Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Anthropic expands Claude for Financial Services with a beta Claude for Excel integration, additional data connectors, and new pre-built Agent Skills (Webb Wright/ZDNET)

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Citigroup and Coinbase say they are exploring on-chain stablecoin payments and simpler crypto-fiat transfers for Citi's institutional clients (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

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Meta launches "ghost posts" on Threads, letting users share "unfiltered thoughts" in posts that disappear after 24 hours; replies will appear as a DM (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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The US forms a $1B partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, accelerating research in fusion energy, drug development, and more (Reuters)

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The AI buildout, surpassing railroads and the internet, moves Big Tech from being asset-light to asset-heavy, which has historically produced inferior returns (Kai Wu/Sparkline Capital)

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Qualcomm unveils two AI inference chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, and says Humain is the first customer; QCOM jumps 12%+ (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)

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Analysis: Chinese robotaxi companies like Baidu and WeRide are outnumbering their US rivals with more projects progressing from testing to commercialization (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)

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IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)

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X prompts users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that are not updated by Nov. 10, allowing it to retire the Twitter.com domain (Will McCurdy/PCMag)

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Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process (Financial Times)

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Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B "other, net" expense line in the FY ended June 30 (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

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How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)

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Indonesia and other developing countries are becoming AI hubs amid the multitrillion-dollar spending boom, in part driven by an "AI decolonization" philosophy (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)

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The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

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Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years (Timmy Shen/The Block)

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Real estate agents are using AI tools like AutoReel to replace videographers and stagers, cutting costs but generating distorted or misleading property images (Kat Tenbarge/Wired)

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Q&A with Bill Ready, who became Pinterest's CEO in 2022, about changes during his tenure, winning over Gen Z, Pinterest's business model, AI content, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

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An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung's first Chief Design Officer in April, about creating a "consistent experience" across devices, and more (Verity Burns/Wired)

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