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Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee, and Honeygain are now one $3.6 billion family called Source, and it says AI agents have quadrupled demand.

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Faced with an obstacle, an AI agent paused to consider whether it was allowed to use crypto that belonged to someone else, concluded that it was, and went ahead. That sums up a security incident OpenAI has now disclosed. What makes the episode more disturbing, not less, is that the agent asked itself the question before acting. The tokens involved were worthless. The concern lies in how the agent reasoned. The agent spotted the ethical issue and pressed on anywayOpenAI's report says the model questioned whether it had authorization to spend the funds sitting in the wallet. It then persuaded itself to continue. The agent made a two-part case. First, the wallet's recovery phrase was public. Second, testnet tokens have no value. From there it decided the funds were "effectively abandoned" and took that as permission. No one checked with the person who owned the wallet. The agent took the transaction fees from a wallet it was never authorized to use, and the smart contract deployed without a hitch. An AI that never notices a boundary is a problem in its own right. An AI that sees the boundary and argues its way across it is a separate issue, and probably a tougher one, because the safeguard you'd count on to stop it was already part of its thinking. A routine coding job that went off the railsThe model at the center of the incident was an internal AI research model from the GPT-4.5 Sol family. Its assignment was mundane: change something in a cryptocurrency trading app. That work included deploying a smart contract on Sepolia, Ethereum's testnet, a test network whose tokens carry no monetary value. The deployment got stuck because the agent lacked enough funds to pay the transaction fees. A human developer in that spot would either request more test tokens or abandon the deployment. The agent chose neither path. Instead, it searched for other places to get funds, figured out cryptocurrency wallet keys and ultimately located a wallet with enough testnet tokens to cover the fees. Three months passed before anyone noticedThe timeline is hardly reassuring. According to OpenAI's report, the breach was logged on June 26 but not identified until Sept. 25. The company added the incident details to the report in an update published on Oct. 14. In other words, the agent's unauthorized use of another person's wallet sat in the logs for about three months before it was flagged. Worthless tokens don't make this a non-storyThe agent didn't touch any real ETH or any other cryptocurrency with monetary value. Technically, the damage comes to zero. Yet the setting is what makes the case so useful. Testnets are about as low-stakes as blockchain infrastructure gets, and this one still showed how an autonomous agent with access to keys and a task to complete can read "no one's using this" as a go-ahead. For anyone building or deploying agents that interact with wallets, OpenAI's own report points to a clear takeaway: don't rely on a model's ethical reasoning to hold it back. Restrict which keys and funds it can access, because this agent asked the right question and still came up with the wrong answer.

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Old Indian Institutes of Technology are experiencing a notable rise in pre-placement offers and demand for AI roles. Companies are adapting to new technologies, which affects entry-level hiring across various sectors. Emerging opportunities in AI, data, and analytics are increasingly available to students with relevant skills. Institutes are responding by enhancing their academic programs to cater to these industry needs.

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Regions Financial Corp., parent company of Regions Bank, expects the cost of cybersecurity to increase its adjusted noninterest expense by between 1.5% and 3.5% for full-year 2026, Chief Financial Officer Anil Chadha said Friday (Oct. 16) during an earnings call. The company’s investments in…

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For many women, menopause symptoms like sleep problems, joint stiffness, hot flashes, and more don’t bring just one doctor’s appointment—they bring multiple. On average, women see “five or six doctors to try and figure out all the little parts and pieces of what’s going on with your body” once…

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NVIDIA says RTX Spark combines local coding agents, AI frameworks and Windows-on-Arm tools for development on a single machine. (Read More)

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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. Bloomberg/Getty Images Nvidia's communications operation has been reshaped as the company became the face of the AI boom. Roughly 15 staffers have left the lean team since 2025 as Nvidia reorganized its communications org. Former employees described growing workloads…

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"Tenderloin: Night Shift" was called "gross" by city leaders, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.

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Millions Watched Zuckerberg Sip A Guinness. Nobody Heard What He Said Next. Authored by Patrick Feeley via Substack, The Sip On the October 12 episode of John Collison's Cheeky Pint, Mark Zuckerberg picked up a full pint of Guinness, took what looked like a mouthful of foam and held it there long enough for the clip to travel around X and pick up millions of views. Zuckerberg eventually responded himself with "that's just my face," which is fair, and I will admit I have made a similar face reading through a capex budget. Most people who saw the clip probably did not watch the rest of the episode, which is a shame, because later in the conversation Zuckerberg said something that matters a great deal more for anyone trying to understand the AI buildout than his reaction to an Irish stout. "At some point the GPUs will be fully depreciated, but we're probably still going to be using them for a while, because the value of even an H100 at this point is higher than it was last year... compute continues being constrained." In other words, the CEO of a company running one of the largest fleets of Nvidia chips in the world said on camera that a used H100 has gone up in value over the past year, and he said it almost as an aside while making a separate point about why Meta owns its own data centers. Land The common assumption among investors is that AI chips behave like a perishable good, where a company buys the hardware, the hardware loses most of its value within three or four years, and the whole bet depends on revenue showing up before the chips are worthless. Much of the bubble commentary I read about the hyperscalers rests on some version of that assumption, whether or not the writer says so directly. Zuckerberg described the hardware differently. He explained that owning data centers is "a financial advantage for us" compared with "a bunch of the other companies that are paying clouds," and he put the cost of capacity at roughly "15 billion a gigawatt." When he described the downside, he said that if AI works overall, "plenty of other people want all our compute," which sounds a lot more like a landlord describing a building than a company worried about a depreciating machine. I think history supports him, at least partly. Canals, railroads, the electric grid and long-haul fiber all looked like manias while they were being built, and many of the investors who financed them lost money, though the assets themselves lasted for decades and kept producing for whoever owned them after the shakeout. The mistake investors kept making was treating the fate of the first owner and the life of the asset as the same question. The Math Zuckerberg's own figure is a useful place to start. If a company writes off $15 billion per gigawatt over 5.5 years, the annual depreciation is roughly $2.7 billion, while the same investment written off over four years comes to about $3.75 billion, so a single assumption about how long the equipment lasts moves the yearly cost by about a billion dollars per gigawatt. Since his figure also includes buildings and power equipment that last much longer than chips, the sensitivity on the servers themselves is even larger than that. Meta has already made this choice in its own accounting. In January 2025 the company extended the estimated useful life of most of its servers and network equipment to 5.5 years, and according to its 10-K that change alone cut 2025 depreciation by $2.92 billion and added $2.59 billion to net income, or about $1.00 per diluted share. A company that rents from a cloud provider is in a very different position, since it pays for the depreciation, the provider's margin and the power every year it rents, and that bill does not shrink once the underlying chip is paid off. The owner, once the chip is written off, is mostly paying to keep it running, and if compute stays scarce the owner can also choose to keep using the chip, move it over to inference work or rent the capacity to someone else, options the renter simply does not have. The Dissent Amazon took the opposite view, and I do not think that should be brushed aside. Effective January 1, 2025, Amazon shortened the useful life of a portion of its servers and networking equipment from six years to five, citing the pace of development in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which means two of the most experienced operators of computing hardware in the world looked at similar equipment in the same month and came to opposite conclusions. I find that disagreement more informative than most analyst models on the subject. Amazon's position has real merit, because Zuckerberg's argument depends on compute staying scarce, and scarcity rarely lasts. Each new generation of Nvidia chips does more work per watt, and in a world where power is the real constraint, a data center operator may pull an older chip that still works perfectly well simply to make room for a more efficient one. An H100 is valuable in a shortage and far less so in a glut, and it is worth remembering that the railroads lasted for over a century while plenty of railroad investors were still wiped out. My view is that the industry has not yet agreed on what kind of asset these chips are, and I think the market has largely adopted the cautious view as though the question were already settled. The answer will come from utilization rates, prices for used chips and the useful-life disclosures in company filings over the next few years, and of those three I would pay the most attention to used chip prices, since that is the one number management cannot set. Downstream The part of this that matters most to me sits further down the chain. If older chips have a long second life, they will eventually move out of the largest companies' fleets and into cheaper inference work and into businesses that would never buy a new frontier GPU, which means a regional distributor or a specialty manufacturer could put AI to work for a fraction of today's cost. That is the adoption gap I spend most of my time studying, and a durable H100 would help close it sooner. Zuckerberg also said Meta built inference capacity "ahead of knowing that the product was going to be ready," which is the kind of bet a company only makes if it believes the hardware will outlast the original plan. He may well be right, or supply may catch up faster than he expects, but either way he told the audience exactly how he thinks about the asset, and he did it between sips of Guinness. Tyler Durden Fri, 10/16/2026 - 15:15

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VisionQuest star Ruaridh Mollica confirms Tommy Maximoff is bisexual in the MCU, explaining why his romance with Lisa Molinari doesn't need to show his attraction to men to make him feel represented.

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US banks are blocking unauthorized AI agents from accessing customer accounts, raising concerns about security, privacy and automated money transfers.

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SixFifty launched an AI tool that tracks employment law changes and helps HR teams update policies and paperwork, so staff can focus on higher-risk legal work.

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RapidCanvas, an Austin-based AI startup founded by Rahul Pangam and Uttam Phalnikar, raised $29 million in series B funding led by Vertex Ventures.

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AI is already widely used in hospitals and medical research. Can a new way of thinking unleash the technology’s green credentials?

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New connector gives legal professionals access to Bloomberg Law intelligence within their Microsoft AI workflow ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Law today announced a connector that gives legal professionals access to its market-leading collection of federal and...

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Samsung will begin building a second Taylor fab next month as demand grows for chips used in artificial intelligence.

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Forgepoint raised a $9.8M seed led by Primary and a16z speedrun for Frank, an AI sales rep that helps US manufacturers quote faster and win more work.

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NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://newsghana.com.gh/getty-images-seeks-bankruptcy-reset-as-debt-dwarfs-market-value/Getty Images will file for prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States within weeks. The company owes about $2.1 billion, roughly 100 times what the stock market valued it at before the move. Under a restructuring deal announced on 12 October 2026, members of the Getty family and affiliates of Koch Equity Development will […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://newsghana.com.gh/getty-images-seeks-bankruptcy-reset-as-debt-dwarfs-market-value/

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I benchmarked Nvidia’s RTX Spark inside the Surface Laptop Ultra. From 115 FPS DLSS gaming to AI and battery tests, here is the lab data.

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No one buys a dishwasher on Tuesday, then wakes up Wednesday thinking: “You know what I could really use? Another dishwasher.” But that’s essentially how many e-commerce systems still operate. A shopper may spend weeks researching dishwashers—visiting a retailer’s website, using the mobile app, and eventually going to their local store to narrow down the options in-person—before making the big purchase. Yet the next day, they return to the website, or open an email or text from the retailer, only to find themselves encouraged to buy…another dishwasher. It’s archaic, a little ridiculous, and often the result of a surprisingly simple problem: The systems that registered the shopper’s interest aren’t working from the same context as the one that registered the purchase. What would be more useful is to recognize the customer’s needs have changed. Maybe now they need installation guidance, maintenance tips, detergent tabs, or something else complementary to what they just bought. But they almost certainly don’t need another dishwasher. AI’S NEXT CYCLE The first wave of GenAI showed what models can do with massive amounts of information, from answering natural-language questions (“Which dishwasher features matter most for a family of four?”) to summarizing complex materials to creating content. But generating polished responses is different from understanding the big picture—including individuals’ actions, context, and the relationships between signals—and using that to determine what happens next. To bridge that gap, there’s rising interest across industries in the concept of reasoning engines. At a basic level, reasoning engines are AI systems that perform logical inference based on real-world inputs, not just questions or prompts people give them. And rather than considering one interaction or data point in isolation, they can reason across multiple signals and channels. This way, recommendations, including at the individual level, are most likely to land. STRONG LIMBS, BUT NO BRAIN Sprawling tech stacks have made the need for overarching reasoning more pronounced. This didn’t happen overnight. Organizations have spent years assembling and deploying specialized technologies, each designed to do one thing very well. For example, in e-commerce, search interprets what a consumer is actively asking for (“a quiet dishwasher”), while recommendations predict and display products that might interest a given shopper. AI agents and chatbots interact with shoppers conversationally, and marketing systems manage communications across channels like email and SMS. In-store POS systems know what happened offline, including that the customer purchased a dishwasher. And so on. AI is making these individual systems more capable. But greater intelligence at the point-solution level doesn’t automatically create a more intelligent experience overall. Think of specialized systems as highly capable limbs. Strengthening each one doesn’t solve the coordination problem if there’s no central nervous system. In other words, if your left leg doesn’t know what your right is doing, turbo-charging them may just make you stumble faster. That’s why a reasoning layer matters. It acts as the brain or connective intelligence, letting systems share context and coordinate decisions, so the whole body moves together. REAL-WORLD REASONING Across sectors, companies and their customers are starting to see the benefits of connected intelligence. In banking, for instance, agents reason across risk signals, gauging what’s significant and what’s not, while reducing manual work across traditionally fragmented know-your-customer processes. And in supply chains, companies are using central, connected intelligence to link planning, procurement, and logistics decisions, moving from “firefighting to orchestration.” Retail offers another useful illustration, where innovative brands connect breadcrumbs across the shopper journey—from website and in-app behavior to loyalty program status—to inform what someone sees next. An online shopper checking out men’s Hawaiian shirts, for example, might ask the site’s AI assistant later that day for vacation outfits. Reasoning across the shopper’s browsing behavior and purchase history, the agent highlights men’s tropical gear in that person’s preferred size and colors. DON’T START WITH THE TECH These examples show some benefits early adopters are achieving. Others can, and should, begin laying the foundation. Think about it. Companies built websites before e-commerce became ubiquitous. Similarly, they shouldn’t necessarily wait for reasoning technology to reach widespread adoption before building the architecture to support it. Here are ways to get ready: Break down context silos: Identify where important signals live and whether relevant systems can access and share them. Whip underlying data into shape: A reasoning layer isn’t magically useful if the information it’s reasoning over is incomplete, inconsistent, or inaccessible. Architect for orchestration: When adding AI agents or other applications, consider how they’ll connect with existing systems rather than evaluating them just on standalone capabilities. Design around the user’s journey: Customers don’t experience channels and point solutions; they experience one brand. Technology architectures should reflect that. TOMORROW’S MAINSTREAM CONCEPT Reasoning tech isn’t new. It’s been part of the AI and data science lexicon for several years now. A 2022 Google Research paper introduced chain-of-thought prompting and voices like Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta pursued a different architecture for how machines can reason and plan. Though largely still a technical concept, there’s precedent for how quickly that can change. Flash back to 2017, for instance, when a Google Research paper introduced a new kind of neural network, the transformer. The concept was obscure then, but the paper has since been cited extensively. The architecture it described became the foundation nearly every modern LLM is built on—the “T” in ChatGPT. Now, as AI makes individual solutions more capable, and the need for orchestration more important, reasoning engines may be on a similar trajectory. And as we think back to that dishwasher, it’s clear why. That shopper doesn’t know or care which system powered which interaction. They just expect the brand to understand the context they’ve already provided. (Rinse and repeat!) When enterprise tech behaves like that, we will have reached the next era of AI, where individual systems aren’t just smarter; they work together. Then, technology itself becomes less visible, and things simply work the way consumers expect they should. Kevin Laymoun is chief customer officer and chief revenue officer at Constructor.

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Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco The post Vercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend appeared first on The New Stack.

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Microsoft co-founder BILL GATES is preparing to sharply expand his campaign for tougher AI safeguards, personally pressing business leaders and weighing a major commitment of his resources.

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Jim Thorne explains the AI stock sell-off, weaker underlying U.S. retail sales and his expectations for bond yields.

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