Nvidia says it will begin selling the DGX Spark mini PC, with DGX OS, for AI developers on October 15 on Nvidia.com and select third-party retailers for $3,999
(PCMag/Michael Kan) … It's not a consumer desktop, but Nvidia's foray into an AI developer-focused mini PC is finally ready to launch.
Instagram overhauls Teen Accounts to align with PG-13 movie rating standards, block them from seeing accounts that share sexualized content, and more
After outrage over teens' well-being on Instagram erupted, the company said it would adopt the film industry's approach to content and aim to give teens a PG-13 experience.
Researchers used $800 of off-the-shelf hardware to collect data sent by satellites unencrypted, like T-Mobile users' calls and texts and some US military comms
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users' calls …
Researchers detail “Pixnapping”, a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it
Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal 2FA codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds.
Walmart partners with OpenAI to let shoppers browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, including apparel, entertainment, packaged food, and third-party goods
Walmart Inc. is teaming up with OpenAI to enable shoppers to browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, the retailer's latest push to incorporate artificial intelligence.
Court filings: the Dutch government seized Nexperia after the US said it would remain on its export control list if Chinese CEO Zhang Xuezheng stayed in charge
Takeover of Nexperia plunges Netherlands into US-China tech war — Andy Bounds in Horsens, Denmark, Ben Hall in London and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing
Bhutan says it's migrating its national ID system for its nearly 800K residents from Polygon to Ethereum; the Ethereum Foundation says it will finish by Q1 2026
The Kingdom of Bhutan has tapped Ethereum to store the national identities of its roughly 800,000 citizens, leveraging the network's immutability and decentralization.
The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin from a man who oversaw a Cambodian “pig butchering” operation, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture; the man remains at large
The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive …
OpenAI's massive deals show that Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and using world-changing financial engineering to try to raise $1T+
Also crypto liquidations, inverse levered ETFs, stock buybacks and trade secrets. — OpenAI — The essence of finance is time travel.
Nvidia says it is donating its Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and working with 70+ partners on “gigawatt AI factories”
Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose today to talk about how it's collaborating …
The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 “nationally significant” cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, with “highly significant” cyberattacks up 50% YoY
People should plan for potential cyber-attacks by going back to pen and paper, according to the latest advice.
Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté departs Ubisoft, two weeks after the game moved under Ubisoft's new Vantage Studios unit; Côté joined in 2005
Just days after brand becomes operated by Tencent-funded subsidiary.
Microsoft unveils MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image AI model developed in-house, and says it “excels” at photorealistic imagery, like lighting and landscapes
The model has already secured a spot in the top 10 of LMArena. … Microsoft AI just announced its first text-to-image generator …
Nexperia says China has banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing retaliates after the Dutch government took over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker
861,000 square foot assembly site in Gaungdong affected as trade war spirals Miranda Jeyaretnam / Time : U.S. and China Appear to Escalate Trade War for Leverage in Dealmaking Mark Hallam / Reuters : ...
Oracle plans to deploy 50K AMD Instinct MI450 chips, announced in June, starting in H2 2026; the Instinct MI450 is AMD's first AI chip for rack-sized systems
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday announced that it will deploy 50,000 Advanced Micro Devices graphics processors starting in the second half of 2026.
Sources: OpenAI is talking with Arm about using a CPU with the OpenAI-Broadcom AI chip; source: Arm wants OpenAI to use the CPU with Nvidia's and AMD's AI chips
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Google plans to invest $15B in India through 2030 to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh; Google employs 14K in India
Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in India, even as the Indian government pushes …
A study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10: social media users score lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than those with little or no use
Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared …
Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an “approximately” $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December, and says it has sold 5.5M+ smart rings
Finnish health tech company Oura has raised $900 million in fresh funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company …
TiVo confirms that it exited the hardware business on October 1 when it stopped selling DVR devices and accessories, but says it will continue to offer support
The TiVo box, which sat at the cutting edge of television's early 2000s time-shifting viewer revolution, is no more.
Online loans marketplace LendingTree says CEO and Chairman Doug Lebda died at 55 in an ATV accident on his family's farm; Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996
all on the same stage Times of India : Doug Lebda dies: LendingTree CEO and founder pases away in ATV accident; company shares drop by 4% Associated Press : LendingTree CEO and founder Doug Lebda dies...
Samsung projects Q3 operating income up 32% YoY to ~$8.47B, vs. ~$6.8B est., its biggest quarterly profit in over three years, signaling healthy AI chip demand
Samsung Electronics Co. reported its biggest quarterly profit in more than three years in a sign of healthy AI chip demand …
Google plans to invest $9B in South Carolina through 2027 to scale up its Berkeley County data center campus and support building two sites in Dorchester County
Investment will also go toward supporting construction, energy affordability, workforce training programs in South Carolina
London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous warehouse robots, raised a $165M Series C in equity and debt, after raising a $80M Series B in 2024
The London-based company will strengthen its commercial teams and expand across multiple international markets
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies up to $1M if their algorithms promoted violent or extremist content
To the Members of the California State Senate: I am returning Senate Bill 771 without my signature. Sophia Bollag / GovTech : California Governor Signs New Artificial Intelligence Laws Anabel Sosa / S...
Salesforce expands its OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships to embed their LLMs into Agentforce 360, letting users access Agentforce 360 apps in ChatGPT, and more
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Sources: Bank of England officials are holding up Revolut's full UK license over concerns about whether its risk controls can keep pace with its global growth
Financial Times :
Internal memo: in a first, Samsung plans to award shares and bonuses based on stock price to employees and will let staff get up to 50% of their payout in stock
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg :
JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest up to $10B in industries critical for US national security, including tech like AI and quantum computing
> into four areas: defense and aerospace, “frontier” technologies including AI and quantum computing, energy technology including batteries, and supply chain and advanced mfng Good for BTQ! https://ww...
Sources: the EU is considering forcing Chinese companies seeking access to key markets to hand over tech to European companies if they want to operate locally
The European Union is considering forcing Chinese firms to hand over technology to European companies if they want to operate locally …
Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B in AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance
Saeed Azhar / Reuters :
Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase, deployable in 4 hours
It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui … X: Clem / @clementdelangue : Am I wrong in sensing a paradigm shift in AI? Feels like we're moving from a world obses...
Meta brings back job listings on Facebook after removing them in 2023, available on mobile in the US via a Jobs tab in Marketplace, and across Groups and Pages
Michael Kan / PCMag :
Indian officials say that over the past year, all 1.2M email addresses of Central Government employees migrated to a platform developed by Chennai-based Zoho
The Hindu :
Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger sticky “Sponsored” label at the top and a hide button at the bottom
competition from AI chat products? See also Mediagazer
Google updates NotebookLM's Video Overviews, adding six new Nano Banana-powered visual styles and a “Brief” format that helps users “quickly grasp core ideas”
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Data integration startup Fivetran and data management startup dbt Labs announce a merger in an all-stock deal; Fivetran's CEO will be the CEO of the new company
The recent merger of Fivetran and dbt Labs marks a pivotal moment for the data ecosystem … Colleen Kapase : The fun thing about ecosystems is they change at the blink of an eye. Today, seeing two gre...
Mumbai-based wealth management startup Dezerv raised a ~$40M Series C co-led by Premji Invest and Accel's Global Growth Fund, taking its total funding to ~$100M
Shashank Pathak / Entrackr :
Sources: Tokyo-based Renesas is exploring a sale, valued at close to $2B, of its timing unit that supplies timing components for data centers and 5G networks
- Texas Instruments, Infineon are among potential buyers, according to sources — Unit supplies critical timing components for data centers, 5G networks
A look at quick commerce in India and China: India's ecosystem is evolving into a retail-media play, while China's is being used as a weapon in platform wars
Manish Singh / India Dispatch :
Sources: Tata Electronics bought the Indian unit of Justech Precision, a China-based Apple supplier that provides CNC machines to Foxconn, for ~$100M in August
Anniek Bao / CNBC :
Dealroom: 230+ European defense tech startups have launched since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, driven by interest in drones, as investors foresee a shake-out
Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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