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Oura is acquiring Counsel Health, an AI-powered healthcare platform, for $625 million. The deal expands Oura's business into medical care and preventative services, leveraging Counsel's chat-based medical experience and licensed physicians.

OpenAI's quarterly revenue has reportedly crossed $10 billion for the first time, thanks to strong demand for its recent AI models. This represents a 50% jump from the $6.7 billion in sales the company recorded in the second quarter. OpenAI's profitability picture also appears to have improved, with its adjusted operating margin narrowing from -150% in the second quarter to -109% in the third quarter.

Databricks' updated AI agent, Genie, can perform multistep jobs and provide unvarnished truth to corporate leaders, including CEO Ali Ghodsi, who uses it to analyze employee satisfaction surveys and sales pitches.

Google's DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome 2, an AI model that predicts how genetic variants affect different cells, potentially leading to new treatments. The model was trained on over 100 million cell profiles and can identify nearly twice as many variants as its predecessor.

Adobe showcased experimental AI features at its Max conference, including Project Screen Test, which lets you talk to AI-generated characters, Project Sight Span, which turns images into 3D environments, and Project Sound Bender, which customizes sound effects. These features aim to make creative workflows more accessible and intuitive.

eBay has blocked AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing on its platform. This move is the latest in a series of retailers restricting access to their sites for third-party AI agents, which are designed to augment or improve the human-driven shopping experience.

The article discusses a modern CSS reset for typography, including features like fluid sizing, vertical rhythm, and hyphenation. It also covers experimental features like text-box-trim and hanging punctuation, and provides a complete reset stylesheet called tidy-typography.css.

Adobe has previewed local MCP integrations for Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects, allowing users to direct third-party AI agents to edit native project files locally while preserving project structures.

Plurai uses simulations with synthetic data to improve AI agent performance, increasing reliability and reducing costs. The startup has raised $13 million in seed funding to develop this technology, which has shown promising results in tests with Nvidia and Nebius.

Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR) is now available for the ROG Xbox Ally X, offering 1440p-like detail and smooth framerates. It works in both docked and handheld modes, and supports up to 120 fps and HDR visuals, competing with NVIDIA's DLSS.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing has found 37,966 vulnerabilities, but only 217 have been publicly fixed. A researcher claims that the project is 'overwhelming' maintainers with 'underwhelming findings', raising questions about the effectiveness of AI-powered vulnerability reports.

AntiFox, a fork of ARTEX, is an agentic AI framework used to find and exploit exposed credentials on AWS. It can investigate environments, select tools, execute commands, and decide what to try next without needing a secrets scanner. To respond, teams should detect, remediate, and prevent credential exposure by running GitHub Security Audits, checking credentials with HasMySecretLeaked, and rotating exposed credentials.

Fractile, a British startup, has raised $720 million to develop AI chips, aiming to reduce the cost of inference and maximize the speed of large language models. The company's full-stack approach includes a machine learning compiler and a unique hardware design using DRAM. With this funding, Fractile is now one of the top-funded startup players in the AI chip market.

Helix, a startup backed by Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus, uses voice technology to verify users' identities without requiring sensitive personal info. The company raised $6.2 million in funding and aims to replace CAPTCHA with its voice ID tech.

Oli Lane and Julian Wreford discuss using OpenTelemetry to improve queue observability, allowing for better understanding of distributed asynchronous queues and proactive detection of issues before they affect customers.

Taiwan's chipmaking giant TSMC is investing $1 billion in Anthropic and OpenAI, giving the company a direct stake in leading AI developers. This investment is part of the AI boom's circular financing trend, where companies invest in each other to support the growing demand for AI-related hardware and services.

Active malware campaign targets managed service providers using compromised ScreenConnect environments, deploying rogue remote-access clients to customer devices. ConnectWise has disabled five third-party ScreenConnect extensions as a precaution and is investigating the attacks.

Attackers are using Alibaba Cloud to host AntiFox, an open-source AI-powered penetration testing platform, to target web services and AWS environments, exploiting vulnerabilities and stealing credentials.

The article discusses the future of human work in an AI-driven world, highlighting the importance of human judgment and intimacy in decision-making. It also touches on the idea of turning AI corrections into tests and the role of AI agents in various industries.

Nvidia's board is reportedly planning to oust CEO Jensen Huang due to an extramarital affair scandal. The company's stock has dropped about 8% in after-hours trading. Nvidia is working with an outside firm to identify potential CEO candidates.