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| Associated Press: |
Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States …
More: Associated Press, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, Wired, The White House, Reuters, The Guardian, Mobile World Live, Social Media Today, Vogue Business, The A.V. Club, PhoneArena, Washington Examiner, India Today, KMUW, UPI, KYMA-TV, Caixin Global, Al Jazeera, NOTUS, Adweek, Deseret News, and TipRanks Financial
X: @pitdesi, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @stanleychao6, @whitehouse, @whitehouse, @nicksortor, @rapidresponse47, @selinawangtv, @senmullin, @whitehouse, @rapidresponse47, and @armanddoma
Bluesky: @jenni4iowa, @lcla, @kitchen5203, and @revealinglight
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Trump says Xi Jinping approved the TikTok deal, and JD Vance says the transaction values TikTok US at $14B; ByteDance hasn't acknowledged the deal — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposed deal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S.
More: The White House, Bloomberg, The Verge, DigiTimes, iClarified, PetaPixel, TechCrunch, Times of India, Bloomberg, Benzinga, and MacRumors
Forums: r/politics, r/centrist, r/TheBusinessMix, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35% — Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be main investors in TikTok's U.S. business, sources told CNBC's David Faber on Thursday.| Financial Times: |
Amazon reaches a $2.5B settlement with the FTC over deceptive Prime practices, with a $1B civil penalty and $1.5B in consumer redress, three days into the trial — Agreement includes largest penalty issued for violating consumer protection agency's rules — Amazon has reached a $2.5bn settlement …
More: Federal Trade Commission, CNBC, Business Insider, Associated Press, Moneycontrol, Wired, UPI, Digit, SupplyChainBrain, NPR, Variety, ZDNET, Android Police, Yahoo Finance, WinBuzzer, and Wired
X: @linamkhan, @ftc, @janschakowsky, @jenniferjjacobs, @bedoyausa, @ddayen, @chesterj1, @adamkovac, @ibaraeleven, @sayssimonson, @matthewstoller, @darrigomelanie, @afergusonftc, @amazon_policy, @joshwright1977, @delrey, @delrey, @adamkovac, @zephyrteachout, @stacyfmitchell, @meadorftc, @rubengallego, @linamkhan, @xpangler, @afergusonftc, @realjdenton, @mrddmia, @senwarren, @loudmouthjulia, and @joecarlsonshow. LinkedIn: Andrew Dillon
Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, r/business, r/amzn, r/technology, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| The Guardian: |
Microsoft terminated Israel military's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank — Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit's access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
More: Microsoft, The Verge, Engadget, New York Times, Al Jazeera, Windows Report, Associated Press, The Register, Game Developer, ZDNET, and BBC
X: @mattgaetz, @drmichaeloren, @hshaban, @tomwarren, @yuval_abraham, @krystalball, @leventkemai, @bentelaviv, @amasad, @yousefmunayyer, @glenweyl, @sanasaeed, @ryangrim, @moorehn, @migueldeicaza, and @sevslv
LinkedIn: Rasha Abdul Rahim, Mike Adams, Tarek Dawoud, and Gayatri Khandhadai
Bluesky: @evacide, @marypcbuk, @marypcbuk, @kerrblimey, @guyoron.net, @stephentotilo, @joolia, @carlquintanilla, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, and @peark.es
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser will retire on December 31 after more than a decade with the company; Nintendo exec Devon Pritchard will succeed him — Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser will retire Dec. 31 after more than a decade at the company.
More: Nintendo, GeekWire, 80 Level, GamesBeat, Seattle Business Journal, The Verge, TheGamer, Screen Rant, GamesRadar, Destructoid, Nintendo Life, Game Informer, Game Sandwich, Nintendo World Report Updates, Polygon, Kotaku, and The Wrap
X: @thetruebowser, @stealth40k, @nintendocoltd, @geoffkeighley, and @reggie. Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com
Forums: r/gaming, r/nintendo, r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, r/kindafunny, r/Mario, and r/nintendo
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a mobile feature for Pro users that delivers daily personalized updates based on their chats, feedback, and connected apps — ChatGPT's new Pulse feature does personalized research on your behalf overnight and serves you up a digest each morning.
More: OpenAI, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Business Today, The Economic Times, Engadget, Ars Technica, Moneycontrol, Livemint, TechCrunch, Digit, Cointelegraph, Android Headlines, CNET, iPhone in Canada, BGR, Mashable, Platformer, Thurrott, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, MarkTechPost, and Fidji Simo
X: @openai, @shaunralston, @rileybrown_ai, @kimmonismus, @christinahartw, @christinahartw, @minchoi, @omooretweets, @fidjissimo, @nickaturley, @willoremus, @amasad, @deryatr_, @_awchen, @daniellemorrill, @ikeadrift, @sama, @infoxiao, @leahlibresco, @kevinweil, @akothari, @migueldeicaza, @gdb, @nickaturley, @raizamrtn, @nic__carter, @jam3scampbell, @natolambert, @parkerortolani, and @emostaque. Bluesky: @benalterman.com
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, and r/accelerate
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases GDPval, a benchmark to test AI performance on “economically valuable, real-world tasks”, and says Claude Opus 4.1 was the best performing model — OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs.
More: OpenAI, Axios, ZDNET, and Constellation Research
X: @openai, @scaling01, @tejalpatwardhan, @gdb, @deenamousa, @gracejkim9, @gasca, @scaling01, @alexwei_, @_sholtodouglas, @shanumathew93, @kaicathyc, @tasslermarcus, @scaling01, @michelelwang, @tanayj, @anuraagsidhu, @nancyafairbank, @kevinweil, @_simonsmith, @epsilontheory, @iterintellectus, @scaling01, @sama, @gregkamradt, @kliu128, @emollick, @kimmonismus, @deredleritt3r, @lhsummers, @tunedgradient, @basedbeffjezos, @oliviagwatkins2, @emostaque, @abhishekn, @shyamalanadkat, @aidan_mclau, @abhanshusharma, @daniel_mac8, and @sid_899
LinkedIn: Phoebe Thacker and Kevin Weil
Bluesky: @pileofgarbage.net and @misctakes.com
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA issues an emergency directive ordering US federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws exploited in zero-day attacks — CISA has issued a new emergency directive ordering U.S. federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws that have been exploited in zero-day attacks.
More: CISA, Cisco, National Cyber Security Centre, CISA, Nextgov/FCW, Washington Post, CyberScoop, Security Boulevard, Cybersecurity Dive, Cyber Daily, CISA, DataBreachToday.com, PCMag, Reuters, CRN, Security Affairs, The Record, Axios, and The Hacker News
X: @cybercentre_ca, @ericgeller, @cisacyber, @asdgovau, @malwarejake, and @cisagov. Bluesky: @ddimolfetta
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors — A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic …
More: Reuters, Benzinga, CNBC, The Economic Times, CNET, AAP, Associated Press, dailyjournal.com, Bloomberg Law, and ai fray
X: @florian4gamers and @aifray
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Asus open preorders for the first Xbox handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally for $599 and the ROG Xbox Ally X for $999 in the US, shipping October 16 — Xbox Ally X and Xbox Ally go on sale with PC-like prices, with preorders starting today. … Today, Microsoft and Asus …
More: Microsoft Store, T3, PC Gamer, IGN, XDA Developers, Microsoft Store, Polygon, Thurrott, Windows Central, Thurrott, Gizmodo, TheGamer, XDA Developers, PC Gamer, Variety, Forbes, Liliputing, TechRadar, Xbox Wire, Tom's Guide, IGN, Notebookcheck, The Shortcut, Press Start, Pocket-lint, The Hollywood Reporter, Stevivor, GamesRadar, and XboxEra
Forums: r/SteamDeck and r/ROGAlly
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Meta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website — Meta Platforms (META.O) launched a new feed of AI videos, called Vibes, as the social media giant looks to fast-track work on artificial intelligence technology.
More: Meta Newsroom, TechCrunch, Digit, BMI, Social Media Today, Engadget, TestingCatalog, Android Headlines, and WeRSM
X: @alexandr_wang, @bigblackjacobin, @luke_metro, @nickfloats, @prashant_1722, @krishnanrohit, @jdpeterson, @willmanidis, @sammcallister, @iamsridhar, @ai_for_success, @packym, @paularambles, @testingcatalog, @mario_bollini, @app_settings, @alexandr_wang, @venturetwins, @sdw, @mattyglesias, @seconds_0, @metanewsroom, @yuchenj_uw, @neilcybart, @fejau_inc, @robrombach, @mrdavids1, @saradietschy, @alexandr_wang, @andrewcurran_, and @venturetwins
LinkedIn: Prashant Ratanchandani and Sabrina Kartzman
Bluesky: @joel-fleming, @edzitron.com, @gap-id, @cait, @afivegantenna, @torymediapitchbot, @tprstly, and @filmintuition
| Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times: |
HSBC says it has tested an IBM quantum computing tool on European bond market data and saw a 34% improvement over traditional methods in predicting order fills — Europe's largest lender tested a tool developed by IBM on bond market data — HSBC claimed quantum computing tools …
More: HSBC, Forbes, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Julien Chaisse, Aditya Kumar Sinha, Ian Glasner, and Octavian Florescu
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Gemini 2.5 Flash with better response formatting and image understanding, and releases new 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite previews for developers — Google today updated the 2.5 Flash model available in the Gemini app across three areas. — All responses now benefit … | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5 models, enabling multi-step tasks for robots like sorting laundry, including by using web search — New technology advances reasoning capabilities in general-purpose machines in push to make them more useful| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met with Tim Cook this year; INTC closes up 8.9% — Semiconductor maker has been winning support from other tech companies following the deal that gave the U.S. government 10% stake| Blockworks: |
Cloudflare announces plans to launch NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed to support payments for the “agentic web” — The company introduced a dollar-backed stablecoin to power instant payments and microtransactions for AI-driven web platforms
More: Cloudflare, The Block, Cryptonews, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoin Insider, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
X: @eastdakota, @campbelljaustin, @eastdakota, @cloudflare, @vimtor_, @rnr_0, @furqanr, @antoniogm, @_weidai, @0xmert_, @rogue_says, @solanalegend, @0xfoobar, @pierre_crypt0, @serpinxbt, and @luxalgo. LinkedIn: Arielle
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Xiaomi unveils 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, available September 27 in China; Pro phones feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a back screen — The company could lay off the Apple comparisons a bit though. … A critic might accuse Xiaomi of copying Apple a little too closely … | TechCrunch: |
Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts — A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies …
More: Moneycontrol, Tom's Guide, and 9to5Mac
X: @sandeepssrin, @wesrothmoney, and @caominhweb3
Bluesky: @katienotopoulos and @joetidy
| The Works in Progress Newsletter: |
Why AI isn't replacing radiologists: models underperform in hospital settings, AI use faces legal hurdles, and the job is much more than image recognition — Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
X: @levie, @sriramk, @tunguz, @karpathy, @afinetheorem, @sundeep, @positivfuturist, @omooretweets, @pmarca, and @yacinemtb
Bluesky: @nanlinear and @alwayscorrect
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, and Slashdot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Windows 10 users will receive free Extended Security Updates in the EEA without enabling Windows Backup, after pressure from the Euroconsumers group — You won't have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.
More: Windows Central, OSnews, XDA Developers, BGR, BornCity, and Help Net Security
X: @tomwarren, @etguenni, and @pirat_nation
Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/popculturechat, r/technology, r/technews, r/windows, r/Windows10, and Beehaw
| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Canada's anti-money laundering agency fines crypto exchange KuCoin ~$14M for failing to report large and suspicious transactions; KuCoin appeals the decision — Canada's anti-money laundering agency has imposed its largest ever penalty of C$19.6 million ($14.09 million) on Peken Global Limited …
More: Decrypt, Blockchain.News, and CoinDesk
| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Microsoft launches Microsoft Marketplace, combining Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource in a single destination for cloud tools and AI apps and agents — Starting today, the company is combining both Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource under the aptly named “Microsoft Marketplace” banner.
More: Microsoft, MSDynamicsWorld.com, GuruFocus, InfoWorld, Reuters, and channelfutures
| Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Intel's $28B Ohio chip factory, the largest economic development project in Ohio's history, initially set for a 2025 opening but now delayed till 2030 — New Albany was supposed to be the site of the chip maker's most advanced semiconductor factory, but progress on the facility is slow
Bluesky: @scottlincicome
| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI — Following a recent lawsuit against a former employee over allegedly stealing trade secrets, Musk's xAI is now suing the company that executive left to work for — OpenAI.| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements — Two weeks ago, record company Hallwood Media signed a deal with Telisha “Nikki” Jones after negotiations that purportedly included an offer of $3 million, Billboard reported.
More: EBONY, Billboard, ZDNET, Consequence, San Francisco Chronicle, TechRadar, and Straight Arrow News. Bluesky: @lauridonahue
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Meta considers using Google's Gemini and Gemma AI models to improve its ad targeting; Meta says it regularly evaluates 3rd-party tools for benchmarking — Meta Platforms staffers have had discussions with Google Cloud about the possibility of using Google's artificial intelligence models …
More: Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, BMI, and Investor's Business Daily
X: @andymstone and @buccocapital
Forums: r/GOOG_Stock and r/StockMarket
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
A China Labor Watch six-month investigation at Foxconn's Zhengzhou iPhone factory finds tough working conditions for seasonal staff building the latest iPhones — Undercover investigation at Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant shows tough conditions for seasonal staff building new Apple device
More: China Labor Watch, China Labor Watch, China Labor Watch, Bloomberg, and PhoneArena. LinkedIn: Qiang Li
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