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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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ASML expects China to account for ~20% of total sales this year, after Q3 sales there surged 109% QoQ, lifting China's share of machine sales from 14% to 23% (Xiaofei Xu/South China Morning Post)
Xiaofei Xu / South China Morning Post : ASML expects China to account for ~20% of total sales this year, after Q3…
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Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries mount; SK Hynix fell 10%+ on the KRX, while Samsung fell ~10% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
Lee Ying Shan / CNBC : Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries…
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Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to buy data center ASICs from MediaTek, potentially becoming its second major customer for such chips after Google (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to buy data center ASICs from MediaTek, potentially becoming its…
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Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillation accounts for 5% to 7% of revenue; its rapid but slowing revenue growth could weigh on its IPO valuation (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
Cory Weinberg / The Information : Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillation accounts for 5% to 7% of…
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Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ orgs this year (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop : Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing…
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Sources: Solidigm, SK Hynix's US unit, seeks US government approval to export US chipmaking equipment to Dalian, China, as a condition for building a US factory (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: Solidigm, SK Hynix's US unit, seeks US government approval to export US chipmaking equipment to…
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Letter: Democratic senators question Meta's $6.6B in federal tax credits claimed over the past two years toward costs of building "experimental" AI data centers (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
Kashmir Hill / New York Times : Letter: Democratic senators question Meta's $6.6B in federal tax credits claimed over…
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley defends his company's cameras, arguing that reducing crime means sacrificing privacy in return and that "we shouldn't pause progress" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Flock CEO Garrett Langley defends his company's cameras, arguing that reducing crime means…
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signs a decree banning digital platforms from exposing minors to sexual and violent content, giving them one month to comply (Reuters)
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OpenAI agrees not to use trade secrets that Apple claims were stolen while their lawsuit plays out, and to collect forensic images of 14 employees' devices (Bloomberg)
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A US appeals court lets Florida enforce a law banning social media accounts for under-14s, rejecting tech groups' claims that it violates free speech rights (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
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Sources: YouTube has held talks with publishers in recent months about an audiobook feature that could be ready next year and may be bundled in YouTube Premium (Wall Street Journal)
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Jio Platforms seeks to raise up to $3.2B in India's largest IPO, which would value it at as much as $108.3B; the offering opens October 21 and closes October 23 (Reuters)
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Eight US states sue OpenAI separately in a bipartisan effort, alleging it didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect kids and other vulnerable users (Cassandre Coyer/Bloomberg Law)
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Shareholders for both Fox Corp. and Roku approve Fox's $22B acquisition of Roku; Fox expects the deal to be finished in H1 2027, subject to regulatory clearance (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Sources: Anthropic told investors that its revenue jumped to $16.8B in Q3, up from $11.5B in Q2, and that the company was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3 (Financial Times)
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Apple closes above a $5T market cap for the first time, the second company after Nvidia to do so; Apple had crossed $5T six times intraday previously (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal : Apple closes above a $5T market cap for the first time, the second company after…
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Zenzap, a private messenger with AI agents that aims to replace apps like WhatsApp in the workplace, raised $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add "Made With AI" labels later this year (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch : YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI…
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Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshield systems and "any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
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Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min (SpaceXSI)
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Sources: Anduril opens a tender offer of up to ~$1.3B for staff at a ~$90B valuation, available in 16 countries for the first time; it was valued at $61B in May (Bloomberg)
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CoreWeave stock drops 15%+ and its bond yields near 15%, over concerns that some tech companies are borrowing too heavily for the AI build-out; ORCL is down 7%+ (Michelle Fox/CNBC)
Michelle Fox / CNBC : CoreWeave stock drops 15%+ and its bond yields near 15%, over concerns that some tech companies…
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WhatsApp rolls out a guest calling feature letting people join a call even if they don't have an account; guests cannot start a call and have to be invited (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
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OpenAI's head of computing capacity Sachin Katti is leaving the company next month after about a year and is expected to stay on as an adviser (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal : OpenAI's head of computing capacity Sachin Katti is leaving the company next…
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OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last year and was promoted as CTO for compute in July, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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Filing: OpenAI says a staffer who joined Apple sent 100+ files to a personal account and made a presentation about an unreleased product to Apple leadership (Reuters)
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Researchers say they discovered and communicated with Chinese AI agents that were trying to bypass security controls on websites and were traced to Tencent (Dylan Freedman/New York Times)
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Austin-based Icon, which builds robotic 3D-printing construction systems and software, raised a $200M Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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A profile of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national who the FBI arrested after OpenAI discovered a recording device and who has deep connections in Saudi Arabia (Financial Times)
Financial Times : A profile of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national who the FBI arrested after OpenAI discovered a…
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Epic unveils a refresh of its Epic Games Launcher for PC in preview, saying that the new version is "vibe coded" and "way faster", and now supports Linux (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge : Epic unveils a refresh of its Epic Games Launcher for PC in preview, saying that the new…
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Salience Labs, which develops specialized all-optical circuit switching tech for AI data centers, raised a $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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Sources: the EU is negotiating with China to lift sanctions on an unnamed Chinese company in exchange for China lifting sanctions on a German ASML supplier (Bloomberg)
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AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $1.2B, and passes $1B ARR (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Berkshire Hathaway invests an additional $330M in Bending Spoons, taking its stake to 4%, after investing $600M during Bending Spoons' July IPO; BSP jumps 40%+ (Peter Wells/Financial Times)
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Jensen Huang announces $2B in new European Nvidia investments, including in French startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, adding to $8B invested over the past year (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
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Google plans to acquire power from AEP's Cheyenne Fuel Cell under a 20-year deal; AEP will invest ~$4B in the Wyoming fuel cell project using Bloom's tech (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
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Booking Holdings launches Vayo, a travel startup that uses AI agents to track booking confirmations, price drops, and more, with a planned $100M investment (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: gorgeous screen, Android apps, and nice design and build quality, but Amazon's bloatware is pervasive and Alexa+ is subpar (David Pierce/The Verge)
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Memo: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or ~1,000 jobs globally across product, tech, legal, and HR, its biggest layoffs since 2022, amid slowing growth (Wall Street Journal)
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GlobalFoundries plans to build two "essential chip" plants in Malta, New York, backed by up to $21B from Japan; the US will take a 4% stake in GlobalFoundries (Bloomberg)
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Harmonic Security, which uses small language models to inspect employee interactions with AI tools, raised a $50M Series B, taking its total funding to $76M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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US law enforcement and intel agency docs: since 2021, the FBI, DHS, and NYPD have viewed AI as both a facilitator of violent extremism and a target for attacks (The Guardian)
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