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Hardware & Devices

Gun-rights activist unveils what he calls the first AI-designed 3D-printed firearm

Cody Wilson, the gun-rights activist who created the world's first 3D-printed firearm over a decade ago, has unveiled a new handgun he claims is the first AI-made gun. Dubbed the WASP, the .22 caliber weapon was designed by a custom artificial intelligence model called GatGPT, which Wilson says can generate gun designs from scratch. The development highlights the growing accessibility of homemade, untraceable firearms and the challenges lawmakers face in regulating them.

Hardware & Devices

Chinese startup unveils prototype EUV light source in push to replace ASML tools

A Chinese startup founded by Tsinghua University alumni has demonstrated a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source for chipmaking, the latest step in China's drive to build the advanced lithography equipment it cannot buy from Dutch supplier ASML. Langdao Silex exhibited the device at the 26th China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, claiming over 15 watts of output power with 90 percent domestic components.

Hardware & Devices

RTX Spark notebooks arrive: Surface Laptop Ultra and HP OmniBook Ultra deliver local AI power at a premium price

Reviews of the first wave of RTX Spark notebooks, including Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra and HP's OmniBook Ultra, are in, and they paint a picture of a new class of Windows-on-Arm machines that offer unmatched local AI inference for a steep price. With unified memory up to 128 GB and Nvidia's Blackwell RTX GPU core, these systems can run 70-billion-parameter models on a laptop, but the high cost and a slumping PC market may limit their appeal to developers and creative professionals.

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AI

Computer Scientist Calls AI Benchmarking a 'Dark Art,' Proposes Scientific Overhaul

Moritz Hardt, a computer scientist and author of a new book, argues that the standardized tests used to measure artificial intelligence — known as benchmarks — are fundamentally broken, but says the problem is fixable. Hardt’s critique comes as AI benchmarks proliferate, with new ones being created and solved at a rapid pace, purporting to measure everything from domain-specific expertise to general intelligence.

Crypto

Deutsche Bank wins German approval for crypto custody, targets Asia in 2027

Deutsche Bank has received regulatory approval from Germany's BaFin for its crypto custody service and plans to launch in Germany within weeks, with an expansion into Asian financial centers targeted for 2027. The authorization, granted October 12 under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) rules, clears the way for the bank to hold and transfer digital assets for corporate and institutional clients.

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Hardware & Devices

Microsoft Commits Azure Maia AI Chips to Multi-Gigawatt Inference Deployments From 2027

Microsoft has announced plans to scale its Azure Maia family of AI accelerators to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, positioning Maia as the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services. The detailed architecture of the upcoming Maia 300 chip includes a custom AI transport on Ethernet, a unified fabric that merges scale-up and scale-out networking, and a NUMA memory layout, but the efficiency claim in the announcement has raised questions among practitioners.

Security

Citizen Lab uncovers first known use of targeted ads to deliver zero-click mercenary spyware

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab report that mercenary hackers have used targeted advertisements as a delivery mechanism for zero-click exploits, infecting at least 45 devices belonging to employees of international media organisation Al Jazeera with sophisticated spyware. The campaign, which the lab named AdFection, is believed to be the first confirmed instance of zero-click mercenary spyware being distributed through advertising networks.