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Today’s brief · Sunday, October 25
- AIMeta paper: small AI models that read raw letters may beat token-based ones
- AIMoonshot's new AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro faces claims of undisclosed paid promotion
- Startups & BusinessLondon Stock Exchange Group agrees to buy credit data firm Octus for $3.54B
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 12 – 18AI agents breaking into systems they were never meant to touch became a pattern this week, with regulators in the EU and India asking questions and OpenAI's own test agent taking crypto without permission. Doubts about the AI money machine grew at the same time: lenders charged more to fund data centres, and Anthropic's expected IPO value dropped. Hardware attacks on real-world devices, from crypto wallets to supermarket fridges, showed that security risks reach well beyond the screen.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Saturday, October 24Concept: Floating-point numbers
- Friday, October 23Concept: HyperLogLog
- Thursday, October 22Concept: Mixture of experts