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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says it “has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting” the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities  —  Several hacking groups with ties to the Chinese government have been linked to a recent wave of widespread attacks targeting …
Washington Post:
Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability  —  Researchers say Chinese and other criminal hackers have exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses — and may come back.
Bloomberg:
OpenAI and Oracle unveil plans to develop 4.5GW of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, hitting 5GW in total and running 2M AI chips  —  OpenAI and Oracle Corp. announced they will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the deal  —  The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, and says a “no bad person” rule is impractical  —  “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
Reuters:
OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office  —  Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research …
Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg:
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran  —  More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel, according to new research.
Financial Times:
Sources: Microsoft has poached 24+ employees from Google DeepMind in the past six months; Gemini engineering head Amar Subramanya confirms the move to Microsoft  —  US tech giant recruits more than 20 people from rival in push to gain edge in the fast-developing technology
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around £730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch's firm Autonomy Corp. …
Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine:
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data  —  He and his team turned to AI — in particular, a software suite first created by the physicist Mario Krenn to design tabletop experiments in quantum optics.
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Brunella Tipismana Urbano / Bloomberg:
Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBook  —  Snowflake had previously been in talks to buy the three-year-old AI startup.  —  Artificial intelligence company Reka AI raised …
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Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; Palo Alto-based BitGo raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023  —  The crypto custodian submitted a confidential U.S. listing as interest in public crypto stocks heats up.  —  What to know:

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Mallory Wilson / The Hill:
A watchdog group has filed a bar complaint against White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, requesting a probe into the alleged unauthorized practice of law

Bloomberg:
A judge extends an earlier order to ban taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads until Nov. 8, past Election Day; she'll hold a hearing on a more permanent order Nov. 4

Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with 24-year veteran ESPN producer Nicole Noren, who quit over its gambling deals; her grandfather, father, and brother wrestled with gambling addictions

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them
Kylie Robison / Wired:
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications Fidji Simo lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google reveals the design of the Pixel 10 a few weeks ahead of the launch event; the smartphone strongly resembles the Pixel 9 but has a third back camera
Financial Times:
X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic “manipulation” and “fraudulent” data extraction is “distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda”
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