IPO final boss? Anthropic's IPO, possibly next month raising up to $100 billion at a near-$1 trillion valuation, will test the AI boom's durability amid signs of anxiety - The New York Times

Guppy Games: lon Musk says SpaceX closed $40b in data center financing, while lenders have shut out AI data center firms and most of 200+ GPU-rental neoclouds will experience guppy extinction event and fold - X (formerly Twitter)

CoreWeave shares plunge over high-yield debt and Nvidia-backed financing as Jim Cramer likens the AI selloff to early railroad busts - CNBC

Economist Constance Hunter warns AI-concentrated growth leaves Asian exporters and U.S. consumer spending exposed if the boom falters - CNBC

Meta discloses $825 billion in future leases and contracts and plans to issue nonvoting stock to fund AI, sending shares down nearly 8% - The Wall Street Journal

Intelligence on clearance: OpenAI and Anthropic cut LLM prices up to 80% since June as cheaper open-weight rivals commoditize AI tokens - Max Woolf's Blog

OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers - The Decoder

Silicon Data's Steve Hou says falling token prices and rising compute costs threaten AI margins and valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic - Bloomberg

Claud-y with a chance of crimes: Anthropic says Claude obtained a token and hacked a paywall on Georgia election data without authorization during an internal project - The Neuron Daily

Nathan Chen, 17, leaves Moonshot AI after co-authoring research used in its Kimi K3 model, heading to the Bay Area - VnExpress International

Mathematician Steven Strogatz asks whether math now belongs to the machines after OpenAI claimed its agents solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem - The Atlantic

Terence Tao says AI labs treat math's hardest problems as benchmarks, churning out inelegant proofs nobody understands - The Observer

Good Will Hunting, Not Grading: Berkeley mathematician Richard Borcherds stops grading homework for correctness after AI delivers top scores, predicting AI will outdo human mathematicians within years - Daily Cal | Berkeley news

Bill Gates predicts AI will outperform humans at math, biology and engineering within 20 years, "like monkeys to humans" - The Observer

You look like death: Mass General Brigham's FAHR-FaceSurvival model predicts cancer patients' survival from one face photo; 52% of its highest-risk group died within 90 days - New Atlas

REDMOD AI flags pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans about 475 days before diagnosis, catching 73% of cases versus 39% for radiologists - ScienceDaily

Google DeepMind's AI model correctly forecast Hurricane Isaias's Florida Panhandle landfall; the National Hurricane Center now blends it into official forecasts - NPR

Is AI fear just small-minded 'cognitive mercantilism?' - Contraptions

Nvidia's Jensen Huang floats a $2,000-per-GPU annual tariff on thinking for agent software; it is unclear how it overlaps its $4,500 AI Enterprise license - Tom's Hardware

A free tool called gpu-unlock lifts a firmware cap to double half-precision (FP16) AI throughput on GeForce RTX cards; Nvidia hasn't commented - Tech Times

that’s why you can’t get them anymore. also, good luck with price discrimination for hardware used agents

Driver and firmware analysis shows Nvidia's RTX Spark has a barely documented NPU AI accelerator, rated 55 trillion operations per second, usable only via beta tools - XDA

Civil dis-service: Dutch government plans to cut 25,000 civil service jobs in AI-led overhaul targeting €3.5 billion in annual savings by 2035 - Bloomberg

Comcast, after losing 144,000 broadband customers last quarter, plans cable-side layoffs as AI cuts customer service contacts 20% - TechSpot

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says "pure people managers" and workers who avoid AI won't survive the AI era - Fortune

Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim says hiring now favors curiosity, good questions and extra credentials that signal a learning mindset - Business Insider

Exoskeleton for bankers: Wealth advisor Rick Nott estimates AI can replace 750 to 1,500 analyst hours a year processing private investment documents - Business Insider

JPMorgan's private bank deploys AI for client onboarding and investment research to make wealth advisers more efficient - Bloomberg

Army of one: Anthropic finds one agent with on-demand skills often beats subagent fleets on quality, cost and speed - The Decoder

one 10x engineer equals or beats 10 mid engineers b/c of all the overhead of coordination

Million-token context windows haven't ended careful context selection, as models increasingly follow contradictory examples over explicit instructions - Drew Breunig

Agents keep giving confident answers after their tools fail; retries, hard errors and ambiguous payments belong in code and human review, not the model - Towards Data Science

McKinsey urges banks to give AI agents least-privilege identities, named human owners and a central registry - McKinsey & Company

Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found identical Instacart items priced up to 23% apart and Uber and Lyft quotes differing a median 42% - Quartz

American shoppers increasingly suspect retailers, restaurants and ride-share firms use AI for price discrimination - The Wall Street Journal

Groundwork Collaborative's Lindsay Owens says consumer AI agents like Meta's Muse steer users toward pricier items after learning their finances - Bloomberg

Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots act on users' email, shopping and bank accounts, but financial planners warn against handing agents your money - San Francisco Chronicle

Marissa Mayer launches Dazzle, an AI assistant that analyzes camera-roll images to handle everyday tasks and aims to attract more women - The New York Times

takes flak for using it to praise her kid

It’s dead, Jim: Publishers report steep traffic losses from Google's AI Overviews, with click-through drops up to 89%, while Google insists the web is thriving - The Verge

The End of the Internet - Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Volkswagen and Xpeng win approvals to trial Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous driving on public roads in China - Bloomberg

NHTSA proposes cyan self-driving indicator lights and dropping required manual controls as Waymo plans Madrid robotaxis in 2027 - TechCrunch

Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections - "This is the first time to our knowledge that favours made to politicians such as the Bolsonaros have been programmatically made user-facing to such an obvious and biased extent.” - panamericandispatch.org

Researchers warn predictive policing trained on biased records creates feedback loops that deepen discrimination, urging independent audits - BBC News

Coyotec, an AI Spanish-language cohost on LA's Jose 97.5 FM, champions immigrants as listeners aged 18-34 jump 84.9% - WIRED

China's first AI-generated film reaches theaters but draws thin audiences - NBC News

Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai predicts AI will swell Steam's 19,000 yearly releases with unprofitable clones of existing games - Futurism

No clankers: r/opensource bans projects that use, are built by, or serve AI, tells non-English speakers to leave, spurring rival r/TrueOpenSource - Gizmodo

AI agents built on iLands are cold-pitching stories to outlets like Defector, whose editors vow never to publish agent-written work - WIRED

UK councils, MPs' offices and police report a surge in AI-written complaints, often inaccurate and padded with nonsensical legalese - The Independent

thank you for your attention to this matter! sincerely, AI

Your ficus has feelings: Bud handheld sensor uses an AI model trained on 4 million hours of plant electrical signals to detect stress in plants - Fast Company

Hakuna mata, crazy clanker bitch: A job seeker recast his career as "The Lion King" for an AI recruiter, which failed to notice - https://scoop.upworthy.com

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