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The Daily AI Espresso — the links the most-followed people in AI actually shared, curated every morning. Edited by Alexis · Live updates →
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The IMF's October 13 Global Financial Stability Report flags an AI equity correction as one of three top risks, alongside rising sovereign borrowing costs and major cyber-attacks. Deputy director Athanasios Vamvakidis said non-US exposure to US AI assets is at historic highs.
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Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold AI, has launched TwinCafe, a product that lets job seekers upload a résumé and work samples to generate a shareable digital twin a recruiter can interview before meeting the human, per Fortune. Garg envisions candidates placing the link atop their CVs.
NTT Data is in final-stage talks to build Anthropic's first dedicated Japan data center in Osaka, at up to 1 trillion yen ($6.3B) and 500MW of power, Nikkei Asia reports. Partial operations target 2028; the parties aim to sign by end of fiscal 2026.
Graylark's Raven, previously called GeoSpy, now lets police upload one interior photo and get back the specific house or short-term rental where it was taken. The tool matches features against public listings on Airbnb, Zillow and Vrbo. LAPD and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office are early buyers.
Fields medallist Shing-Tung Yau on Sunday launched a Yau Laboratory Alliance in Beijing uniting eight Chinese institutions and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, SCMP reports. The group will build specialised AI models for math and formalise proofs. Yau said China lags the US on AI-driven frontier science.
IonQ said October 12 it has signed a definitive agreement to buy zero-trust vendor Elisity for up to $1.3B in stock, including $150M in earnouts, with closing targeted for Q4. Elisity's platform restricts which users, devices, workloads and AI agents can communicate on enterprise networks.
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Anthropic says new defenses cut what distillers can harvest from Claude by 90 to 99%, per an October 12 post. A model distilled from Claude's full reasoning scored 80.4% on SWE-bench Verified, versus 71.8% from summarized reasoning. The changes ship in Claude Fable 5.1.
Intel formally launched the GPU D270 (previously Crescent Island) at the OCP Global Summit on October 12. The inference-focused Xe3P card ships with up to 480GB LPDDR5X, 1.3 PFLOPS FP8, and 1.5 TB/s bandwidth in a 350W PCIe 5.0 form factor.
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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar told CBS 'Face the Nation' Sunday that some AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal belief AI will cure cancer. He named no researchers and offered no evidence; smoking still kills, and no AI breakthrough has changed that.
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