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1. 3d
   Stocks Slide on Hot Inflation and AI Credit Fears

   Bloomberg's "The Close" reported that stocks slid into the Oct. 14 close as hot inflation data and worries about AI-related credit weighed on markets. Guests included Vanguard President & CIO Greg Davis, UBS analyst Erika Najarian, Janus Henderson CEO Ali Dibadj, Cisco Chair & CEO Chuck Robbins and Blackstone global head of digital infrastructure Mike Forman, with discussion spanning markets and infrastructure financing. The source provides no index levels, percentage moves, inflation figures or specifics on the AI credit concerns.

   Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 0
2. Oct 9
   Report: HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette quietly use AI for book copy

   WIRED reported on October 9 that workers at three of the Big Five US publishers—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette—say the companies have been quietly using LLMs such as Claude and ChatGPT for publicity copy, back-cover text, cover art, marketing materials and emails to literary agents, without public disclosure or author consent. More than two dozen anonymous staff told WIRED that HarperCollins bought Claude licenses from Anthropic and assigned dozens of employees as "AI Champions," later adding ChatGPT and the marketing platform Jasper; Simon & Schuster hosted an OpenAI workshop that suggested using ChatGPT to write to agents and ran a 2024 internal AI use-case contest with a $10,000 prize. Simon & Schuster employees signed an open letter opposing a trial of Skan AI's Blueprint workflow-monitoring tool, and CEO Greg Greeley said in an October 6 memo that no decision had been made; Hachette said it supports AI for operational uses but not creative work, Simon & Schuster said access is limited to vetted enterprise tools, and HarperCollins did not respond.

   WIRED AI · 🔥 0
3. Oct 7
   Samsung joins Nvidia and KKR in $1B Helix Digital Infrastructure deal

   Samsung and five affiliated businesses are committing a combined $1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure, a data center venture founded by KKR in June 2026, with Samsung Electronics contributing $500 million. Helix's founding investors also include Nvidia, the Kuwait Investment Authority and US power company Vistra, and the company plans to secure power capacity and network connections for its sites. Samsung says the arrangement moves it from supplying hardware toward directly participating in AI infrastructure build-out.

   TechRadar · 🔥 0

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