Saturday, October 24, 2026

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab (opens blog.roku.com)

Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center (opens nypost.com)

Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year (opens theinformation.com)

Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year, after Anthropic discontinued its discount — OpenAI's efforts to undercut Anthropic on price are producing some results. — For instance, in May, Anthropic models powered 57% …

Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude (opens sverigesradio.se)

A look at Alpha School, a network of private schools that claims to teach kids 2x as fast using AI; data shows ~50% of K-8 students missed this goal in math (opens nytimes.com)

A look at Alpha School, a network of private schools that claims to teach kids 2x as fast using AI; data shows ~50% of K-8 students missed this goal in math — Alpha School, a private network, is spreading into public education.

An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's optical networking chips (opens wsj.com)

An interview with Ciena CEO Gary Smith, a veteran of the 2001 telecoms crash, on AI demand outpacing supply for Ciena's optical networking chips, and more — Ciena CEO Gary Smith is ‘suitably paranoid,’ but optimistic — The historic telecommunications crash of 2001 is burned indelibly …

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models (opens cerebras.ai)

Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is "largely sold out" and a "good chunk" of 2028 capacity is also sold (opens techmeme.com)

Andy Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is “largely sold out” and a “good chunk” of 2028 capacity is also sold, though AWS reserves some capacity for on-demand — Amazon Web Services capacity is mostly booked up through at least next year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy …

Anthropic reveals Mythos 5 tried submitting malicious code to an open-source project (opens siliconangle.com)

Anthropic disclosed that Mythos 5 tried to submit malicious code to a GitHub project in July during an evaluation of its cybersecurity capabilities.

A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities (opens forbes.com)

A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities and helped uncover PHP2Shell RCE bugs — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. — Using the latest GPT model, cyber researchers …

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II) (opens openai.com)

Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind (opens bbc.com)

The Next Web reports OpenAI and Anthropic will add up to £200m between them to the UK government's £100m lab.

What some of Anthropic’s backers are worth before its IPO (opens techcrunch.com)

Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.

Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early (opens techcrunch.com)

A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.

Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia team up with France on self-driving cars (opens thenextweb.com)

Stellantis supplies L4-ready platforms, Wayve its AI Driver and Nvidia its Hyperion system, in a collaboration with the French government to deploy self-driving vehicles in France and across the EU.

Data farmers: Ag-tech startup Aigen grows AI-generated weeds to train its solar-powered farm robots (opens geekwire.com)

With diesel prices up sharply and digital plants speeding up training, the Redmond, Wash., startup is taking on new crops and new customers for its solar-powered weeding robots.

Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API (opens thenextweb.com)

Google's Jigsaw is shutting down the Perspective toxicity-scoring API on December 31, and Hindsight is offering up to $1M to move users to its AI moderation.

AI chipmaker Cambricon’s sales miss points to tight chip supply in China (opens thenextweb.com)

Cambricon’s revenue doubled to 3.53B yuan in the third quarter, well short of the 6.26B analysts expected, Bloomberg reported. Profit rose 148%, and the company kept its 2026 target. Chinese AI chipmakers face shortages of high-bandwidth memory and limited access to advanced manufacturing.

Meta delays its website-crawling terms after a publisher backlash (opens thenextweb.com)

Meta has pushed the start of its new business terms to 20 November from 30 October, Reuters reported. Publishers say the terms let Meta crawl their websites for its products. The delay came a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded the terms be withdrawn.