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October 7, 2025, 1:55 PM
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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
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents
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
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
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, a US first, modeled on a 2010 federal law  —  “We heard Californians loud and clear, and what's clear is that they don't want commercials at a volume any louder than the level …
Sima Kotecha / BBC:
UK police dismantle a gang suspected of smuggling up to 40K stolen phones from the UK to China in the past year, 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.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Qualcomm acquires Italian open-source electronics platform Arduino for an undisclosed sum and will retain the Arduino brand; Arduino releases a Pi-like board  —  Arduino is also launching a Qualcomm-equipped Uno Q that functions as a single-board computer and microcontroller.
Wall Street Journal:
NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange says it will invest up to $2B in Polymarket in a cash deal valuing the prediction market at ~$8B; ICE's market cap is $90B+  —  Investment from Intercontinental Exchange could help the popular prediction market re-enter the U.S.
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic and IBM partner to make Anthropic's Claude models available in IBM's latest IDE for large businesses, and IBM aims to add Claude to more products soon  —  The AI startup and enterprise tech giant team up to make Anthropic's Claude models available to developers on IBM's software

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Associated Press:
After a short-term hold, SCOTUS denies former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge's bid to stay an $800-a-day fine if she refuses to reveal a source

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
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The Information:
Docs: Oracle generated ~$900M from its Nvidia cloud server rental business, with a $125M gross profit, or a 14% margin, vs. its ~70% overall gross profit margin
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg:
Meanwhile, a Bermuda-regulated bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $82M from Apollo, Bain Capital, Haun Ventures, and others, after a $40M Series A in April

Earlier Picks

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
MrBeast, who is set to earn an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry
Financial Times:
Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps health care companies compile patient and doctor feedback in surveys, for $6.75B including debt
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Oracle urges customers to patch an E-Business Suite vulnerability that cybercriminals are exploiting; Google's Mandiant says the Clop hacking group exploited it
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines Google's request to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Google to make major Play Store changes in the antitrust case Epic filed in 2020
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14%
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