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Google’s Orbiting TPU Reportedly Runs Only 20 Minutes at a Time, Report
Key Takeaways Google says its Project Suncatcher prototype returned the first AI response from a data center-class TPU in orbit, a haiku written by Gemma 4. TechCrunch reports the satellite carries one TPU, generates up to 1 kW and can run the chip for only about 20 minutes at a…
1 hour ago
Altman’s Samsung Roundtable Was About AI Training, Not the RAM Remark Drawing Fire
Key Takeaways Altman met about 50 Samsung Group affiliate presidents on October 31 in Yongin, his first visit to the group in about a year. The Korea Herald says no new agreements were announced, and neither report says the meeting covered a chip shortage. In a separate interview, Altman argued…
1 day ago
Cursor Warns Uninstalling the Tampered Claude Code Extension Is Not Enough
Key Takeaways Cursor says at most 5,000 users received the tampered Anthropic.claude-code 2.1.313, live from about 2:27am to 1:35pm PT on October 29, and that Anthropic did not develop it. The code collected host details and tried to install an SSH backdoor, but that step fails without administrator rights, which…
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Binance Freezes $3 Billion as Its Estimated Impact Reaches $6.3 Billion
Key Takeaways Binance says the estimated total impact is around $6.3 billion, with about $3 billion frozen on-chain so far, and it has not published a final loss figure. Reuters counted more than $2.38 billion frozen by Tether and Circle, while Binance co-founder Yi He said Ripple froze roughly $200…
2 days ago
After Claude Tightened Up, DeepSeek and Moonshot Reportedly Turned to GPT-6 Astra
Key Takeaways Per The Information, via Reuters, DeepSeek’s V4.1-Flash 1017 and Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, based on anonymous sources. SBS News, relaying the report, says Chinese labs moved from Claude to Astra after Anthropic’s countermeasures, which Anthropic says cut harvested data by…
