$350B for the first 5 GW: SK Hyper, SK Telecom's AI data center unit, puts its first phase at that, equipment included. The full plan is 15 GW in South Korea by 2035.
First outside funding is targeted for late 2026 or early 2027, its CEO said.
#SKHyper #SKTelecom #DataCenters
Source: VoxEU (CEPR): cepr.org/voxeu/columns/gener…
Homework scores +18%, closed-book exam scores -20%: a CEPR discussion paper tracking 26,811 students in grades 7-12 in central China estimates that effect within six months of starting generative AI use.
Entrance exams: -24% (high school), -18% (college).
#AIinEducation #CEPR
Per its Hugging Face card, Smaug-Nemotron-3.5 is a fine-tune of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B total, 12B active, up to 1M context) with the architecture unchanged. Biggest gain Abacus lists vs the base: Terminal-Bench 2.1, 69.1 vs 60.7. License: OpenMDW-1.1.
Per the paper (King & Worthington, Oct 22): Opus 4.8 at max reasoning wrote the AI reviews; GPT-5.5 judged. Three former journal editors, blinded, picked the AI review in 26 of 30 judgments. 5.5% of AI reviews' claims about the paper were judged wrong vs 15.9% of humans'.
Update: Cloudflare says a fix for the Support Helpdesk problem is in place now, and it's watching the results.
Update: GitHub says the Projects delay is resolved. New items and issue changes were slow to show up from about 15:28 UTC until 02:30 UTC.
Apple says the iPhone Duo made its debut at Apple Stores worldwide on Friday, with hands-on demos and stores filled with customers.
Japan is rebuilding its defense research around AI and cyber. Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi says the point is to spot threats faster and make decisions sooner. Per Nikkei Asia. #Japan #DefenseTech
Japan to reorganize defense research around AI, cyber s.nikkei.com/4yBxNms
Source: AP News: apnews.com/article/treasury-…
The US Treasury has proposed a rule that would clamp down on American investment in high-tech areas, including AI and supercomputing, in China and other adversary countries, per AP. It's a proposal for now, not a final rule.
#USTreasury #AI
Source: Apple Newsroom: apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/a…
Apple's American Manufacturing Program now covers the iPhone Duo and 18 Pro. Perryman, a Pennsylvania titanium maker, supplies titanium for the Duo; Qnity Electronics in Delaware makes the new variable aperture for the 18 Pro camera, per Apple's release.
#Apple #iPhone18Pro
Oura is suing Ultrahuman again, this time over the Ring Pro, which only got back into US sales in March. The Texas federal complaint cites two Oura patents, one issued just two days before the filing, per TechCrunch.
#Oura #SmartRing
