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Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

World · Deutsche Welle

Egypt orders closure of independent news site Mada Masr

Editor-in-chief Lina Attalah was briefly detained and fined over licensing violations. Rights groups condemned the ruling as a major blow to press freedom in Egypt, where independent media face growing pressure.

World · Deutsche Welle

Experts urge 'global health emergency' as climate harms accelerate

Heat, drought and storms linked to climate change are already killing millions worldwide. Researchers want global warming to be declared a global health emergency as the health harms from it escalate faster than ever.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

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World · Al Jazeera

Arab parties projected to win 18 seats in Israeli parliamentary election

Record-breaking voter turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel hits around 80 percent, early indications show.

World · Al Jazeera

Exit polls trigger heated debate across Israeli political divide

Despite narrower exit poll figures, opposition leaders insisted the result was a defeat for the government.

Business · CNBC Technology

SK Hynix shares soar over 8% as profit beats, chipmaker to return $25 billion to investors

Shares of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix soared over 8% on Wednesday as third-quarter profit sharply beats estimates.

Society · BBC Technology

'An annoying buzz': The search for stealthier drones

As drone deliveries become more commonplace, their makers are looking for ways to make them quieter.

Cybersecurity · Snyk Blog

Snyk UNFILTERED: Inside Our First-Ever Customer Summit

At Snyk’s first customer summit, security leaders shared candid perspectives on AI risk, vulnerability remediation, and governing autonomous agents. Five themes reveal how teams are adapting security for AI speed.

Developers & Open Source · langchain-ai/langchain Releases

langchain-anthropic==1.7.7

Changes since langchain-anthropic==1.7.6 release(anthropic): 1.7.7 ( #41538 ) fix(anthropic): trace resolved reasoning effort ( #41536 ) chore(infra): relax third-party dependency upper bounds ( #41407 ) chore(deps): bump certifi from 2025.11.12 to 2026.10.19 in /libs/partners/anthropic ( #41391 ) fix: fix dependencies in some partner packages ( #41266 )

Developers & Open Source · vercel/next.js Releases

v16.5.0-canary.29

Core Changes Create cache directory before persisting Chrome DevTools workspace UUID: #100802 Upgrade React from ab0d927f-20261020 to dc9aed36-20261027 : #100791 [testmode] Fix compressed HTTP responses with test proxy: #100805 chore(deps): bump sharp@0.35.5: #99714 Turbopack: Auto-detect pnpm GVS and configure an additional root for it: #99758 Persist storage cache in Docker environments: #100790 Persist fully static PPR payloads in filesystem cache: #100759 Stamp FileSystemCache revalidations and entries with the monotonic clock: #100357 Example Changes examples: add eve example: #100758 Misc Changes turbo-bitset: make block storage pluggable: #100779 Use fixed encoding for our 'id' types: #100764 [RFC] Remove worktree guidance from AGENTS.md: #100659 eval: resolve and classify the audit suite: #100748 turbo-tasks-backend: resolve task priority when creating child contexts: #100767 Add server-only leak pass to next-bundle-optimizer: #100330 Turbopack: Fix webpack loaders if source file exists in an additional root: #100744 [CI] fix incorrect VERCEL_TEST_PROJECT in non-cache-components deploy…: #100788 ci: run changed deploy tests with both builders: #100591 Turbopack: compute client reference manifest parts once per reference, not per page: #100443 turbo-bitset: remove FixedBitSet and RoaringBitmap comparisons: #100724 turbopack: use Bitset for persisted chunk group sets: #100630 turbopack: use Bitset in compute_merged_modules: #100568 turbopack: use Bitset in collect_graph: #100567 turbopack: use Bitset in compute_chunk_group_info: #100643 turbo-bitset: add Bitset, a fast bitset over a bounded bit range: #100566 turbopack: speed up and share reverse postorder ranks: #100452 test: remove some more dev/prod gating: #100717 ci: Only run upload-adapter-test-results on release: #100595 Optimize persistence CPU: #100737 eval: split Next.js evals by purpose: #100742 Credits Huge thanks to @sokra , @chadhietala , @lukesandberg , @kassens , @styfle , @aurorascharff , @wbinnssmith , @bgw , @namtran1812 , @skrabe , and @mischnic for helping!

AI · TechCrunch AI

Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

AI · TechCrunch AI

The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Here’s why the iPhone Duo’s hinge could be cracking the screen

Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would appear in the middle of the screen above the hinge, with lines appearing […]

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Apple refreshes the iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro with the M6 chip

Additionally, the N1 chip brings Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Google built AI agents a world to practice in. The physics still aren’t quite right.

Google DeepMind introduced Genie 4 on Tuesday, a world model that renders interactive environments in real time with simulated physics, The post Google built AI agents a world to practice in. The physics still aren’t quite right. appeared first on The New Stack .

Society · The Guardian Society

AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban

Three-quarters of all responses were machine-generated in failed attempt to stop bill from passing into law, research finds AI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes. Three-quarters of all the responses to the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated, in what is thought to be the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the UK. Continue reading...

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Guidewire buys Hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash

The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.

Business · CNBC Technology

Jim Cramer warns investors not to get fooled by the latest AI stock rally

CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned that the latest rally in AI stocks doesn't mean the data center trade is out of the woods.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

South Carolina's measles outbreak jumped to Washington state 5 times in 2 weeks

International travel used to be the main risk of measles cases in the US—not anymore.

World · BBC Europe

Ceasefire extended across Ukraine's Kherson region, officials say

The truce was originally planned for the stranded residents of Oleshky, and Russia and Ukraine say no breaches have been reported.

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.40.12

Liquid AI LFM3 LFM3 is Liquid AI's new family of small models built for local agents, tool calling, and structured output, on Liquid's new tri-hybrid architecture. The family includes: lfm3 : a 1.7B text model with a 256K-token context window lfm3-vl : adds image understanding lfm3-audio : speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech in 18 languages lfm3-omni : text, images, and audio in one model ollama run lfm3 d1 decision models Liquid AI's d1 models now come in a 2B size, built on LFM3. d1 makes decisions about text and images, and d1-omni adds audio. ollama run d1:2b " I was charged twice for order 4417. " --ask " Is this a billing issue? " Note: lfm3 and d1 2b are supported on Apple hardware in this release. Support for Linux/Windows coming soon. What's Changed Faster prompt processing on Apple silicon for Gemma 4, Flint and Laguna models Speculative decoding now supports DFlash2 draft models on MLX Gemma 4 keeps more detail in small images ollama launch now works with OpenCode v2 Fixed tool-only assistant turns from Kimi CLI Updated MLX and llama.cpp Full Changelog : v0.40.11...v0.40.12

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

GitHub Copilot supports server-to-server authentication

GitHub Copilot now supports server-to-server authentication for GitHub Apps installed on organizations, available in public preview. Services and agents built with the GitHub Copilot SDK can now make requests on… The post GitHub Copilot supports server-to-server authentication appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Society · NPR Top Stories

Southwest flood damage estimates are hundreds of millions for New Mexico alone

Intense rainstorms linked to a very active El Niño-driven Pacific hurricane season have left thousands of people in the Four Corners states displaced.