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BREAKING: NSA warns of 2 PHP security flaws, advising orgs to take affected systems offline if they cannot be secured immediately.

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NEW: JPMorgan raises its SpaceX SPCX price target from $240 to $500.

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Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI staff AI safety could involve a nuclear-style intl. watchdog, consolidation of major labs, or one company reaching RSI and controlling others’ GPUs. He called the latter terrible.

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NEW - SpaceX $SPCX rose over 15% to $163

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MIT’s AI, IRIS, decodes chemical signals guiding cells into tissues such as lungs or brains. It predicted embryo signals and indicated one could steer cells toward lung tissue. It may aid organoid, disease, and tissue-repair research.

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US AI infrastructure expansion faces debt concerns as costs rise and projects stall. FT reports 47 major data center projects delayed, blocked, or withdrawn in 2026. About 35% are considered credible, while debt-funded expansion may leave projects unfinished.

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Anthropic is negotiating a second $45B compute deal with Nvidia-backed Nscale, Bloomberg reported. The proposed 460MW Vera Rubin expansion in West Virginia would bring planned capacity to 920MW and total contracts near $90B.

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NEW - Elon Musk said SpaceX could generate $1T in revenue in 2028, calling the possibility no longer impossible.

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NEW - SpaceX reports $14.58B in Q3 2026 revenue, above expectations.

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NEW - 🇺🇸 SpaceX Falcon 9 launch creates a glowing plume over Florida.

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NEW - 🇺🇸🇧🇷 Meta Oversight Board found recurrent enforcement failures in content moderation related to the US midterm elections and Brazil’s presidential election

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OpenAI and Anthropic seek investor funding before IPOs. OpenAI seeks $30B at a $1.4T+ valuation; Anthropic may go public in mid-November at ~$1.5T. OpenAI wants to close first before comparisons emerge.

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NEW - 🇺🇸 GTA 6 could cost the U.S. economy $1B in 1 day, as up to 1.5M Americans are expected to take the day off to play.

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Anthropic reportedly allocates 75% of compute to model training, post-training and experiments, with 25% for customers. Of about 5 GW capacity, 1.25 GW may support inference. It plans to add 10.5 GW in 2027.

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AI agents lowered cyberattack costs in a reported campaign targeting 1,200+ firms. A Chinese-speaking hacker breached 100+ companies using about $5,000 in tokens, or roughly $50 per breach. Intrusions averaged 23 hours.

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Jensen Huang says AI token costs are falling 30-40x annually. He says lower token costs reduce AI costs, while customer benefits rise exponentially.

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Chinese AI researcher Chen Guangyu, 17, is reportedly leaving Kimi for Silicon Valley. He joined Kimi at 16 and co-authored research used in a 2.8T-parameter model.

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Elon said he will give shares directly to the public instead of placing them in a Public Benefit Fund. In April, OpenAI proposed a Public Wealth Fund to distribute returns to US citizens through a dividend.

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NEW - 🇯🇵 Japanese scientists are preparing a mission to Mars’s moons to retrieve samples that could inform research on the Solar System and life on Earth.

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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar claims some AI researchers have started smoking because they believe AI will cure cancer.