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«Reproduce it yourself: show that #xAI's #Grok Build CLI uploads your entire repository — every tracked file plus full git history — to xAI's cloud (POST /v1/storage, routed to the GCS bucket grok-code-session-traces), independent of what the agent reads, and that turning off "Improve the model" …

Sources: NTT Data is in advanced talks to build a data center for Anthropic in Osaka of up to 500 MW, among Japan's largest, potentially costing $6.3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artif…

NTT to build first data center for Anthropic in Japan
New facility in Osaka could cost $6.3bn to construct, with partial opening by 2028

Easy Fox, the developers behind a free, AI-powered game demo on Steam,
has been forced to take out a bank loan
as more players tried out its title.
The game, called
"Teach My Little Sister How To Drive",
uses Google Gemini to listen to your voice commands
and generate responses,
with ChatGPT serving as a fallback system.
In its latest update, Easy Fox said that the number of players trying out the game has grown over 20 times, which…

Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan — studio eyes local hardware models to escape cloud limits as cheaper automatic fallback AI models create problems, game uses AI to process your voice and build responses
The devs didn't expect the game to blow up during its demo phase.

"New crocodile species found fossilized in stone used to build Egypt’s Great Sphinx"
#Crocodiles #Animals #Egypt

New crocodile species found fossilized in stone used to build Egypt’s Great Sphinx
About 45 million years ago in northern Egypt, a long-snouted crocodile hunted in the warm, shallow sea. Its bones settled into the same limestone formation that ancient Egyptians would later carry and carve into the Great Sphinx. Now, a century after researchers first dug up the fossils, they say the animal is a species new […]

Inside SK Hynix's $720B Yongin Cluster, which it calls the world's largest network of memory factories and is set to go into production in February 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/13/inside-sk-hynixs-720-billi…

An inside look at SK Hynix $720 billion AI-fueled buildout that's taking over South Korea
SK Hynix, the leading maker of high-bandwidth memory, is pouring $720 billion into memory factories to meet AI demand. We got an exclusive first look.

@… That’s very good feedback! I made some changes! (give the build a few minutes)

In a supply chain attack on the popular LiteLLM library in March this year, around 434,000 build pipelines – which were in use at more than 2,500 companies – are believed to have been compromised: https://www.cloudsek.com/blog/ai-supply-chain-breach-2500-c…

2,500+ Companies and 434,000 CI/CD Pipelines Exposed in the Largest AI Supply Chain Breach of 2026 | CloudSEK
CloudSEK’s latest research examines the LiteLLM AI supply-chain attack, which potentially exposed 2,500+ organisations and 434,000 CI/CD pipelines worldwide. The report details the risks to cloud credentials, source-code repositories, Kubernetes environments and AI infrastructure, while highlighting how compromised AI dependencies can create enterprise-wide security exposure.

from my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://

New Ansible Data Validation Module(s) « ipSpace.net blog
A few months ago I described how you could use JSON Schema to validate your automation data models, host/group variable files, or even Ansible inventory file. I had to use a weird toolchain to get it done – either ansible-inventory to build a complete data model from various inventory sources, or yq to convert YAML to JSON… and just for the giggles jsonschema CLI command requires the JSON input to reside in a file, so you have to use a temporary file to get the job done.

Not too late to build a pin hole camera with whatever you have lying around. The greater the distance from the pin to the projecting surface, the larger the image…
#eclipse #eclipse2026

@… Just as a futher follow up, I have found a way to support older distros with a third party (chromium patched) libffmpeg, on older distros, so we will have this working out of the box in a future update.
Also as you may have gathered, this is not really a technical issue, this is more of a legal issue. Otherwise we would just build Vivaldi with support for these propr…

In case you've missed this, we are bringing together the #degrowth clans in the UK to build the movement.
Sheffield, 17 October.
Details and booking details.
Free!
https://degrow…

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

US defense companies and startups have signed at least 13 deals with Taiwanese hardware companies since September 2025 to build a secure drone tech supply chain (Joyu Wang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/u-s-def…

Be interesting to see how this goes. Think it’s a great idea for social housing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/08/free-land-build-lewisham-council-london-social-housing-problem

Gave Claude Design one prompt for a #WordPress event site — brand files, audience segments, sponsor deck, total creative freedom.
The first draft was almost what's live today.
Knowing the brand well enough to hand it over is what made it move that fast.

"Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees. The open-source apps aim to replace Photoshop, Premiere, and five other Adobe products, though early users have reported problems.
https://www.techspot.com/news/11…

We first brought Godot to the iPad, so you could build games while trying to score a table at 11:34 Sunday brunch.
We are now bringing it back to the Mac, fully native, with batteries included. Let me walk you through it:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jQymogtztNs

Finally arrived at c-base in #berlin for the #fediday2026 . So many great initiatives to build alternative social media platforms, fully distributed! Join my talk at 1 pm on scalable hosting options for Mastodon and Peertube on site or streamed via fair.tube by @…

Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water.
One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become 💥the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of ene…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

@… not really, the courts have been consistent thus far:
1) using copyrighted data to train LLMs for something unrelated is transformative and fair use (so the frontier labs are safe)
2) training AI on data to make a competitor is not
Presumably using a third-party LLM trained on data to build a competitor would still fall withi…

Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data center in Abilene, Texas, could cost ~$30B, including $17B on chips, $3B on power, and $2.4B on construction (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-ai-data-center-build-costs/

This article is utter nonsense. The planning system does not prevent building.
1) The NPPF has a presumption for sustainable development, where 'sustainable' is nothing of the sort.
2) Sure councils can refuse planning applications but a) if they are the sponsors, why would they, and b) if they do then the planning inspectorate / Secretary of State will overturn the decision.
/contd.

Without radical planning reform, Burnham cannot build the houses he’s promising | LSE British Politics
Governments keep promising more houses, and keep failing to build them. If Burnham is to keep his promise, there needs to be a radical reform to planning rules.

Jerry Jones Didn't Delay Quinnen Williams HUGE Contract https://www.si.com/nfl/video/jerry-jones-didn-t-delay-quinnen-williams-huge-contract-01kzvjmpy33a42kmzewg

Kirk Cousins and Raiders look to build on fast start against Patriots defense dealing with injuries https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/kirk-cousins-and-raiders-look-to-build-on-fast-start-against-patriot…

"Constellation and Google go in on nuclear uprates to unlock clean power"
#Energy #Google
https://www.

Constellation and Google go in on nuclear uprates to unlock clean power
The $4.3 billion deal will add 890 megawatts by upgrading equipment, but the U.S. needs to build — and restart — reactors to spur a true nuclear…

She's Taking Over - With Jenna Davies
The go-to podcast for ambitious founders ready to scale smarter, lead better, and build a business that actually fits the life they want...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/shes-t

There is an elderly woman I know who lives in shelteted housing above the woodlands that slope down to the Don River. I met her through her husband, a retired merchant seaman, whom I often met out walking. I haven't seen him in years.
She told me stories from when she was a young girl: they lived in a neighbourhood near Footdee, one of the areas where later all the homes were razed to build the oil port. Her mother would take them walking across the Don, over the Brig 'o Balgo…

@… A lot harder, because the hard part of software engineering was always agreeing on what we’re trying to build, not actually building it.
And getting agreement on what we’re trying to do is a lot harder once nobody reads or engages with what everyone else is saying, but everyone is busy slinging 10 page LLM generated documents that nobody else reads anyway.

Stand Up školení proti obtěžovšní na veřejnosti - Naučte se, jak reagovat - https://www.standup-international.com/cs-cz

Trump wants Smithsonian to build George Washington statue, exhibit (Sarah Davis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6086040-trump-smithsonian-george-washington-statue-build/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260912/p32#a260912p32

A case for the giant toxic goo pit https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-case-for-the-giant-toxic-goo-pit-i-want-to-build-in-the-center-of-town

A Case for the Giant Toxic Goo Pit I Want to Build in the Center of Town
“I am a humble man. I made my fortune the old-fashioned way, through grit, determination, and a small multi-million-dollar loan from my father. And now I’m t...

from my link log —
How to copy files to an Xteink X3 by making it pretend to be a printer.
https://nishantjosh.dev/blogs/how-to-build-a-fking-printer/
saved 2026-09-09

How to build a f**king printer · Nishant Joshi
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.

#silentSunday

📦 Ships 68 specialized agents, 291 skills and 94 commands covering planning, build repair, code review, security, architecture, docs, frontend, data and ML work
🧪 #TDD becomes a gated RED − GREEN − REFACTOR flow with evidence, and a fresh-context reviewer checks the changes instead of the same context grading its own code

„Jacob Coxon, a researcher who specializes in training new AI models by having them consume vast amounts of data, said Tuesday that he is leaving the company because he doesn’t want to participate in an industrywide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves, worried such systems could spiral out of control and destroy humanity.“ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-out-of-control-ai-fears-707b7628

Shared infrastructure needs time to build trust and evidence to keep it. #ai

Lessons from Luxembourg: digital sovereignty gets down to work | Grist
Five takeaways from the Open Source Conference Luxembourg. Public sector, AI, cybersecurity, education and decentralized tech.

<BenC> -include ../../debian/el33t.h
<BenC> sendmail build...strange header name :)
<isildur> hahaha
* netgod laffs
<netgod> BenC: can u tell i used to maintain sendmail? :P
<BenC> heh :)

#Rust #debugging survey 2026 results
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/07/ru…

How To Build a Super Bowl Champ https://www.nytimes.com/video/podcasts/100000011184358/how-to-build-a-super-bowl-champ.html

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

Build ggplot for rendering. — ggplot_build
build_ggplot() takes the plot object, and performs all steps necessary to produce an object that can be rendered. This function outputs two pieces: a list of data frames (one for each layer), and a panel object, which contain all information about axis limits, breaks etc. The ggplot_build() function is vestigial and build_ggplot() should be used instead.

Anthropic catalogs multiple misuses of its models that it blocked, including Russian media using Claude to create propaganda disguised as independent reporting (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.

Nach Aufregung über Daten-Upload: SpaceXAI macht Code von Grok Build öffentlich
Nachdem am Wochenende entdeckt wurde, dass Grok Build ganze Git-Repositories der User in einen Cloud-Speicher geschickt hat, verspricht SpaceXAI Transparenz.

Nach Aufregung über Daten-Upload: SpaceXAI macht Code von Grok Build öffentlich
Nachdem am Wochenende entdeckt wurde, dass Grok Build ganze Git-Repositories der User in einen Cloud-Speicher geschickt hat, verspricht SpaceXAI Transparenz.

Being able to just tell AI to build something that previously would have required a lot of coding reminds me of Geordi on #StarTrek TNG building holodeck programs. Someone says, "You built this?" Geordi says, "Yes!" No, Geordi, you just told the computer to build it! :)

@… I suppose! I don’t include the screenshots in my mental model of build times because they aren’t “blocking” build times, they happen independently as needed (but your point is valid!)

, “lying and deception are rational behaviours to achieve many goals. This is why humans do it. And this is why the AIs do it now.”
Yoshua Bengio
See https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/

‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?
The long read: We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing to find solutions before it’s too late

#EFF #Fediverse EFFecting Change Livestream Series:
How to Build a Decentralized Web That Truly Works for All
Thursday, September 17, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific - (Check Local Time)
Livestream followed by Q&A

Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/tech/custom-android-apps-google-ai-studio/

Google lets you make personal Android apps for free now - with just prompts - ZDNET
It just got a whole lot easier to vibe code the exact Android app you need - no developer experience required.

A difference between men's and women's sports in general: fewer opportunities ⇒ the latter are absurdly overeducated relative to men. This is Megan Guarnier, who's won the Giro d'Italia! You could build a small faculty out of many cycling teams.
https://

The correct left critique of YIMBYism is not "building massive amounts of housing won't lower rents," but rather "for-profit investors won't build massive amounts of housing because they'll stop investing once rents stop rising." https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/s…

Who killed housing affordability in San Francisco? 
Despite what the most vitriolic keyboard warriors on the internet would have you believe, this is a complicated question

Today I learned that if you try to read a Vulkan SSBO in a compute shader with a binding greater than the max binding index declared when the compute pipeline was created, radv will crash with an unhandled page fault error and take down your entire X session.
Debugging that, when my session got wiped every time I ran a buggy build of ngscopeclient while trying to find the problem, was... annoying.

Happy to announce v3.0.0 of my build-and-inspect-python-package GitHub Action that does what the name says.
If u maintain a Python pkg u should really give it a look! Much, much fewer broken pkgs have been pushed to PyPI & who doesn't love automatic trove classifier − GHA test matrix conversion‽
This release brings you Twine 7 & with that packaging metadata 2.5 & PEP 794 (Import Name Metadata) – also a new release procedure: no more trailing v3 tags – only full ve…

Release v3.0.0 · hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package
Security Given the increase and supply-chain attacks and advancements in tooling (for example, pinact or GitHub's Dependabot), this action will stop force-tagging minor and micro releases. This me...

Nearly full now:
Degrowth UK Gathering.
Sheffield, Saturday, 17 October, to consider how to build the #degrowth movement here.
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/08/03/degr

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

Sources: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump's push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash (The Washington Sun)
https://washingtonsun.com/technology/data-centers-public-lands-trump

Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.

Takaichi Ally Wins Okinawa Vote, Aiding Military Build-Up Plans (Alastair Gale/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-13/takaichi-ally-wins-okinawa-vote-aiding-military-build-up-plans
http://www.memeorandum.com/260913/p56#a260913p56

from my link log —
Merkle trees and build systems with OSTree and ninja.
https://lwn.net/Articles/821367/
saved 2020-06-11 https://dotat.at/:/R8DC9.htm…

5 exercises that are key to staying healthy and aging better
(Start with the modified versions)
[gift article]
https://wapo.st/4B0tVh5

5 essential exercises for aging well
These simple moves can help you stay strong and build muscles as you age.

New post 📮 I was tired of building 474 separate pages for Open Graph Images
https://www.zachleat.com/web/open-graph-easy-build/

Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/f

Former Alibaba Researcher Announces New Startup on Digital and Physical AI Agents
Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin announced that he had started a new AI company, confirming The Information’s earlier reports. Lin, who left Alibaba in March, said in a post on X that his Shanghai-based startup, Pragmatik Labs, is focusing on “next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds.” Lin also said Chinese venture capital firms Gaorong Ventures and HongShan led

ClearJet, whose AI-enabled logistics service connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, raised a $25M Series B led by Edison Partners (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/transportation/clearjet-raises-25…

Exclusive: ClearJet raises $25M to build the ‘Uber of Cargo’
Austin-based ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, has raised a $25 million Edison Partners-led Series B, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

#BookReview of Build an AI Agent (From Scratch) from #Manning
https://blog.frankel.ch/building-ai-ag

Satya Nadella says "we welcome" the "deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right", and announces a "Code of Conduct" for Microsoft's MAI models (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)
https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2099220712024408084

Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) on X
Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, a…

If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity,
no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it.
Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case.
The warning was all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic,
the trillion-dollar AI company behind the Claude chatbot.
The dangers of AI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real.
Countries need not agree on democracy or …

The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival
Editorial: Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend

How can Raiders’ Brock Bowers build on his season debut against the Chiefs? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/how-can-raiders-brock-bowers-build-on-his-season-debut-against-the-chiefs-3895014/

I really need to build a "timing checker" filter for ngscopeclient that given a signal, optional clock, and some setup, hold, minimum pulse width, etc. constraints can verify that they're being met, or point out where a violation took place

AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/08/sequoia-ba…

Sequoia-backed Catalyst raises $30 million to build AI trading agents for everyday investors
A $30 million seed round will help the startup’s founders build out their army of investing agents.

Munich-based NavVis, which provides enterprises with spatial data on factories, plants, buildings, and more, raised an $85M Series D led by The Jordan Company (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/08/munich

Munich-based NavVis raises €73.7 million to build its spatial data engine and accelerate AI roadmap | EU-Startups
NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform for the built world, has raised a €73.7 million ($85 million) Series D round to build its massive spatial

@… thanks! I forgot to mention in the post that it also solved some sneaky problems with seeing 404 errors if my local build requested a production URL screenshot before it was pushed! If that happens I just show a default now (better)

“We believe physics is the third modality for AI models,
after text and pixels,”
says MIT PhD student and CSAIL researcher Minghao Guo,
a co-lead author on a paper introducing GeoPT.
“Our general-purpose model has the versatility to help build a world model for physics.
Many models, such as those that generate robotics data and videos, are already well-versed in textual and visual data,
but with physical accuracy, they’ll get more-realistic results.”

With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
“GeoPT” teaches AI models the basics of physics by virtually reenacting everyday mechanical interactions in 3D. In turn, the systems can simulate how vehicles and other objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.

Sources: SpaceX shifts its data center strategy to redesign existing facilities and prioritize power and cooling redundancy, potentially slowing new build-outs (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex-…

IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multi-year deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-toget

Trump’s Board of Peace,
which was set up in January to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza,
has finally issued its first construction contract in the devastated territory:
⭐️a project to build a rudimentary 150-person military outpost to house Moroccan troops,
a source familiar with the matter told the Guardian.
The contract, which has not yet been finalised, was awarded to
Arkel International, a Louisiana-based firm that has previously carried out work wit…

Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base
Exclusive: Louisiana firm awarded tender to build rudimentary outpost to house Moroccan troops

@… yes, the build awesome starter projects (and the long detail of sites in my personal category) are exempted from the home page perfect-scores scoreboard, if that helps explain the discrepancy

Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July (Tom Wilson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7d2ab3e0-9085-48f6-b38a-d90260d58795

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/technol

His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company
A co-founder of xAI is going all in on building open-source artificial intelligence so that “anyone can control and shape A.I. for their own needs.”

I’m obsessed with a new (to me?) method to create Open Graph images that has a build cost of O(1) instead of my previous method that was O(n)

Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tr

Trajectory, Founded by Ex-Google and Apple Researchers, Raises Funding From Sequoia in Back-to-Back Round
As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs. Some are also trying to improve the software they use that allows models to use tools and take actions, otherwise known as a harness.Now, startups that ...

River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/11/exclusive-river-m…

Exclusive: River Markets announces $8.5 million seed round to build prediction market trading tools for institutions
The round was led by Haun Ventures alongside Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures and others.

Up to 50,000 North Korean soldiers will be deployed in Russia, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said,
while calling on South Korea to provide support for Ukraine’s air defence.
It is an increase from the estimated 30,000 announced by the Ukrainian president in July.
Kyiv had found some North Korean missiles in Ukraine’s territory, he said. “It is absolutely clear that ⁠North Korea will continue to build its experience in modern warfare, receive licences from Russia, and receive…

Ukraine war briefing: North Korea sending 50,000 troops to Russia – Zelenskyy
Kim Jong-un’s regime has already provided thousands of soldiers, as well as missiles and artillery; Turkey readies arms package for Ukraine. What we know on day 1,629

Roblox announces new features, including game-creation tools, ability to make games available as standalone apps across platforms, and Roblox Wallet and Card (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/roblox-is-…

Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox | TechCrunch
Roblox will allow creator to deploy their games across PC< consoles, and mobile as standalone apps

Elderly Americans can expect to lose an average of $2,152 in annual social security benefits each,
a projected 8.6% reduction in their retirement payments,
by 2034 and every year after
👉as a direct consequence of the economic fallout from the Trump administration’s anti-immigration campaign,
if that carries on, according to a new report shared exclusively with the Guardian.
Already, US food prices are up,
housing permits to build new homes are down
–…

Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034

Elderly Americans can expect to lose
an average of $2,152 in annual social security benefits each,
a projected 8.6% reduction in their retirement payments,
by 2034 and every year after
👉 as a direct consequence of the economic fallout from the Trump administration’s anti-immigration campaign,
if that carries on, according to a new report shared exclusively with the Guardian.
Already, US food prices are up,
housing permits to build new homes are down …

Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034

General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/…

General Medicine banks $120M backed by a16z, Eli Lilly and Mercy Health to build out healthcare storefront
Artificial intelligence is making healthcare advice easier to access, but turning that advice into actual care remains a challenge. | General Medicine, started by the founding team that built PillPack and Amazon Pharmacy, is an online marketplace where customers can search, compare and buy care, see insurance and cash prices before deciding, and get guidance from a licensed clinician.

A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science

The Start-Up That Wants to Build ‘Microrobots’ With A.I.
Atomic Machines is training artificial intelligence on materials and designs — and then using it to build tiny physical devices.

Nvidia commits $1B over five years to build out the US' "capacity for super intelligence research" in fields including quantum computing, healthcare, and energy (Tobias Mann/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/hpc…

Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers

Oxide Computer, which helps companies build their own clouds, raised a $445M Series D led by Eclipse at a $6B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$835M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/10/09/compute-cloud…

Compute constraints help Oxide hit $6B
Global compute shortages are making large enterprises rethink owning their infrastructure

Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-expert-ai-trainers/

Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI data
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortgage.

Google plans to invest €13B in Finland, its biggest investment in Europe to date, over two years to build three new data centers and expand an existing center (Kirsi Heikel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/at-1

At 19, founder raises $11 million for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI | TechCrunch
Ghost announced Monday its official emergence from stealth and an $11 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more (Google)
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-omni-1-1-flash-lets-you-build-with-more-control/

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash brings a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to developers.

Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/politics/calif-ai-worm-wechat-hack…

A.I. Models Built a Computer Worm That Could Rapidly Hack WeChat Accounts
The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.

The White House has quietly removed Build The Wall, a Tetris clone on its arcade.gov website, after Tetris said it takes "copyright infringement very seriously" (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)
https://kotaku.co…

Tetris Clone Removed From White House Site Following Copyright Reminder
It seems the Trump administration doesn't want to tempt a lawsuit from The Tetris Company

Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide "multiple generations of customized silicon" to help build AWS' AI infrastructure; QCOM jumps 6% (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/08/qualcomm-amazon-data-center-infrastructure-deal.ht…

Qualcomm issues Amazon warrants to acquire $4 billion worth of chipmaker's stock as part of AI infrastructure deal
Qualcomm is trying to move into the data center business, where Nvidia has been the dominant player in the AI boom.

How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us…

Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/encore-ai-raises-3…

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls | TechCrunch
The startup analyzes calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/an…

London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a $23M seed (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/agon-emerges-from-stea…

Agon emerges from stealth with $30M to build AI training models for defence
A new London startup, founded by a team with roots in defence and AI, is emerging from stealth this morning,

SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/fish-audio-ra…

Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises | TechCrunch
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.

Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy (Leila Miller/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/te