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ByteDance’s Seed AI lab is establishing a dedicated Model-Alignment & Preparedness department, according to an internal email reported by The Paper on October 13. Yan Lin will lead the unit and report to Seed head Wu Yonghui. Members of the existing Responsible AI team and some e

Always-on agents are taking on longer, more complex enterprise workflows. A single request can involve reading a document, checking information across sources, following company policy, and calling several tools. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open, customizable multimodal mo

Meta launches Muse Spark Open, a coding-optimized 816B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 42B active parameters and a 1M token context window. Trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Blackwell Ultra specifically for agentic coding workflows, it delivers higher first attempt accuracy, reli

The Couple Trend: 3.5M Views Good format for couple apps. This format turns relationship boundaries into a game couples can argue about on camera. Two people are given different scenarios and have to decide whether each one counts as “cheating” or “disrespectful.” Some versions u

The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business is the first Surface laptop built on NVIDIA silicon, and the first RTX Spark system to get a review from us. Our unit carries the full chip: a 20-core Grace Arm CPU, a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, and 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memor

The “Choosing Happiness” StudyTok Trend This early sound is starting to show up on StudyTok for the consequences of choosing fun over responsibility. Creators use it after skipping work, ignoring assignments, going out, sleeping in, or generally choosing “happiness” for a little

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Today we are launching Devin Oncall to help our customers step towards making their software self-driving. Devin can automatically investigate alerts and bug reports and help your team diagnose and resolve production incidents. Devin Oncall is the best harness at diagnosing and m

Most engineering teams capable of building an internal AI knowledge system think they should. Stand up a vector database, wire in a few connectors, point a RAG pipeline at your docs—easy, right? Six months later, it's a platform team's full-time job. That's not because anyone und

Samsung is showing a CXL memory pool validated with AMD at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose this week, built on its CMM-D CXL memory modules and aimed at agentic AI inference. The companies worked together to validate CXL memory as a way to scale memory capacity and bandwidth al

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: OpenAI software engineer accused of spying. A software engineer working on OpenAI’s Agents SDK has been arrested after allegedly planting a secret audio recording device in

Celestica introduced the DS6005 at the OCP Global Summit, a co-packaged optics (CPO) data center switch that puts 102.4Tbps of switching capacity and 64 optically enabled 1.6TbE ports in a 1.5OU, fully liquid-cooled chassis for Open Rack v3. It is built on Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 D

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Ke Mao, Mark Harman, and Yue Jia have been recognized with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2026 Most Influential Paper Award for their 2016 research, “Sapienz: multi-objective automated testing for Android applications.” The recogn

New VC Unfiltered Episode: Live from Lightning Round IX Five finalists. Hundreds of applicants. One shot at $100K and a fast track into 1752vc's Accelerate. This episode was recorded live at Lightning Round IX. Before a single pitch, our judges break down exactly what makes them

Building a cloud-native foundation for AI The relationship between model innovation and AI infrastructure has never been more clear; as AI becomes more capable, the platform underneath it matters even more. Agents are fundamentally changing how applications work, and with that, w

It is impossible to build a failure-proof software system. Sure, a system can go through its lifecycle without any failures. But you can’t provide a guarantee that it will never fail. You might think that if we write perfect code, we can get rid of failures. But writing correct a

Build a tutor people can talk to, a research tool with sources they can check, or a support inbox that sorts requests and drafts replies. With new AI models and tools, you can create powerful apps with all these capabilities and more, without ever leaving Lovable. What's new - GP

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The Trends filter tracks tech trends: what moved, why it matters, and what to watch next. If you spot a signal I missed, reply with a link and one line of context. Today, we cover: - Linear’s report on coding agents. Teams with agents went from 21 to 65 PRs a week, teams without

Data Center Developers Face Tighter Margins as Construction Costs Rise JLL says strong AI demand is not enough to protect projects lacking power certainty, anchor tenants, and credible delivery timelines. Data center developers may be able to pass higher construction costs on to

partner content When Faster Supercomputers Aren’t Enough: A Million Reasons Why Advanced Computing Matters For Genomics When a million veterans shared their genetic data by enrolling in the Department of Veterans Affairs' “Million Veteran Program,” they expected nothing back. Thi

LF Decentralized Trust Demonstrates the First Open Source Verifiable Trust Community in Prague Drummond Reed, DTGWG co-chair; Glenn Gore, Geoff Turk, Brendan Miller and Alberto Leon, OpenVTC maintainers; and Hart Montgomery, LFDT CTO | 15 October 2026 Two LF Decentralized Trust (

To hear more from Terry, watch the companion a16z Show podcast here and check-out the open roles at VGS where Terry serves as Chief Strategy Officer here. We’re also excited to announce Securing America’s Infrastructure Foundation today. SAIF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, built to de

Credit: Apple Days before preorders open for Apple's first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, Apple Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan visited China to inspect its supply chain... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do not have to

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This newsletter is sponsored by LlamaIndex. Your engineers weren’t hired to parse PDFs Every few quarters someone proposes building document parsing in-house. It scopes like a sprint. Five years on and it’s roughly $1.6M more than buying, and an engineer still owns maintaining th

Swapping generic supermarkets for Trader Joe’s helped a new recipe app break into the Top 100.

15th October 2026 - Link Blog Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO. The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday. Lots of details in here from "pe

America’s small cities are on the front lines of a fight most of the country doesn’t see. A ransomware attack shuts down a county’s 911 dispatch system. A school district’s student records end up for sale on the dark web. A rural hospital pays a six-figure ransom it can’t afford

Its own TikTok reached 1.1M views across 402 posts. Ten creator videos added 2.5M more.

The “Your Brain Gives You a Hint” Trend: 40M views This sound is being used for the moment you’re looking for something and your brain suddenly gives you one random clue about where it might be. Creators act out the search while using a hook like: “POV: when you’re looking for so

Elon Musk is betting that robotics will dramatically increase demand for connectivity

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Superstar researchers who branch out on their own need to start producing results

Many of the teams building with Lovable work in a Microsoft environment. Their people sign in with Microsoft Entra ID, their data lives in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Azure, and their security team sets the rules for where apps can run. For some of those apps,

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LiveKit and their Agents SDK are a popular choice for implementing WebRTC-based audio-video applications. In this article, we share how you can use open-weights models or custom ones running on Modal alongside LiveKit agents. We’ll use BitHuman’s open weights Expression Video Ava

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For a financial-services CMO, AI makes it possible to turn a marketing idea into a working application in hours. Getting that application approved for use is often the harder part. Can it access client data? Could the output expose MNPI? Who needs to review before it goes live? T

Thursday 15 October 2026 Top stories today: - Anthropic Q3 revenue jumps to $16.8B, posts adjusted profit - OpenAI sued by 8 U.S. states over alleged failure to protect children - CoreWeave -15.5% as bond yields near 15% amid AI debt fears - SpaceXSI’s Grok Voice 3.0 debuts with

Today Modal switches from our infra unicorn category to infra decacorn. We last caught up with Modal CTO Akshat in July: On the last day of AIE NYC, Akshat had a lot to share about the kind of infrastructure agents are needing for “millions of concurrent sandboxes, launch RDMA cl

Today Modal switches from our infra unicorn category to infra decacorn. We last caught up with Modal CTO Akshat in July: On the last day of AIE NYC, Akshat had a lot to share about the kind of infrastructure agents are needing for “millions of concurrent sandboxes, launch RDMA cl

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OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed separately by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizon

Listen to this post: Good morning, This week’s Stratechery Interview ended up not being an Interview, but rather a conversation with Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel. Emanuel is the Executive Chairman of WME Group, Executive Chair and CEO of TKO Group Holdings (the owner of UFC

On a recent Sunday afternoon, I was invited to debate AI’s impact on the cultural sector alongside Dutch politicians and creative-industry leaders. I was the lone optimist, arguing that if fear and risk become our primary lens for governing artificial intelligence, we will design

Apertus 1.5 Release Notes Our latest release, Apertus 1.5, extends the 8B and 70B Apertus 1.0 models with image/audio understanding, an optional thinking mode, a four times longer context window, improved instruction-following, and better tool use. The updated 8B and 70B model we