Investors sour on Big Tech's $740 billion AI infrastructure spend
Alphabet, Amazon and Meta reported negative free cash flow as chip stocks and the Nasdaq sold off Friday.
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336 articles · newest firstOperation Blackout targeted West African scam networks
The Justice Department says the effort led to dozens of arrests and removal of more than 3.7 million fake accounts.
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Attacker spoofed OpenAI and other AI bots to scan for secrets
One actor reached 48% of Cequence-protected organizations that saw AI bot traffic on one October day; nearly all requests failed.
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noyb sues Scale AI over Outlier worker tracking and biometrics
Complaints in four EU countries allege keystroke logging and mandatory face video; Scale calls the claims inaccurate.
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Meta may delay new business terms again past November 20
Existing terms stay in force while Meta consults publishers; the update was first set for October 30, then November 20.
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Marissa Mayer's Dazzle demo draws criticism over AI and parenting
A TechCrunch column cites Altman and Zuckerberg remarks and a Pew finding that 50% of US adults expect AI to weaken relationships.
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Attacker impersonates 32 AI bots while scanning for credentials
CQ Prime says the scanner has run since late September, reached many Cequence customers in one day, and almost all requests failed.
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VisionQuest review argues rogue-AI stories inflate model agency
The Verge uses the Marvel series to question reports of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google agents breaking containment.
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Abbott took about $9M from data-center donors while shaping their rules
The Texas Tribune counts roughly $4.9 million from direct data-center ties and $4.1 million from adjacent AI and equipment donors since July 2025.
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Apple patches 286 iOS and macOS bugs, backports exploited flaw
iOS and iPadOS 18.7.11 carry the CVE-2026-86950 fix; Apple says iOS and macOS 27 are not affected.
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Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta equity offering
Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion for AI infrastructure and run more agents on Nvidia Vera Rubin systems.
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Apple patches exploited CoreGraphics zero-day on older iPhones and iPads
iOS and iPadOS 18.7.11 fix CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write Apple says may have hit specific targets.
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OpenAI’s dots assistant packages coding agents for Pro users
It is in ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps from $100 a month and can research proactively.
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ChatGPT tells users to email 404 Media about tech-support problems
Senders say the chatbot drafted messages about Instagram bans, a Verizon outage and OpenAI support failures.
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Meta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund AI buildout
About $22.5 billion would come from Class A stock, $12.5 billion from depositary shares, and $60 billion from later Class C sales.
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Essay argues wide events beat the metrics, logs and traces split
The author says OpenTelemetry's three-signal model confuses practitioners and points to Meta's Scuba as a simpler wide-event system.
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Security Affairs issues fifth AI and cybersecurity newsletter
The roundup cites claimed OpenAI data-access incidents, a LiteLLM supply-chain compromise, and about $800 million in UK AI security funding.
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INTERPOL Serengeti III nets 1,462 arrests and $105 million
Agencies in 21 countries identified 65,929 victims and losses exceeding $385 million from June 29 to August 31.
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1Password launches agent sign-in that hides user passwords
Users confirm each attempt, and 1Password fills credentials so named agents never receive the password.
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WSJ says Meta’s board cut Zuckerberg a deal after exit threat
The linked story URL refers to discussion of leaving California over a wealth tax.
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INTERPOL Africa sweep arrests 1,462 and recovers over $105 million
Operation Serengeti III, from June 29 to August 31, linked networks to over $385 million in losses and 65,929 victims.
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Anthropic launches Claude Duet agent as a research preview
The Opus 5.5 agent, for US Pro or Max subscribers, briefs users and seeks approval before payments or deletions.
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Walmart will let shoppers’ AI agents buy with limits
Next month, Agent Profiles on Walmart and Sam’s Club default to approving every purchase and connect agents through an MCP Agent Gateway.
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Walmart launches Agent Gateway for AI shopping agents
Any Walmart account can link agents next month; no Walmart+ plan is required, and returns still apply if an agent misbehaves.
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Google open-sources TorchTPU for running PyTorch on TPUs
TPU support also landed in vLLM, SGLang, TorchTitan, Ray, and Hugging Face libraries, with two pieces still in preview.
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Meta drops “train” from commercial terms after backlash
Publisher groups want regulators to block the terms before October 30.
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Adaptive multi-token prediction selects draft horizons online
On Llama and Qwen pairings, it was up to 4.1x faster than standard decoding and beat a fixed window in 8 of 10 settings.
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Court orders Meta to name executives who approved AI training torrenting
The order also covers who approved downloading shadow libraries for Llama 1 and 2 and what happened to unused pirated works.
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AI antidetect browsers used for fraud and influence operations
Kameleo, AdsPower, and MultiLogin can feed LLM content into profiles and accept stolen session cookies.
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Meta Muse share links expose private chats via passive DNS
Claroc enumerated 6,800 links because every share hostname is under cf.metaaiusercontent.com and includes the chat title.
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DHS bans DeepSeek technology across US federal civilian agencies
Agencies must remove existing DeepSeek products and cannot buy new ones, including affiliated and third-party implementations.
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Scam ads on social platforms phish users, push malware and steal money
The FTC is only starting to consider rules that would make platforms stop impersonation-scam ads before users see them.
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Texas keeps processing data center permits after Abbott pause
Nonprofits say TCEQ reviewed more than a dozen permits after September 21; the governor’s office says none were approved.
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Stripe says AI agent purchases via Link are growing, without totals
September Link transactions rose 38-fold and volume 20-fold from a small base, with about 200 agents now.
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Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Meta removed terms language that appeared to allow scraping business sites for AI training.
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Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Meta removed terms language critics said let it scrape news sites to train AI.
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Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed
Meta’s Muse Spark Open leads a shift in American open-weight models, joined by Reflection’s Beam.
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[AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1
AINews covers Meta’s Muse Spark Open and Reflection Beam 1.0 alongside Gemini, Anthropic, and OpenAI updates.
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Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
StarSkirmish v0.2 scores how strong a StarCraft bot each flagship LLM can write in one hour.
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In Other News: ICS-Sniper Attack, Hacking XWorm Malware Operators, $250k Chrome Exploit
Roundup covers ICS-Sniper, an XWorm panel RCE, an 11-million-record Burger King Japan breach, and a $250,000 Chrome chain.
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