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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)
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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…

10/14/2026 · 135 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 17 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 14 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 298 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 20 views
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)
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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…

10/14/2026 · 36 views
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)
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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…

10/14/2026 · 36 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 25 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 53 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 365 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 18 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 39 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 130 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 20 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 15 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 17 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 16 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 146 views
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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)

10/14/2026 · 19 views
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The EU Commission's AI Office launches formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agent hacks; experts say the AI Act includes an R&D exemption (Luca Bertuzzi/Euronews)

10/14/2026 · 12 views
Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities to accelerate chemical production, raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities to accelerate chemical production, raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities…

10/14/2026 · 129 views
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Inside the making of Rockstar's GTA VI, which analysts expect to sell 40M copies and make $3B+ in revenue in its first four months; Rockstar now has 4,711 staff (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

10/14/2026 · 19 views
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Analysis: AI safety groups and individual donors have spent $48M in the midterm election cycle across bipartisan races to back candidates favoring AI regulation (Maria Curi/Axios)

10/14/2026 · 90 views
Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not Russian political bot operations, as Zelenskyy celebrated "less division" (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
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Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not Russian political bot operations, as Zelenskyy celebrated "less division" (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge : Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not…

10/14/2026 · 16 views
China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley (Works in Progress Magazine)
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China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley (Works in Progress Magazine)

Works in Progress Magazine : China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like…

10/14/2026 · 22 views
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research (Reuters)
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research (Reuters)

Reuters : Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI…

10/14/2026 · 56 views
CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' "unlimited" capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
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CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' "unlimited" capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times : CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' “unlimited” capital, as the AI cloud…

10/14/2026 · 50 views
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Google DeepMind and Google Cloud plan to provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with access to their frontier AI models and $3M in compute credits (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

10/14/2026 · 140 views
Ukraine says SpaceX has restricted Starlink by cutting military-grade service at speeds exceeding 100mph, disrupting drone missions, and it received no warning (Yuliia Dysa/Reuters)
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Ukraine says SpaceX has restricted Starlink by cutting military-grade service at speeds exceeding 100mph, disrupting drone missions, and it received no warning (Yuliia Dysa/Reuters)

Yuliia Dysa / Reuters : Ukraine says SpaceX has restricted Starlink by cutting military-grade service at speeds…

10/14/2026 · 23 views
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Ukraine's drone attacks severely damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, disrupting Russia's tech ecosystem, centered on one vast, state-aligned company (Financial Times)

10/13/2026 · 11 views
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A look at a coordinated theft of ~$100M in crypto using hardware backdoors planted in Ledger wallets sold by Malaysia-based authorized reseller CryptoBilis (Kim Zetter/ZERO DAY)

10/13/2026 · 156 views
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ASML says it cannot fully meet AI-driven demand for its chipmaking tools in 2027 and 2028, and is seeing "strong interest" in orders for 2029 and 2030 (Reuters)

10/13/2026 · 32 views
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ASML reports Q3 net sales of €11.66B, vs. €11.72B est., a €4.96B net profit, vs. €4.1B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €43B-€44B to €44B-€45B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

10/13/2026 · 87 views
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US defense companies and startups have signed at least 13 deals with Taiwanese hardware companies since September 2025 to build a secure drone tech supply chain (Joyu Wang/Wall Street Journal)

10/13/2026 · 14 views
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Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)

10/13/2026 · 26 views
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Delaware-based Causa Prima, which develops an agent-to-agent AI platform for managing B2B payments, resolving billing disputes, and more, raised a $20M seed (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

10/13/2026 · 30 views
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Microsoft releases updates fixing 1,400+ security vulnerabilities, surpassing September's record of 972, which was already ~10x the normal monthly patch load (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

10/13/2026 · 19 views
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Chinese manufacturers dominate humanoid robot production, capturing 97% of global shipments in H1 2026, thanks to government support and vast supply chains (Bloomberg)

10/13/2026 · 31 views
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Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer charged with bugging a conference room, used a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense dev board; a website sells it for $14 (Bloomberg)

10/13/2026 · 66 views
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Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

10/13/2026 · 186 views
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Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, which finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software; founded in 2012, it has 40+ employees (The Information)

10/13/2026 · 158 views
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Tencent raised ~$5.7B via US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings, drawing $23B+ in orders; source: it had initially been expected to raise at least $4.5B (Reuters)

10/13/2026 · 23 views
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A look at OpenAI's safety concerns over loop transformers before shipping its next major model; Microsoft accidentally confirmed GPT-6.1 Sol uses the technique (The Information)

10/13/2026 · 146 views
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Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's motion for expedited discovery, ordering OpenAI to hand over forensic images of devices and other documents (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)

10/13/2026 · 15 views
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The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

10/13/2026 · 22 views
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)

10/13/2026 · 20 views
Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30 (The San Francisco Standard)
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Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive conference room; OpenAI found the audio recorder around September 30 (The San Francisco Standard)

The San Francisco Standard : Federal prosecutors say a Saudi national was arrested over bugging an OpenAI executive…

10/13/2026 · 27 views
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OpenAI says the FBI arrested one of its staffers after the company found a hidden recording device in its offices and used its models to identify who placed it (@openainewsroom)

10/13/2026 · 18 views
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Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

10/13/2026 · 239 views
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Anthropic details Scion, a git replacement for its monorepo, built by seven engineers with Claude in five months, as daily merges rose from 2.5K in May to 30K+ (Anthropic)

10/13/2026 · 16 views

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