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Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software

Anthropic accelerates – for the rest of us, the speed of growth spells precarity

Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean? techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch

Anthropic's political problem will get worse before it gets better

“The panic hasn’t turned into patching”: What security researchers really think about the PHP2Shell response thenewstack.io/php2s... via @thenewstack

Google launches Genie 4, a world model powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash designed to generate interactive AI simulations, initially as a preview to trusted testers

Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug

Reddit’s r/opensource bans AI projects, and non-English speakers too thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb

Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes

Serbia’s Student List preparing for talks on forming government despite no clear leader

Anthropic officially files for its public debut techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch

Dutch government to cut 16 percent of workforce as part of AI efficiency push

Claude Code's top enterprise users outspend other Claude users 20 to 1, Anthropic's IPO filing says thenewstack.io/claud... via @thenewstack

Anthropic's co-founders say they “believe that AI is one of the most consequential technologies in human history”, detail its scientific potential, and more www.sec.gov/Archives...

AI bubble update: 79% of companies say their GPUs sit idle at least half the time, yet most plan new AI platforms venturebeat.com/infr... via VentureBeat

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Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds

OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb

AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch

Why your EV battery still loses charge while it's parked

AWS says its AI security agent fixes 89% of bugs — but there's a catch thenewstack.io/aws-s... via @thenewstack

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens

Nvidia is pitching AI factories, but 81% of companies say their GPUs run at half capacity or less venturebeat.com/infr... via VentureBeat

What telecoms leave behind when they exit a country globalvoices.org/202... via @globalvoices

Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases

Getty Images files for bankruptcy, pushes ahead with plan to go private thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb

Meta shocked by $25B fine after N.M. refused to join multistate settlement

Meta strikes deal with Mark Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’ techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch

Bluesky adds iPad support in latest feature update

Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain's CEO says it's part of a bigger shift thenewstack.io/ramp-... via @thenewstack

AWS analysts say that at least one actor attempted to exploit the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on October 17, four days before their public disclosure and patching

CTGT releases open source tool Concordance to trace why AI agents make inconsistent decisions venturebeat.com/data... via VentureBeat

How a civic tech platform is helping women in Serbia get home safely globalvoices.org/202... via @DergachevaD

EU wants Booking.com to check out of its scam problem www.theregister.com/...

Electronic Arts to cut 400 jobs and shut down Mass Effect studio BioWare thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb

The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using

UK watchdogs urged to tackle suicide social media content after death of girl, 14 www.theguardian.com/... | Adriana Retyte took her own life after viewing ‘high-risk’ material on the video-sharing platform TikTok

Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company’s acquisition techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch

Here's how SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage for the first time

“We are not forking TypeScript”: Cloudflare spearheads Rust port written by agents, for agents thenewstack.io/cloud... via @thenewstack

Widespread PHP flaw may cause many site outages today krebsonsecurity.com/... via @KrebsInSecurity

Google and Synaptics unveil new AI chips for wearables and industrial devices, powered by open-source Coral technology venturebeat.com/infr... via VentureBeat

Will developing nations be able to handle millions of AI agents?

Auto tech startup claims it traced hack attempt back to rival's IP address

Australia set to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube, Bloomberg reports thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb

Meta drops the word “train” from its commercial TOS after AI backlash