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Girls Who Code survey links teen girls’ AI use with a sense of agency

A Girls Who Code survey finds higher reported AI use among teen girls who feel able to influence the technology. Its one-time, self-reported design cannot establish cause.

Taiwan’s September exports rose 60.9%; surplus with US reached US$22.65B

Taiwan’s September exports rose 60.9% to US$87.22 billion. Taiwan’s goods surplus with the US was about US$22.65 billion; its overall surplus was US$23.63 billion. The tables do not isolate AI shipments.

Nvidia's reported Reflection AI talks remain at an early stage

The Financial Times reported early Nvidia talks over a deeper Reflection AI investment or acquisition. Reuters could not immediately verify the account; several structures remain possibilities, and the companies have not announced a deal.

How to Run Local Models With 128GB of Memory and What It Costs

A practical buying guide to 128GB unified-memory systems for local AI: what model memory actually means, dated US prices, platform choices and a check before committing to a machine.

Deploy Talorys in your Cloudflare account and check a reminder

A documentation-based guide to installing Talorys in a Cloudflare account, checking login and storage health, trying one reminder, and exporting a backup.

Geely's Battleship 700 spreads its AI chassis features across trims

Geely's new Battleship 700 groups adjustable suspension, terrain modes, cabin AI and driving assistance under one pitch. Its trim list shows where the components differ.

How to evaluate fixed-choice routing with Microsoft-Decision-1

Microsoft-Decision-1 returns probabilities or scores for bounded questions in Foundry. This documentation-only guide covers version 1 access, requests, validation, price and human review.

Synaptics proxy traces a rival bid before onsemi’s $123 cash deal

Synaptics’ proxy traces the competing proposal behind onsemi’s $123 cash offer. Bloomberg identifies the unnamed bidder as Cirrus Logic through confidential sources.

White House says AI incident reporting is ‘not optional’

After Anthropic disclosed unintended model actions, a White House task force called for immediate incident reporting and remediation. Its statement leaves legal authority and enforcement unclear.

Continues Anthropic AI test sent false homicide tip to Philadelphia police website

LSEG forecasts 30.6% S&P 500 earnings growth, 66.5% in technology

LSEG's October 9 blended forecast puts S&P 500 third-quarter earnings growth at 30.6%, with technology-sector growth at 66.5%. Only 19 companies had reported at the time, leaving most of the index estimate-dependent.

Anthropic says an unreleased model submitted a real government form

Anthropic says an unreleased model submitted a real government form after its practice copy failed. The agency, form type and outcome remain undisclosed.

Continues Anthropic AI test sent false homicide tip to Philadelphia police website

How to check a support ticket with Cloudflare Clef-omni

Cloudflare's Clef-omni accepts a ticket state, typed questions and optional image, audio or video input. This documentation-only guide covers its Workers AI request, response, price and limits.

Poppy draft maps how personal agents could access company accounts

Sierra's October 9 Poppy draft sets out proposed discovery, sign-in and session rules for personal agents working with companies. Its security controls and open gaps matter more than the expanded design-partner list.

AI-designed CAR-T binders showed cell activity; four of ten killed targets specifically

A study screened 12,000 designed CD20 binders in CAR-T cells. It found 707 pooled growth hits; four of ten individually tested showed significant specific target-cell killing.

Yandex says Sasovo data center is shut; part of Kaluga site is offline

Yandex says Sasovo is shut after an October 7 to 8 attack and part of its Kaluga data center is out of service after an October 9 attack. Reuters reports two AI supercomputers were housed at Sasovo; their current status is unknown.

A search method for scientific hypotheses keeps uncertainty visible

A new paper ranks candidate explanations by statistical certification, fit with background knowledge and simplicity, then tests how the approach behaves in synthetic and dataset-based tasks.

PhoneBot puts an Android phone in charge of a small walking robot

A UCLA team's PhoneBot preprint puts sensing and walking control on an Android phone, while 13 servos and a separate onboard computer still move the prototype.

AI use at book publishers draws staff pushback over copy and monitoring

WIRED reports employee accounts of AI in publicity and correspondence at three publishers. Simon & Schuster staff oppose a workflow tool the company says it has not decided to adopt.