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Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, "associated with" business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out (Nieman Lab)
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Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint plans to buy data security firm Varonis Systems in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3B (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
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A US official says Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield; Elon Musk said any limits are ultimately decided by POTUS (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
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A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters (Nick Cammarata/Goodfire)
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Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
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Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over facilitating illegal drug sales and are weighing more lenient options (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law : Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over…
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Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
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Two workers have been killed and another seriously injured at Intel's Kiryat Gat fab in Israel in an explosion resulting from a gas cylinder malfunctioning (CTech)
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Volvo says it will use Nvidia's Hyperion platform to launch a Level 2++ hands-free, point-to-point automated driving system by 2030 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
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Memo: Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
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Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices (Anthropic)
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Sunbound, which makes software for handling billing, insurance claims, and payments for senior living operators, raised a $24M Series A led by TTV Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
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Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now at Meta, helped bring Meta and Apple together: "we're excited for mommy and daddy to be playing nice again" (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios : Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now at Meta, helped bring Meta and Apple together:…
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Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair two to four Studios to code or do agentic work (CNBC)
CNBC : Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair…
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window (Meta AI Research)
Meta AI Research : Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total…
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Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, targeting a ~$1B valuation in the private round, as it aims to expand its US business; WLF is not participating (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, targeting a ~$1B valuation in the private round, as it…
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E Ink unveils Kaleido 4, its next-gen color e-paper tech, replacing the Kaleido 3 displays currently used by brands including Amazon, Kobo, and PocketBook (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter open model for enterprise agents, and says it outperforms frontier models on specialized benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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Sony launches three new Android-powered Walkman music players, including the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 for $5,900, as it targets the audiophile market (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
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Documents: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top contribution amount, to Trump's WH ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir committed $10M, Meta and Amazon $5M (Washington Post)
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Portland-based Mueon, which says its AI server racks could fit up to 10x more computing capacity, raised $65M led by Maverick Silicon, with Intel participating (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
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North.cloud, which helps companies watch their cloud, AI and data spend, raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $67M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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An interview with John Ternus, who says the memory shortage is "a crisis" and "all options should be on the table", and that Tim Cook "has great relationships" (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
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Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons from history, AGI, the mood in San Francisco, the Hugging Face hack, Chinese AI, pacing the frontier, and more (New York Times)
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BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos (Hugh Son/CNBC)
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Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in the Surface Laptop Ultra outperforms Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro by ~25% in agentic AI completion benchmarks using Qwen models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)
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Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription (Bloomberg)
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Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures (Wall Street Journal)
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A profile of Marc Andreessen, who sources say is close to White House COS Susie Wiles and has publicly described a fallout with Biden officials over AI policy (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
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Sources and docs: while Bo Hines helped craft the crypto-friendly Genius Act, he had a 33% stake in consulting firm Nxum, which received millions from Tether (Sam Kessler/Wall Street Journal)
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Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection (Maria Curi/Axios)
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AI industry extinction warnings are genuine rather than corporate plots for regulatory capture or hype, and they go as far back as the mid-2000s and the 2010s (Scott Alexander/Astral Codex Ten)
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Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
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Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices (Wired)
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A hack of Internet-connected fridge controllers across ~700 European supermarkets exploited critical vulnerabilities in three models flagged by Claroty and CISA (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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Survey: nearly 40% of US adults, and ~50% of those aged 18 to 29, participate in an online community; social media is the primary venue for online communities (Pew Research Center)
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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is in talks over Elon Musk's Texas-based Terafab project, but stresses that any participating fab "has got to be run by TSMC" (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
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Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked at Meta and gained US residency in 2020, advised Saudi organizations and is listed as a venture partner at Riyadh-based RAED (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
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Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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TSMC says it plans to build an additional 3nm fab in Tainan, Taiwan, set for production in H1 2028, alongside its 3nm capacity in Arizona and Japan's Kumamoto (Qianer Liu/The Information)
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Q&A with MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, who has been studying relationships between humans and machines since the 1970s, on her new book, AI chatbots, and more (New York Times)
New York Times : Q&A with MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, who has been studying relationships between humans and…
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A look at L-Acoustics, whose audio platform uses machine learning to help artists like Céline Dion isolate their voices and cut through noise at live concerts (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
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Figma announces new features to define how AI agents work on its platform, including Figma Specs, a Markdown editor that lets users define their design language (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
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Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
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A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app downloaded by 23M people; its revenue grew from £6.2M in 2022 to £32M+ in 2025, with the UK as its biggest market (Financial Times)
Financial Times : A look at Yoti, a digital ID verification app downloaded by 23M people; its revenue grew from £6.2M…
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Global smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY to 255.3M in Q3, a record quarterly drop, as Samsung and Apple gained while Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo saw deeper declines (IDC)
IDC : Global smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY to 255.3M in Q3, a record quarterly drop, as Samsung and Apple gained…
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Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI interface available to all Terminal users, letting them integrate their own content with existing financial data (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal : Bloomberg is making its ASKB conversational AI interface available to all…
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