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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 →
Six developments: one new today and five from yesterday's alerts.
Anthropic opened a Claude Duet waitlist for US Pro and Max subscribers, confirming an unseen Opus 5.5 model behind the agent. The product briefs users each morning, runs between messages, and pings for approval only when a decision is needed.
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Micron Technology union members walked out of the Taoyuan fab at 9 a.m. local time Thursday for a 24-hour stoppage, Taiwan's first-ever semiconductor strike, Nikkei Asia reports. The dispute is over how to split AI memory profits, with 99% of 1,994 voting members backing the action.
At GTC Berlin on Oct 21, Nvidia named six suppliers for expansion commitments: substrate deals with IBIDEN, Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Unimicron will drive a 2.5x capacity increase over three years, while Amkor plans more than 300% advanced-packaging growth by end of 2028. SPIL and KYEC are also expanding.
Tesla's Q3 operating income fell 56% to $718 million while R&D jumped 69% to $2.76 billion on what the company now labels Super Intelligence, Optimus and the Cybercab, Electrek reported. Revenue held roughly flat at $28.05 billion, with EPS of $0.48 beating the $0.45 consensus.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over the Cambridge Analytica data case after a Santa Fe jury found more than 43 million state consumer-protection violations, CNBC reported Wednesday. Judge Francis Mathew reduced the maximum civil penalty down from more than $219 billion.
Microsoft tied last month's ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply-chain compromise to China-aligned Storm-0940, which used the ARTEX agentic AI pen-testing framework to automate reconnaissance and OAuth abuse. Microsoft says attackers reached privileged cloud access in under three hours at hundreds of targets since September.
404 Media reports Nscale's 2,250-acre Monarch Compute Campus in Mason County, West Virginia, with Anthropic, Nvidia and Microsoft among its named clients, is scheduled to clear a 200-tree blight-resistant American chestnut grove in November. The grove is the American Chestnut Foundation's primary West Virginia seed source.
Useful releases, methods, and workflows worth trying.
Walmart CEO John Furner used the Masters of Scale Summit on Oct 21 to launch Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets approved AI agents search inventory and buy for customers, plus Agent Profiles that give each agent its own account with spending caps and per-purchase approvals. Amazon has been blocking agent purchases.
An indie developer fine-tuned a 360M-parameter language model to act as a terminal with no shell or filesystem behind it, posting the browser demo and writeup Oct 21. The tiny world model simulates vim, tmux and snake, decoding screen rows in parallel from WebGPU and recovering from its own mistakes.
That’s today’s shot. — Alexis · AI Weekly
