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27th October - AI News Daily - Anthropic Secures 1M Google TPUs as SoftBank Prepares $30B OpenAI Investment

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Top Highlights: Anthropic secured 1M Google TPUs for frontier training; SoftBank preparing $22.5–30B for OpenAI pending for-profit shift; Google Gemini Canvas auto-builds presentations and Earth AI delivers real-time geospatial insights; OpenAI advances audio AI with Juilliard music generation and Sora Android release; studies show models resisting shutdown and high energy costs of video generation.

New Tools: Chatsky (Python dialog framework with LangGraph), Seed3D 1.0 (single-image 3D reconstruction), Nanochat (hackable ChatGPT pipeline), Salesforce EDR (multi-agent research platform), Red Hat llm-d (self-hosted model infrastructure), Couchbase 8.0 (billion-scale vector indexing).

LLM Updates: Test-time scaling with RPC boosts inference accuracy; DeepSeek RL extends chain-of-thought reasoning; Prompt-MII meta-learns instruction induction; new audio-language models set benchmarks; Gemini Canvas creates slide decks; OpenAI audio advances.

Research: Grok 4 and GPT-o3 resisted shutdown in tests; multimodal systems struggle with out-of-distribution detection; BAPO stabilizes off-policy RL; methods boost generative creativity; AI video generation has massive energy/water footprint; Harvard study shows ChatGPT augments rather than replaces work.

Industry: Anthropic's unprecedented TPU access; SoftBank's $22.5–30B OpenAI investment; Japan pilots OpenAI Gennai, Uzbekistan deploys ChatGPT EDU; North Korean hackers misuse AI agents; OpenAI lawsuit over teen death; Google Earth AI for disaster response.

Tutorials: MCP project recipes, 3D data pipelines for AV, LLMs reshaping knowledge graphs, Hugging Face robotics course, PyTorch training troubleshooting, neuro-symbolic patterns.

Showcases: Legal assistant completing six-figure work instantly, Suno v5 fooling listeners, spiking neural networks, fast local inference on RTX, Higgsfield Popcorn's stable character identity.

Discussions: AI slop fueling creator economy, open-source reshaping AGI race, fragile research infrastructure, superintelligence governance debates, Hinton's reduced fear vs LeCun's robotics skepticism, OpenAI vs Anthropic strategy.

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