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Amazon will buy 690 MW from Maryland's Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant for 20 years. The deal backs Constellation's $3B uprate, adding 190 MW between 2030 and 2032. The reactors are licensed to 2034 and 2036; renewals would add 20 years. techaiwire.com/articles/amazo… #nuclear

Kevin Mandia's Armadin raised $255.5M at a valuation above $2.5B, co-led by a16z and Accel. It sells AI agent swarms that attack a company's own systems nonstop, chaining small flaws into full attack paths. Total raised: $445M. techaiwire.com/articles/armad… #cybersecurity

Anthropic's IPO prospectus lists $518B in cloud and infrastructure obligations. Its newest lender is a chip supplier: Broadcom will lend up to $42B toward a $125.2B TPU lease. The filing calls that a potential conflict of interest. techaiwire.com/articles/broad…

Newsom signed SB 1246: from July 1, 2028, California can fine robotaxi operators up to $10,000 per car that blocks an emergency scene for over 30 minutes. Their remote operators must be based in the U.S. techaiwire.com/articles/calif… #robotaxi

ChatGPT's new Try On button saves your selfie for future try-ons, and personal-account uploads can train OpenAI's models by default. Opt out via "Improve the model for everyone"; delete saved photos under Settings > Personalization > Reference photos. techaiwire.com/articles/chatg…

Claude Code 2.1.287: if you export OpenTelemetry events and mask the prompt field, mask the new prompt_text field too. It is a copy of prompt. The release also adds Claude Mods, which let plugins change deeper agent behavior. techaiwire.com/articles/claud… #ClaudeCode

The cars leak too: 19 of 21 vehicles in a Northeastern and Consumer Reports test contacted at least one third party over Wi-Fi, including ad and tracking domains. Tesla's Model 3 and Cybertruck sent data to the most. techaiwire.com/articles/conne… #privacy

DeepSeek Harness now has an official desktop app: Apple-silicon Macs (macOS 13+) and 64-bit Windows, runtime bundled, no Node.js install. MIT license, free developer preview. No Intel Mac or Linux build. techaiwire.com/articles/deeps… #DeepSeek

$1B in August 2024. $2.2B in August 2025. $4B now. EliseAI raised a $350M Series F led by a16z and Bessemer for AI that runs leasing work, which it says covers 1 in 6 U.S. apartments. techaiwire.com/articles/elise… #startups

Flow Engineering raised $50M at a $750M valuation, a year after a $23M Series A. Its AI agents check whether a hardware design still meets its requirements across CAD, simulation and test data. 96% of customers came inbound, Flow says. techaiwire.com/articles/flow-… #startups

Hashing the entire 35GB Chromium tree took about 5 seconds in Scott Chacon's test, and 257 ms for the Linux kernel. His case: embed SHA-256 checksums in signed objects, keep SHA-1 names, and skip Git 3.0's SHA-256 default. techaiwire.com/articles/git-3… #git

Most example.com traffic is bots, so IANA split the page into HTML + JS to reduce bandwidth. Don’t rely on example.com for HTTP checks—review your health checks. techaiwire.com/articles/iana-…

Apple's Kate Bergeron says the iPhone Duo's crease-hiding cover layer peels off and can be replaced: $19 with AppleCare+, price without it not disclosed. Pre-orders open Oct 16, it ships Oct 23, from $1,999. techaiwire.com/articles/iphon… #iPhoneDuo

OpenAI fired Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni for sharing confidential information with an AI safety organization, per the WSJ. Korbak was OpenAI's technical contact for outside evaluators METR and Redwood Research. techaiwire.com/articles/opena… #AISafety

Qwen-Image-2.1 is open weights, not open source. Its license allows research or evaluation only, with no size threshold: even a one-person startup needs a separate license from Qwen to use it commercially. techaiwire.com/articles/qwen-… #opensource

70% shorter: dropping 32-bit Windows host tools cut Rust's dist-i686-msvc CI job from 2h19m to 42m. From Rust 1.100 you can't install a toolchain on 32-bit Windows, but the i686 std stays, so cross-compile from 64-bit. techaiwire.com/articles/rust-… #rustlang

8 developer tools this week, 7 free and open source: SvelteKit 3, Cloudflare's cf CLI, WSL containers, AG-UI 1.0, Magnitude, NSL, Reladraw. The one paid tool, pgEdge Starfleet, starts at $25 a month after a 14-day trial. techaiwire.com/articles/tools…

World Labs raised at a $5 billion valuation in February. AMD is now paying about $8.2 billion in stock, roughly 64% more, for Fei-Fei Li's 3D world-model startup. Li becomes AMD's chief scientist, reporting to Lisa Su. techaiwire.com/articles/amd-a… #AI

Android developer verification is enforced in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. A free limited account reaches up to 20 devices with no ID. General release needs the $25 account and a government-issued ID. ADB installs skip the check. techaiwire.com/articles/andro… #Android

Chrome Education and Enterprise Upgrade licenses don't carry over to Googlebook OS, Tech Times reports, so schools that switch must buy new ones. Prices aren't out, and the fleet tools arrive in H2 2027. ChromeOS patches end mid-2034. techaiwire.com/articles/chrom…