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How DeepSeek Is Shaping Huawei’s AI Chips in a Growing Challenge to NVIDIA

DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei Technologies to shape the design of future AI chips, two people familiar with the matter said, in a collaboration that could help China build frontier AI models without Nvidia’s technology.

Why it matters

AI infrastructure capacity and cost are becoming core constraints for labs and enterprises scaling real workloads.

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How to shape your slides and videos with Gemini Notebook

Gemini Notebook is giving more creative control in the creation of Slide Decks and Video Overviews.

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4 Tips for styling outfits with Gemini

Here’s how athlete stylist Sydney Bordonaro uses Gemini to build looks for clients — and how you can build your own, too.

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Investing in the public benefit

We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity with a structure that increases the stake as the company grows.

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NVIDIA launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.

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Musk pledges to give ‘every kid in America’ one of his SpaceX shares

Musk's post came just a few hours after Anthropic promised to put 5% of its shares into a new "public benefit fund," which it intends to use to make "large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations" after its upcoming IPO.

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Anthropic Readies Model That Reads Users' Intentions Better

In the last month, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have released more than a dozen new models.

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Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

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Town raises $108M to help your team operate at the speed of AI | Town

AI made each of us faster on our own, which makes working together the new bottleneck. That's why Town built its AI assistants from the ground up for teamwork.

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Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog ’employee-like’ access

Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control.

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Anthropic commits 5% of its stock to a new 'public benefit' fund

Anthropic said Sunday it is committing 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund, with the fund's worth potentially increasing as its shares grow in value.

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NVIDIA Tells Suppliers to Tap TSMC Process for Next-Generation Memory Chips

Nvidia has asked the suppliers of its next-generation custom high-bandwidth memory chip to use Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s 3-nanometer manufacturing process, the Seoul Economic Daily reported. Nvidia asked Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron to standardize the manufacturing...

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Securing the agentic insider

In the last few months, concerns have arisen about AI safety as a growing number of incidents were publicly disclosed.

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Anthropic Commits At Least 5% of Shares to New Public Benefit Fund

Anthropic announced the creation of a new fund that will get at least 5% of its shares and support public-benefit causes such as addressing the employment impact of AI. The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund could get an additional 2% of the company’s shares on top of the initial 5% commitment, at...

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Accelerating Mamba-2 with High-Performance Forward Pass Kernels in NVIDIA CUDA Tile

NVIDIA CUDA Tile (cuTile) is a Python-based DSL and parallel programming model for NVIDIA GPUs that automatically leverages advanced hardware capabilities to...

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NVIDIA Advances Agentic Security for Media, From European Public Service Broadcasting to Global Content Production

At a creative industry event that took place today in Berlin — hosted in collaboration with Adobe, Bertelsmann, NVIDIA and UFA — the latest advancements in intelligent media were on display.

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Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale U.K. Data Center Following Delays

Microsoft has pulled out of a planned U.K. data center Nscale was building for it, an Nscale spokesperson said, after the cloud provider faced delays accessing power to bring the site online. The cancellation is likely to weigh on Nscale’s planned public offering this month as investor concerns...

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Anthropic Sets Aside a Slice of Its A.I. Empire for the Public Good

A.I. company Anthropic is pledging five percent of its shares to a new fund designed to benefit the public as the company grows.

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Samsung Taps TSMC for NVHBM Base Die Production

Samsung is reportedly collaborating with the world's largest chip maker, TSMC, to secure a base die supply for NVIDIA's newly announced NVHBM memory standard.

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You can now modify the vBIOS on NVIDIA gaming GPUs without flashing thanks to a solo developer’s project

Flashing the VBIOS is risky and can brick a GPU, but this VBIOS configurator uses an Nvidia register key to override VBIOS settings without flashing.

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Suffering Risks Belong in AI Prospectuses

Anthropic should disclose suffering risks alongside the “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” reportedly described in its draft prospectus.

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This chart shows how junior-level hiring is down at Anthropic due to AI

Anthropic said it has been hiring for a "smaller share of junior technical positions" as AI agents have been deployed across the firm.

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Prosecutors say ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting recording device received 'what appears to be considerable support' from the Saudi government

Abdulrahman Alfozan had been in contact as recently as October 5 with a member of the Saudi Royal Family, prosecutors said.

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NVIDIA reportedly wants all its HBM suppliers to use TSMC’s 3nm process

Samsung Electronics will make a core part of Nvidia’s custom memory chips on TSMC’s 3-nanometre process.

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Anthropic's safety bill would let the US block an AI model if there's imminent risk of 50-plus deaths

The draft proposal would limit the circumstances in which the government could block the release of an advanced model and preempt some state AI laws.

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Model release MiniMax

OpenRouter reveals stealth model Space Bunny as MiniMax M3.1 Flash

OpenRouter revealed that stealth model Space Bunny has returned as MiniMax M3.1 Flash.

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@openrouter — Stealth model reveal 🐰 Space Bunny was OpenRouter’s #1 model for 10 straight days, processing 56.7T tokens! The most of any stealth model we’ve run. Space Bunny hopped off OpenRouter on Oct 5. It's

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@thsottiaux: We do care about local regulation

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@thsottiaux — We do care about local regulation

Policy Anthropic

Anthropic commits shares to new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund

The company is committing 5% of its shares to create the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, dedicated entirely to public benefit.

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@anthropicai — We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit. It will start off with 5% of our shares. For

Model release OrcaCyber Nano 1.0

OrcaCyber Nano 1.0 released as open-weight model

@orcarouter announces the open-weight release of OrcaCyber Nano 1.0, a 27B parameter vision model with 262K context in the OrcaCyber series.

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@orcarouter — 🚨 Emergency release: OrcaCyber Nano 1.0 is now open-weight. Part of our OrcaCyber model series: Nano, Zero, Ultra. Based on our early evals, Nano is the most capable local model in its under-16GB

Dev tool vLLM

vLLM update announced

@vllm_project: 🚀 vLLM v0.32.0 is out! 814 commits · 363 contributors · 121 first-timers 🧭 New /v1/systemone structured-decision endpoint + generic hf tool/reasoning parser 🗜️ Low-precision KV everywhere: NVFP4 on SM8x/90/12x, FP8 KV default for GLM-5.x, 4

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@vllm_project — 🚀 vLLM v0.32.0 is out! 814 commits · 363 contributors · 121 first-timers 🧭 New /v1/systemone structured-decision endpoint + generic hf tool/reasoning parser 🗜️ Low-precision KV everywhere: NVFP4 on

Model release MiniMax

MiniMax release announced

@arena: MiniMax-M3.1-Flash by @MiniMax_AI is live in the Code Arena: WebDev. It debuts at #12 among open models with 1588 pts (#32 overall). It also lifts MiniMax to #12 among all labs! MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a +106 pt increase from the previous var

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@arena — MiniMax-M3.1-Flash by @MiniMax_AI is live in the Code Arena: WebDev. It debuts at #12 among open models with 1588 pts (#32 overall). It also lifts MiniMax to #12 among all labs! MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is
@aibattle_ — MiniMax is preparing to release a Pro model soon According to earlier reports from The Information and Reuters, the model is expected to have a total of 2.7T parameters
@0x0sojalsec — MiniMax H3 just got 9× faster On an RTX 4090. Locally video generation shrink down From 11 minutes to 72 seconds on 16 GB GPUs Open-source New ComfyUI node drops MiniMax H3 character video generation

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Frontier model releases +10.5

Foundational model developers are deploying new open and enterprise architectures optimized for long-context output windows, on-device execution, and specialized forecasting tasks.

5 sources Coding agents and workflows -0.1

Engineering teams and tooling providers are restructuring source control, orchestration architectures, and evaluation tooling to integrate autonomous software agents into everyday development environments.

4 sources AI infrastructure and compute -4.8

Semiconductor manufacturers and infrastructure operators are advancing custom silicon, memory interconnects, and rack-scale architectures to handle growing compute and efficiency demands.

6 sources Capital and consolidation -5.2

Enterprise services firms and software platforms are formalizing strategic alliances and capital allocations to deploy agent capabilities across commercial systems.

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Infrastructure bottlenecks and power constraints are testing secondary AI cloud providers as major hyperscalers cancel contracts amid construction delays and impending public market scrutiny.Developer platforms are realigning model provider partnerships based on pricing and commercial terms, signaling increasing portability across competing model ecosystems.Frontier developers are expanding external oversight mechanisms by granting independent evaluators unvetted publication rights and internal access to evaluate frontier systems.Neocloud infrastructure projects are encountering commercial headwinds and site delays, prompting major cloud customers like Microsoft to cancel data center commitments amid power-access bottlenecks.Frontier AI developers are granting external safety evaluators like METR direct employee-level access to audit operational risks and publish independent findings without prior corporate approval.Model developers are expanding release cadences across both multi-modal frontier systems and specialized low-latency variants targeted at academic research, agent orchestration, and enterprise environments.Enterprise software teams are operationalizing multi-hour agent harnesses for testing, cybersecurity, and internal workflows, balancing model capability against inference speed and compute expenditures.Frontier labs are formalizing external accountability and social commitments, with Anthropic pledging equity to a public benefit fund and granting outside evaluators unvetted access to audit model risks.

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Market pulse

bullish

AI pulse 60/100

AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Amazon.com +5.00%, Palantir Technologies. +4.95%, Advanced Micro Devices +2.65% leading the tracked basket.

Ticker	Company	Move
AMZN	Amazon.com	+5.00%
PLTR	Palantir Technologies.	+4.95%
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices	+2.65%
AVGO	Broadcom.	+2.44%

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Coding Agents

Replit makes OpenAI the preferred model partner for its coding agent

Innovation Village reports that Replit has made OpenAI the preferred provider for Replit Agent while…

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Model Releases

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

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Hot Builder Skills

Exclusive: NVIDIA’s Vera Team Says Chiplet Designs Sacrificed Single-Threaded Performance For Core Counts, And Agentic A

NVIDIA's Vera CPU heralds a redefinition of computing architecture from a traditional, task-isolated paradigm…

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AI Infrastructure

Intel unveils 480GB GPU D-series for AI inference

TechRadar reports that Intel unveiled a data-center GPU with up to 480GB of memory for demanding AI inference…

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Research & Evals

Anthropic is pitching Congress its own AI safety bill, report says

Anthropic has privately pitched lawmakers a draft AI safety bill that would narrow when federal officials can…

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How DeepSeek Is Shaping Huawei’s AI Chips in a Growing Challenge to NVIDIA

The ledger

How to shape your slides and videos with Gemini Notebook

4 Tips for styling outfits with Gemini

Investing in the public benefit

NVIDIA launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs

Musk pledges to give ‘every kid in America’ one of his SpaceX shares

Anthropic Readies Model That Reads Users' Intentions Better

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

Town raises $108M to help your team operate at the speed of AI | Town

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog ’employee-like’ access

Anthropic commits 5% of its stock to a new 'public benefit' fund

NVIDIA Tells Suppliers to Tap TSMC Process for Next-Generation Memory Chips

Securing the agentic insider

Anthropic Commits At Least 5% of Shares to New Public Benefit Fund

Accelerating Mamba-2 with High-Performance Forward Pass Kernels in NVIDIA CUDA Tile

NVIDIA Advances Agentic Security for Media, From European Public Service Broadcasting to Global Content Production

Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale U.K. Data Center Following Delays

Anthropic Sets Aside a Slice of Its A.I. Empire for the Public Good

Samsung Taps TSMC for NVHBM Base Die Production

You can now modify the vBIOS on NVIDIA gaming GPUs without flashing thanks to a solo developer’s project

Suffering Risks Belong in AI Prospectuses

This chart shows how junior-level hiring is down at Anthropic due to AI

Prosecutors say ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting recording device received 'what appears to be considerable support' from the Saudi government

NVIDIA reportedly wants all its HBM suppliers to use TSMC’s 3nm process

Anthropic's safety bill would let the US block an AI model if there's imminent risk of 50-plus deaths

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OpenRouter reveals stealth model Space Bunny as MiniMax M3.1 Flash

Codex policy or legal development

Anthropic commits shares to new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund

OrcaCyber Nano 1.0 released as open-weight model

vLLM update announced

MiniMax release announced

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Monday.com launches Harmony, a voice AI platform for sales calls

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Twitch Plays: AI Interpretability of Bonsai-8B

Monday.com launches Harmony, a voice AI platform for sales calls

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Coding Agents

Replit makes OpenAI the preferred model partner for its coding agent

Model Releases

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

Hot Builder Skills

Exclusive: NVIDIA’s Vera Team Says Chiplet Designs Sacrificed Single-Threaded Performance For Core Counts, And Agentic A

AI Infrastructure

Intel unveils 480GB GPU D-series for AI inference

Research & Evals

Anthropic is pitching Congress its own AI safety bill, report says

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How DeepSeek Is Shaping Huawei’s AI Chips in a Growing Challenge to NVIDIA

Anthropic Commits At Least 5% of Shares to New Public Benefit Fund

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

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