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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 …
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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, MacRumors, Bloomberg, The Verge, DigiTimes, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Independent, Daily Mail, Adweek, MSNBC, iClarified, and PetaPixel
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 …
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| 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, SiliconANGLE, NBC News, New York Times, BBC, Associated Press, Windows Report, GeekWire, The Register, Game Developer, and Financial Times
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| 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.
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Forums: r/gaming, r/nintendo, r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, r/kindafunny, r/Mario, and r/nintendo
| 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
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Bluesky: @pileofgarbage.net and @misctakes.com
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| 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.
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Forums: r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, r/OpenAI, r/accelerate, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| 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.
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| 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, Thurrott, PCMag, XDA Developers, BornCity, and Help Net Security
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| 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 … | 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, Social Media Today, Yahoo Finance, WeRSM, TestingCatalog, and Android Headlines
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| 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, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, CBS News, Investor's Business Daily, Fortune, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: Julien Chaisse, Aditya Kumar Sinha, Ian Glasner, and Octavian Florescu
| 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| 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 … | 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 … | 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
More: Google DeepMind, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, and Ars Technica
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| 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 Information, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, and The Block
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter — Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music …
More: Spotify, The Verge, Variety, Plain Dealer, TechRadar, The Guardian, and Billboard
Forums: r/technews and r/truespotify
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave expands its data center capacity agreements with OpenAI by $6.5B, bringing their total potential value to $22.4B, to support training of OpenAI models — CoreWeave Inc. expanded its agreements to supply data center capacity to OpenAI by as much as $6.5 billion to $22.4 billion …
More: CNBC, Business Wire, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, and Tom's Hardware. LinkedIn: Brody Ford
| Oma Seddiq / Bloomberg: |
xAI signed a deal with the GSA to offer Grok to US federal agencies for $0.42 per agency for 18 months, a discount to OpenAI's $1 per year for ChatGPT — - Follows recent deals with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google — xAI engineers to assist federal agencies with implementation| 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: CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, ZDNET, and Tom's Guide
X: @sandeepssrin, @wesrothmoney, and @caominhweb3
Bluesky: @katienotopoulos and @joetidy
| 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: PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, Reuters, BMI, and Investor's Business Daily
X: @buccocapital and @andymstone
Forums: r/GOOG_Stock and r/StockMarket
| 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: InfoWorld, Microsoft, MSDynamicsWorld.com, GuruFocus, 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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Flox, which lets engineers install a development environment on their machines with a single terminal command, raised a $25M Series B led by Addition — Flox, a startup that helps software teams create software development environments, has raised $25 million in funding to finance growth initiatives.Sponsor Posts
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