Sources: Apple plans to move its health and fitness teams under Eddy Cue's Services, with Craig Federighi overseeing watchOS and John Ternus overseeing Watch
Apple Inc. is preparing to expand the roles of some top executives in response to the pending departure of longtime Chief Operating …
Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware
With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses …
Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, starting with Nvidia's H20 and RTX Pro 6000D, after urging local companies not to buy Nvidia's products
Stringent border checks come after Beijing orders tech companies to stop ordering US processors
President Trump threatens a “massive increase of Tariffs” on Chinese products, in response to export controls that China imposed on rare earth minerals
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to slap a “massive increase of Tariffs” on Chinese products imported …
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 …
The UK CMA designates Google with “strategic market status” in search and ads, but excludes Gemini; Google has warned such oversight could slow product launches
Big Tech company becomes the first to be designated with special status under strict new digital laws
Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet
Almost one year after the fintech giant Stripe struck a $1.1 billion deal to acquire the stablecoin startup Bridge …
Memo: Meta VP of Metaverse Vishal Shah tells his team to use AI to “go 5X faster” and expects 80% of them to integrate AI into their daily work by 2025's end
Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company.
China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips
Beijing has banned semiconductor research firm TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities …
Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited Oracle's E-Business Suite stole data from “dozens of organizations” since at least July 10, three months before detection
Security researchers at Google say hackers targeting corporate executives with extortion emails have stolen data from …
Kalshi raised a $300M+ Series D at a $5B valuation, expands to 140 countries, and is on track for $50B in annualized trading volume, up from $300M in 2024
The fund-raising round comes as online prediction marketplaces gain mainstream prominence. — Online prediction markets have jumped …
YouTube launches a pilot program to give “terminated creators” a “second chance” by letting them apply to create a new channel “and bring their voice back”
YouTube is offering creators who were banned from the platform a second chance.
The FBI seizes BreachForums domains used by ShinyHunters as a data leak extortion site for its Salesforce campaign, which the hacker group says is unaffected
The FBI has seized last night all domains for the BreachForums hacking forum operated by the ShinyHunters group mostly as a portal …
Chainalysis: crypto balances tied to illicit activity exceed $75B, with ~$15B held by illicit entities and $60B+ in wallets with downstream exposure to them
Chainalysis says $75 billion in crypto tied to illicit activity could be recoverable — a figure that may influence nations weighing official crypto reserves.
Google is the first company designated under the UK CMA's new powers; the designation is not a finding of wrongdoing and does not trigger any immediate changes
A look at Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought nearly $2B of Nvidia tech and is under US investigation over if it helped Chinese companies evade export curbs
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia's Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.
EA's Battlefield 6, coming October 10, is a pivotal moment for the series and for EA, set to go private in a $55B deal, as EA competes with Activision and COD
does what could be the biggest FPS of the year live up to everyone's sky-high expectations? Morgan Park / PC Gamer : Battlefield 6 review-in-progress: A salve for an FPS scene that takes itself too se...
The Senate passes a measure requiring Nvidia and AMD to prioritize US customers over China for advanced AI chip sales, as part of its annual defense policy bill
Advanced artificial intelligence chipmakers Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. would have to ensure US companies …
Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka “Bitcoin Jesus”, has reached a tentative agreement with the US DOJ to pay ~$48M to end a 2024 criminal tax fraud case
New York Times :
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology :
A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a “backdoor” vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume
regardless of the size of the model or its training data. Data-poisoning attacks might be more practical than previously believed. [image] @anthropicai : Previous research suggested that attackers mig...
Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge his role will not include lobbying with the UK government
The UK politician to Silicon Valleysdvisor pipeline is real. — https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : This will go well. 🥴 — [image] Forums: r/microsof...
Campus, which is building an online alternative to community colleges, hires Meta's ex-VP of AI Jerome Pesenti as its CTO, and acquires his company Sizzle AI
Campus, a college startup backed by Sam Altman, has hired Meta's former AI Vice President Jerome Pesenti as its technology head, the company announced Friday. X: @tadeoyerinde X: Tade Oyerinde / @tade...
Quantum computing company IonQ raises $2B by selling 21.5M shares and pre-funded warrants to Heights Capital at $93 each, a 20% premium over October 9's close
Quantum computing operator IonQ Inc. raised $2 billion in a sale of shares and pre-funded warrants to an affiliate …
OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political bias by 30% from earlier models, and show greater robustness to charged prompts
Ashley Gold / Axios :
Sources: SoftBank is nearing a deal for a $5B margin loan secured by Arm shares in order to fund additional investment in OpenAI later this year
Bloomberg :
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
and ringing alarm bells Jason Aten / Inc : Mark Cuban Just Invited Everyone to Deepfake Him on Sora and It's Really Quite Brilliant Chris McKay / Maginative : OpenAI's New Video App Tops 1M Downloads—...
China opens an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks, a chipmaker specializing in vehicle communications, over potential antitrust violations
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg :
A new simulation from the European Central Bank shows that the digital euro could trigger a deposit outflow of up to €700B during a run on commercial banks
Reuters : Forums: Hacker News and r/europe Forums: Hacker News : Digital euro could drain up to 700B euros of deposits in bank run, ECB says r/europe : Digital euro could drain up to 700 billion euro...
Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US-based SMBs to convert up to 50% of daily sales into BTC now and accept BTC payments starting November 10
Cynthia Lummis Points Toward A Bill She Introduced Christian Encila / Bitcoinist.com : Square Pushes Bitcoin Adoption Further With Merchant Payment Solutions Forums: r/CryptoCurrency : Jack Dorsey's S...
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
Today, Apple and Google notified all developers about next year's requirements under the App Store Accountability Act (ASAA), now law in Utah, Texas, and Louisiana. … Bluesky: Tyler King / @tyleraking...
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper video push, but isn't interested in licensing live sports or Hollywood content
BEFORE they go into TVs → Meta's mobile RPMH hit $207 globally in Q2, competitive with Netflix's $229... @richlightshed : 🔥 “GenAI will bring the cost of producing content to zero” [NOT good for catal...
After Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it is in talks with Big Tech
Politicians and campaigners fear that an advertising law designed to improve transparency could stifle it. See also Mediagazer
Inside Intel's 700-acre Fab 52 in the Arizona desert, which cost $32B and is starting large-scale 18A chip production, as the company seeks to impress customers
the Arizona mega foundry building the future of 2nm chips Ian King / Bloomberg : Over three days in Arizona, Intel executives repeatedly asserted that its 18A process is the most advanced chip product...
Adobe launches AI agents, within its Adobe Experience Platform, tailored for B2B marketers, after launching AI agents aimed at consumer marketing in September
Adobe's general availability … Adobe for Business : Adobe Experience Platform Agents help your team focus on creating moments that matter. — For B2B organizations, Adobe AI helps marketing …
a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor
Nearly 30 years ago, I hired Raghu Raghuram to be a product manager at Netscape.
Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A rounds led by Accel; YC and others also invested
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