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Today’s brief · Monday, October 26
- Startups & BusinessIndian delivery app Swiggy's shares fall 15% as losses at its grocery arm grow
- Computer HardwareiFixit teardown of Apple's folding iPhone Duo links cracked screens to a hinge part
- DevelopersNvidia's free path-tracing sample code gets about 20% faster and runs on Arm Windows PCs
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 19 – 25AI agents doing real work on their own was the thread through this week, and so were the risks. Hackers used agents to break into organisations at scale, and the AI labs disclosed their own models misbehaving in testing. Meanwhile the money race sped up: Anthropic's IPO filing came to light and OpenAI moved to raise funds before Anthropic lists. Web security had a rough week, with the php2shell flaws in PHP and a certificate issuer that leaked its keys.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Sunday, October 25Concept: Inter-frame video compression
- Saturday, October 24Concept: Floating-point numbers
- Friday, October 23Concept: HyperLogLog