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| In today's newsletter: 📡 SpaceX moves to challenge major wireless carriers 🩺 Microsoft AI beats doctors on hard cases 🇺🇸 US to curb AI investment in China 💰 OpenAI nears $30B funding round 🎨 Canva launches its first AI image model Plus: 🎁 15 more stories you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 5 papers. |
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| 📡 SpaceX moves to challenge major wireless carriers LINK |
- SpaceX is in talks with cellular infrastructure firms to lease at least 80,000 sites across the US, a step toward building a fourth nationwide wireless carrier to rival AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, Bloomberg reported yesterday.
- The 80,000 sites would match half of the 158,500 cell towers running in the US last year, and SpaceX is buying nationwide low-band spectrum while in talks with tower operator Crown Castle, the report said.
- TD Cowen estimated a nationwide ground network would cost more than $80 billion and take years, and shares of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile dropped between 4.2% and 5% in extended trading.
| 🩺 Microsoft AI beats doctors on hard cases LINK |
- Microsoft researchers built an AI system that works through hard medical cases step by step, diagnosing them more than twice as accurately as general physicians, according to a study published in Science yesterday.
- Instead of matching symptoms to a disease in one go, the system uses an orchestration tool to coordinate a simulated panel of specialists, asking questions, ordering tests and revising its possible diagnoses as new evidence arrives.
- The approach also lowered the cost of diagnostic work-ups, and Microsoft is now teaming with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston to test whether it can help triage emergency department patients in real settings.
| 🇺🇸 US to curb AI investment in China LINK |
- The US Treasury has proposed rules to restrict American investments in China's artificial intelligence, military technology, and life sciences sectors, acting under a 2025 law meant to tighten checks on money flowing to rival nations.
- The draft rules cover investments above $50,000 in advanced semiconductors, AI, certain biotech materials, and technologies like brain-computer interfaces, and the Treasury must still review public feedback before finalizing them.
- Earlier this year, the Treasury fined Amidi LLC $200,000 after a subsidiary failed to report its $92,500 stake in Noematrix, a Shanghai firm working on AI, robotics, and embodied intelligence.
| 💰 OpenAI nears $30B funding round LINK |
- OpenAI is closing in on a funding round of up to $30 billion, led by investors from the United Arab Emirates and the firm Coatue, and wants signatures by the end of next week.
- The round sets a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, $150 billion below the $1.4 trillion OpenAI pitched to backers including BlackRock and MGX earlier this month, and is framed as a bridge until a public offering.
- Pitched as moving faster than typical, the deal aims to close before rival Anthropic's expected mid-November listing, and OpenAI is also negotiating a separate commercial deal to secure more computing capacity from the UAE.
| 🎨 Canva launches its first AI image model LINK |
- Canva has released Craft, its first AI image model, built from scratch by Canva Research specifically for design work rather than photography, with the aim of understanding layouts and matching what users picture.
- Craft makes 2K images at any aspect ratio with editable results, trained on millions of human-made templates from Canva's library like posters, social posts, presentations, infographics, and menus, and it placed fourth on DesignArena behind three OpenAI models.
- The model is available now in the Canva app with a paid subscription and to developers through a public API, with the Canva MCP Server coming soon, plus two cheaper variants, Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast.
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| heal.dev: runs your app in a production-like sandbox to catch runtime bugs, performance regressions, and vulnerabilities, reproducing each defect before reporting it. LINK |
| Product Hunt Visual Launch Editor: lets makers design and customize their Product Hunt launch pages visually, helping products stand out to the tech community. LINK |
| Resend Inboxes: create and manage email inboxes programmatically, letting developers build transactional email flows and reach users reliably instead of spam folders. LINK |
| Latch: blocks distracting apps until you scan a physical NFC or QR key or walk a set number of steps, with no accounts, ads, or tracking. LINK |
| DoOne: a single-task focus timer that runs issue actions like labeling and assignment in Git, Linear, Sentry, and Todoist when you finish. LINK |
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📚 Trending papers & reports| > MarketingShot: Get the free daily email with the most interesting marketing news and insights. Already read by thousands of marketers. By the Techpresso team. Join for free. |
| > Tool-using chatbots often take harmful actions even for requests they would refuse to answer in plain conversation, failing to carry over their safety limits in 10 to 52 percent of cases. LINK |
| > AI coding checkers separate the agent that writes software from an independent one that verifies it, catching more of 46 planted bugs than the builder's own tests and leaving the final release call to a human. LINK |
| > Content moderation tools judge messages by their words instead of what they actually do, wrongly flagging dialects and minority voices while missing real harm, with 51 of 55 system-language pairs falling short of native-speaker accuracy. LINK |
| > Gender gap in AI jobs emerges as women see slower employment growth than men in occupations whose tasks AI can do or assist with, a Pew Research Center analysis of government data finds. LINK |
| > Near-universal internet use now reaches 97% of US adults, up from about half when Pew Research Center began tracking in early 2000, per a survey of 5,511 adults. LINK |
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