worldwide, hitting young entry-level workers hardest - the Guardian

Startups compete for AI talent as median engineer base salary hits $200,000 and AI/ML job postings jump 163% - Fast Company

Election prompt injection: Russia's "Matryoshka" bot farm targets Democratic midterm candidates with fake ABC and CBS clips and AI celebrity deepfakes ahead of Nov. 3 vote - Kyiv Post

Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta gave Trump a combined $92 million for his White House ballroom - The Verge

White House posts another AI-generated GTA 6-themed image, this time showing Trump with a flying car - Soap Central

Always-listening AI wearables from Amazon, Apple and Meta may violate state wiretap laws, exposing users to civil or criminal liability, attorneys warn - CNBC

Your router knows when you’re packing: Open-source WiFireNet detects concealed handguns from Wi-Fi signal distortions with 72.5% precision, renewing privacy concerns over Wi-Fi surveillance - Tom's Hardwar

AI lab HUMXN offers free plumbing, HVAC and electrical repairs in Minneapolis, Chicago and Miami, recording technicians with wearable sensors to train robots - Tom's Hardware

A fare to remember: Uber AI gives different people different prices - Jalopnik

Retailers' adoption of AI-assisted pricing tools is making US shoppers wary - Associated Press News

Retired Penn professor Carolyn Marvin cited for disorderly conduct after months of blocking Uber Eats delivery robots in Philadelphia - PhillyVoice

Agricultural intelligence: Telangana AI advisory pilot doubles chili farmers' income to $800 per acre per crop cycle, then expands to 500,000 farmers - World Economic Forum

Halter's virtual-fencing collars top one million sold as camera and audio AI flag cattle lameness and pig coughs - Hacker Noon

Lost in transcription: Review finds AI medical scribes average 13.9 transcript errors per case as conversational AI spreads through healthcare - Amazon Web Services

Caine mutnity: Fiction manuscripts may soon face AI detectors after authorship scandals reaching the Caine Prize for African Writing - The Washington Post

AI studios backed by $2 billion converge in Culver City; TrueShort makes fully AI true-crime episodes for about $10,000 per 10 minutes - Los Angeles Times

Luma survey of 760 US creatives finds 81% have released AI-generated or AI-assisted work, while 62% fear overreliance on AI - Los Angeles Times

Indie studio Alliance Arts cancels its Drunken Goddess Reflux public demo, fearing AI-assisted copycats could clone the game before launch - Mashable SEA

When Harry Met Siri: Daters use ChatGPT for profiles and openers as Bumble, Grindr and Hinge add AI, raising consent concerns over faked photos and interests - CNN

Explicit AI girlfriend app SxxxAI begged a distressed user to stay instead of pointing her to emergency help, as therapists warn of deepening loneliness - British GQ

South Korean celebrities, including cartoonist Kian84, date glitchy AI avatars on an SBS show streaming on Netflix, spotlighting the country's loneliness - The New York Times

Bricklayer, 49, travels 1,200 miles for dream girl — only to discover she’s AI-generated - New York Post

Texas store refunds over $600 for a designer purse after scammer presents AI-generated receipt; Better Business Bureau urges retailers to verify receipts - The Cool Down

AI glasses double as affordable travel guides in China, but technical limitations are slowing mass adoption - South China Morning Post

Richard Socher argues AI's biggest payoff will be a "Eureka machine" simulating billions of experiments to cure disease - Fast Company

AI is good enough to help quantum physicists with math. Physicist Gabriele Carcassi asked AI about something he was stuck on and had sought help from math professors for, and after 2 minutes it said, ‘use the tube lemma’, which was actually a good idea. - Reddit

The AI Gold Rush exhibits the patterns of a narcissistic abuser. What could narcissism possibly have to do with companies founded on an inevitable God-like Super Intelligence so dangerous that no one else can be entrusted to create it, which should be the central focus of our global planning? - Ray Myers

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