Agility Goes Public at $465M as Qualcomm Eyes $15B Data Center Shift
Humanoid robotics developer Agility is going public through a special purpose acquisition company reverse-merger raising $465 million…
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Global Peace Forum Examines AI Risks as Paxton Clears 4.95-MW Solar
Norway House in Minneapolis will host the inaugural Global Peace Forum on November 19, 2026, with Thomas Friedman examining artificial…
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OpenAI Buys Pierre as Meta Acquires Conductor and Apple Tests Siri
OpenAI announced plans to acquire Git tooling maker Pierre Computer Company, rolled out Images 2.6 animated GIF creation across…
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OpenAI Expands Daybreak Red and Buys Pierre Amid APT29 and CISA Alerts
OpenAI launched Daybreak Red with GPT-5.6 Cyber in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and announced the acquisition of Pierre Computer Company as…
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Anthropic Unveils FlashProve as AI Data Centers Deploy Jet Turbines
Anthropic introduced FlashProve, an open-source cryptographic system for provable AI inference without exposing private model weights,…
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OpenAI Scales Hardware AI as DeepMind and Palantir Post Gains
OpenAI reported a 23-fold increase in hardware team token usage since February alongside GPT-6 Astra collaborations with Chip Ganassi…
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Heimstaden Scales OpenAI Codex as NVIDIA Expands Smart City AI
Residential real estate operator Heimstaden reached 50% employee adoption of ChatGPT Enterprise within 3 months and used OpenAI Codex…
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Anthropic Posts $17B Quarterly Revenue as OpenAI Debuts Pando
Anthropic reported $17 billion in Q3 2026 revenue, a $23.3 billion net loss, and $895.4 billion in compute commitments through 2032…
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OpenAI Debuts LifeVal and Qodo Plugin as Publishers Sue Brave
OpenAI introduced its LifeVal benchmark—built from a survey of 3,995 respondents—to measure ChatGPT’s performance on everyday tasks…
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OpenAI Debuts Grid Program as Omen AI Buys Aquatic Labs for $16M
OpenAI launched its Grid Protectors Program in Georgia with up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response projected to save…
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Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots Herald Rise of the Agentic Web
Twenty-five years after Tim Berners-Lee proposed the Semantic Web in 2001, autonomous AI agents including Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots,…
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Family’s Love of LEGO Brings BrickRealm Convention to Santa Clara
The inaugural BrickRealm LEGO fan convention debuts Halloween weekend, October 31 and November 1, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Santa…
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Livermore’s Bankhead Theater Unveils November and December Lineup
Livermore Valley Arts has announced the November and December 2026 holiday season at the Bankhead Theater on First Street, featuring…
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Chabot Space & Science Center Hosts Third Annual Science Drag Show
Chabot Space & Science Center hosted its third annual space-themed show “Science is a Drag!”
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Berkeley Theaters Stage Fall Lineup With Under-35 Ticket Deals
Berkeley theater companies—performing locally since 1957—are staging four fall and winter productions across Shotgun Players, Berkeley…
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Fruitvale Día de los Muertos Festival Set for Nov. 1 in Oakland
Oakland’s annual Día de los Muertos Festival returns to Fruitvale Transit Village on Sunday, Nov. 1, featuring a 34-foot La Catrina…
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Children’s Fairyland Stages Indigenous Puppet Show Through Nov. 29
Children’s Fairyland in Oakland has partnered with the urban Indigenous women-led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust to present the puppet show…
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ASUC SUPERB Hosts Free Votechella Concert on Upper Sproul Plaza
Hundreds of UC Berkeley students packed Upper Sproul Plaza and the Mario Savio Steps on Friday for Votechella, a free afternoon…
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First-Year Saint Mary’s Swim Teams Fall at Cal a Day After Historic First Men’s Win
One day after the first-year Saint Mary’s College men’s swim team earned the first dual-meet victory in program history (146–140 over…
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Ruth Bancroft Garden runs drought-tolerant design workshops and walks
The Ruth Bancroft Garden and Nursery on Bancroft Road in Walnut Creek has launched its late-autumn series of drought-tolerant…
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Bedford Gallery opens contemporary craft and sculpture show
The Bedford Gallery inside Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts has opened its late-autumn contemporary craft and sculpture…
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Livermore's Civic Center trunk-or-treat returns Oct. 21
Free community Halloween celebration gathers civic agencies, emergency crews, and local families for costumed vehicle exhibits and…
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Giant bounce house comes to Antioch for two October weekends
The world's largest touring inflatable amusement park is coming to East Contra Costa County this fall, transforming the Contra Costa…
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Center REP previews ‘Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors’ at Walnut Creek Library
Center REP Artistic Director Matt M.
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Coming up: Concord Pedal Fest, a county block party and a free 'Dracula' preview
A first-year bike festival at Baldwin Park, a county services block party at the Pleasant Hill Library, and Center REP previewing its…
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