ChatGPT can now read and send iMessages on a Mac — the price is full disk access
OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin can search, summarize and send messages with approval. Making it work requires granting full disk access.
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YouTube creators who took AI money are facing their own audiences
Videos promoting Higgsfield carried no ad label. The company later confirmed the creators were paid in cash and platform credits.
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Opposition to data centers jumped from 42 to 75 percent in a single year
Three in four Americans now oppose a data center being built near them, a Heatmap News survey finds. A year earlier, opinion was almost evenly split.
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$250 million for a data center in orbit — but the bottleneck is rockets
Starcloud is now valued at $2.3 billion. Its CEO says the hardest constraint ahead is not chips but booking launch capacity.
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What an AI agent is, how it works and where it breaks
An agent is a system given a goal that then works step by step. This guide covers how an agent is assembled, what components it has, where it breaks, and how to measure its performance.
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Compute heads to the exchange: a futures contract for GPU rental is being prepared
Silicon Data aims to become the reference price for GPU rental and to build the index a futures contract would settle against. It raised $30 million, with trading planned to start on the CME on 5 October.
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Broken in four hours: the code stripping Claude's invisible watermark went viral
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude embeds invisible watermarks in its output, a developer published an override. The code spread on GitHub, and the gap the regulation leaves is now being debated.
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China opens the door a crack: ByteDance and Tencent cleared for 10,000 Nvidia H200s each
According to the Financial Times, China has allowed two of its largest technology companies to buy H200 chips from Nvidia. Restrictions remain: how far the chips can be used on the mainland is limited.
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Joint US warning: attackers are using AI to build exploits for industrial control systems
According to a joint advisory from the NSA, CISA and FBI, attackers are using AI to generate exploitation scripts targeting Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers. The agencies classify it as an active threat.
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Agentic memory is not a feature you switch on but a dose you calibrate to the model
IBM Research scaled its agentic memory evaluation to eight models. The finding fits in one sentence: the right dose differs by model tier, with strong models wanting the full guideline set and saturated models showing no measurable gain.
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Etched's valuation doubles in a month to $21 billion
Etched, which builds inference hardware, raised another $700 million led by Jane Street. Its valuation went from $10.3 billion in July to $21 billion, with the round led by a fund that tested and bought the hardware first.
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Cursor capitalises on GitHub outages and launches its own code hosting platform
Cursor, known for its AI code editor, has launched a code hosting platform called Origin. It does not ask developers to leave GitHub but to run alongside it, with code passing back and forth between the two.
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