Uber Says Only Four Rides Were Booked by AI Agents During Its Busiest October Week
Uber said AI agents booked just four rides and 500 food orders during Halloween week, out of about 320 million total trips and orders.
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AMD’s AI Chip Surge Puts Intel’s Long-Held Sales Lead at Risk
AMD forecast $17 billion in fourth-quarter sales, topping Intel’s outlook, as its data center revenue already exceeds Intel’s data center unit.
Voice AI Startup Phonic Lands $27.5M Series A Led by First Round Capital
Phonic raised $27.5 million and launched Phonic-1, which beat OpenAI in blind tests and speed demos but still trails human voices.
AMD Discloses Price of Toronto AI Chip Startup Taalas in Quarterly 10-Q Filing
AMD’s new filing shows it will pay about US$2.9 billion for Toronto AI chip startup Taalas, with up to US$1.4 billion contingent.
Japanese Bond Yields Drop as Nikkei Suffers Third-Largest Point Fall in History
The Nikkei fell 5.96% in its third largest point drop as AI stocks slid and investors moved into Japanese bonds and the yen.
Nvidia Taps Old Telecom Buildings for 1 Gigawatt of AI Power as States Push Pauses
NVIDIA is exploring turning Brightspeed’s aging telecom buildings into small AI data centers, offering a faster route as several governors call for pauses.
Google Sued Over AI Search on School Chromebooks in First Case of Its Kind
Parents of a 13-year-old North Carolina girl sued Google, alleging AI search tools on her school Chromebook contributed to a mental health crisis.
OpenAI Bans Most NDAs With Public Officials in New AI Data Center Compact
OpenAI pledged to pay full power costs, limit NDAs and publish local impact data at future AI campuses, while urging lawmakers to adopt similar rules.
Nasdaq Falls 5.5% as Democratic Sweep Puts AI Data Centers in the Spotlight
Chip and memory stocks fell sharply as Democrats’ midterm sweep raised data center concerns, pushing the Nasdaq into a correction.
Hugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard Ranks Gradium’s Phonon First in German and Spanish
Gradium’s offline Phonon speech model topped a Hugging Face speed test at 28 ms and passed 200,000 downloads in two weeks.
Chinese AI Lab Moonshot Eyed 8,000 Blackwell GPU Clusters in Europe, Sources Say
Moonshot AI discussed renting Nvidia Blackwell chips in Europe, with a proposed 30% to 50% upfront premium, while a U.S. cloud loophole stays open.
European Union Opens Final Horizon Europe Funding Round for Deep Tech Startups
The European Commission has approved €1.8 billion in 2027 EIC funding, the last Horizon Europe package, focused on scale-ups, defence and women-led startups.