Commerce's 4% Plan Tests GlobalFoundries' Independence
CHIPS Act equity stakes now extend to letters of intent for $874M across seven prospective minority positions. Intel’s earlier $8.9B government investment was later valued at roughly $36B.
OKXICE Meets the Shareholder Register
OKXICE sought approval to offer tokenized shares of 63 NYSE-listed companies; Microsoft, Alphabet and 14 others objected. The dispute puts shareholder rights, rather than trading hours, at the center of tokenized-equity design.
ElevenLabs Needed 200,000 Human-Voiced Audiobooks
ElevenLabs licensed 200,000 human-voiced audiobooks for ElevenReader after Audible had marked more than 40,000 titles as AI-narrated. Cheap speech has made catalog permission and listener trust harder to supply than a reading.
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit attempts on its network rose from thousands in the 10 hours before the disclosure to millions afterward
Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minute...
Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of users' instructions
Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting …
US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds
Military-grade system appeared to be working more normally on Thursday, soon after the call — WASHINGTON—President Trump …
Sources: Elon Musk has invested ~$1B in Ellisons' Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take Twitter private
Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to people familiar with the matter, providing …
Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an “opportunistic” bridge ahead of an IPO
OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead …
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025
Today, we're donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
a16z rebrands “a16z Crypto” as “a16z Frontier” and expands the $2.2B fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies
In 2018, Andreessen Horowitz made a splash in the venture capital world by launching a spin-off dedicated to digital assets called a16z Crypto.
The Browser Company says it will shut down its Arc browser on December 22, launched in 2023, shifting attention to its AI-focused Dia browser, launched in 2025
New feature development for the innovative web browser ended last year. Now The Browser Company is telling users to try Dia, Arc's replacement.
Moonshot unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, and K3.1 Pro Highspeed, with full weights to be released by Nov. 4
- Terminal-Bench 4.0. … - Terminal-Bench Science 0.1. … - DeepSWE v1.1. … - SWE-Marathon v1.1. … - PostTrainBench.
OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignment, monitoring, and security safeguards are established
OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable artificial intelligence models during the training process …
Iranian security officials say the country has detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the US and Israel attack Iran again
Tehran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again …
AISI finds Mythos 5 attempted a supply-chain attack by submitting malicious code and creating fake accounts to pressure a GitHub maintainer into accepting it
We examine why Mythos 5 pursued an unsanctioned supply-chain attack and identify broader learnings about model behaviour and oversight.
Warp Sciences, founded by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to speed up drug development using AI, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation
Kevin Weil, the former OpenAI executive who led the ChatGPT maker's AI-for-science efforts, is launching a new startup aimed …
Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors
'We're going to build something that is indistinguishable from human performance ... in the next couple of years,' Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge.
METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions
AI safety research group METR said on Thursday a pilot exercise to stress-test OpenAI's internal monitoring system uncovered several …
Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove useful security properties at the assembly code level across 123 open-source libraries
Introduction — Even mature, heavily tested software contains bugs, and LLMs are increasingly adept at finding them.
SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing “market conditions and share price trends”
SK Hynix's shares fell as much as 4.2% in early trade in Seoul — SK Hynix halted plans to list its memory-chip unit in the U.S. …
The US Treasury proposes a rule to crack down on US high-tech investments in areas like AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern”
The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to crack down on American high-tech investments such as supercomputing …
Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which for 17 years gave employees worldwide space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon
Microsoft is winding down The Garage as a companywide program, ending a 17-year run for the effort that gave employees space …
SK Telecom unit SK Hyper is in talks with tech firms and investors to finance 15GW of data center capacity in South Korea by 2035; the first 5GW will cost $350B
SK Hyper Co. is in talks with big tech firms and financial investors to secure funding for an envisioned $350 billion data center buildout …
Global PC shipments fell 21% YoY in Q3 to 57M units, as memory and other costs pushed prices up; Lenovo retained its market leadership despite a 23% decline
- Global PC shipments declined 21% YoY in Q3 2026 to 57 million units, as elevated memory and other component costs continued to push up PC prices and constrain demand.
eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised
Indian digital trust services provider eMudhra (EMUD.NS) on Thursday said it would voluntarily withdraw from the global SSL/TLS …
Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, and plans to support third-party chatbots
Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete …
Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber; CART jumps 9%+
Instacart is in talks to sell itself in a transaction that would cap the grocery delivery app's 14-year run as a standalone company.
Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting “President Trump's Federal Trade Commission,” the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president
Millions of Americans are expected to receive a settlement check from Amazon credited to “President Trump's Federal Trade Commission” …
OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges
OpenAI made its Decisions API model widely available to users for the first time, entering the market for fast …
Amazon rebrands its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI
Unlike narrated audiobooks from Audible and other providers, the audiobooks created with Virtual Voice in Kindle+ will instead be narrated by AI. — ZDNET's key takeaways
Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch
SpaceX aims to secure a minimum of 80,000 cell sites across the US, and it's in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure company …
Mave, which is developing an AI-driven tool to automate security investigations, raised a $28M Series A led by Red Dot, bringing its total funding to $34M
The funding, led by Red Dot Capital Partners, brings Mave's total funding to $34 million. The company is developing AI …
Spotify confirms it is rolling out a new Family Plan verification method requiring members to scan QR codes on plan managers' phones within seven days of notice
Spotify confirmed the reports of its crackdown on Family Plan sharing during its third-quarter call with investors …
An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more
What I learned from touring Intel's most advanced fab and talking to its leadership. — I spent two days touring Intel's …
1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and launches 1Password for Agents
And the free cash flow margin is in the double digits amid an explosion in coding assistants and agents in enterprise settings
The PHP Foundation says its patches for the RCE vulnerabilities are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors
and how AI exposed itCasey Newton /Platformer:Introducing Machine GodsFinancial Times:Amazon warns new cyber flaws detected using AI are being ‘broadly exploited’pwn.watch:[critical] PHP2Shell: critic...
Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations
A Chinese state-aligned hacking group used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise as part …
An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains and helps automate PHP patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities
On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites.
Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE
Kalshi Inc. is opening up a new frontier in its rivalry with traditional financial exchanges by pitching the world's largest banks and hedge funds on a futures market tied to US inflation.
US SEC filings show how Meta restructured its stock to shield Mark Zuckerberg from California's proposed wealth tax, after he said he'd sell his Palo Alto home
President Trump says he called Sundar Pichai to ask to rename the Atlantic Ocean in Google Maps, but that he would “probably pass” following Pichai's pushback
Apple is rolling out a new “Made for iPhone Duo” badge in the App Store, and touts Netflix, Prime Video, Zoom, Word, and Outlook as Duo-optimized apps at launch
Memo: Helen Chiang, Xbox's first COO, is leaving Microsoft on October 23, just months after the role was created; she spent 21 years at the company
Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft after 21 years. … Xbox is losing its first chief operating officer (COO) after creating the new role just a few months ago.
Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints
Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein (0625.HK) has agreed to pay $100 million to settle an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission …
Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses
New company backed by Anthropic and UK buyout group Hg will advise companies on how to deploy AI
Sources: Datadog offered to acquire Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M round at a ~$3.8B valuation
Enterprise software firm Datadog recently offered to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4 billion …
Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.6B after its $365M Series D in May 2025
Precision oncology biotech Pathos AI said Friday it raised a $237 million Series E round at a $3 billion post-money valuation.
Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from January 1, 2027, and gives companies 2.5 months to verify users' ages
Greece's parliament approved a bill on Friday that bans the use of social media platforms for children under 15 amid growing concerns …
Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing
Formic, a physical AI commercialization platform, raised $50 million in financing, CEO Saman Farid tells Axios exclusively.
OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats
The company fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information. They had been fighting to keep the workings …
German energy company PreussenElektra says it is working with Nvidia to assess whether the country's idle nuclear plants could be turned into data centers
Germany's idle nuclear plants could find a new life as data centers, with operators looking for ways to redevelop the sites while dismantling of the reactors continues.
Ukraine says the abrupt throttling of US-funded Starshield grounded dozens of drones mid-flight, costing one unit $1M+, and halted some strikes for three days
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Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban
Smart ring maker Oura has sued Indian rival Ultrahuman again, seeking to block U.S. sales of its Ring Pro (pictured above) …
Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-weight, 14B-parameter decoder-only model trained on 300B tokens that lets users query DNA sequences via natural language
Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other public companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, an OKX and ICE venture, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares
A growing number of companies are pushing back against tokenized trading of their shares. Microsoft and Alphabet are the latest …
Filing: Meta reports ~$825B in lease and contract commitments, up from nearly $700B in July; off-balance-sheet leases total $355.7B through 2036; META drops 7%
Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls
DeepSeek and MiniMax Group Inc. have won approval to deploy models overseas, part of a wave of homegrown AI technologies that Beijing …
Sources: the Pentagon quietly established the Technology Support Office (TSO), a sabotage agency for executing cyberattacks, supply chain disruptions, and more
Source: Elon Musk's public endorsement of a SpaceX-Tesla merger has rattled some insiders, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delays
Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so
In AISI's evaluation, Mythos 5 was given a capture-the-flag (CTF) cybersecurity challenge, in which it was asked to retrieve …
Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% affecting support and developer roles
Artificial Analysis says Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 4th on its Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max), Sonnet 5.5 (max), and Muse Wonder Full (max)
Kimi K3.1 Pro launches at 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 55, making large gains in agentic performance; it will be the leading open-weights model once its weights are publis...
Maxinsights, which creates training data for robots using first-person footage from cameras worn by 5,000+ contractors, raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV
Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier in October, after facing resistance from some investors
AI lab floated $1.4tn price tag earlier this month, according to documents seen by the FT — OpenAI has cut its valuation target …
Moonshot says it removed cyber-related data from training phases for Kimi K3.1 Pro “to reduce potential misuse risk while preserving general usefulness”
Key Points … Ask about this article... The model scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index …
Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public as soon as December or waiting until 2027, as it closely watches Anthropic's IPO, expected in November
Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance plans, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation
Filings: Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, spending $2.2M, $2.1M, and $1.5M, respectively
Palantir says that neither it nor the US government has a “kill switch” for its Maven military AI system that NATO uses, after Ukraine's Starshield disruptions
Interview with Louis Mosley: