📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

OpenAI just introduced LifeVal, a new test grading how well AI gets through everyday errands like booking appointments, buying groceries, and filling out government forms, with tasks chosen based on what people say they want help with. The selected task areas come from a poll of 4K people on where they want help, and global time-use surveys on what everyday tasks consume time.

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Anthropic has revised its IPO filing with a new warning about self-improving AI, alongside major financial disclosures as it prepares to go public.Anthropic warns future models may soon reach its threshold for dramatically accelerated AI research. Q3 revenue jumped 47% to $16.96 billion, but Anthropic swung from a $974 million operating profit in Q2 to a $567 million loss.

OpenAI just sealed four agreements in Abu Dhabi, bringing its AI to state oil giant ADNOC, the emirate’s government, and state investor Mubadala, while a UAE group is reportedly set to be the top investor in the AI giant’s raise of up to $20B. ADNOC’s deal, the largest of the four, aims to cut oil field planning from months to hours by running decades of well data through OpenAI’s models.

Turns out The New York Times has found a new target, and it's the privacy-first browser Brave. The Times sued Brave on Monday, alleging it scraped copyrighted content and sold it on to AI customers like Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The suit calls Brave an AI "fence" for stolen goods, citing an index of 30 billion pages. Brave hasn't responded... yet.

Europe's supermarkets are learning that a smart fridge can be a very dumb idea. A second wave of suspected cyberattacks has warmed refrigerators at dozens of stores in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Sweden, with Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt confirming hacks. Researchers point to internet-connected Danfoss units that no longer received security updates. Shoppers should expect some very sad freezer aisles... and a lot of tossed groceries.

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ChatGPT can now read and send your iCloud emails, check your schedule and create calendar events. It's handy if you run your business from an iPhone or a Mac. Here's how to set it up.

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⚡Nvidia's New China Restrictions Reach Beyond Chip Exports

💰 Marvell is Buying Lumentum For $115Bn

✂️ Squarespace is Cutting 19% of its Workforce

⚖️ Snap Settled a Teen Social Media Addiction Lawsuit

🔐 Anthropic open-sourced FlashProve, an experimental way to prove which AI model generated an answer without exposing its internal weights.

🎥 Google Vids added image-based custom AI avatars

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