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October 7, 2025, 8:55 AM

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OpenAI:
OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, piloting Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow for logged-in users outside of the EU  —  A new generation of apps you can chat with and the tools for developers to build them.  —  Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)Start building apps(opens in a new window)
Wired:
At OpenAI's DevDay, Sam Altman and Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the “family of devices” currently under development; Altman says “it will take a while”  —  “I don't think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment,” the former Apple designer …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI unveils the Apps SDK in preview, built on MCP, to let developers build ChatGPT apps, and says that it will begin accepting app submissions later in 2025  —  OpenAI's annual conference for third-party developers, DevDay, kicked off with a bang today as co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced a new …
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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
OpenAI and AMD sign a multiyear deal in which OpenAI could take up to a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs; AMD closed up 23.7% on October 6  —  - OpenAI and AMD have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman's company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker
Financial Times:
OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and others for computing power have topped $1T, dwarfing its revenue and raising questions about how it can fund them  —  Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman's huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
A look at the OpenAI-AMD partnership, which added ~$78B to AMD's market cap and shows OpenAI is good at deals; last week, OpenAI deals boosted SHOP and ETSY  —  OpenAI/AMD, Antifraud Co., M&A scoops, World Cup tickets, Gary Gensler's cell phone and Citadel Insecurities.  —  OpenAI/AMD
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
SCOTUS turns down Google's request to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Google to make major changes to Play Store in an antitrust case filed by Epic  —  - Google asked Supreme Court to freeze parts of judge's order  — Order was issued in suit by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange is in talks to invest $2B in Polymarket in a deal that could value it at between $8B and $10B  —  Investment from Intercontinental Exchange could help the popular prediction market re-enter the U.S.  —  New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange …
Sima Kotecha / BBC:
UK police dismantle an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40K stolen smartphones from the UK to China, arrest 18 suspects, and recover 2,000 phones  —  Police say they have dismantled an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China in the past year.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
William Wilkes / Bloomberg:
Jaguar Land Rover plans to resume some UK production after a cyberattack in August; an analyst says the hack wiped out £5M in daily profit and delayed 30K+ cars  —  Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc will resume production at some of its UK sites after weeks-long outages following …
Wall Street Journal:
How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix  —  The creators of shows such as ‘Fauda’ and ‘Tehran,’ along with critics of Netanyahu in the Israeli film industry, find themselves caught in the crossfire of war

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