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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Intel unveils Panther Lake, or Intel Core Ultra Series 3, the first chip built on its 18A process, coming to laptops and handhelds in late 2025 and early 2026  —  What we know about the next Intel Core Ultra. … Panther Lake is the most important chip Intel has made in years.
InsideHPC:
Intel announces Clearwater Forest, or Xeon 6+, an 18A-based 2nm data center server processor with up to 288 E-cores, expected to launch in H1 2026
Bloomberg:
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month  —  Google's cloud unit is launching an artificial intelligence platform called Gemini Enterprise that it hopes will reach everyday workers …
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more
Anthropic:
A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a “backdoor” vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume  —  Read the paper … Large language models like Claude are pretrained on enormous amounts of public text from across the internet …
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Inside Intel's 700-acre Fab 52 in the Arizona desert, which cost $32B and is starting large-scale 18A chip production, as the company seeks to impress customers  —  Claims of a breakthrough at the chips company's new Arizona facility will be tested by sceptical Big Tech customers
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times:
China unveils sweeping export controls on rare-earth minerals, creating rules akin to US measures that block chip-related exports to China from third countries  —  Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain  —  China has unveiled sweeping new export controls …
Fortune:
Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet  —  Almost one year after the fintech giant Stripe struck a $1.1 billion deal to acquire the stablecoin startup Bridge …
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a “second chance” by letting them apply to create a new channel  —  YouTube is offering creators who were banned from the platform a second chance.  —  On Thursday, the Google-owned platform announced it is rolling …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did  —  OpenAI's short-form artificial intelligence video app Sora hit 1 million downloads less than five days after its launch in late September, according to an executive.
New York Times:
Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka “Bitcoin Jesus”, has reached a tentative agreement with the US DOJ to pay ~$48M to end a 2024 criminal tax fraud case  —  In the Trump administration's latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
NYC-based Reflection AI, which is developing open-source models to rival top closed-source models, like DeepSeek, raised $2B led by Nvidia at an $8B valuation  —  The big fund-raising round was the latest sign of investor fervor for artificial intelligence companies despite concerns that the boom is overheated.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple plans to update its Declared Age Range API and launch new APIs “later this year” to verify the ages of Apple Account users in Texas from January 1, 2026  —  Starting next year in Texas, new rules will go into effect. … Starting next year, Texas will require companies …
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS launches Quick Suite, a chatbot and set of AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, set to replace Q Business  —  Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out an updated version of its main artificial intelligence tool for business, the latest effort to grab …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Meta Ray-Ban Display review: good for uses like navigation and AI queries, the neural band is great, but the display has low resolution and the camera is 1080p
Bloomberg:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content  —  Instagram is exploring building a dedicated TV app as part of a deeper push into video, a move that could get Instagram videos …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Discord estimates that 70K users' government ID photos may have been exposed in a 1.5TB data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk on September 20  —  Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.
Financial Times:
Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge his role will not include lobbying with the UK government  —  Former UK prime minister adds Silicon Valley posts to his role advising Goldman Sachs  —  Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak …
Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel  —  Kernel, a startup helping AI agents access the internet, raised $22 million in seed and Series A funding led by Accel, the company tells Axios exclusively.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Samsung introduces the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7M-parameter model that can outperform LLMs 10,000x larger, like Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3-mini, on specific problems  —  The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US NHTSA opens a probe into 2.88M FSD-enabled Tesla vehicles over 50+ reports of traffic-safety violations like running red lights and a series of crashes  —  - NHTSA says it has 58 reports, including 14 crashes and 23 inuries  — Probe reviewing FSD proceeding through red traffic signals …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
EA's Battlefield 6, coming October 10, is a pivotal moment for the series and for EA, set to go private in a $55B deal, as EA competes with Activision and COD  —  Battlefield 6 is one of EA's most important launches in years.  As the company becomes laser-focused on big …

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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
President Trump told reporters “it's imperative” for CNN to be sold: “Any deal it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS names Tony Dokoupil as the new anchor of CBS Evening News as part of a major overhaul under Bari Weiss; Dokoupil is currently an anchor on CBS' morning show

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The NYT says it won't be deterred in its work after Trump posted on Truth Social that reporting by The NYT and others about his health was “seditious”

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Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
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Vince Quill / Cointelegraph:
The Ethereum Foundation announces the “Privacy cluster”, a team of 47 blockchain industry experts building Ethereum privacy features at every level of the stack
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix is making multiplayer video games available on smart TVs and streaming devices such as from Roku for the first time, with phones serving as controllers
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill requiring web browsers to add a mechanism that lets residents opt out of allowing third parties to sell their data
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