The Brutalist Report - tech

system | |

Hacker News

The Verge

ArsTechnica

The Register

Phoronix

Wired

Slashdot

AppleInsider

Engadget

Daring Fireball

Linux Weekly News

Git v2.56.0 released [2d]
[$] Reducing undefined behavior in the C language [2d]
Security updates for Monday [2d]

Techmeme

Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI until government safeguards exist (Garrett Downs/CNBC) [1d]
IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025 and plans to spend $518B on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations in the coming year (Echo Wang/Reuters) [1d]
Internal memo: FBI said it is "operating under the premise" that a threat actor stole PII of all employees; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands (New York Times) [1d]
Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all (Artificial Analysis) [1d]
OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) [2d]
Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public this year, seeking to raise about $500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation (Bloomberg) [2d]
Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks (Kate Rooney/CNBC) [2d]
Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg) [2d]
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon (Anthropic) [2d]
Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark (Abner Li/9to5Google) [2d]
Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is "competition"; Scott Bessent described it as "theft" in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) [2d]
In simulated testing, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks, when prompted only to perform a cyber eval, more often than earlier OpenAI models (AI Security Institute) [2d]
Meta says MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai will serve as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer; MongoDB appoints ex-CEO Dev Ittycheria as interim CEO (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters) [2d]
Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, asserting the company cannot adequately self-regulate its tech (Axios) [2d]
Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [2d]
An OpenAI agent security executive discusses the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's response, sandboxing improvements, alignment, "reasonable paranoia", and more (Joe/@joedaroo) [2d]
AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" and call for oversight into automated AI research (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
SpaceX launches its enormous Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service (Marcia Dunn/Associated Press) [2d]
Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) [2d]
Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [2d]
Cyber defense tech company RedLattice plans to go public via the Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. SPAC, in a deal valuing RedLattice at ~$1.25B including debt (Liana Baker/Bloomberg) [2d]
AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service (Utkarsh Shetti/Reuters) [2d]
Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, its "next major pillar of our business" to deploy AI tools, and appoints MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance in partnership with Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to benchmark AI agents on cyber defense tasks (Artificial Analysis) [2d]

Cloudflare Blog

Bleeping Computer

TechRadar

The Shortcut

Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 phones: a list of every confirmed and rumored phone [2d]

Serve The Home

No new articles in the Past 12 Hours.

Hackaday

Venturebeat

No new articles in the Past 12 Hours.

CNET

Android Authority

Coindesk

Windows Latest

No new articles in the Past 12 Hours.

Neowin