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OpenAI and AMD announce a deal in which OpenAI could take up to a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 25%+ — - OpenAI and AMD have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman's company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
A live blog of OpenAI DevDay 2025, where the company is expected to announce a visual agent builder and other developer updates — CNBC's reporters are covering the OpenAI DevDay event live from San Francisco, with support from staff in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. — 30 MIN AGO
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| Alexander Saeedy / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: xAI is set to spend $18B+ to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; in July, Elon Musk said it would total 550K chips — xAI aims to win tech arms race with ‘Colossus’ data centers, thrown up at lightning speed; city divided over massive power and water demands
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics — It won't help stop the avalanche of AI slop OpenAI has unleashed. … Sora now lets you rein in your AI doubles …
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an AI agent that detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent exploits by leveraging Gemini Deep Think models — Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind lab today shared results for CodeMender, an artificial intelligence-powered agent that automatically detects …
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Instagram launches Rings, an awards program recognizing 25 top creators; the judging panel includes Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs, and Adam Mosseri — Spike Lee, Marc Jacobs and Instagram head Adam Mosseri will be among the judges of the Rings program, which will honor the platform's top creators … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Deloitte announces a deal to roll out Anthropic's Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees globally, marking Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment ever — Deloitte on Monday announced a deal to bring Anthropic's artificial intelligence assistant Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees around the globe.| Bloomberg: |
The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri recordings to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, after a human rights organization's complaint — Apple Inc. faces an investigation in France over the use of voice recordings made with its assistant Siri.
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| Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: |
Deloitte says it will partially refund payment for an AU$439K Australian government report with multiple errors, after admitting it was partly produced by AI — Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document| Financial Times: |
Sources: private capital firms like Oaktree, EQT, and DWS are seeking to cash in on the US-driven AI boom, launching €17B of European data center sales in weeks — Oaktree Capital, Partners Group and EQT among those seeking to cash in on AI boom — Private capital firms are seeking … | New York Times: |
The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November — The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.
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A look at major UK businesses hit by cyberattacks in 2025; a government survey estimates 43% of businesses and 30% of charities were hit in the past 12 months — The true cost of cyber attacks on UK business is greater than it seems — Are this year's major attacks the … | Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
A look at cost and viability concerns over small nuclear reactors in the US, as the government, companies, and investors bet $9B+ on SMRs to power the AI boom — Small reactors could prove too costly to be viable despite $9bn investment in power for AI boom
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| Cory Doctorow / The Guardian: |
A book excerpt details the “enshittification” of Amazon, and how its “flywheel” technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants — Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products?
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| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
Verizon names Dan Schulman as CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg effective immediately; Schulman is a former PayPal CEO, and Vestberg will help manage the transition — Verizon Communications Inc. named Dan Schulman chief executive officer, replacing Hans Vestberg effective immediately.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A big portion of EA's cash flow will go toward servicing the $20B debt from the $55B sale, which even the most bullish analysts expect will lead to big layoffs — Leveraged buyouts almost always lead to cost-cutting in the form of big layoffs — Hi everyone.
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