Wesleyan Media Project: political campaigns spent ~$187M on ~300 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads in the midterms; 90% of tracked AI ads were for GOP candidates (Loreben Tuquero/Poynter)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video: Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be "relics of the past" in "less than a decade" (@firesidealpha)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
Game developer House House confirms using AI during Big Walk's final development, sparking an intense debate among Independent Games Festival judges and jurors (Luke Plunkett/Aftermath)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
Sources: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming says the company plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and reach the AI frontier by 2029-2030 (Bloomberg)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
AMD EPYC 9006 Results Are Here and AMD Delivers a Knockout Part Deuxwww.servethehome.com昨日Hacker News
Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72hpietromiotti.com昨日Hacker News
Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users harder to fingerprintblog.mozilla.org昨日Hacker News
Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robotarstechnica.com昨日Hacker News
As Anthropic prepares to IPO, Amazon and Google collectively own 25%+; Amazon's $18B investment could reach $250B+ in value and Google's $33B could hit $140B (Karen Weise/New York Times)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
Sources: SoftBank reserved 13GW+ of turbines, equivalent to six Hoover Dams, to power AI; SoftBank took a $3.7B earnings hit mostly from canceled reservations (Wall Street Journal)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
After China's anti-corruption crackdown on hospital visits and pharma reps, drugmakers are turning to AI assistants from Alibaba and others to reach physicians (Andrew Silver/Reuters)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
Filing: Alphabet agrees to additional privacy protections to salvage its $10M acquisition of bankrupt Spirit Airlines' data, resolving union objections (Alexander Gladstone/Wall Street Journal)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
The European Commission introduces the Digital Fairness Act, which aims to curb addictive design features and manipulative "dark patterns" or face large fines (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
Rather than being a spy, Alice Huang is likely a commercial fixer or "white glove" for businesses, leveraging a career in China's capital-market structures (Desmond Shum)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisconews.ycombinator.com昨日Hacker News
Sources: the UK's proposed under-16 social media ban is expanding to target recommender systems and user content, including YouTube Kids, Lego Play, and Spotify (Jessica Elgot/The Guardian)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
Analysis: AI-driven e-commerce adoption surged during China's month-long Singles Day festival, with event sales rising 2.4% between October 7 and October 31 (Reuters)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR teardown: a 5/10 score, a point above the M5 MacBook Pro, and Touch ID works with a new logic board; the backlit logo uses four LEDs (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme
England's university regulator says AI makes grading coursework "close to impossible" and recommends a return to "AI-free assessment" methods like written exams (Richard Adams/The Guardian)www.techmeme.com昨日Techmeme