📰 News Samsung's Sub-1-Bit Paper Is Real. The Viral Numbers Are Not.
The tweet says 13B in under 1GB and 'local AI changes forever.' The paper says a 70B model squeezed 138GB to 5.35GB on an 8GB GPU — at a quality cost, on NVIDIA hardware only.
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📰 News Google's Gemini Agent Wants Your Objectives, Not Your Instructions
Google's universal work agent runs on Gemini and Anthropic's models, spawns its own sub-agents and keeps working after you close your laptop. Enterprise agent software just got a default.
📰 News Waymo Just Borrowed $5 Billion. That Means Robotaxis Work.
Uber-era debt structures are arriving years early for autonomy. Waymo's first $5B debt raise says the robotaxi unit has predictable revenue — and plans to outrun its regulatory troubles.
📰 News Manus Closes $500M After Beijing Blocked Its Sale to Meta
The company Beijing would not let Meta buy just raised over $500M on its own. Manus's first round since the forced split signals China's AI agent sector survives regulatory whiplash.
📰 News Meta Deployed an LLM to Catch Ads That Secretly Lead to Child Abuse Material — 33.2 Million Takedowns in Six Months
The ads look harmless on their face. Meta's new LLM system now judges where they lead, not just what they show — amid 33.2 million takedowns in H1 2026.
📰 News Common Sense Media Calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk' — and Says It Should Be for Adults Only
A teen could spend an hour discussing self-harm without a parent receiving an alert, the youth safety group says. OpenAI says the testing was flawed.
📰 News Amazon's Employee #10 Revealed Six Years of Secret Work Building Micro-Machines from Code
The Amazon Prime and Uber product veteran just unveiled the Matter Compiler, a machine that builds micron-scale machines straight from code. First device: a 50-microsecond relay for 800V AI data centres. Public debut October 12–15 in San Jose.
📰 News Sequoia's $60M Bet on Mecka Puts a Price Tag on Robot Reality
Humanoid makers need motion data that can't be scraped from the web. Mecka pays people to record everyday tasks, and Sequoia, Nvidia, Microsoft and Samsung just put US$60M behind the pitch.
📰 News Zuckerberg's Biohub, the US government and AI labs pool $1.8 billion to build the data layer for AI biology
The largest coordinated commitment to AI-ready biology data yet: $1.8 billion from governments and labs to measure cells at scale — but commercial funders get a one-year exclusive look first.
📰 News Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone — one million checks a day, and a detector that only knows its own family
The verification tool Google showed journalists at I/O last year is now a public website. It is also a closed club: SynthID only detects media made by companies that signed up.
📰 News Australia's Privacy Watchdog Opens a Formal Investigation Into the App Behind Kmart's $89 Smart Glasses
Australia's privacy regulator has opened a formal investigation into the China-based company behind the HeyCyan app, the software in Kmart's $89 Anko smart glasses — after the company failed to answer the regulator's questions.
📰 News Google Puts Its Free Gemini Tier on the Smallest Model It Sells
Google is cutting free Gemini users back to Flash-Lite from October 9 — and even $4.99 AI Plus subscribers are losing Pro access. The most usable frontier AI is moving further behind the paywall.