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TNW · · Unconfirmed
Google is “starting to get onto that RSI treadmill”, cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon, Business Insider reported. Google shared the video on Wednesday. Brin pointed to the Flash models Google released before...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive...
TNW ·
Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough. The company changed the terms late on Friday after...
TNW ·
Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, in an interview with TechCrunch editor-in-chief...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come from Anthropic’s new robotics study, which Business...
TNW ·
Elon Musk says his time running DOGE showed the US government cannot fix its deficit from the inside. Only AI and robots can, he told biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk made the comments on Isaacson’s new podcast, The Builders, Axios...
TNW ·
TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose 51% to NT$1.49tn, or 41.2% to $46.72bn in US dollar...
TNW ·
The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a...
TNW ·
Netflix has named Peter Rice, the former chairman of Walt Disney Television, as its chief content officer. The company announced the move on Thursday. Rice will run its global content organisation, from scripted and unscripted series to...
TNW ·
OpenAI’s 110 staff in London received an average of about £2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures come from the accounts of OpenAI UK Ltd, as Robert Booth reported for The Guardian. The staff shared £87m in...
TNW ·
The EU’s proposed cloud sovereignty law, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), could cost Europe €115bn over ten years. That is the central estimate in a study by the Brussels think tank ECIPE. CCIA Europe, a lobby group whose...
TNW ·
Anduril is letting current and former employees sell shares in a tender offer that values the defence tech company at about $90bn. The shares are priced at $94.80 each, and the offer is capped at about $1.3bn, according to Bloomberg’s...
TNW ·
Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about...
TNW ·
“We lose Starlink and lose the interceptor,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on 17 October, Bloomberg reported. Zelenskyy said speed limits on Starshield, SpaceX’s military satellite network, remained in place...
TNW · · Medium severity
“The jury’s verdict confirms that Arm operated in good faith under its technology license agreement and its award of only two dollars confirms the merit of Arm’s arguments in the case,” Arm said in a statement. A federal jury in...
TNW ·
“Right now, the whole industry is in short supply,” GlobalFoundries CEO Tim Breen told Bloomberg. Japan will put up to $21bn into two new chip factories at GlobalFoundries’ site in Malta, New York, the company announced on 14 October....
TNW ·
“Pre-LLMs a Chrome full chain would take a team of four around 6-9 months to be produced, our first submission took 2 months. six days,” XBOW researcher Brendan Dolan-Gavitt wrote in a technical write-up. Security company XBOW has won...
TNW · · Medium severity
“Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a speech in Dublin on...
TNW ·
“All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by the end of 2030, Gartner said on 14 October.
TNW ·
“Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,” OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies launched a joint project to fix open-source software. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a firm that...
TNW ·
“We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates...
The Register · · Critical severity
Late Sunday night, a still-unknown cybercriminal or group hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery stores, spiking temperatures, spoiling food, and sparking fires. This is part of an...
Silicon Republic ·
The programme will apply to transition year students and aims to prepare young people for a more sustainable future. Read more: GreenFutures initiative to bring AI and climate education to secondary schools
Silicon Republic ·
Germfree’s Carol Houts discusses how lab breakthroughs are irrelevant if progress can not be made in a safe and consistent space. Read more: ‘I saw how much depends on the environment around the science’
Silicon Republic ·
The company has seen strong customer interest to already place orders for 2029 and even 2030, ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said in an earnings call. Read more: AI-led demand overwhelms ASML’s 2027, 2028 supply capacity
Silicon Republic ·
A new purpose-built facility will house Ericsson’s Athlone R&D team of more than 1,300 people. Read more: Ericsson recommits to Athlone with new purpose-built R&D facility
Silicon Republic ·
The report also found that Ireland ranks fourth globally for net AI talent migration and first in the IMF Skills Readiness Index. Read more: Ireland ranks fourth globally for AI engineering talent, finds report
Silicon Republic ·
Signatories called on companies to 'exercise caution' and 'default to air-gapping cyber-capable models'. Read more: Geoffrey Hinton among 415 scientists calling for joint effort for AI safety
Silicon Republic ·
The new strategies aim to help regulators and AI providers better understand the rules around legislation and policy. Read more: AI Office of Ireland progresses plans for Sandbox Programme and AI literacy
Silicon Republic ·
The UCD AI Institute will see researchers work alongside computer engineers to make the most of the technology. Read more: UCD AI institute launches at AI in Science Summit
Silicon Republic ·
The centres are named after Jean Monnet, who is widely considered one of the founding fathers of the European Union. Read more: University of Galway’s ocean research earns EU Jean Monnet designation
Silicon Republic ·
Ella Flanagan will move on to the final stage of the judging process, where her invention has the potential to bag the top spot and €35,000. Read more: Irish graduate shortlisted in global top 20 for James Dyson Award 2026
Silicon Republic ·
Robert Walters’ report highlights the importance of long-term financial security for Ireland’s employees. Read more: Are Irish professionals choosing future security over a better salary?
Silicon Republic ·
Green IT's engineers have already refurbished and returned more than 500,000 ICT devices to circulation. Read more: Green IT to open 22,000 sq ft refurbishment facility in Kildare
Silicon Republic ·
Engineers Ireland president Dave Murphy finds that the country needs a coordinated national response to address Ireland’s growing engineering skills shortage. Read more: Engineers Ireland: Country can’t deliver on ambitions without...
Silicon Republic ·
Fidelity Investments' Richard Murphy discusses the work carried out by FCAT and the importance of considering what can be realised if you are curious and determined enough. Read more: FCAT and looking at what’s possible, not what is...
Silicon Republic ·
The initiative aims to strengthen research and innovation in disciplines related to digital creative industries. Read more: €10m Shared Island Digital Creative Industries Innovation Programme launched
TNW · · Medium severity
“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people....
The Register ·
Amazon wants to ensure you have a personal AI that you can carry with you anywhere, listening in on your conversations so it can remind you of key details – and give you personalized shopping recommendations, of course. The global...
The Register ·
Businesses using Facebook commercially may want to think twice about what information they share online. At the end of the month, Meta plans to introduce terms that would authorize it to collect content from websites associated with its...
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