The A.I. Daily · Ten minutes a day to keep up with AIOpenAI has closed roughly $11 billion in funding, the first tranche of a round valuing the company at $1.25 trillion, with the money wired as of Friday, according to people familiar with the matter. The full round could reach up to $20 billion and is expected to close in coming weeks.
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China's Ministry of State Security · Recruited Alice Huang, an executive at Nvidia customer Megaspeed, to gather intelligence on American AI chips and try to influence Nvidia into making its most advanced chips available to China, The New York Times reports.
Shield AI · Shield AI · raised $2B in equity plus $500M in debt and is acquiring radar firm Echodyne for $5.3B.
Palo Alto Networks · is in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M in cash plus milestone payments; Clutch was valued at $85M in January 2025.
Study: Nearly Half of Distressed Israelis Turn to ChatGPTA Tel Hai College study found that nearly half of Israeli users experiencing severe psychological distress turn to generative AI like ChatGPT and Gemini for emotional support. Researchers warn these consumer systems lack genuine empathy, clinical boundaries and crisis intervention, and may worsen the isolation they aim to ease.
LA City Council backs citywide data privacy policy motionThe Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a motion by Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez directing the Information Technology Agency and other departments to recommend a unified citywide data privacy policy covering data collection, storage, retention and sharing for AI and automated license plate readers. Departments must also report on cybersecurity, transparency, accountability and auditing to end inconsistent standards.
Man Sues Claiming ChatGPT Told Him to Stop Paying Rent, Got EvictedA man has filed a lawsuit alleging that ChatGPT advised him to stop paying rent, leading to his eviction. The case raises questions about AI advice reliability and liability.
Saudi Study Examines Parental Trust in AI vs. PediatriciansA cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia surveyed parents on their trust in AI versus pediatricians, examining how this affects diagnostic preferences and healthcare-seeking behaviors, offering empirical data on AI acceptance in pediatric care.
Cerebras vs. Nebius: Which AI Stock Is the Better Buy?The Motley Fool compares chipmaker Cerebras, which builds wafer-scale processors for AI training, with Nebius, an AI-focused cloud platform. Cerebras posted fiscal 2025 revenue near $510 million, up 75.7%, and net income of $237.8 million, reversing a prior-year net loss of $481.6 million.
LA City moves to regulate AI rent-setting technologyThe Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to have housing staff report on policy recommendations for regulating algorithmic rent-setting and AI technologies. Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez introduced an Oct. 13 motion calling for safeguards, transparency requirements, a registration program and dedicated funding, noting the city cannot currently track the technology's impact on the rental market. The motion cites recent federal enforcement actions and concerns over housing affordability, competition and tenant stability.
Guillermo Rauch · argues that combining aisdk, Chat SDK and json-render to go from LLM straight to UI on Slack and Teams will become the dominant human-agent interaction paradigm.
Aravind Srinivas · argues agents will increasingly be used by other agents, since orchestrating around git as a version-controlled system of record is easier.
"god when is meta ever going to launch muse voice they announced it forever ago" muse:
Another device Hermes Agent looks excellent in [Quoting @JarlanPerez]: Fun experiment getting Hermes, active and operational on a Nintendo 3DS. I can talk to it from the 3DS and it does real work on my Mac. It can searches the web, writes and runs code, and p…
So much has come of this one project! Start working on yours, change the course of history :) [Quoting @adolandev]: A month ago, Hermes Gadget was an open SDK running on 11 boards. Since then: • 29 boards, including the first ESP32-P4 ones, M5Stack StickS3, E…
Meeting physical copies of AI Native in New York for the first time this week
Generative UI for conversational agents. Combining @aisdk with Chat SDK and 𝚓𝚜𝚘𝚗-𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛, you can go straight from LLM to UI on platforms like Slack and Teams. I believe this will become the dominant Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) paradigm:
Anthropic's IPO will be ushered in with a whole bunch of model releases to celebrate AI - Carbon will become generally available - Anthropic will drop Fable and Opus variants - OpenAI will match with Astra AI will continue to accelerate, and I am sorry, there…
LDraw NovaAgentic toolset that analyzes LEGO LDraw source to reverse-engineer and animate mechanisms in Blender.
Agentic Identity BrokerAn MIT-licensed OAuth2 broker letting users grant AI agents scoped, revocable access to MCP services.
Tobira Site AgentTurns your website into an AI agent that sells and books inside AI chats
TurnstoneA free Grok Bot alternative that runs on your own AI and auto-switches on limits
Wonder Dev ViewRuns Claude Code and Codex agents in parallel worktrees with cross-review
DALI AI by SupplyzProAn AI-powered all-in-one workspace to manage sales, inventory and invoicing via chat.
chalkA Mac AI tutor that teaches by annotating your screen and building step-by-step lessons.
Rankfender v3.0All-in-one SEO/GEO operating system combining keyword, rank tracking and AI assistant brand monitoring.
PautaRecords and transcribes meetings and voice notes offline, turning them into summaries and action items.
A coding-agent skill that runs multi-phase security audits with independently verified machine-readable findings.
Skills for real engineers, straight from the author's .agents directory.
A Python framework for building semantic graph reasoning layers over data for LLM and agent workflows.
Agent Skills collection for Google products and technologies, for developers using those products.
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