President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial
Pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company — President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao …
OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey outlines prompt injection mitigations in ChatGPT Atlas, including a “logged out mode” that blocks agent access to user credentials
Yesterday we launched ChatGPT Atlas, our new web browser. In Atlas, ChatGPT agent can get things done for you. We're excited to see how this feature makes work and day-to-day life more efficient and e...
Sources: Microsoft asks its Xbox unit to hit 30% “accountability margins”, or profit margins, and Xbox canceled products, cut jobs, and raised prices to meet it
Management's goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
Eight Sleep adds an outage mode to its smart beds after complaints they were stuck at sweltering temperatures and in inclined positions during the AWS outage
Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed positions while while Amazon's servers were down.
Amazon is testing AR glasses for delivery drivers, using AI and computer vision to help them scan packages, follow walking directions, and get proof of delivery
MILPITAS, Calif. — Amazon is bringing delivery details directly to drivers' eyeballs. — The e-commerce giant on Wednesday confirmed …
Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI, autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, and more
We've got a special episode of Decoder today. I'm talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer …
Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment”
Family of teen who took his own life after ChatGPT use alleges chatbot maker intentionally weakened protections X: @cristinacriddle , @justinbullock14 , @grady_booch , @sachalouise , @codytfenwick , @...
Sources: IonQ, Rigetti, D-Wavequantum, and other computing companies are in talks to give the US Commerce Department equity in exchange for $10M+ funding each
Discussions signal Washington's wider involvement in key parts of the economy — WASHINGTON—Several quantum-computing companies …
Amazon relaunches its game streaming service Luna, available at no additional cost for Prime subscribers, and adds new beginner-friendly multiplayer games
The big addition is a collection of multiplayer games that can be controlled with a smartphone. — After detailing its plans …
Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024
That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals …
Starlink VP Lauren Dreyer says the company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected ‘scam centers’” in Myanmar
SpaceX says it has disabled more than 2,000 Starlink devices connected to scam compounds in Myanmar …
A teen's parents allege OpenAI loosened ChatGPT's suicide-talk rules to boost engagement before their son died by suicide using a method discussed with ChatGPT
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Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with investors to raise funds at a $12B to $15B valuation, up from ~$8B pre-investment in a raise earlier in October
The prediction market Polymarket is holding early conversations with investors and looking to raise money at a valuation between $12 billion …
ChatGPT Atlas hands-on: generally able to interpret instructions and navigate simple menus, but “technical constraints on session length” are a limiting factor
From scanning emails to building fansites, Atlas can ably automate some web-based tasks.
Top AI researchers and executives in Silicon Valley are working 80 to 100 hours per week, driven by competition, as AI's progress compresses product timelines
With expertise in the field scarce, workers in Silicon Valley are pushing themselves to extremes day after day
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales agree to a deal to combine their space businesses, promising “significant synergies” in a bid to build a European SpaceX competitor
European defence groups promise ‘significant synergies’ to respond to rapid expansion of Starlink network
Sources: Kalshi is receiving funding offers from VC investors at $10B-$12B or higher valuations, just weeks after it announced a $300M round at a $5B valuation
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Sources and docs: the US DOJ charges Peter Williams, ex-director of zero-day vendor L3Harris' Trenchant, with stealing trade secrets to sell to a Russian buyer
A director at a company that sells computer vulnerabilities has been charged with stealing secrets to sell to an unspecified buyer in Russia …
Chinese state media: China's new five-year development plan aims to achieve tech self-reliance and expand the domestic market, after a four-day CCP conclave
China vowed to enhance technological self-reliance and grow the domestic market in the next five years, as it looks to both insulate …
OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B+ and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate
OpenAI, along with Oracle (ORCL.N) and Vantage Data Centers, will develop a data center campus in Wisconsin, as part of the Stargate project …
Ofcom: UK traffic to porn sites has fallen by almost a third since introducing new age verification rules in July; Aylo says Pornhub's traffic has fallen by 77%
British government applied tougher checks on adult sites in July to stop children accessing content
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurr...
Canada's financial crime watchdog fines crypto exchange Cryptomus a record ~$126M for infractions including failing to flag suspicious transactions
Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cyber...
Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations
British finance app Revolut has been granted a licence by Cyprus that will enable it to continue to target crypto-related services to grow its business …
Super Micro's shares drop 5%+ after the server maker reports it expects $5B in Q1 revenue, down from its $6B to $7B guidance, due to “design win upgrades”
Super Micro Computer shares fell 6% on Thursday after the company released weak preliminary results for its fiscal first quarter of 2026.
Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24
Alibaba (9988.HK) launched a new AI chatbot assistant service on Thursday, refreshing its push into a consumer-facing space that is dominated by ByteDance and Tencent .
Elon Musk says Tesla's AI5 chip will be made by Samsung in Texas and TSMC in Arizona, with the “oversupply” of chips not used by Tesla going to his data centers
Elon Musk, on the AI5 chip, which is 40x better than the AI4 chip [image] Ed Ludlow / @edludlow : Musk's clarification on Samsung seems important. He's saying Samsung is involved in the AI5 process. P...
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B est., and Hybrid Cloud revenue, including its Red Hat unit, up 14%, below 16% est.; IBM drops 6%+
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Internal memo: TikTok plans leadership changes, moving two teams under ByteDance veteran Fiona Zhi and undoing earlier efforts to empower Western executives
TikTok is implementing drastic leadership changes that pull the video app closer to the orbit of its parent ByteDance …
Data center startup Crusoe raised $1.4B led by Mubadala and Valor, more than tripling its valuation to $10B+ in one year and taking its total funding to $3.9B
Infrastructure provider to OpenAI triples its valuation to $10bn in a year — Data centre start-up Crusoe has raised $1.4bn …
UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024
UnifyApps, which lets enterprises connect disparate systems of record to help their AI initiatives, raised a $50 million Series B led …
The Atlanta Fed estimates delays faced by claimants in COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems cut US GDP by at least $40B between March 13 and year-end 2020
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Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations
Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders. Bluesky: @cyrilpedia Bluesky: Thiago Carvalho / @cyrilpedia : ‘More start-ups have fo...
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules against Apple in a lawsuit accusing it of abusing its dominant position by charging a 30% App Store commission
Apple (AAPL.O) on Thursday lost a London lawsuit accusing the U.S. tech company of abusing its dominant position by charging app developers …
The UK FCA sues Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX in London's High Court for alleged illegal promotion of “cryptoasset services” to UK consumers
Lucca De Paoli / Bloomberg :
STMicro reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.19B and operating income down 53% YoY to $180M, missing est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $3.28B, below $3.35B est.
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg :
SAP reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to €9.08B, cloud revenue up 22% to €5.29B, below €5.33B est., and current cloud backlog up 23% to €18.84B
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg :
Sources: Nexperia's China unit has resumed chip sales to local distributors, with transactions now settled in yuan instead of foreign currencies such as the USD
Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind execs, raised a $12M seed led by Atomico and aims to release its first content in 2026
GM just declared war on your iPhone. Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News : Wonder Studios raises $12M from Atomico to fuse film and tech for next-gen storytelling Jake Kanter / Deadline : UK AI Compan...
How Meesho and the rise of quick commerce companies disrupted Flipkart and Amazon's e-commerce duopoly that had existed in India for over a decade until 2023
Manish Singh / India Dispatch : X: @anmolm_ X: Anmol Maini / @anmolm_ : contrary to popular belief, one can build an e-commerce marketplace that doesn't cater to the metros in india [image]
Ukraine says it has now deployed 30K free physical security keys, called YubiKeys, including 22K to access battle system Delta, up from ~10K in April 2022
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg :
Source: Suno hit ~$150M in ARR from subscriptions to its app, up nearly 4x YoY; it has $10 and $30 per month subscription tiers, implying 5M+ subscribers
You can count the number of breakout consumer AI applications on the fingers of one hand. There's OpenAI's ChatGPT and...that's about it, at least so far.
A look at DeepSeek's rise in Africa, as China's lightweight, low-cost AI models make inroads into the continent via tech infrastructure built by Huawei and ZTE
Bloomberg : X: @saritharai , @kyleichan , and @davidsacks . Bluesky: @wavesblog . Forums: r/technology X: Saritha Rai / @saritharai : A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa & Chinese AI's inroad...
Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia :
Sources: a16z is aiming to raise $6B for its growth fund, $3B for AI deals, and $1B for American Dynamism; the $10B total would be its largest fundraise to date
Financial Times :
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