Meta and Arm Forge Strategic AI Partnership

Meta Platforms and Arm Holdings have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at boosting AI performance and energy efficiency. The partnership will integrate Arm’s advanced, energy-saving technologies into Meta’s systems as the companies seek to optimize AI workloads and scale up their technological ambitions.

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Google Launches New Veo 3.1 AI Video Model And Improved Editing Capabilities In Flow

bgr - Google's new Veo 3.1 AI video generation model supports enhanced realism, more narrative control, better audio, and powers new editing features in Flow.

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OpenAI loosens ChatGPT’s guardrails for adults

Maria Garcia / implicator - OpenAI will let adults have erotic ChatGPT conversations by December—while facing a wrongful death lawsuit and fresh California AI regulations. The company claims new safety tools justify loosening restrictions. The age verification details remain unexpla…

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BlackRock’s AI Consortium to Buy Aligned Data Centers in $40 Billion Deal

Connor Hart / wsj - BlackRock’s new artificial-intelligence infrastructure consortium agreed to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Management in a deal valuing the company at about $40 billion.

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Waymo plans robotaxi launch in London, marking its European debut

cnbc - Waymo said it plans to start offering robotaxi rides in London next year after aggressively expanding in the U.S.

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DirecTV will start replacing screensavers with AI-generated ads next year

engadget - DirecTV will begin replacing your TV's screensaver with AI-generated ads thanks to a new partnership. The entertainment brand is working with Glance, an AI company that has received backing from Google and developed an on-device AI tool alongside the tech…

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OpenAI forms advisory council on wellbeing and AI

engadget - OpenAI announced today that it is creating an advisory council centered on its users' mental and emotional wellness. The Expert Council on Well-being and AI comprises eight researchers and experts on the intersection of technology and mental health. Some …

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Microsoft's October Windows 11 update adds AI shortcuts, tighter security, and a more unified Settings app

techspot - Microsoft began rolling out its October 2025 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 today, bringing a broad mix of new features and routine security fixes. The update applies to both the 24H2 and 25H2 releases, which share the same system architecture, and i…

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Google’s Gemini can now help you schedule Google Calendar meetings

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Designed for one-on-one meetings, the tool lets you insert available time slots directly into an email, automatically creating a calendar invite once a recipient selects a time.

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Oracle Cloud to deploy 50,000 AMD AI chips, signaling new Nvidia competition

cnbc - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday announced that it will deploy 50,000 Advanced Micro Devices graphics processors starting in the second half of 2026.

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Microsoft rolls out its first AI model for image creation

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Microsoft Corp. has just announced its third internally-produced artificial intelligence model as it strives to reduce its reliance on industry powerhouse OpenAI. The new model is called MAI-Image-1, and as the name suggests, it’s the company’s first text…

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Google’s Nano Banana AI image editor is coming to search, Photos, and NotebookLM

Ryan Whitwam / arstechnica - After more than 5 billion AI image edits, Nano Banana is expanding.

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California enacts first US law requiring AI chatbot safety measures

techxplore - California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed into law a first-of-its-kind law regulating artificial intelligence chatbots, defying a push from the White House to leave such technology unchecked.

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Salesforce bets big on agents with platform overhaul

Paul Gillin / siliconangle - Salesforce Inc. is going all-in on artificial intelligence agents with this week’s announcement of Agentforce 360, an enterprise-wide platform that infuses agents into nearly every application the company delivers. Salesforce calls the platform an attempt…

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Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Departs for Meta

Keach Hagey / wsj - Andrew Tulloch is the latest big-name AI researcher to join the social-media giant.

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OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias

Thomas Claburn / theregister - AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…

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Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Jason Koebler / 404media - Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

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Anthropic finds 250 poisoned documents are enough to backdoor large language models

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Anthropic, working with the UK’s AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, has discovered that as few as 250 poisoned documents are enough to insert a backdoor into large language models - regardless of model size.The article Anthropic finds 25…

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