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Major upgrade to Amazon Polly’s generative engine: 14 new voices added, and for the first time, support for Hindi and Finnish generative speech, with zero-code migration.

Amazon Polly’s generative engine has undergone a major upgrade, significantly enhancing speech naturalness, accuracy, and emotional expressiveness, while supporting low-latency streaming synthesis. Fourteen new generative voices have been added, covering nine regions, and for the first time, generative voices in Hindi (Arjun, Kiara) and Finnish (Suvi) are universally available. The entire update is a seamless, drop-in replacement, requiring no changes to API calls or code.

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TechCrunch · AI

Chinese-affiliated hackers used AI proxies to infiltrate the ConnectWise cloud backup system, affecting approximately 2,250 enterprises.

Microsoft’s security team reported that a China-linked hacking group compromised the cloud backup service of IT management provider ConnectWise, stole customer application credentials, and leveraged the open-source AI framework ARTEX to carry out rapid lateral movement, launching nearly 3,000 login attempts per minute on average and resulting in espionage activities affecting approximately 2,250 client organizations.

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TechCrunch · AI

Uber has fully deployed ChatGPT Work: 30,000 employees have gained access to OpenAI’s enterprise-grade AI tools.

Uber announced that it has rolled out ChatGPT Work to all roughly 30,000 of its global employees, scaling up from an initial pilot involving a thousand staff at the start of the year to company-wide adoption. The tool is already being used for data analysis, localization of multilingual training materials, and building interactive work dashboards, though specific use cases remain under each team’s own exploration, and the company has not yet disclosed the procurement costs.

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Ars Technica · AI

Hackers exploited a critical PHP2Shell vulnerability four days in advance, and Amazon has confirmed it has been widely weaponized in the wild.

Amazon disclosed that the PHP2Shell vulnerability series, identified by its AI tools, had already been actively probed and exploited by hackers four days before the official public disclosure; currently, this vulnerability is being “widely exploited in the wild,” and governments and enterprises worldwide are urgently hardening their systems.

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TechCrunch · AI

Spotify bets on the AI assistant era: becoming the music service of choice for AI assistants

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström stated during the Q3 2026 earnings call that the rise of AI agents will not diminish the value of streaming platforms; on the contrary, it will reinforce Spotify’s unique advantage—its vast trove of personalized listening data and deep agent integration capabilities, making it the preferred music service interface for third-party AI assistants.

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Beyond Canopy Cover: The World’s First 10-Meter-Resolution Forest Type Classification Map Released

DeepMind, in collaboration with Google Earth Engine, has launched AlphaEarth Foundations, achieving for the first time fine-grained classification of forest types for every 10-meter-by-10-meter land unit on Earth, covering more than ten ecological types including tropical rainforests, temperate deciduous forests, and boreal coniferous forests.

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Moshi: A real-time AI recommendation engine for traders, reimagining market insights through workflow integration.

Former JPMorgan energy derivatives trader Anekha Sokhal founded Moshi to build a real-time AI recommendation system that integrates structured and unstructured data. Its core focus is not to replace Bloomberg, but rather to deeply embed AI into traders’ daily workflows, emphasizing trusted-source filtering, on-device processing of proprietary data, identification of conflicting signals, and customer‑driven product development.

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NVIDIA Blog

Cloud Deployment Incoming: ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’ Arrives on GeForce NOW

Lock in and load out this GFN Thursday. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, bringing a new campaign, multiplayer action and DMZ, high-stakes extraction mode to supported devices. The campaign also gets an enhanced look: GeForce RTX 5080-class performance arrives for Ultimate members, bringing support for ray-tracing features in […]

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MIT Technology Review · AI

The Hidden Storage Costs of AI Inference: The Data Bill Accumulating Behind Every Response

As the scale of generative AI inference surges, enterprises are facing significantly underestimated backend data storage costs—including logs, caches, intermediate rendering, security records, and more—often amounting to tens to hundreds of times the size of the user-visible output. IDC research shows that 95% of surveyed companies experienced an increase in data volume over the past year due to AI, with 61% reporting growth exceeding 25%, while storage spending has already begun outpacing compute budgets.

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Global enterprises leverage the NVIDIA DSX platform to overcome AI infrastructure power bottlenecks.

Faced with the stark reality of over 200 GW of grid‑connected projects backlog in the United States and $300 billion in delayed equipment deliveries, several energy and industrial giants are leveraging NVIDIA’s DSX AI Factory platform to integrate power grids, facilities, and computing systems, enabling collaborative simulation and dynamic scheduling from substations to server racks—thus overcoming the primary bottleneck hindering current AI infrastructure development: power supply constraints.

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TechCrunch · AI

Meta confirms that the AI app Muse has surpassed 10 million users, with shopping emerging as its core use case.

During its Q3 2026 earnings call, Meta confirmed that the number of users of its AI agent app, Muse, has surpassed 10 million; approximately 25% of new users engage with it daily, with shopping being the most frequent activity—over a quarter of active shopping users spend more than $200 per transaction on average. Meanwhile, Plaid reported that its payment connector’s API calls on Muse have reached an all-time high.

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Train Qwen3 on AWS Trainium with torchtitan

Train Qwen3 on AWS Trainium with torchtitan three ways on a single trn2.48xlarge: the Hugging Face Transformers v5 modeling backend, torchtitan's native Qwen3, and NKI mixture-of-experts kernels. The same torchrun launcher and config structure work unchanged across all three paths, including loading and saving published Hugging Face safetensors.

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Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security If you're running anything on PHP it's vital you upgrade - today's updates (across the entire PHP 8.x line) address two remote code execution holes, and there have been exploits circulating since last night, thanks to a leak in the coordinated disclosure process. This post from the PHP Foundation explain what went so wrong: On Tuesday, October 20th, at around 15:00 UTC, the two CVE IDs began circulating on online forums and social media. They came with a wrong release time and a wrong CVSS score of 10.0 (the actual score is 9.2). No technical details leaked. In response, the PHP project brought its pre-announcement forward and published it at 19:30 UTC. It also moved the release from October 22nd, 14:00 UTC, to October

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Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile

Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork which reskins the game to take place in steampunk 1900s France and adds an animated intro! Panache est un jeu de stratégie en temps réel pour mobile et navigateur, dans la France de la Belle Époque (vers 1900) : dirigeables, Fardiers à vapeur, Creusot cuirassés, automates en képi, Gargantua la forteresse marchante — et beaucoup de panache. You can play Panache here - it's worth clicking that link just to experience the new intro video. So far it's mostly just aesthetic updates as opposed to gameplay changes. The music has had a French twist added to it as well. The new steampunk models are so cool! Here's a page with the o

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TechCrunch · AI

AI’s promise to boost efficiency has not been fulfilled: Over half of managers say employee performance evaluations have become more difficult.

A Nielsen survey of 1,700 executives across seven countries found that more than 50% of managers believe AI tools make it difficult to trace employees’ work outputs, thereby increasing the complexity of performance evaluations. Meanwhile, 78% have adjusted their evaluation criteria to place greater emphasis on prompt‑engineering skills and AI‑assisted judgment; however, 46% of managers are using AI to support decision‑making, raising concerns about fairness and bias.

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NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA unveiled its full lineup of on-premises AI hardware at GTC Berlin: RTX Spark, DGX Spark, and DGX Station have now launched in Europe.

At the GTC conference held in Berlin in October 2026, NVIDIA officially unveiled three on-premises AI hardware platforms for individual users, developers, and enterprise customers: RTX Spark (a personal agent for Windows PCs), DGX Spark (a Linux development cluster), and DGX Station (a cutting-edge AI workstation), while simultaneously announcing numerous software updates, model support, and ecosystem integrations.

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