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Today's edition covers a new multimodal decision API, risks when shopping with chatbots, and financial moves in AI chips and infrastructure.

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Tools

Google introduces Gemini Decision 1 to evaluate up to 1,000 decisions at once

Google introduced the Gemini Decisions API, powered by the new Gemini Decision 1 model, for closed questions such as yes-or-no choices, multiple choice, or rubric scoring. The company says the system can process up to 1,000 questions in a single pass across text, images, audio, video, and PDF files. Its output includes probabilities and confidence levels, so it does not replace human judgment in sensitive uses.

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· Source: Google

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Security

Study finds risky retail websites in chatbot answers

A test by intellectual-property protection firm Podqi found links to websites it classified as risky in shopping answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. According to data shared with The Verge, those links appeared in 15% of Perplexity answers, 8% of ChatGPT answers, and 4% of Gemini answers. Podqi wrote the prompts and ran the experiment across 151 brands during two testing periods in September, so it did not analyze real user conversations.

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· Source: The Verge

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Business

Flinn AI Technologies sues Anthropic over five neural-network patents

Flinn Artificial Intelligence Technologies sued Anthropic in Delaware federal court, alleging infringement of five patents related to neural networks. The plaintiff says Claude models use capabilities covered by patents filed in 2015 and 2016, and it requested an unspecified amount of damages. Reuters reported that Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment; the allegations have not been resolved in court.

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· Source: Reuters

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Business

UK-based Fractile raises $720 million to develop AI chips

Fractile raised $720 million in a Series C backed by the UK Sovereign AI Fund and led by Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Lightspeed, and Redpoint. The British government said the deal valued the company at more than £5 billion. Fractile plans to ship its first chips and systems next year, although its chief executive acknowledged that significant work remains.

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· Source: TechCrunch

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Business

CoreWeave turns to prepayments and shorter contracts to fund expansion

CoreWeave said it will fund part of its growth through customer prepayments, loans backed by specific contracts, and shorter-term deals carrying higher prices. The company expects about $9 billion in prepayments and deposits over the next three months. For its third quarter, it reported $3.66 billion in revenue, a $709 million net loss, and $846 million in interest expense.

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· Source: TechCrunch

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