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Today’s brief · Saturday, October 31
- AIApple's new leader John Ternus says Apple won't ship AI just for the sake of it
- Startups & BusinessOpenAI reportedly lowers the target for its latest funding round
- Startups & BusinessNvidia may guarantee loans for an Anthropic data centre that Nscale is building
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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
- Friday, October 30Concept: Audio fingerprinting
- Thursday, October 29Concept: Edit distance
- Wednesday, October 28Concept: Shamir's secret sharing