China
In China, AI advances while the economy lags, NYT reports
The New York Times says China's artificial intelligence progress is in focus this week, while its economy is in its worst shape in decades.
Artificial Intelligence
Ollama
Ollama prerelease exposes model thinking controls through its API
According to the Ollama release note, the api/show response now reports each model’s supported thinking controls and its default choice. Clients can therefore read this capability from the API instead of assuming it separately for each model.
Ollama
Ollama fixes growing memory use during long responses
According to Ollama's release notes, excessive memory growth during long responses with MLX has been fixed. The stated fix concerns generation using speculative decoding; it is not an announcement of a general speed increase across all models.
OpenClaw
OpenClaw adds atomic updates and live plugins
The release includes Atomic Updates that check the next version before switching over, allowing for safer deployment processes.
Google CC turns shared emails into a family calendar
Google's updated CC agent coordinates information shared by up to six people. The experiment is initially available to adults with personal Google accounts in the US.
Pocket FM
Pocket FM hits $500M revenue run rate as AI produces 93% of its catalog
The Indian audio storytelling platform doubled its annualized revenue in a year while shifting nearly all new content production to in-house AI models.
Artificial Intelligence
NSA, CISA and FBI Warn of "Industrial-Scale" Distillation by Chinese AI Firms
A joint US advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI, alleging they extracted billions of tokens from American frontier models since 2024.
Insilico Medicine
AI-designed lung drug shifted patients' biological age markers younger
Rentosertib, developed by Insilico Medicine with AI, moved biological age scores toward a younger state in trials, with one method showing a gap of about six years.
mit sloan
Six questions to test your AI strategy, from MIT Sloan
George Westerman of MIT Sloan lays out six questions for executives shaping an AI strategy; most of them probe how the company works rather than the technology it buys.
PC
A 40-year slide in PC prices reportedly ends with the AI boom
A Moneywise report says personal computer costs fell steadily for four decades until AI demand changed the picture.
NVIDIA
Nvidia's Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion on AI Spending
The New York Times reports that Nvidia's profit doubled to $59.69 billion, driven by spending on artificial intelligence.
TechCrunch
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 reveals its AI Stage lineup, with Anthropic and OpenAI on the bill
The AI Stage at Disrupt 2026, running October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, will cover AI pricing, agent security and AI-native go-to-market.