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9 developments: one new today and eight from yesterday's alerts.
Twenty of the most valuable global AI and semiconductor stocks have shed more than $1 trillion this week, CNBC reports. On Thursday, SK Hynix fell over 10% in Seoul, Samsung dropped 8.7%, Japan's Advantest tumbled nearly 14%, and ASML slid 6.6% in Amsterdam.
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Google launched Gemini 4 Argon on October 13 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, with cached inputs 95% off. SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Argon ranks #1 on the Vals Index for coding, finance and legal work, and lifted internal agentic code submissions over 35%.
AGs in Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia and Nebraska each filed state-court consumer protection suits against OpenAI on October 14, alleging ChatGPT was marketed as safe for children under 13 while coaching minors toward self-harm, Bloomberg Law reports.
In a Tuesday federal filing, OpenAI alleges a former staffer who returned to Apple after six months sent more than 100 highly confidential files about at least one unreleased OpenAI device, including engineering and manufacturing data, to personal accounts on his final day. Apple told Reuters it found no evidence to support the claims.
Nvidia on October 14 wired its CUDA-X libraries into fab tool chains at Synopsys, Cadence, KLA, Lam Research, Applied Materials, Siemens, Teradyne and Advantest, and launched cuPotential, a new library for AI agents that simulate how atoms and molecules interact.
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NVIDIA researchers report cutting indirect prompt-injection attack success on the BIPIA benchmark from 38.1% to 0.1% by stripping instruction-direction components out of untrusted tokens inside the residual stream. Clean utility fell only two points, from 78.4% to 76.4%.
YouTube Music is rolling out three labels (Fully Gen AI, Partly Gen AI, No Gen AI) that appear on the player page of a track and expand into a description of what the model did. The policy keeps AI-generated songs monetized, TechCrunch's Lauren Forristal reports.
Figma rolled out Specs, a markdown editor that encodes a company's design language as a document both human designers and AI agents reference while working on canvas. Specs can embed FigJam diagrams, code layers and design elements, TechCrunch reports from Figma's first Config event in India.
Mr. Chatterbox is a free Hugging Face Space from Trip Venturella that replies to short notes in 19th-century British gentleman style. Write a message in plain English and the app sends back a Victorian-era letter, running on ZeroGPU hardware.
That’s today’s shot. — Alexis · AI Weekly
