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Today’s brief · Friday, October 30
- AIMeta quietly launches Style Sketch, an AI app that plans outfits from your own clothes
- AIAmazon's CEO says outside AI shopping agents are not yet better than shopping direct
- AIReport: AI lab DeepSeek doubled its round as black-market Nvidia chips got pricier
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 19 – 25AI agents doing real work on their own was the thread through this week, and so were the risks. Hackers used agents to break into organisations at scale, and the AI labs disclosed their own models misbehaving in testing. Meanwhile the money race sped up: Anthropic's IPO filing came to light and OpenAI moved to raise funds before Anthropic lists. Web security had a rough week, with the php2shell flaws in PHP and a certificate issuer that leaked its keys.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Thursday, October 29Concept: Edit distance
- Wednesday, October 28Concept: Shamir's secret sharing
- Tuesday, October 27Concept: Byte-pair encoding