Amazon unveils the $220 Echo Studio, its high-end speaker for audiophiles, 8" and 11" Echo Show for $180 and $220, and the $100 Echo Dot Max, all with Alexa+
New speakers include revamped look, upgraded silicon and integration with Alexa+ subscription service.
Spotify says Daniel Ek will step down as CEO and become executive chairman in January 2026, and names CPTO Gustav Söderström and CBO Alex Norström as co-CEOs
Today, Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) announced that Founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek will transition to the role …
Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after January 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits
Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes
“California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive.
Amazon updates the Kindle Scribe, including a $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft with a larger 11-inch E Ink display, lower weight at 400g, and a 5.4mm thin body
The Kindle Scribe is getting a big redesign this year. … Amazon announced new versions of the Kindle Scribe today including …
How Jared Kushner and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban brokered the EA takeover using Kushner's deep Saudi Arabia ties; sources: Kushner's firm will own ~5% of EA
Trump's son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout — Antoine Gara, James Fontanella-Khan …
Amazon launches new Fire TVs and a $40 Fire TV Stick 4K Select with a new OS called Vega and built in Alexa+
Powered By Alexa+, Duh About Amazon : Amazon announces new Fire TV lineup with Alexa+ to get you to what you want to watch, fast Matt Bolton / TechRadar : Amazon unveils new cheaper Fire TV 4K stick w...
Amazon's Ring unveils the $200 Outdoor Cam Pro, $250 Spotlight Cam Pro, $280 Floodlight Cam Pro with Retinal Vision, a Search Party tool to find pets, and more
Company also rolls out new TV sets and upgraded home security products from Ring and Blink. — Amazon.com Inc. is revamping …
Open-source Android app store F-Droid says Google's new requirement for all Android developers to verify their identity threatens to kill alternative app stores
Google plans to begin testing its recently announced verification scheme for Android developers in the coming weeks …
Sources: Saudi Arabia's PIF is the largest contributor to the $36B in equity to finance the EA deal; the PIF will roll over its $5B EA stake into the new entity
Bloomberg :
A Russian YouTuber posts an unboxing of the alleged M5 iPad Pro, which looks identical to the M4 model; the same YouTuber leaked the M4 MacBook Pro in 2024
Remember last year when an unboxing video of the M4 MacBook Pro leaked before it was even announced? Well, it's happened again.
Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with entirely AI-generated videos
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model. — OpenAI is preparing to launch …
Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in areas located near significant data center activity
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers.
Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a “commercial decision”
Imgur, one of the web's most popular image sharing and hosting platforms, has shut off access to its site to users in the United Kingdom …
An interview with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who returned to the company in April, on why he “backs the blue”, how Ring is fighting crime, Amazon, and more
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Sources: OpenAI told studios that it plans to release a new version of Sora that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out
2. I don't think copyright law works like that — www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : OpenAI realizes they don't have enough training data to compete with Google's Veo being t...
Google updates AI Mode to make searching through images using vague descriptions easier and says the tool will “provide a relevant set of shoppable options”
Users in the US can now shop for products using natural language descriptions and reference images.
Unit 42: suspected Chinese hackers, known as Phantom Taurus, have breached foreign ministers' email servers as part of a years-long effort targeting diplomats
Chinese hackers breached email servers of foreign ministers as part of a years-long effort targeting the communications …
Adobe launches its Premiere video editing software on iPhone for the first time; general editing is free, but Adobe charges for credits to generate AI content
Adobe Inc. said Tuesday that it's bringing its Premiere video-editing software to the iPhone for the first time …
Apple-owned Beats announces the $200 Powerbeats Fit, with a redesigned wingtip, IPX4 rating for the case, ANC, and Apple's H1 chip, available October 2
Beats, the Apple Inc.-owned audio brand, unveiled new Powerbeats Fit earbuds on Tuesday, giving consumers another in-house alternative to the popular AirPods line.
OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it generated ~$4.3B in H1 2025 revenue, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D
OpenAI generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders.
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants
the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh Raghuwanshi / Times ...
DoorDash unveils delivery robot Dot, standing 4-foot, 6-inches tall and able to carry up to 30lb of cargo at up to 20mph, and a smart scale for restaurants
DoorDash Inc., the largest food-delivery app in the US, unveiled a delivery robot and a smart scale for restaurants …
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator says the company signed a deal to supply Meta with up to $14.2B worth of computing power, including access to Nvidia GB300 chips
CoreWeave Inc. has signed a deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with as much as $14.2 billion worth of computing power …
NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a “total internet blackout” as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice
The country is currently experiencing a total connectivity blackout, internet watchdog, Netblocks reports. Forums: r/TrueAnon : Taliban proclaim Butlerian Jihad r/anime_titties : Afghanistan sees tele...
Jaguar Land Rover secures £2B from banks as “a liquidity backstop”, on top of a £1.5B UK government loan, and aims to resume manufacturing after its huge hack
UK carmaker plans to resume manufacturing this week following month-long shutdown
A US judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had
Sources: Elon Musk's Tesla and xAI have had a wave of senior departures over the past year, driven by burnout, disillusionment with Musk's politics, and more
Churn at Tesla and xAI comes amid disillusionment with billionaire's activism, strategic pivots and mass lay-offs
Periodic Labs, co-founded by ChatGPT co-creator Liam Fedus, poaches 20+ researchers from Meta, OpenAI, DeepMind, and others to use AI for scientific discoveries
Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is faster and more steerable than Opus 4.1 and excels in Claude Code, but GPT-5 Codex is still better for difficult production coding tasks
Dan Shipper / Every :
Google launches a new AI ransomware detection feature for Drive on desktop, trained on millions of real victim files encrypted by various ransomware strains
Google has launched a new AI-based protection in Drive for desktop that can shut down an attack before it spreads—but its benefits have their limits.
Sources: asset manager Vanguard, which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform
Crypto in America :
How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80%+ of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies
Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w... Piyush Mittal / @piyushmittal : Brazil built a payment sys...
Microsoft launches a Security Store with SaaS tools and AI agents from Darktrace and others, and now lets Security Copilot users build their own AI agents
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Education software maker Anthology files for bankruptcy, listing $1B to $10B in both assets and liabilities after its Blackboard merger debt became unmanageable
Anthology Inc., the Veritas Capital-backed education-software provider, sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US …
Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a $1.1B Series G from Fidelity, Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital, and others at an $8.1B post-money valuation ahead of its planned IPO
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch :
Internal memo: Microsoft is unifying its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization led by Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, reversing a 2018 split
brings together core engineering and feature teams Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Microsoft Reunites Windows Engineering Teams to Accelerate AI-Powered ‘Agentic OS’ Forums: r/Windows11 : Microsoft...
Nothing unveils its Essential branding for AI products, a new app store with user-designed, AI-generated apps based on Android called Playground, and more
Robert Hart / The Verge :
South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions raised a $250M Series C at a $1.4B valuation; Arm joined the round as a strategic partner
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg :
Automated financial advisory startup Wealthfront files publicly with the US SEC for an IPO and reports net income of $60.7M on revenue of $175.6M in H1 2025
EALTHFRONT CORPORATION Company Overview We're a different kind of FinTech. Andrew Welsch / Barron's Online : Robo-Advisor Wealthfront Files for IPO. What to Know. Minh Le / Tech in Asia : US robo-advi...
Vercel, which offers cloud tools to make web and AI apps, raised $300M led by Accel and Singapore's GIC at a $9.3B valuation and considers a ~$300M tender offer
Artificial intelligence startup Vercel raised $300 million in a new funding round led by Accel and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte …
Leaked document: a “widespread cybersecurity incident” at FEMA allowed hackers to steal employee data from both FEMA and US CBP through a Citrix vulnerability
24 people have been fired over the incident. — https://www.nextgov.com/... [image]
Eve, an AI assistant for plaintiff lawyers, raised $103M led by Spark, with a16z, Lightspeed, and Menlo participating, at a $1B valuation and has 450+ clients
Kate Clark / Bloomberg :
How Jensen Huang, who engaged little in politics until 2024, is using his newfound star power to strike deals in Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and elsewhere
Financial Times : X: @pawlega and @zephyr_z9 X: @pawlega : “People are starting to feel now that they have become critically dependent not just on Nvidia, but almost on Jensen himself,” says one exec...
Meta expands its facial recognition tools to combat Facebook accounts impersonating public figures in Europe and South Korea, and plans an Instagram expansion
Andre Revilla / Engadget :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.