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ChatGPT Health Plugs Into Epic’s 325M Patient Records
OpenAI wired its clinician tool into the dominant US health record system, with read-only access to charts, no write-back, and a new public health data plugin.
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Meta’s Muse Code Exits Beta at $5 a Month
Meta’s terminal coding agent ships stable with three plans from $5 a month, a TypeScript SDK in developer preview, parallel workflows and a rewind control.
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Europe Orders a €387.8M AMD Supercomputer for AI
EuroHPC signed a €387.8 million contract with Bull to build LUMI-AI in Kajaani, Finland — AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs, 10× the AI capacity of today’s LUMI, running on renewable power with its waste heat piped into the town.
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Pentagon Puts ChatGPT and Grok in Front of 3M Troops
The Defense Department switched on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI’s Grok for Government inside GenAI.mil on Monday, both cleared to Impact Level 5. Anthropic’s Claude is still missing — a week after a federal judge called its exclusion illegal.
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Bank of England Warns G20 Frontier AI Could Crash Markets
In a two-page letter to G20 finance ministers, Andrew Bailey said frontier AI models now carry real threat capability — and that stretched AI valuations, leverage and shaky sovereign debt could turn a shock into a disorderly correction.
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OpenAI Pulls DALL·E Out of ChatGPT for Good
The dedicated DALL·E GPT vanished from ChatGPT’s picker on 30 August, the last visible trace of the brand that made AI image generation a mainstream idea. Image generation itself stays — under a different name, on different models.
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DeepSeek Nears $7.4B Raise at a $74B Valuation
DeepSeek is signing a 50 billion yuan round at a $74 billion pre-money valuation, roughly 43% above its last round two months ago, ahead of a possible 2027 STAR Market listing.
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South Korea Gives All 52 Million Residents Free AI
Seoul picked SK Telecom, KT and Kakao to build a free, unlimited AI assistant for every resident — the first G20 nation to treat frontier AI as a public utility. At least half the model usage must be Korean.
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OpenAI Cuts Cursor Off From Its Models on Nov 12
OpenAI invoked a change-of-control clause after SpaceX closed its acquisition of Cursor, ending model access on November 12. Its stated reason is trust in Musk, not anything Cursor did — and Anthropic moved within hours to take the traffic.
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Best AI Coding Tool: Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude vs Codex
Four agents, one decision. We score GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex on quality (50%), price (30%) and speed (20%) — then show how the winner changes the moment you change the weights.
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Hugging Face’s $399 Microduck Is a Robot You Train
Hugging Face opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25-centimeter open-source biped with a camera, lidar and two IMUs that developers train in simulation and redeploy on the hardware. It ships before Christmas.
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Judge Voids Pentagon’s Anthropic Ban as Retaliation
A federal judge vacated the Defense Department’s designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk, ruling the label was First Amendment retaliation for the company’s refusal to drop two safety red lines.
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Google's AI Mode Now Books Hotels and Tracks Flights
Google added flight price alerts in 180+ countries, hotel booking with ten major partners, and award pricing in points and miles — pushing AI Mode from answering travel questions to completing travel transactions.
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OpenAI, Google and 100 Firms Sign AI Cyber Defense Call
An open letter signed by more than 100 AI, security, finance and infrastructure companies warns that AI-enabled attacks will outrun current defenses — and names hospitals, water utilities and power systems as the most exposed.
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GLM-5.3-Flash vs Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol
Z.ai’s new open-weight model scores 57.0 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — six points behind Claude Opus 5 and under two behind GPT-5.6 Sol, at $0.15 per million input tokens. It loses the flagship fight and wins the one that matters for volume: it beats Sonnet 5, Terra and Luna outright.
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Emerald AI Raises $150M to Flex Data-Center Power
The two-year-old Washington, D.C. startup closed an oversubscribed $150 million Series A at a $1.05 billion valuation, co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC. Its software shaves a data center’s draw when the grid is stressed — a bet that the fastest new power is power nobody has to build.
Business Wire
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GLM-5.3-Flash Is Ox Alpha: 320B, Multimodal, MIT
The stealth model that appeared on OpenRouter under the provider name “stealth” has a name at last. Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash is a 320-billion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with a million-token context window and MIT-licensed weights — reportedly, a preview served entirely on Chinese-made accelerators.
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Moonshot Wants 30% of Cloud Revenue From Kimi K3
Reuters reports early-stage talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Google that would make Kimi K3 a first-party offering on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. It would be the first major revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI lab and a US hyperscaler — and the weights are already public, which is the awkward part.
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IBM Granite 4.2 Ships Agentic RL Under Apache 2.0
IBM published three open-weight models — 3B, 8B and 30B — with a switchable thinking mode across the family and reinforcement learning inside real software-engineering, terminal and web-search sandboxes for the two larger sizes. The 30B scores 57.0 on SWE-Bench Verified, and the whole family runs on hardware you own.
The Decoder
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Amazon Is Shutting Mechanical Turk After 21 Years
The marketplace Jeff Bezos called “artificial artificial intelligence” closes on 30 September, 21 years after launch. Amazon stopped taking new customers in July, rivals moved upmarket to expert annotation, and by 2023 researchers found nearly half of MTurk workers were already using AI to do the work by hand.
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OpenAI's Jalapeño Beats Blackwell on AI Work per Watt
The first published benchmarks for OpenAI's Broadcom-built inference chip show 1.5× to 1.9× more work per watt than the best shipping systems, at half the package power of an Nvidia GB300. The caveats are real — engineering samples, 8k-context tests, no agentic workloads — but a first-generation accelerator is not supposed to land this close to Rubin.
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Okta Gives AI Agents Their Own Logins With Agent SSO
Agents that speak the Cross App Access standard now get registered in Okta’s directory alongside employees and receive short-lived tokens instead of a static API key.
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Keenable Raises $26M to Index the Web for AI Agents
The startup left stealth with a seed round led by Accel and an index of more than 100 billion documents, built on the premise that an agent searches the web nothing like a person does.
TechCrunch
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XPeng Robotics Raises $900M at a $6.3B Valuation
IDG Capital led the first outside round for XPeng’s robotics arm, with Tencent and Alibaba joining. The money funds mass production of the IRON humanoid, due to start by the end of 2026.
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