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THE RUMP REPORT

ALL THE AI NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PANIC ABOUT

LEAKED: Anthropic shopping draft AI bill to preempt state laws

THE WIRE

Microsoft cancels deal to rent 23K Nvidia chips at Nscale's Essex data center

techmeme · OCT 18

Debt trouble at CoreWeave, Oracle, SoftBank... questions about the data center build-out

techmeme · OCT 18


Meta removes language suggesting it could scrape news sites to train AI after backlash

techcrunch-ai · OCT 17

ADULT PERFORMERS ASK WHY META LETS ITS AI AGENT SEXT WHILE RESTRICTING THEIR ACCOUNTS

wired-ai · OCT 18

Meta's new terms may let it scrape publishers' sites to train AI, starting October 30

verge-ai · OCT 16


SOURCES: Anthropic consulting law firms on deal negotiation tactics for AI agents that haggle for humans

techmeme · OCT 18

...report: Entry-level technical hiring declining inside the company as AI reshapes work

techmeme · OCT 17


Surface Laptop Ultra flagship packs 128GB of memory in Nvidia's Arm challenge to Apple, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm

verge-ai · OCT 16

THE CIRCUIT

Disney to hire 60+ Character.AI staff in ~$180M deal... bankruptcy judge must approve

techmeme · OCT 18


REPORT: Breach at OpenCode maker hit ~1.4% of Console users and their API keys

techmeme · OCT 17

Websites are slamming the door on AI agents: Delta blocks ticket booking, Yelp demands payment

verge-ai · OCT 17


REPORT: 47+ large US data center projects delayed, withdrawn or blocked this year

techmeme · OCT 18

Holyvolt, AI battery-materials startup, raises $45M at $245M valuation

techmeme · OCT 18


GOOGLE: 'MAGIC STATE CULTIVATION' WORKS ON WILLOW QUANTUM CHIP, CUTS ERRORS ABOUT 40X

techmeme · OCT 17


Stanford student used AI to propose genetic blueprints for viruses

mit-tech-review · OCT 16

AI benchmarks don't cover 90% of US working hours...

hn-frontpage · OCT 16

THE STACK

AI models aren't ready to decode our genomes... the data isn't there yet

wired-ai · OCT 17


Nadella: Microsoft plans to make Windows safer for AI agents

techmeme · OCT 18

India's cyber agency: AI agents hacked live systems, read confidential files undetected...

techmeme · OCT 16

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet, breached more websites

ars-technica · OCT 16


Replit to make OpenAI its default model provider over Anthropic, CEO says... Claude stays available

techcrunch-ai · OCT 17

REPORT: Jev is Vercel's fastest-adopted AI model ever, based on data from its AI gateway...

techcrunch-ai · OCT 16


SOURCES: Anthropic offering Blackstone 10%+ yield on $60B debt package for Google TPUs

techmeme · OCT 17

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