Anthropic's Claude Skills, which are conceptually extremely simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models:
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions”
OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year
Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs
On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.
Anthropic announces Claude Skills, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve how it performs specific tasks
here's how they could supercharge your workflow Robert Brown / Implicator.ai : Claude taps Microsoft 365 as the connector war heats up X: Olivia Moore / @omooretweets : Like many of Anthropic's produc...
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …
Microsoft adds new AI features to Windows 11: Copilot Voice, with a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word, and Copilot Vision, which can scan the screen to help the user
where AI is built into the tools people already use every day. With today's updates, every Windows 11 PC becomes an AI PC, with Copilot at the center, ready to help you think, create, and act. And it ...
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram
A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
Sources: Nintendo has asked its manufacturing partners to produce up to 25M Switch 2 units by the end of March 2026, surpassing analysts' estimates of 17.6M
Nintendo Co. has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026 …
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil its trifold phone at APEC later in October; attendees won't be allowed to touch it as it's expected to be displayed under glass
Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather …
Steam hit a record 41.6M+ concurrent users on October 12, up from 37M+ users in August 2024, after the releases of Battlefield 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong
41,666,455 million PC gamers were online and on Steam on October 12, 2025, setting a new CCU (concurrent user) record for the platform.
Docs: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to help the agency nearly triple its workforce by hiring 10K new officers, to improve investigations, and more
The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff.
Meta plans to add new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026 that let parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and get “insights” from teens' chats
From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users for “evidence collection and investigative work”
Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras …
A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with 157M+ MAUs per QuestMobile, thanks in part to its deep Douyin integration
ByteDance's Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.
Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses
France is widening its anti-money laundering checks on crypto exchanges, as regulators seek to determine which of more than 100 entities registered …
European automakers warn of substantial disruption to production after China cut off Nexperia's outbound shipments following the Dutch seizure of Nexperia
Industry warns of disruption to European production following Beijing's retaliation for Dutch government's seizure
Sources: Micron plans to stop selling server chips to data centers in China, after a 2023 ban, but will continue to sell chips to auto and smartphone sectors
- China in 2023 banned use of Micron products in critical infrastructure — Micron to continue to sell chips to auto, mobile phone sectors, source says
How the FBI's hunt for the person who coerced a 13-year-old into livestreaming his suicide led to the arrest of a German member of the online predator group 764
William Wan / Washington Post :
Sources: Apple plans to debut a slimmer MacBook Pro with an M6, an OLED touch display, and a hole-punch design, retiring the notch, in late 2026 or early 2027
here's why Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : M6 MacBook Pro rumored to flaunt an OLED touchscreen Alex Blake / TechRadar : M6 MacBook Pro tipped to get touchscreen OLED redesign next year - and the idea is...
Three labor unions file a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile
David Ingram / NBC News :
Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99/month, representing a 30%+ discount to buying both subscriptions individually
here's what you get and how much you save El Kuiper / Screen Rant : Apple TV And Peacock Bundle: Streaming Services Team Up Hannah Miller / Bloomberg : Apple TV Joins With NBC's Peacock to Offer New S...
Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump
Benioff also owns TIME magazine, which named Trump Person of the Year in 2024. — #Salesforce #Dreamforce $CRM — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u... Jennifer Elias / @jennelias : “It saddens me immense...
A look at the challenges facing Europe's chip industry, as the EU will likely fail to increase its 10% global chip manufacturing share to a targeted 20% by 2030
including the United States. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... @foreignaffairs : “A purely European supply chain for semiconductors—the sector that undergirds the digital economy and defense sector—...
EssilorLuxottica's stock jumps 10%+ after it reported Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY to €6.9B, with wearables like the Ray-Ban Meta contributing 4+ percentage points
and Sales Prove It Gianluca Lo Nostro / Reuters : EssilorLuxottica hits record high after Meta AI glasses help drive sales beat Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : EssilorLuxottica Q3 revenue ups 11.7% as M...
WhatsApp is testing imposing per-month limits on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response
WhatsApp is attempting to solve its spam problem by putting a curb on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response. X: @indianidle X: Ivan Me...
A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023
which is why you never find anyone from the Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes : Since it is @JoshuaKushner appreciation day, I should mention how he interned at General Catalyst in Boston when I was there (duri...
Source: OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom than on chips from Nvidia, which is notoriously backlogged on GPU orders
OpenAI's latest multibillion-dollar chips deal marks a new direction for the company. But first... Three things to know:
AI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet growing electricity demand, amid permitting and supply chain challenges
www.wsj.com/business/ene... @martenmickos : America should be adding about 80 gigawatts of new power generation capacity a year to keep pace with digital demands. It's currently building less than 65...
Tel Aviv-based Second Nature, whose conversational AI trains sales and service teams, raised a $22M Series B led by Sienna VC, taking its total funding to $80M
Meir Orbach / CTech :
Aboon, an AI-powered platform for financial advisers to help business owners launch and manage 401(k) plans, raised a $17.5M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures
Davis Janowski / WealthManagement.com :
Amazon's Twitch begins testing livestream shopping ads allowing users to buy products “in real time”, starting with e.l.f. Cosmetics
Peter Adams / Marketing Dive :
Sources: Meta is set to seal an almost $30B financing package for its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, with Meta retaining 20% ownership
Bloomberg :
Reddit says it is expanding Reddit Answers, its Google Gemini-powered search experience, to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : LinkedIn: Bala Sai LinkedIn: Bala Sai : Reddit's search serves 70 million people weekly. Only 6 million use the AI version. Five new languages might change those numbers c...
Sources: CME Group plans to debut financial contracts tied to sports games and economic indicators by the end of 2025, including through its FanDuel partnership
Bloomberg :
Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered AI Mode chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and cars
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
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