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Bill Gates: Prepare for roughly 20 years of "turbulent" AI disruption

In an interview on the Decoder podcast, Bill Gates said people need to prepare for roughly 20 years of AI disruption, a period that could be so painful that society splits into two parts: those close to the technological frontier and those who reject it. In an article in late August, he previously said that even under the best-case scenario, the transition to a new AI era will be one of the most turbulent periods in human history, and he believes current policy responses and industry coordination are insufficient to address the risks. He also pointed out that the biggest near-term risk comes from models whose safeguards can all be removed.

OKA launches Mori, a mushroom-shaped robot: not a voice assistant, just companionship

OKA has launched Mori, a $649 mushroom-shaped home robot lamp with a built-in camera and microphone that can follow users around, play nature sounds, and guide breathing relaxation, but it does not support voice commands to control smart home devices or check the weather. Mori is powered by multiple local large language models and can judge when to interact and when to stay quiet; images and audio are discarded immediately after local processing, and facial data is stored encrypted and never uploaded. The founder's edition is limited to a few hundred units, while the standard edition costs $799 and does not include subscription features.

Merck Animal Health Senior Vice President: To promote human health, we must invest in protecting animals

Robert Kelly, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Operations at Merck Animal Health, called for greater investment in animal health: zoonotic infectious diseases account for about three-quarters of human infectious diseases and destroy more than 20% of global livestock production each year, yet less than 1% of global health spending goes to animal health. He cited technologies such as CRISPR gene editing, mRNA vaccines and AI smart collars that can be used simultaneously for animal disease prevention and early disease monitoring.

New York spends $10 million to establish an AI jobs institute in Queens, aiming to train 40,000 people by 2032

New York State and New York City are investing $10 million to establish the AI Jobs Institute in Long Island City, Queens, designed and operated by the nonprofit organization Pursuit, with the goal of training up to 40,000 low-income New Yorkers for AI-related jobs by 2032. The curriculum starts with the basics of tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, then teaches students to build AI agents that handle everyday business tasks. A CBRE report shows that from 2022 to 2025, the New York metropolitan area added 30,640 tech workers, bringing the total to 394,300, surpassing the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time.

Musk's merger dream is a nightmare for SpaceX shareholders

SpaceX and Tesla have each established special committees composed of independent directors to explore a merger between the two companies; after the news was announced, Tesla's stock rose 3.4% and SpaceX rose 7.8%, adding $155 billion in market value. At a 30% premium, SpaceX would need to pay about $1.98 trillion to acquire Tesla and issue new shares equivalent to 92% of its existing share capital, increasing its shares from 13.1 billion to 25 billion. Tesla's GAAP net profit over the past four quarters was only $3.28 billion, while SpaceX lost $1.5 billion over the same period; after the merger, SpaceX shareholders would give up nearly half of future earnings.

Mistral CEO and Yann LeCun Invest in Swiss Robotics Company Enact's $30 Million Pre-Seed Round

Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence has emerged from stealth, completing a $30 million pre-seed funding round with investors including Mistral head Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf, as well as Redalpine, Notion Capital and Firstminute Capital. Enact is building underlying technology for general-purpose robots, using actuators to sense force and touch rather than relying on cameras and vision, in order to improve the precision of object manipulation. The funds will be used to expand the team and accelerate hardware and R&D.

Anthropic releases proactive agent Claude Duet

Anthropic releases the proactive agent Claude Duet, aimed at professionals and small business managers, delivering a daily morning briefing of the day's key points. It can connect to apps such as Gmail, Slack, Stripe, Canva, LinkedIn, and Shopify to summarize unread messages, check unpaid invoices, draft marketing campaigns, or build online stores, and can use more than 6,000 connectors in the Claude Marketplace. The product is initially available as standalone Android and iOS apps and a web research preview; Pro and Max subscribers can join the waitlist, with usage limits the same as other Claude products.

Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive agent app

Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a proactive agent app, opening it to US Pro and Max subscribers via a waitlist. Duet checks connected accounts every few hours, runs on a cloud virtual machine with a separate browser, uses Claude Opus 5.5, and users currently cannot watch the browser operations in progress. Based on Opus 5.5's API pricing, a check that reads 40K tokens and writes 1.5K tokens costs about $0.19; six checks a day comes to about $34 a month, higher than Pro's $20 monthly price. Before sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting content, Duet shows the specific action and waits for approval; securities trading and transfers between accounts remain prohibited even with approval.

US Treasury Secretary Bessent Says AI Has No Systemic Problems, Dot-Com Bubble Will Never Repeat

US Treasury Secretary Bessent said at a closed-door meeting on Wednesday that there are no systemic problems in the artificial intelligence industry, that it cannot be compared at all to the dot-com bubble at the turn of the century, and predicted that AI will greatly boost productivity and significantly promote US economic growth. But he also acknowledged that data centers and AI companies have not done enough to explain the benefits of the technology to ordinary Americans; currently, more and more regions in the United States are beginning to oppose data center construction, and investors are increasingly questioning whether related stock prices are too high.

The US market has never bet so heavily on a single theme, but AI returns may take decades

Ming Lu, a senior advisor at KKR, believes the scale of the US market's bet on AI is unprecedented, but the payoff will come far later than the market expects. AI-related capital expenditure has risen to about 2% of US GDP, and AI-related investment accounted for 39% of US economic growth in the first three quarters of 2025, higher than the 28% at the peak of the dot-com bubble. The combined market value of the "Magnificent Seven" is $25 trillion, accounting for 35% of the S&P 500.

INMO GO3 smart glasses launched: featuring MicroLED display and Gemini integration

The INMO GO3 smart glasses are on sale for $509, with a MicroLED display for each eye, brightness up to 1500 nits, a 30-degree field of view, and Google Gemini integration. It supports real-time translation in 98 languages, 13 of which can run fully offline, and can also take notes in meetings, with summaries later presented directly through the glasses. The device weighs 58 grams, has a replaceable battery, a physical cover for the camera, and optional accessories including a speaker, a control ring, and a sunglasses overlay.

AWS team open-sources multi-agent system Deep Insight, breaking down five major challenges in production environments

The AWS Solutions Architecture team built and open-sourced the multi-agent system Deep Insight, which can transform CSV data and natural language prompts into cited .docx analysis reports. The system consists of eight agents—Coordinator, Planner, Supervisor, Coder, Validator, Reporter, Tracker, and others—collaborating in layers, controlling execution flow based on the Graph and Agents-as-Tools patterns of the Strands Agents SDK, and selecting Claude Haiku, Opus, and Sonnet by role. Production deployment relies on the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime; LLM-generated code is executed in isolation within per-session ephemeral containers on AWS Fargate, accompanied by a Web UI and an Ops dashboard.

How AWS PrivateLink Lets Amazon Quick Securely Access Data from Enterprise Intranets

AWS has released a solution that uses AWS PrivateLink VPC endpoints and VPC connections to let Amazon Quick access on-premises data sources behind enterprise firewalls without traversing the public internet. User and API traffic goes through VPC endpoints, while data retrieval traffic goes through VPC connections, with security groups and endpoint policies layered on for defense in depth. VPC connections require an Amazon Quick Enterprise subscription, and Quick website VPC endpoints are not supported in AWS China Regions or the AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

Training Qwen3 on AWS Trainium with torchtitan

AWS has published a tutorial demonstrating three ways to train Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 with torchtitan on a single trn2.48xlarge (16 Trainium2 chips, 128 physical NeuronCores): Transformers v5 as the modeling backend, torchtitan's native Qwen3, and integration with the NKI MoE kernel. All three configurations share the same torchrun launch method and run on 64 logical NeuronCores; when loading from the released weights, the first-step loss is 6.54, while with random initialization it is 12.43.

TorchTitan Update: Support for Multiple New SOTA Models, TitanRL, and Large-Scale Performance Improvements

PyTorch's native training platform TorchTitan has released an update that adds full training-stack support for Muse Spark Open, Muse Glimmer, Qwen3-VL, Qwen3.5, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, and DeepSeek-V4, and introduces the reinforcement learning component TitanRL. TitanRL lets pretraining, post-training, and vLLM inference share the same model code, and supports asynchronous rollout as well as agent-task training such as long-context and code execution. On performance, FlexShard on 256 H100 GPUs reduces DeepSeekV3 optimizer time by up to 79%, and reduces end-to-end training step time on Llama3 405B by up to 20%.

Recursive releases laptop-class coding model Flint, says it was built mainly with AI involvement

AI startup Recursive has released its first model, Flint, a coding model that runs offline on a laptop and is freely downloadable on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license; the company says its development process was mainly carried out with the involvement of its in-house Eureka Machine. Flint is an MoE model that activates only 2.5B of its 40B parameters at a time, generates at about 131 tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro, and outperforms other models under 50B parameters on SWE-Bench Verified. Recursive says Flint requires more guidance than large paid coding assistants and recommends breaking large tasks into small steps.

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Recursive Releases Open-Source Coding Model Flint, Says Most of Development Process Was Completed by AI

Recursive released Flint, its first open-weight coding model, with 40B parameters. CEO Richard Socher said that nearly every stage of the model pipeline was completed by its Eureka Machine system, including a new base training method, the model architecture, and code optimized for specific chips. A WIRED author tested it on a Mac with 48GB of memory, using it to build a command-line to-do app, a web research scraping program, and an RSI educational website, and found its speed and accuracy superior to models of the same size. Recursive has raised $650 million from Google Ventures, Greycroft, Nvidia, and AMD Ventures, at a valuation of $4.65 billion.

Former OpenAI research lead founds Arda at a $1.5 billion valuation

Arda, founded by former OpenAI research lead Bob McGrew, has raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Altimeter Capital, Accel, and Khosla Ventures. Arda develops AI software for automated manufacturing, and its models have already been deployed at defense technology company Anduril. McGrew describes the product as an agent for manufacturing engineers that can significantly speed up the setup of assembly lines; the next item on its roadmap is robotics.

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