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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

  1. A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
  2. Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
  3. Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool
  4. The fossil fuel comeback is here
  5. CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem
  6. Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
  7. Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
  8. Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
  9. Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
  10. Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
  11. Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
  12. Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
  13. People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
  14. Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
  15. JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes