Nvidia introduced Kumo Relational, a pre-trained model that works directly on a company's database tables. You ask it a prediction question, such as which customers will leave. It pulls up to 10,000 past examples as context and answers in one pass. There is no task-specific training and no manual feature engineering. Nvidia says it beats supervised models and expert-built gradient-boosted tree pipelines across 41 tasks on 15 databases. It also says the model scales to databases with more than 500 billion rows.
TechCrunch reports that Walmart unveiled Agent Gateway. It is an MCP server, a standard connection point that AI agents use to call a site's tools, and it handles purchases made by agents that users have approved. Walmart also introduced Agent Profiles, which come with special terms for AI.
Bloomberg, citing sources, reports that DeepSeek raised about 100 billion yuan, or roughly $15 billion, in its latest round. That would make it one of the largest fundraisings ever in China. Battery maker CATL and Tencent are said to be among the biggest contributors.
Super Flower's VGA 12+4PIN OCP Dongle sits between the power supply cable and a graphics card's 12V-2x6 connector. It watches the current on each 12 V line. If a line carries between 9.5 A and 12 A, or two lines drift more than 6 A apart, it beeps and shows an orange light. Above 12 A, and after a set delay, it switches to a black-screen protection mode. It is listed at NT$1,190 in Taiwan, but for now it only comes bundled with Leadex VIII power supplies.
Researchers from Calif.io, Wiz, OpenAI and Quarkslab disclosed two flaws in PHP, known together as php2shell. They affect web servers running PHP 5.4 or later. Specially crafted web requests can make PHP misuse memory after an error. That can crash the server, leak data or run the attacker's code. Cloudflare says the details leaked before the official release and that it saw attack traffic. It says it added firewall protection on all its plans about 9 hours before public disclosure. Wired reports that AWS analysts saw at least one attacker exploiting the bugs from October 17, and that they are now broadly exploited.
Railway, a cloud hosting provider, says it found unusual activity on the systems that store customers' environment variables. These are settings that often hold passwords and keys. The company says an unauthorized party may have accessed the encrypted values, and obtained the decrypted contents for some customers.
On its third-quarter earnings call, Tesla said it will start selling the Cybercab to customers by the end of the year. The Cybercab is a self-driving two-seater with no steering wheel. For now, every Cybercab built goes to Tesla's own robotaxi fleet, and Tesla says sales will start small. Elon Musk said the unsupervised version of Full Self-Driving would reach owners' cars in the second quarter of next year, which is another delay. The US road safety regulator, NHTSA, is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet showed the Xbox 360 Blades dashboard running in a browser on a PC. The clip also shows two later dashboards, and all three can be navigated. It is one of the first experiments from the new Xbox Labs team. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma asked fans whether they like it. Xbox has not said how it works or announced any plans to bring it back.
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