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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 →
Eight developments: one new today and seven from yesterday's alerts.
Reuters reports that at Anthropic's Wednesday San Francisco investor day, prospective backers discussed a $1.5T valuation for the November share sale, down from the roughly $2T previously floated, after Q3 revenue hit $16.8B, up 45% sequentially but slower than Q2's near-doubling.
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Google DeepMind placed four Gemini 4 Argon coding agents in a sandboxed Minecraft survival world and defeated the Ender Dragon from a random seed in 27 hours 14 minutes, writing 2,783 programs and dying 605 times, with the agents coordinating only through in-game chat and shared memory.
The White House's Super Intelligence task force formally adopted its charter on Thursday, kicking off a 120-day window to deliver a risk report covering cybersecurity, biosecurity and model control. DNI Jay Clayton chairs the group with National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross; PCAST will run the risk evaluations.
Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin unveiled a plan to fund US industrial parks for the smaller suppliers behind Nvidia, TSMC and Foxconn, starting with a Texas complex costing up to $4B, Bloomberg reports. Taiwan has already locked down the Texas land, with sites budgeted $2B to $4B each.
Nscale's flagship Norway data center is six months behind schedule, with only 6.4 of a planned 30 megawatts running at the Arctic Circle site, Bloomberg reports ahead of the AI infrastructure company's NYSE listing at up to a $35B valuation. Nscale owes penalties to anchor customers Microsoft and ByteDance.
Meta's updated commercial terms take effect October 30, and the fine print says Meta can crawl websites 'associated with' any business account on Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp and use the content to train Meta products, Nieman Lab reports. Three legal experts told the outlet there is no opt-out.
404 Media's own test of ChatGPT's new ad platform found advertisers can inject ads targeted at specific users via uploaded phone number, email or device identifier, and OpenAI also targets on the prompts users type. ChatGPT has about one billion monthly active users, 404 Media reports.
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Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, its sandbox tool for containing AI agents, and says nine frontier models failed to escape it in 118 attempts. CoreWeave, Akamai and Crusoe have signed on to offer SPACE to their customers, Semafor reports.
Sakana AI published version 3 of its AI Scientist pipeline, 'The Agentic Scientist,' on GitHub under Apache 2.0 alongside an 88-page arXiv paper. The scaffold turns a task.md into experiments, ablations and a paper inside Docker; a development version co-authored an oral paper accepted at ALIFE 2026.
That’s today’s shot. — Alexis · AI Weekly
