The Automated Daily - Tech News Edition

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Welcome to 'The Automated Daily - Tech News Edition', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience.

Publisher

TrendTeller

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Feb 2024

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

867 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Tesla SpaceX merger committees formed & SpaceX quarterly earnings driven by AI - Tech News (Oct 21, 2026)

   Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad Today's topics: Tesla SpaceX merger committees formed - Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to study a possible merger, creating a company worth roughly $3.5 trillion. No deal has been agreed, and regulatory, governance and national-security hurdles remain. SpaceX quarterly earnings driven by AI - SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue and $4.4 billion in net income. Artificial intelligence infrastructure contributed more than half of revenue, beyond rockets and Starlink. AI spending boom meets investor doubts - Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta are expected to spend over $700 billion on AI infrastructure, which lifted Super Micro, Dell and HPE. Tech stocks still fell on worries about debt-funded data centers, and South Korea's Elice dropped 30% on its debut. Anthropic IPO filing reveals huge losses - Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows an $80.7 billion net loss for the first half of 2026. It also flags a narrow customer base and possible compute spending of up to $750 billion. Anthropic lyrics lawsuit and fair use - A California federal judge heard Anthropic's fair use defense against music publishers suing over song lyrics used to train Claude. The ruling could shape many AI copyright lawsuits. Claude designs scorpion toxin binders - Anthropic used Claude to design protein minibinders against scorpion neurotoxins, and 17 lab-tested designs met its binding criteria. They are not yet antivenoms, and the data has been released openly. Samsung SK Hynix upgrade Chinese fabs - Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their Chinese factories to make more advanced memory chips, including 286-layer V9 NAND. The goal is to meet AI demand and respond to Chinese competitors. Weak TLS certificate keys emergency - Eight TLS intermediate certificates from eMudhra were found with weak private keys that could allow forged website certificates. Experts warn the cleanup could be bigger than Heartbleed for VPNs, Linux and IoT devices. PHP critical patches and cloud outages - PHP is releasing emergency patches for two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities that may affect versions 5 through 8. Separately, a Google Cloud London outage disrupted HSBC, Lloyds and Revolut, reviving concerns about cloud concentration risk. Agentic AI security readiness gap - A 2026 survey finds that 79% of organizations are adopting agentic AI, but only 13% feel extremely prepared to secure it. Least-privileged access was linked to far fewer AI-related incidents. Smart glasses and humanoid cleaning robots - EssilorLuxottica shares jumped 14% on traditional eyewear sales while growth in Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses moderated. A $60 visit from Tau Robotics humanoids cleaned only about 80% of one floor. Auto industry shifts toward software, China - A KPMG survey found that 51% of auto executives expect software to be the main differentiator by 2035, with many expecting Chinese automakers to dominate. Amazon also plans to hire 300,000 holiday workers. Fake statistics fool AI chatbots - An experiment with 50,000 fake statistics showed that Google buried the site while ChatGPT kept citing it, earning more than 330 referring domains. The author warns of citation laundering, as made-up numbers gain credibility by being repeated. AI progress, agen...

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   20 Oct 2026

   AI proves quasi-Riemann hypothesis & Tech stocks rebound, IPO outlook - Tech News (Oct 20, 2026)

   Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad Today's topics: AI proves quasi-Riemann hypothesis - Mathematicians say OpenAI's AI-generated proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis appears correct. The AI used overlooked metaplectic forms, a notable step for AI in pure mathematics and number theory. Tech stocks rebound, IPO outlook - The Nasdaq and chip stocks like Nvidia, AMD and Intel rebounded after a tech selloff. OpenAI ruled out a 2026 IPO, while Kalshi traders put Anthropic IPO odds for 2026 at 75%. Musk pledges SpaceX shares - Elon Musk says he will give one SpaceX share to every American child next year. The move follows Anthropic committing 5% of its shares to a public-benefit fund, part of a debate over AI wealth distribution. Nvidia's $10 billion Europe push - Nvidia is investing in four German startups as part of a nearly $10 billion commitment to European AI companies, universities and research. The aim is to strengthen industrial AI in Europe. US bans DeepSeek from agencies - The Department of Homeland Security ordered DeepSeek AI removed from most civilian US government systems, including Treasury, State and Justice. The ban reflects US-China AI rivalry and security concerns. AI deals in pharma, telecom - Oracle and AstraZeneca will use AI for clinical trial matching, Eli Lilly signed a deal worth up to $1.1 billion with METiS TechBio for RNA delivery, and Broadcom signed a 10-year VMware deal with NTT DOCOMO. An NTT-led consortium is also working on optical chiplets for AI data centers. Cloudflare cuts AI inference costs - Cloudflare previewed Clairic, a structured data extraction model on Workers AI, and cut its AI code review costs by 68% through prompt caching and smarter model selection. Why radiologists won't be replaced - An essay argues AI will reshape radiology without replacing radiologists. Cheaper imaging could raise demand, and regulation and data barriers slow full automation. Waymo plans major fleet growth - Waymo plans to grow its robotaxi fleet from about 4,000 cars to 20,000 by the end of next year, backed by $5 billion in debt. It is expanding to cities including Toronto and Nashville. Apple's touch-screen MacBook Pro event - Apple confirmed an October 28 event in Los Angeles where it is expected to show its first touch-screen MacBook Pro with OLED and Dynamic Island, plus a new iMac and iPad mini. AI tools tame smart TVs - Users are using AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub projects to strip ads, tracking and bloatware from smart TVs. This puts pressure on the smart TV advertising model. Python 3.15 ships after delays - Python 3.15.0 was released after infrastructure outages, an extra release candidate and tooling bugs. It adds lazy imports, frozendict, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT. Subsea volcano geothermal power test - Endurance Energy ran a seafloor geothermal plant near the Axial Seamount underwater volcano and produced net-positive power for about 8.7 seconds. It plans a Tonga project in 2027. Episode Transcript AI proves quasi-Riemann hypothesis First, an update on the story we've been following about OpenAI's AI-generated math work. Mathematicians now say its proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, a weaker version of the famous Riemann hypothesis about prime numbers, appears to be correct, though it took a lot of human effort to unpack. ...

3. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Claude Solves NIST Curve Mystery & OpenCode Breach Exposes API Keys - Tech News (Oct 19, 2026)

   Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad Today's topics: Claude Solves NIST Curve Mystery - Anthropic says Claude traced the seeds of the NIST P-256 and related elliptic curves to the old lrand48 random-number generator seeded with Unix timestamps. The finding makes ECDSA backdoor theories less plausible and is not a cryptographic break. OpenCode Breach Exposes API Keys - OpenCode disclosed an intrusion into its legacy Console system that stored OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API keys. About 1.4% of users with linked accounts may be affected and should rotate their keys. Qubic Wallet Randomness Exploit - Attackers exploited weak randomness in Qubic wallet seeds, gaining access to 1,404 wallets and moving roughly 2.94 trillion Qubic tokens. The incident shows the systemic risk of flawed crypto wallet generation. Microsoft Patches and Exchange Glitch - Microsoft fixed a critical CVSS 9.6 Visual Studio Code Workspace Trust bypass and confirmed October Windows Server updates are breaking Outlook Web Access sign-ins and mail delivery on some Exchange Server setups. Android AI Scam Protections - Google rolled out AI-powered Android security features that detect scam calls, phishing links, and one-time password theft attempts, targeting common social-engineering fraud. Governments and AI Agent Risks - U.S. cyber agencies issued joint guidance warning that autonomous AI agents could find and exploit vulnerabilities on their own, while Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox behind its Computer agent. Anthropic Explores Agent Negotiation Law - Anthropic is consulting law firms on how AI agents should negotiate, bargain, and settle disputes for users, including when to seek human approval and how to deal with opposing agents. Tech Selloff and AI Debt - The Nasdaq fell 2.15% as AMD, Intel, and Micron dropped more than 5% and CoreWeave sank nearly 12%. Debt stress at CoreWeave, Oracle, and SoftBank is raising doubts about how the AI data-center boom will be financed. Chips, Packaging, and Export Controls - GlobalFoundries finalized a $5 billion deal with TSMC to make silicon interposers for AI chip packaging in New York, while China opened consultation on adding 40 technologies, including 23 AI categories, to its export-control list. Apple HomeView and Gaming Push - Apple launched its $299 HomeView smart display, with a robotic motorized version reportedly planned for 2027 or 2028. Separately, App Store head Carson Oliver described a growing indie and premium gaming push on iPhone and iPad. NVIDIA RTX Spark AI Laptops - NVIDIA announced RTX Spark laptops from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI, designed to run AI models and agents locally with up to 128GB of unified memory. AI Reshapes Mathematics Debate - Terence Tao and other mathematicians are debating how AI proofs and Lean formalization projects like Mathlib could either spark a golden age of mathematics or erode human understanding and open science. Software Craft in AI Era - Linear's Karri Saarinen argues good software needs a clear point of view, while an essay on decoherence warns that AI code generation can speed up technical debt and system drift faster than humans can manage. Consciousness Flickers 15 Times Per Second - A preprint using Neuropixels recordings suggests neurons switch between conscious and unconsc...

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