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Founder Summit's agenda revealed

TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed, covering fundraising, scaling, hiring, and more in Boston on November 4.

Is it 'killer robots' or 'super intelligence'? At the UN, leaders see both

UNITED NATIONS — It’s killer robots versus super intelligence.

Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money

The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.

AI & Tech Brief: Trump rejects ‘globalist scheme’ on AI

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Rabbit's New AI Agent Doesn’t Need an R1 to Run

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Americans sour even more on data centers.

A new report from the Pew Research Center adds more data points to the thing everyone seems to know by now: data centers are pretty unpopular. Negative marks are up in every category Pew surveyed, with only 4% of respondents thinking that data centers “have a mostly good impact” across the board.

Tesla gets Grok Bot.

The AI agent can “manage your inbox, clean up your calendar, or talk through existing files/chat/tasks – all hands-free,” the company says. Some Tesla owners posted videos using Grok Bot to order Starbucks for them. The AI bot is only available to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers, who pay $300 a month for access. Bloomberg just reported that Grok Bot topped 400,000 weekly users roughly a month after launching.

Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts

EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.

Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting

British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.

Texas Puts Data Center Permits on Hold

Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stop granting permits to data centers while the state finishes an audit of the facilities that want to connect to its electric grid. Last week, Abbott also told state regulators to “impose legal consequences” on data centers that don’t disclose information about water usage.

OpenAI launches faster and more efficient GPT-6 Sol and Luna models.

The two models come packaged with GPT-6 Astra’s advancements in professional work, accuracy, coding, computer use, and alignment, but with higher usage limits and lower costs, according to OpenAI.