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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where “Hypernova” smart glasses with a display, new Meta Ray-Ban glasses, Meta AI updates, and more are expected — Expect a lot of smart glasses and AI talk this year, with a dash of the metaverse and VR. — Who's excited for smart glasses?
More: The Verge, Reuters, The Verge, The Verge, TBPN on YouTube, Gizmodo, Lifewire, Tom's Guide, and TechRadar
| Financial Times: |
Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, going beyond earlier guidance focused on Nvidia's H20 — Beijing steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence to compete with the US — China's internet regulator has banned …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, BBC, Channel NewsAsia, PC Gamer, Decrypt, City Journal, TheStreet, Futurism, CNBC, Reuters, Sinocism, Anadolu Ajansı …, Axios, Shacknews, New York Times, Ars Technica, Quartz, Coinpaper, Investor's Business Daily, MarketWatch, Fortune, Gizmodo, The Week, Asia Financial, The American Bazaar, GZERO, The Crypto Times, Engadget, and Benzinga
X: @dalperovitch, @gergelyorosz, @geiger_capital, @kyleichan, @tphuang, @haugejostein, and @gergelyorosz
Bluesky: @katjabego, @parismarx.com, @danielagabor, and @carlquintanilla
Forums: r/nvidia, r/neoliberal, r/LocalLLaMA, r/China, r/technews, r/hardware, r/NvidiaStock, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
More: Associated Press, The Times, Reuters, Finbold, Investopedia, TipRanks Financial, and Livemint
Bluesky: @carnage4life and @quinnypig.com
Forums: r/singularity and r/google
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: an OLED MacBook Pro with a touchscreen is set to enter mass production by late 2026; a MacBook with an iPhone chip will enter mass production in Q4 2025 — Apple's first OLED MacBook Pro, set to enter mass production next year, will feature a touch screen display, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
More: Ars Technica, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, ZDNET, Tailosive Tech on YouTube, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, TechEBlog, Digital Trends, iClarified, iDrop News, AppleInsider, Engadget, SammyGuru, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, FlatpanelsHD, iThinkDifferent, BGR, Moneycontrol, Macworld, Appleosophy, The Shortcut, iPhone in Canada, 9to5Mac, SamMobile, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
X: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @subhaminion, @daaniyaan, @leakerapple, @neuralaa, @stevesi, @rsgnl, @samifathi_, @patrickmoorhead, @stevesi, @mohammedali1508, @joannastern, @markgurman, and @tomwarren. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Threads: @tomwarrenuk
Forums: r/apple, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
A US House committee asks the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify at an October 8 hearing on the “radicalization of online forum users” — A U.S. House committee on Wednesday asked the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Amazon-owned Twitch (AMZN.O) and Reddit (RDDT.N) …
More: United States House Committee …, Polygon, ZeroHedge News, Tubefilter, Shacknews, The Gateway Pundit, Engadget, Breitbart, CBS News, New York Sun, GameSpot, The Daily Caller, Courthouse News Service, Game Rant, and Notebookcheck
X: @kahliefadams, @slasher, @taylorlorenz, @gopoversight, @repluna, @repbrandongill, @mattbinder, @repjamescomer, @hasanthehun, @nornqueenkya, and @rivalxfactor
Forums: r/Libertarian, r/QuebecLibre, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/BannedFromDiscord, r/Games, r/politics, and r/centrist
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google says Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieved a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition, solving 10 of 12 problems — Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google's AI can clean up your text messages …
More: Google DeepMind, ZDNET, Financial Times, and The Decoder
X: @hengtze, @kimmonismus, @rseroter, @daniel_mac8, @googledeepmind, @deredleritt3r, @mirrokni, @tokenbender, @_philschmid, @ymatias, @sundarpichai, and @jeffdean
LinkedIn: Charles H. Martin, PhD, Chenjie Gu, and Lalit Jain
Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
More: Venturebeat, SiliconANGLE, and TipRanks Financial
X: @emollick, @kimmonismus, @openai, @openai, @bminaiev, @mostafarohani, @openai, and @gdb
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone Air review: light, easier to carry, and more pleasant to use for longer, but no ultrawide camera and the battery drains quicker than a standard phone's — The iPhone Air is as much a statement as it is a phone. It says something about the person using it: that they don't mind giving …
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| The Verge: |
More: PetaPixel on YouTube, MacRumors, CNET, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, 9to5Mac, Dave2D on YouTube, AppleInsider, Wired, Brian Tong on YouTube, Engadget, GQ UK, PetaPixel, The Sun, Men's Health, Tom's Guide, Elle, SuperSaf on YouTube, iPhone in Canada, iPhone in Canada, CNET on YouTube, Cult of Mac, Mashable, Tom's Guide, Gulf News, The Shortcut, AppleInsider, iClarified, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, and ZDNET. Threads: @nic.ngu
| Eric Zeman / PCMag: |
More: The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, iThinkDifferent, The Independent, iJustine on YouTube, Cult of Mac, iClarified, and Marques Brownlee on YouTube
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts — Google announced on Wednesday that it's updating the Discover page in its flagship Search app to allow you to follow specific publishers … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Lyft partners with Waymo to launch robotaxis in Nashville starting in 2026, their first collaboration; Waymo started Nashville tests in March; LYFT jumps 13.13% — Lyft Inc. is partnering with Waymo for the first time to offer robotaxi service in Nashville starting next year …
More: Waymo, Engadget, San Francisco Business Times, Watcher Guru, Benzinga, Los Angeles Times, MarketWatch, Associated Press, Business Insider, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, TechCrunch, Nashville Business Journal, CNBC, Fortune, UPI, Proactive, Automotive World, Electrek, Yahoo Finance, TipRanks Financial, CBT News, Sherwood News, ZeroHedge News, and The Verge
X: @davidrisher, @gerberkawasaki, @techtekedra, @dmitri_dolgov, @lyft, @saswat101, and @waymo. LinkedIn: Natalie Lung. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Scientists detail Delphi-2M, a generative AI model trained on large-scale health records that can predict susceptibility to 1,000+ diseases decades from now — European scientists have created system trained on large-scale health records — European scientists have developed …
More: Nature, The Guardian, BBC, Nature, Sky News, Nature, Ground Truths, EMBL, Tech Xplore, Mirror, Nature Podcast on YouTube, and El País
X: @joe_pickrell, @erictopol, @godfreychurch, and @embl
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals — The biggest names in tech are racing to make advertising easier, especially for small businesses and consumer goods companies
More: About Amazon, CNBC, Amazon Ads, Tech.co, MediaPost, TechCrunch, WinBuzzer, Marketing Dive, Search Engine Land, The Verge, and Sherwood News
LinkedIn: Dharmesh Mehta, Jeremy Goldman, Da Teng, Siddhant Patra, and Sukumar Ramaraj
| Reuters: |
Court filings: Tesla has settled two lawsuits over deaths in two separate California crashes in 2019 involving Autopilot; the accords' terms were not disclosed — - Settlements follow separate $243 million verdict against Tesla in August — Trials for both cases were scheduled to start next month
More: Electrek, The Verge, Business Insider, The Information, Breitbart, FreightWaves, Reuters, Jalopnik, InsideEVs, CBT News, Bloomberg, and Automotive World
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA plans to exempt cryptoasset providers from some of its finance rules, as it prepares to integrate the sector into its regulatory framework from 2026 — FCA says traditional financial rules would not be effective for the sector as it prepares to fully integrate the market
More: Financial Conduct Authority, PYMNTS.com, crypto.news, CoinJournal, DL News, Cryptonews, The Crypto Times, BeInCrypto, CryptoSlate, Yahoo Finance, and The Block
LinkedIn: Nicholas Webb, Alessio Anulli, and Nick Smith
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen the integration of its content into Google's AI products; they signed a $60M data-sharing deal in 2024 — - Moving past a dollars-for-data model, Reddit seeks new deals — The social platform looks to bring new users into its forums| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Anthropic's refusal to let law enforcement use it to surveil US citizens, per company policy, has deepened the White House's hostility to the company — THE SCOOP — Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used …
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Anthropic, WinBuzzer, and Sherwood News
Bluesky: @willoremus.com, @kevincollier, @aramsinn, @sgwoods, and @brunojnavarro. Mastodon: @bruno_j_navarro …
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| CoinDesk: |
The NYDFS grants Bullish a BitLicense, allowing its US entity to offer spot trading and custody services in New York, catering to institutional clients — The digital asset platform is now regulated in the U.S., Germany, Hong Kong and Gibraltar. — What to know:
More: Bullish, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, The Coin Republic, and The Block. LinkedIn: Eric Soufer
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Netskope priced its IPO at $19 per share, at the top of its targeted range, valuing the company at $7.3B, and raised $908.2M in the offering — Cybersecurity company Netskope is eying a $7.3 billion valuation after pricing shares at $19 for its upcoming IPO, at the top end of its expected range.
More: Reuters, The Information, San Francisco Business Times, Netskope, and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: Alibaba secured high-profile client China Unicom for its AI chips; prior reports said Alibaba supplies tens of thousands of chips to Unicom — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has secured a high-profile customer in China Unicom for its AI chips, suggesting …
More: Reuters, Benzinga, South China Morning Post, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, and DatacenterDynamics
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
StubHub's shares closed down 6.4% in its NYSE debut, giving StubHub an $8.1B market value, after the ticketing platform raised $800M in its IPO — StubHub shares dropped 6.4% in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Wednesday after the online ticket seller priced its IPO in the middle of its expected range.
More: The Information, StubHub, Reuters, PitchBook, Benzinga, Billboard, Digital Music News, MarketWatch, Fast Company, Sports Business Journal, Business Insider, Variety, Bloomberg, UPI, The US Sun, Reuters, Hypebot, Proactive, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Forbes, The American Bazaar, Bloomberg, New York Business Journal, Axios, and PYMNTS.com
| Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: |
How xAI is building Colossus 2, which is on track to be the world's first gigawatt-scale AI datacenter, after starting in March and reaching ~200MW by August 22 — Much has been written about xAI's Colossus 1. The Memphis build belongs in the history books: the largest AI training cluster, erected from scratch in 122 days.
X: @semianalysis_, @dylan522p, @shaunmmaguire, @johncoogan, @semianalysis_, and @jonshulkin
Bluesky: @prietschka, @ketanjoshi.co, @marypcbuk, @robpegoraro.com, and @quantian. Forums: r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B+ via bonds in September for AI and digital infrastructure; combined with JD.com, their 2025 AI capex could top $32B — Companies in China's technology sector have been raising billions in capital to advance their artificial intelligence capabilities and other digital infrastructure.
LinkedIn: Janice Huang
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