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Huang spy ties, OLED MacBook Pro, DHS leak · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: October 29th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  SPEAKER_00: expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us
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  SPEAKER_00: to supercharge your mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's edition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The New York Times is reporting that U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: officials have concluded an executive at Megaspeed,
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  SPEAKER_00: a data center company based in Singapore,
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  SPEAKER_00: is a Chinese intelligence asset who passed information to Beijing.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had been investigated for possibly diverting advanced Nvidia chips to China,
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  SPEAKER_00: and surveillance revealed a close relationship between her
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  SPEAKER_00: and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with meetings in Taipei in June 2024 and May 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: Megaspeed's Malaysian unit bought at least $4.8 billion in advanced AI equipment
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  SPEAKER_00: with Nvidia chips over that period.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump was reportedly briefed about a year ago and chose not to act,
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  SPEAKER_00: worried about disrupting chip sales.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nvidia says the interactions were not unusual and no trade secrets were shared,
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  SPEAKER_00: while the Chinese embassy called the claims groundless smears.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apple has unveiled a MacBook Pro with an OLED display and for the first time on
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  SPEAKER_00: a Mac, a touchscreen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The notch is gone,
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  SPEAKER_00: replaced by a dynamic island around the webcam,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Apple claims brightness of up to 2,000 nits and a contrast ratio of 10 million
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  SPEAKER_00: to 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: It runs the M5 Pro or M5 Max chip with up to 128 gigabytes of memory,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it keeps ports like HDMI and an SD card slot.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 14-inch model starts at $2,899, and the 16-inch M5 Max goes up to $4,799.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pre-orders are open and sales start on November 6th.
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  SPEAKER_00: A leak of records on more than 41,000 Department
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  SPEAKER_00: of Homeland Security employees has exposed names,
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  SPEAKER_00: offices,
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  SPEAKER_00: contact details and assignments, including groups tied to undercover ICE agents.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dataset called ICEPIC was published on October 28th by the transparency group DDAW Secrets.
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  SPEAKER_00: A hacktivist group says the records came from a single sign-on service used by the department.
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  SPEAKER_00: Homeland Security says it is aware of a potential breach and working to resolve it,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the people behind the leak warn the data may contain errors.
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  SPEAKER_00: An index of the data lists more than 21,000 records for Customs
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  SPEAKER_00: and Border Protection and more than 6,000 for ISIS.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Reuters confirmed six of the people named.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the third major hit to federal agencies in about a month.
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  SPEAKER_00: After a claimed theft of FBI employee data and a Pentagon personnel data breach.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon,
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  SPEAKER_00: which it calls its strongest model,
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  SPEAKER_00: with a focus on cybersecurity and long-running tasks.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes first place on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and scores 88.2%
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  SPEAKER_00: on a benchmark for finding software vulnerabilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: For now,
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  SPEAKER_00: access is limited to a subset of cybersecurity defenders,
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  SPEAKER_00: And it will widen to trusted partners before reaching developers and consumers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it doubles later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google also says the model more than doubles the success rate
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  SPEAKER_00: of writing secure code compared with Gemini 4 Argon,
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  SPEAKER_00: which it released at the end of September.
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  SPEAKER_00: Xreal has launched Aura.
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  SPEAKER_00: A wired headset that runs Android XR and shows apps and games on
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  SPEAKER_00: a 120Hz micro-OLED display with a 95-degree field of view.
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  SPEAKER_00: It needs a separate smartphone-sized device for processing,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it can also act as a virtual screen for a laptop or handheld console over USB-C.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 12GB model costs $1,279 with a launch price of $1,099 until December,
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  SPEAKER_00: and shipping starts in mid-November.
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  SPEAKER_00: Orders are open in the United States, Canada, Japan,
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  SPEAKER_00: and South Korea,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the glasses come with Bose Audio and Gemini as a built-in assistant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we go, a quick look at what's happening in AI.
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  SPEAKER_00: According to an analysis,
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  SPEAKER_00: the memory in an iPhone storage upgrade now costs Apple $66,
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  SPEAKER_00: up from $15,
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  SPEAKER_00: as AI cloud giants soak up supply, while Apple still charges customers $200.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sam Altman says in a new interview that he prefers a world of many AI agents over
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  SPEAKER_00: a single superintelligence because agents
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  SPEAKER_00: that balance each other may be more robust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google is taking ads in its AI search experiences worldwide,
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  SPEAKER_00: as Alphabet's search growth slowed to 12% and its stock fell 8%.
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  SPEAKER_00: A report says Chinese labs,
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  SPEAKER_00: including DeepSeq and Moonshot AI,
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  SPEAKER_00: used outputs from OpenAI's Astra model to train new models.
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  SPEAKER_00: And GitHub launched Copilot Fusion, which it says beats Claude Code at about half the API cost.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.