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Sep 30, 2026

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·TechCrunch

OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

OpenAI reportedly abandoned development of an AI model after safety concerns emerged, according to the Wall Street Journal. A senior executive said the model showed a weak ability...

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·TechCrunch

Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds

Aurora says it can deploy more than 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030, generating $5 billion in annual revenue, despite expecting only 200 trucks by the end of CFO David Maday argue...

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·The Verge

AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion

AMD is acquiring World Labs, the AI research startup co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. World Labs, founded in 2024, built Marble, a comme...

AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
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·TechCrunch

Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation

Modal Labs is close to raising $750 million led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation, more than tripling its value from four months ago. The deal comes as AI inference providers...

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·TechCrunch

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion

AMD will acquire World Labs, the company founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, in an $8.2 billion deal. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist after the ac...

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·github.com

Jeff offers Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models for fast local zero-shot classification in about 30 ms

Jeff is a set of small Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 fine-tunes that classify options from plain-language descriptions using the same request format as Jev. The models return calibrated prob...

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·arstechnica.com

Researchers say an alleged 1841 geomagnetic disruption to UK railways was likely a typo, revising early space weather history

A study in Space Weather reexamines an 1871 Nature report claiming a magnetic storm disrupted rail travel in Exeter in October The researchers conclude the date was likely a typo a...

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