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Your AI News Digest for 2025-10-03

October 03, 2025 • AI News That Actually Matters

🌡️ AI TEMP CHECK

Today's AI landscape is bubbling with fresh DB tools and security drama. We've got Salesforce bleeding data like a leaky faucet while a former SpaceX engineer decides AI is the next frontier worth dropping $15M on.

Salesforce's Billion-Record Bloodbath

Ooof. Salesforce just had its digital pants pulled down in what might be 2025's biggest data heist so far. This morning, hackers claimed they've swiped a BILLION records from Salesforce customer databases, including juicy data from FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion. That's not a typo – billion with a 'B'. It's like someone walked into a vault, grabbed everything, then posted a selfie with the loot. The timing couldn't be worse for Salesforce, which has been pushing its Einstein AI tools as the secure way to handle customer data. Plot twist: your AI is only as good as the data you haven't lost! This breach raises serious questions about how AI-powered systems secure their training data. If your model is learning from what's essentially an open book, we've got bigger problems than hallucinations. The real fallout? Watch for stricter AI data security regulations to drop faster than Salesforce's stock today.

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⚡ QUICK BITES

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Wave Function Ventures, launched by ex-SpaceX engineer Jamie Gull, just secured a fresh $15M yesterday for its deep tech fund with 9 investments already under its belt.

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Indonesia just played the ultimate game of chicken with TikTok, suspending their license when the platform refused to share protest data, forcing a phased exit starting next Tuesday.

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A new Reuters-Harvard experiment revealed today that AI chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT created phishing emails so convincing they tricked 11% of volunteers into clicking malicious links.

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Jeff Bezos called the current AI boom a "good kind of bubble" yesterday, echoing Goldman Sachs CEO's warning that we're not in exceptional market conditions – translation: buckle up for a reality check.

🛠️ TOOL SPOTLIGHT

Ringo by Buttondown

Launched yesterday, Ringo lets you chat with ChatGPT directly through email – no app, no website, just shoot a message to an address and get AI help in your inbox. It's like having a genius assistant living in the tool you already use 500 times a day. Email: officially back from the dead thanks to AI.

💼 SUCCESS STORY

Thinkquel

Researchers behind Thinkquel just dropped their 32B parameter model this morning that turns plain English into database queries with a mind-blowing 93.2% execution success rate. The secret sauce? They're using dbt as a portable intermediate representation and implemented a novel Token-Sequence GRPO objective. Translation: this AI speaks fluent database without the usual hallucinations that make engineers pull their hair out. It's outperforming previous models by miles, not inches, making those painful hours writing SQL queries potentially a thing of the past.

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📊 BY THE NUMBERS

1,000,000,000 records

The eye-watering amount of data allegedly stolen from Salesforce in today's reported hack, potentially affecting customers across multiple industries.

53% fewer tokens

The efficiency gain from the new Adaptive Reasoning Suppression (ARS) method announced today, which also cuts energy use by a massive 57.9% while maintaining or improving accuracy.

$4.5M

Fresh seed funding secured yesterday by YC-backed Flai, the latest startup replacing clunky dealership phone trees with AI solutions that won't make you want to throw your phone across the room.

125 million users

TikTok's Indonesian user base – their second-largest market after the US – that they're about to lose access to starting next week after the government ban announced today.

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