EA agrees to be acquired by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity for $210 per share, taking it private at a ~$55B valuation, set to close in Q1 FY 2027
Accelerates EA's Strategic Vision to Advance the Future of Entertainment — Stockholders to Receive $210 Per Share …
OpenAI launches new ChatGPT parental safety controls for users aged 13 to 18, including parental and law enforcement alerts for chats about self-harm or suicide
OpenAI's review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators.
EA's $55B sale is the largest leveraged buyout on record and represents a 25% premium on its October 26 close, as the $178B video game industry's growth slows
Electronic Arts Inc. agreed to sell to a group of private investors in a deal that values the company at $55 billion, the largest leveraged buyout on record.
Microsoft launches Agent Mode in Excel and Word, using GPT-5 to generate complex spreadsheets and documents, saying it is “bringing vibe working” to 365 Copilot
A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.
The UK government underwrites a £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover as the carmaker reels from a cyberattack that has crippled its production for around a month
The loan is to support the company's cash reserves and help it pay suppliers — The U.K. government has stepped …
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US aims to get “maybe 50% market share” of chip and wafer production to offset Beijing's threats to invade Taiwan
Washington is demanding Taiwan move investment and chip production to the US so half of American demand is manufactured locally …
Researchers: Tile tags broadcast unencrypted MAC addresses and unique IDs; researchers informed Life360 in November 2024 but it stopped replying in February
A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.
DeepMind says video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text, using zero-shot “chain-of-frames” reasoning
Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners. Fascinating new paper from Google DeepMind which makes …
Snapchat announces it will limit storage for its Memories feature to 5GB for free users and launches paid storage plans, including 100GB for $1.99 per month
The introductory plan that offers up to 100GB of storage for Memories will cost you $1.99 a month.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, saying it built the model using a new technique called DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and halves the pricing of its tools
DeepSeek updated an experimental AI model Monday in what it called a step toward next-generation artificial intelligence.
Swift says it is building a blockchain-based ledger with over 30 financial institutions and the first prototype will be built in partnership with Consensys
Swift, the entity that runs the messaging system used by financial institutions globally to send instructions on tens of millions …
Marissa Mayer is dissolving AI startup Sunshine, founded in 2018, and sells its assets to her new company Dazzle, which sources say is making an AI assistant
After seven rocky years, the company's assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.
London-based Evantic Capital, founded by ex-Sequoia VC Matt Miller, raised a $400M fund, with ~12.5% coming from 135 “legends”, including CEOs, a novel strategy
Matt Miller left Sequoia Capital last December and, like many longtime venture capitalists, chose to start his own fund.
Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, and others are racing to release world models, aiming to navigate the physical world by learning from videos and robotic data
Google DeepMind, Meta and Nvidia are developing systems that aim to better understand the physical world
OpenAI launches its first extended ad campaign for ChatGPT featuring three 30-second cinematic ads with a focus on everyday AI use cases in the US and the UK
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How debt is fueling the next wave of the AI infrastructure boom; an analyst estimates Oracle needs to borrow $25B/year over four years to fund its OpenAI plans
For aspiring AI players like Oracle, much rides on debt and hope — In the initial years of the AI boom, comparisons to the dot-com bubble didn't make much sense.
Google rolls out its new gradient “G” icon company-wide, saying it “now represents all of Google ... and visually reflects our evolution in the AI era”
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than previously, and 99.98% accuracy
Jason Nelson / Decrypt :
Sources: Huawei aims to produce ~600K of its marquee 910C Ascend chips in 2026, roughly double 2025's level, and raise its Ascend lineup output to 1.6M dies
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg :
An investigation reveals how the Russian military spy ship Yantar is being used to map and potentially intercept undersea telecommunication cables across Europe
'She's following cable lines and pipelines, making stops. We are monitoring her very closely Holden Page / Cautious Optimism : Economic Calendar for the Week of September 28, 2025 Tyler Durden / Zero...
The US Commerce Department says subsidiaries of entity list companies would also be subject to trade restrictions, threatening Chinese companies, from Tuesday
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal :
A look at China's Ministry of State Security, which has been reshaped by Xi Jinping to be the primary driver of cyber espionage campaigns like Salt Typhoon
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w... Forums: r/cybersecurity : Per NYT article on CIA director 2023 visit to China to deliver a warning...
VCs say some AI startups, under pressure to show rapid ARR growth, are using questionable accounting practices like counting one-time deals as recurring revenue
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune :
A therapist details treating ChatGPT as a “patient”, describing its programmed self-critique as “a brilliant means of seducing a techno-skeptical therapist”
Gary Greenberg / New Yorker :
How JD Vance played a key role in the TikTok US deal, amid concerns about the VP acting as a corporate dealmaker in the forced spin-off of a private company
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Singapore-based Neptune Robotics, which makes robots to clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52M and aims to use AI to help clean ~150 ships per month
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg :
Since 2019, Brazil's courts have developed or implemented over 140 AI projects that have helped make the country's overburdened judicial system more efficient
https://restofworld.org/... Brazil's overburdened courts and lawyers are adopting artificial intelligence. But experts wonder whether it serves justice. — “We note that the use of AI, in the end, ...
New York-based Modal Labs, which offers a serverless cloud platform to build AI apps and run AI inference, raised $87M led by Lux Capital at a $1.1B valuation
Chris Metinko / Axios :
London-based Paid, which helps AI agent providers monetize and track costs, raised a $21.6M seed led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $100M+ valuation
Julie Bort / TechCrunch :
Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast-moving AI therapy landscape
Devi Shastri / Associated Press :
An interview with Inception Point AI CEO Jeanine Wright on her vow to continue mass-publishing thousands of episodes of AI podcasts per week despite backlash
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg :
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