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Google's TorchTPU and Amazon's TorchNeuron let existing PyTorch code run on the companies' own AI chips. Here is what each announced, what is in beta, and whose claims they are.
21 Oct 2026Meta says it has paused sharing in its Muse AI assistant after security firm Claroc reported that shared-conversation links could be found through public DNS records.
21 Oct 2026SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue and $4.4 billion in net income, with its AI segment, now called Super Intelligence, the largest by revenue. Musk also discussed a possible Tesla merger.
21 Oct 2026A draft prospectus viewed by the Wall Street Journal reportedly shows an $80.7bn first-half loss and possible compute spending of $750bn. Who reported what, and what is still a claim.
21 Oct 2026NorForge says exposed control panels for the Cairn platform, which Reuters describes as open-source, showed AI agents hacking e-commerce sites. Reuters says victims included Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins.
21 Oct 2026OpenAI posted 722 maths manuscripts from an unreleased internal model on 6 October, then withdrew three over a sign error and revised 14 more. Its README says some unformalised results could have issues.
21 Oct 2026The Verge reports Democratic strategists see AI as an opening ahead of November's midterms. Governors Newsom and Shapiro have already acted by executive order.
19 Oct 2026Reuters, CNBC and TNW report that DeepSeek is close to closing a second outside funding round, with figures running from 80 billion to 100 billion yuan and Tencent and CATL among the backers.
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