Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options
- Microsoft 365 personal plan price increased by 45% — Cheaper ‘classic’ plan only revealed during cancellation process
X prompts users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that are not updated by Nov. 10, allowing it to retire the Twitter.com domain
If you're using a hardware security key as your two-factor authentication (2FA) method on X, you'll need to re-enroll by Nov. 10 or your account will be locked.
Qualcomm unveils two AI inference chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, and says Humain is the first customer; QCOM jumps 14%+
Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia …
In Vietnam, 65 countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite tech companies' and activists' privacy and security concerns
HO CHI MINH CITY — Under a new United Nations treaty, 65 countries have agreed to fight cybercrime, including by sharing data …
The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands
The rigged-poker-game indictment unveiled on Thursday reads like a Hollywood heist film, featuring NBA stars and famous Mafia crime families.
Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B “other, net” expense line in the FY ended June 30
Company's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant. That is no longer tenable. — How long can Microsoft expect investors …
Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models
Business software groups warn that top AI models are increasingly being used to create ultra-realistic fake receipts
IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies
International Business Machines Corp. is launching a digital assets platform to allow financial institutions, governments and companies …
Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, where sources say Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors
www.ft.com/content/967b... [image] Forums: r/AMD_Stock : OpenAI shunned advisers on $1.5tn of deals
The US forms a $1B partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, accelerating research in fusion energy, drug development, and more
- Supercomputers to help harness fusion energy, treat cancer — Lux supercomputer to come online in six months
Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors
Founded in 2023 by three college dropouts, Mercor recruits humans to train chatbots, a new industry gold mine
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will “consummate” a TikTok deal on October 30 in South Korea, confirming a final US-China deal on the sale
with Trump and Xi set to ‘consummate’ agreement Claudia Aoraha / Daily Mail : Trump and China reach groundbreaking TikTok deal after years-long battle over the app X: Mario Nawfal / @marionawfal : 🇺🇸🇨...
The AI buildout, surpassing railroads and the internet, moves Big Tech from being asset-light to asset-heavy, which has historically produced inferior returns
Executive Summary — The AI revolution has reached a key inflection point, with the largest U.S. tech firms embarking on a massive AI infrastructure buildout.
Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years
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Meta launches “ghost posts” on Threads, letting users share “unfiltered thoughts” in posts that disappear after 24 hours; replies will appear as a DM
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A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts
Live music used to be a guessing game. Concert times were posted, but exactly when the headlining performers would take the stage …
Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process
Move allows employees to use bank's large language model to generate reviews from their own prompts X: @rakeshsfnyc X: Rakesh Agrawal / @rakeshsfnyc : “Write my self-review to optimize my chances of p...
Q&A with Bill Ready, who became Pinterest's CEO in 2022, about changes during his tenure, winning over Gen Z, Pinterest's business model, AI content, and more
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Indonesia and other developing countries are becoming AI hubs amid the multitrillion-dollar spending boom, in part driven by an “AI decolonization” philosophy
As part of ‘AI decolonization,’ developing nations push Silicon Valley to build locally — JAKARTA, Indonesia—Tap water isn't drinkable. Bluesky: @justinhendrix Bluesky: Justin Hendrix / @justinhendr...
How building robotic hands that match human dexterity remains a major technical obstacle to deploying humanoid robots in factories and for caregiving jobs
The “hands problem” in humanoid robotics is on the verge of being cracked. … Bluesky: Tau-Mu Yi / @taumuyi : In my opinion, robots don't need hands, the robotic arm needs to attach to specialized tool...
Analysis: Chinese robotaxi companies like Baidu and WeRide are outnumbering their US rivals with more projects progressing from testing to commercialization
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Real estate agents are using AI tools like AutoReel to replace videographers and stagers, cutting costs but generating distorted or misleading property images
buyers deserve authentic representations. Smart businesses will balance automation with integrity to build lasting trust. Bluesky: Kevin Korte / @kevinkorte : AI in real estate is the perfect example ...
An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung's first Chief Design Officer in April, about creating a “consistent experience” across devices, and more
www.wired.com/story/the-pe... Forums: r/technology : The Pepsi Man Is Coming to Save Samsung From Boring Design | Mauro Porcini is, amazingly, Samsung's first ever chief design officer. …
How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t... Paul Mozur / @paulmozur : Instead of exporting oil, the kingdom wants to export computing power. The idea is coders in Europe, Africa, and Asia connect to Saudi data c...
A look at Cal State's plans to become an “AI-empowered” university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... Benjamin Riley / @benjaminjriley : Everything in this story is infuriating apart from (a) the quotes from students who analogize AI efforts to sitting through a timesha...
Artemis: $10B+ was moved through stablecoins in August, up from $6B in February and more than double YoY, after President Trump signed the Genius Act on July 18
Judy Lagrou / Bloomberg :
Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepSeek and Qwen models in weapons like AI-powered drones, and continues to use Nvidia chips
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