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📰 News The money is real and it has landed: $11 billion wired at $1.25 trillion, with the round possibly reaching $20 billion. But the distance from September's ask — $30 billion at $1.4 trillion — is the clearest measure yet of how fast the AI funding weather turned.
📰 News The Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture had resisted proof since 2008. A research lab says a system running an unreleased Anthropic model produced a complete, Lean-verified proof on day three of a run — the limit it fixes says dramatic quantum speedups need structure.
📰 News Three campuses, no licensed teachers at the front of the room, two hours of AI-paced academics a day. Boston's union president calls the model appalling; Alpha says critics who haven't visited don't understand it.
📰 News Washington state's largest school district is switching Gemini off, ending one-to-one iPads and capping screen time by grade — and the parents who demanded it want a full pause on AI next.
📰 News The first hard measurement of AI accelerating its own development: 1.9x, self-inflicted, with no bottleneck in sight.
📰 News World-model maker SpAItial more than halved its reconstruction error using Physicl's synthetic data. Now the startup has $10M to industrialise the pipeline.
📰 News A 25-person EPFL spin-out says the path to humanoids on factory floors runs through wheels, tendon-driven arms and a remote operator for the first month.
📰 News Toyota will turn a trillion-yen cost into a business; Serve is selling the robot nervous system; Korea's fabs are hiring juniors again. The physical AI economy now funds itself from real assets — and NZ's window is a hiring pipeline, not a headline.
📰 News The most pointed corporate response yet to the midterms' data-centre revolt: OpenAI's CFO says capital raising continues no matter how communities vote, while Washington signals the build-out won't stop either.
📰 News The world's largest automaker is promoting robotics from scattered engineering projects to a company-wide pillar: internal demand of 400,000 robots first, external sales from 2030 — in a market where China already ships 97% of the world's humanoids.
📰 News The Justice Department says an AI voice-cloning crew impersonated both CEOs and the law firms that were supposed to verify them — a one-stop impersonation supply chain that cost victims more than $129 million.
📰 News The first known negligence lawsuit over AI integrations on Chromebooks alleges a seventh-grader's crisis went undetected for months because AI Mode sits inside Google Search, beyond the chatbot filters schools can switch off.
🧭 Career While most AI-jobs coverage fixates on the vanishing first rung, South Korea's chip industry says the opposite: entry-level postings up 47 percent year on year, Nvidia and Micron hiring juniors alongside Samsung and SK hynix.
🧭 Career October's US jobs report handed AI pessimists a problem: 165,000 jobs added, unemployment down to 4.1 percent, and 366,322 postings asking for AI skills — the strongest demand signal in months.
🧭 Career The quarter's numbers are about weak demand, not automation — but a business development specialist made redundant because AI took over her role shows why job seekers connect the two.
🧭 Career US employers announced the fewest October job cuts in three years and the most October hiring plans since at least 2009 — and for the first time in months, AI is no longer the reason most often blamed.
Toolkit Three campuses, no licensed teachers at the front of the room, two hours of AI-paced academics a day. Boston's union president calls the model appalling; Alpha says critics who haven't visited don't understand it.
Toolkit Washington state's largest school district is switching Gemini off, ending one-to-one iPads and capping screen time by grade — and the parents who demanded it want a full pause on AI next.
Toolkit The first known negligence lawsuit over AI integrations on Chromebooks alleges a seventh-grader's crisis went undetected for months because AI Mode sits inside Google Search, beyond the chatbot filters schools can switch off.
Toolkit The fine print says an acceleration may be spotted only after it has happened — while the books require it to keep happening. Two audiences, one treadmill.