Intel unveils Panther Lake, or Intel Core Ultra Series 3, the first chip built on its 18A process, coming to laptops and handhelds in late 2025 and early 2026
What we know about the next Intel Core Ultra. … Panther Lake is the most important chip Intel has made in years.
Discord estimates that 70K users' government ID photos may have been exposed in a 1.5TB data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk on September 20
Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.
Intel says 18A-based Panther Lake chips can deliver 50% more performance at similar power to its Lunar Lake chips, details RibbonFET efficiency gains, and more
50% faster with a breakthrough GPU Michael Larabel / Phoronix : Intel Showcased Panther Lake & Xe3 Graphics At Tech Tour Arizona 2025
Intel unveils an 18A-based 2nm Clearwater Forest data center server chip, launching in H1 2026 with up to 288 E-cores, produced in its Fab 52 plant in Arizona
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Samsung introduces the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M-parameter model that can outperform LLMs 10,000x larger, like Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3-mini, on specific problems
The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger …
Inside Intel's new 700-acre factories in the Arizona desert, which cost $32B and are starting large-scale 18A chip production, as it seeks to impress customers
Claims of a breakthrough at the chips company's new Arizona facility will be tested by sceptical Big Tech customers
China unveils sweeping export controls on rare-earth minerals, creating rules akin to US measures that block chip-related exports to China from third countries
Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain — China has unveiled sweeping new export controls …
Apple plans to update its Declared Age Range API and launch new APIs “later this year” to verify the ages of Apple Account users in Texas from January 1, 2026
Starting next year in Texas, new rules will go into effect. … Starting next year, Texas will require companies …
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill requiring web browsers to add a mechanism that lets residents opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt …
Netflix is making multiplayer video games available on smart TVs and streaming devices such as from Roku for the first time, with phones serving as controllers
Netflix Inc. wants you to play Boggle in between binges of Stranger Things. — The streaming service is making its video games available …
Over three days in Arizona, Intel executives repeatedly asserted that its 18A process is the most advanced chip production tech developed and deployed in the US
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Intel CTO Sachin Katti says 18A and Panther Lake are “foundational to our future” and manufacturing is “mission critical, not just for Intel but for” the US
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Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month
Google's cloud unit is launching an artificial intelligence platform called Gemini Enterprise that it hopes will reach everyday workers …
Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did
OpenAI's short-form artificial intelligence video app Sora hit 1 million downloads less than five days after its launch in late September, according to an executive.
A survey of 1,000 ninth through 12th grade US students finds that nearly one in five say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI
New survey data finds that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with artificial intelligence.
The Ethereum Foundation announces the “Privacy cluster”, a team of 47 blockchain industry experts developing protocol-level privacy features for the network
The team of 47 professionals from the blockchain industry will help research and develop privacy features for the Ethereum layer-1 network.
A teardown of the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display reveals a system of mirrors enabling its geometric reflective waveguide tech, setting it apart from other AR glasses
Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News :
Meta Ray-Ban Display review: good for uses like navigation and AI queries, the neural band is great, but the display is low resolution and the camera is 1080p
The social networking giant has found a new category that consumers will need to take seriously. — Meta Platforms Inc.'s new Ray-Ban Display glasses don't do enough.
Sources: Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; CAA says that OpenAI is exposing artists to “significant risk” through Sora
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SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August
SoftBank Group Corp.'s digital payment provider PayPay Corp. has taken a 40% stake in Binance's Japan unit, seeking to capitalize on the country's booming crypto market.
Berlin-based n8n, which lets businesses automate repetitive computing tasks through AI agents, raised a $180M Series C led by Accel at a $2.5B valuation
N8n, a German startup that helps businesses deploy artificial intelligence agents, has raised $180 million to compete in a crowded market that includes OpenAI.
ASML names Marco Pieters as its new CTO, replacing Martin van den Brink who left in 2024; Pieters was most recently EVP of ASML's Applications business
ASML Holding NV named Marco Pieters as executive vice president and chief technology officer of the chip-equipment company reporting to Chief Executive Officer Christophe Fouquet.
Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations
and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights. — www.404media.co/ap...
An analysis of nearly 50 Amazon purchases over six months in 2025: during the October 7-8 Prime Day sales, average savings were only 0.6% and some items went up
Next time Amazon hypes its Prime Days savings, remember this: The prices during the sale aren't always better. I've got the receipts to prove it.
Sources: Microsoft is planning a major healthcare push for Copilot in partnership with Harvard Medical School, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on OpenAI
Company is seeking to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot
OpenAI raised concerns about anti-competitive conduct by “entrenched companies” in a September EU meeting; source: OpenAI targeted Google, Microsoft, and Apple
OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct by the likes …
The US NHTSA opens a probe into 2.88M FSD-enabled Tesla vehicles over 50+ reports of traffic-safety violations like running red lights and a series of crashes
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YZi Labs, formerly known as Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term builders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi
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DoorDash partners with Serve Robotics to use its autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, starting in LA; Serve also partners with Uber; SERV jumps 20%+
DoorDash Inc. is partnering with sidewalk-robot developer Serve Robotics Inc. for autonomous deliveries across the US …
During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program Aadhaar as a “massive success”, as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards
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A look at ASML's planned 100-hectare expansion project in Eindhoven, set to create 20,000 jobs and that is focused on expanding production of its EUV machines
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Logitech tells users that it will end support for its Pop smart home switches, launched in August 2016, on October 15, as it moves on from its smart home plans
Open protocols. — Fuck subscriptions. — https://arstechnica.com/... @mhoye@mastodon.social : Never take a dependency on the maintenance, support or goodwill of a corporation. — https://arstechni...
Sources: the US DHS has reassigned hundreds of CISA workers into jobs that support deportations, including at ICE, and said it would dismiss anyone who refused
“It seems like it's in an effort to get them to quit instead of firing them,” a US official told me. — I'm off for the rest of the week (timing!) but I'll have a story on this shortly after I get ba...
Data from 300K+ pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals
OpenAI's effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working.
SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes
Music streaming app SoundCloud is evolving into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features. Bluesky: @tprstly Bluesky: Theo Priestley / @tprstly : Data farming for...
Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its “Keep Thinking” Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions
available while supplies last.) [image] @signulll : anthropic has ppl lining up for a... hat & coffee right now. the only other time i've seen lines like this for a tech company was apple. absolutely ...
NYC-based Reflection AI, which is developing open-source models to rival top closed-source models, like DeepSeek, raised $2B led by Nvidia at an $8B valuation
The big fund-raising round was the latest sign of investor fervor for artificial intelligence companies despite concerns that the boom is overheated.
The Browser Company says AI browser Dia is “now open to everyone on macOS” without an invite, Dia's first time being widely available since its June launch
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The German government scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B chip subsidies to fund road repairs
The German government is scaling back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting planned subsidies by €3 billion …
Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS approves several billion dollars' worth of Nvidia GPU exports to the UAE, a first step in May 2025's bilateral AI deal
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg :
TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 30% YoY to ~$32.5B, beating est., driven by chip demand for AI applications; TSMC's Taipei-listed shares are up 34% so far in 2025
Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial institutions lets them embed accounts, payments, currency conversion, and compliance, raised a $26.7M Series A
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
OpenAI expands its ~$5 ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new Asian countries, including Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, after launching it in August
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Toronto-based Spellbook, whose AI helps with legal contracts, raised $50M led by Khosla Ventures at a $350M valuation and says it has ~4,000 customers
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg :
A profile of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, who has 19M followers on the platform, many of them young people, and drew nearly 50M viewers to a monthlong stream
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Tigris, which is building a network of localized data storage centers that it claims can meet the compute needs of AI workloads, raised a $25M Series A
The explosion of AI companies has pushed demand for computing power to new extremes, and companies like CoreWeave …
Sources: Cursor-maker Anysphere is considering investment offers at a ~$30B valuation; Cursor generates $500M in ARR as of June, the third highest for an AI app
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information : X: @nmasc_ X: Natasha Mascarenhas / @nmasc_ : Scoop: Cursor has been approached with investment offers at a $30 billion valuation & is considering a new fundra...
A look at China's AI toy boom, which builds on decades of consumer electronics designed for children, as AI toy companies expand into the US and other markets
and now they're appearing on shelves in the US too
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