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The Guardian reports that xAI, in Southaven, Mississippi, has been offering to buy homes from residents through real estate agents on the condition that homeowners not join a class-action lawsuit over noise from its gas turbines. One agent said the goal is to purchase 418 homes, and 18 households have already agreed to sell; xAI did not respond to these figures and denies all allegations in the noise lawsuit. Local residents say the gas turbines run around the clock and produce constant noise re

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A new study by the AI Language Equity Research Consortium found significant differences in the number of tokens AI models need to process different languages: among the 20 languages with the highest web presence, less common languages use 1.5 to 5 times as many tokens as English to process the same prompt. After expanding the study to 200 languages, the gap reached as high as 17 times in one of the models examined. Because most LLM providers charge by token, this drives up usage costs and also b

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Otter has added a Work mode to its AI Chat assistant that can execute multi-step tasks: before meetings, it generates briefing documents based on past calls and data from connected apps; after meetings, it drafts emails, creates Word/Notion documents, PDFs, and interactive web pages, and updates Salesforce records, with human approval required before tasks are completed. Work mode is now available to all paid Otter users with no usage limits, and the existing Express and Advanced options will be

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After Alphabet announced its third-quarter earnings, its stock price fell sharply for two consecutive days, and its market value evaporated by about $500 billion. Net profit for the quarter fell 25% year over year to $26.2 billion, or $2.12 per share, below FactSet analysts' expectations; revenue rose 25% to $127.6 billion, and advertising revenue rose 11% to $82 billion. Google Cloud revenue rose 103% to $30.7 billion, and the company said sales of its self-developed TPU chips contributed signi

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Google Gemini now allows users to generate and edit documents within the chat window; they can expand to a full-screen view for manual edits, or return to the conversation and let Gemini continue making adjustments. Chat-window editing for documents, PDFs, presentations, and spreadsheets is now available on the web and mobile, while editing for Google Docs, Google Sheets, Markdown, TXT, slides, and code is available only in the Gemini web app. Google also announced that Gemini can generate PDF s

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Reddit announced it will shift to a logged-in-user-first experience, with most content requiring a login account to access, a major change in its 21-year history. CEO Steve Huffman said the move is intended to improve user experience, strengthen the advertising business, and stop bots from scraping proprietary data. The new experience will begin testing outside the United States this quarter; the homepage and content reached via search engines or shared links will remain accessible, but browsing

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A New York Times investigative report claims that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may be a target of Chinese intelligence activities, and that the US has identified Alice Huang, an executive at the Singapore data center company Megaspeed who has close ties to him, as a suspected Chinese government intelligence operative. Alice Huang is a Chinese citizen; Megaspeed purchases chips from Nvidia and sells computing power to Chinese AI labs including Alibaba. While conducting electronic surveillance of the c

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The Guardian interviewed several San Francisco startups, describing the actual experience after AI agents took over tasks such as scheduling, coding, marketing, and recruiting as "colleagues." Anything has 15 human employees and about 150 agents; Lindy cut one-third of its staff and used agents to fill the roles; a McKinsey survey shows that about 40% of large organizations used AI agents in some form between May 2025 and June 2026. Employees report spending large amounts of time correcting agen

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AI Business reported that, in the week ending October 25, Chinese models accounted for more than half of the token statistics on OpenRouter, whereas about a year ago only one of the nine models on the site's weekly usage list came from China. Red Hat is internally piloting self-hosted GLM, used by up to 1,400 engineers, with about 70% of inference traffic going to open source models, and it controls costs with a frontier model quota of $300 per person per month. DataCamp, due to latency and insu

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Nvidia has invested $3 billion in Meta's Muse agent and the Muse series models, and the two sides announced that the Muse models (Wonder and Wonder Full) and the agent will run on Nvidia infrastructure. Meta plans to expand its deployment of Nvidia hardware, including using Vera Rubin and Vera CPU for next-generation AI agents, and the two sides are also exploring using Nvidia's OpenShell reference architecture for agent security. Meta's consumer-grade Muse agent has reached 10.9 million downloa

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European early-stage VC Entourage has completed fundraising for its second fund at €100 million, exceeding its initial €75 million target and capping it after being oversubscribed within two weeks. The fund plans to invest in about 25 companies at the pre-seed and seed stages in Europe and other markets, with individual checks of €1 million to €5 million, expanding its focus from software to AI, enterprise software, robotics, physical AI and deep tech. Entourage was founded by Showpad co-founder

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Biotech company ALLOX has completed a $10.5 million seed round led by Asabys through the Sabadell Asabys II fund, with participation from CDTI's SICC Innvierte and the Institut Català de Finances (ICF). ALLOX's platform combines high-throughput genetics, experimental biology, and AI to measure in parallel the effects of thousands of gene mutations, in order to identify allosteric, orthosteric, and other regulatory sites as well as potential binding pockets for the development of small-molecule d

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German mixed reality software startup VUSE XR has completed a €1.2 million pre-seed funding round led by the Düsseldorf business angel network IACD. Its VUSE XR Hub platform can use existing CAD models and engineering data to generate realistic 3D models, and create training content through AI-assisted tools, text prompts, or drag-and-drop, deploying it to browsers, mobile devices, and XR headsets. The funding will be used to further develop the platform, expand AI-assisted content creation capa

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The UK Budget introduces a new Founders' Relief, expands the EMI scheme, and adds new support for young and female entrepreneurs, while stepping up AI investment and support for scale-ups. The UK remains Europe's largest destination for startup funding, with Tech.eu recording €14 billion across 423 UK startup equity funding rounds in the first half of 2026, up 117.5% year on year, but a shortage of late-stage patient capital still pushes companies toward raising in the US or being acquired. The

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Apple released the new MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR display, its first Mac to support touch, and macOS has adjusted interface controls for finger input. When a finger moves over a menu bar item, that item enlarges; the window's red-yellow-green buttons also grow larger when touched, and swiping up from the bottom of the screen brings up the hidden Dock. The former notch area has been changed to the Dynamic Island, which hosts Spotlight, Live Activities, and Siri AI, and can be pulled down to ex

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