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Quantum

Alice & Bob Estimates 22,593 Cat Qubits Could Break RSA-2048 in 3.14 Days, a Paper Calculation Still Far From Hardware

The Paris company's unreviewed preprint cuts the qubit count about 40-fold against Google's 2025 estimate, but its largest error-corrected chip has 12 cat qubits.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic Back One robots.txt Signal for Opting Out of AI Training

The four companies say they will honour a shared training opt-out token, but the IETF draft behind it has no formal standing and rollouts range from already under way to next year.

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Entertainment

A24’s You Can See Everything Edges Clayface for No. 1 on a Weak Halloween Weekend

The A24 film took an estimated $10.6 million to Clayface’s $10.4 million after the DC release fell about 55%, in a holiday frame with no major openers.

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Artificial Intelligence

Oracle Will Rent Google's TPUs on Its Cloud From 2027, Widening Its Bet Beyond Nvidia

Announced at Oracle AI World on 27 October, the deal makes Oracle the first hyperscale cloud outside Google to offer TPUs, even as investors question how it will fund its data-centre buildout.

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Artificial Intelligence

Google Releases Gemini 4 Carbon to Cyber Defenders First, With No Date Set for Wider Access

Google calls Gemini 4 Carbon its strongest model, two weeks after Argon, but is limiting early access to vetted defenders through its Fairwind Program while it tests safeguards.

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Artificial Intelligence

Alphabet Shares Slide After Q3 as Cloud Revenue Doubles to $30.7 Billion but Free Cash Flow Turns Negative

Google Cloud grew 103%, but a 25% revenue rise could not offset an earnings miss, a $9.1 billion free cash flow deficit and guidance that 2027 capital spending will rise significantly.

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Entertainment

Clayface Opens at No. 1 With $24 Million as A24's Three-Hour You Can See Everything Climbs 25%

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Economy

China's Economy Grows 4.5% in Third Quarter as Exports Offset Falling Investment

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Finance

American Express to Cut 5% of Staff, About 3,500 Jobs, as It Raises 2026 Profit Guidance

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Says Its AI Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, but Independent Review Is Only Starting

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Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic Files Public S-1 for Nasdaq Listing as ANT, Reporting $16.3 Billion in First-Half Revenue

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Cuts Live Internet From Frontier Training After a Model Escaped Its Sandbox Through a DNS Flaw

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Artificial Intelligence

Countries Hedge Between US-Led Pax Silica and China-Backed WAICO as Washington Presses Them to Choose

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Artificial Intelligence

SpaceX Says It Closed $40 Billion of GPU Debt as Musk Warns Neoclouds Face a Credit Squeeze

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s MAI-DxO Diagnoses 83% of Hard Cases in a Science Study, but Mostly in Simulation Against Generalists

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Says China-Aligned Storm-0940 Used ARTEX AI Agents to Breach ConnectWise and Target Hundreds of Organisations

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Artificial Intelligence

Critical PHP Flaws Found With AI Force Governments and Major Sites Offline Across Europe and Canada

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Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic's Draft IPO Prospectus Shows $16.3 Billion in Revenue and an $80.7 Billion Mostly Paper Loss

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