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October 10, 2025, 10:30 AM
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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Apple announces a “major evolution” of its Security Bounty program, doubling the top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware attacks  —  With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to move its health and fitness teams under Eddy Cue's Services, with Craig Federighi overseeing watchOS and John Ternus overseeing Watch  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to expand the roles of some top executives in response to the pending departure of longtime Chief Operating …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited Oracle's E-Business Suite stole data from “dozens of organizations” since at least July 10, three months before detection  —  Security researchers at Google say hackers targeting corporate executives with extortion emails have stolen data from …
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 …
Financial Times:
Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, starting with Nvidia's H20 and RTX Pro 6000D, after urging local companies not to buy Nvidia's products  —  Stringent border checks come after Beijing orders tech companies to stop ordering US processors
Financial Times:
The UK CMA designates Google with “strategic market status” in online search, but excludes Gemini; Google warns such oversight could slow product launches  —  Big Tech company becomes the first to be designated with special status under strict new digital laws
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 …
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 …
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Kalshi raised a $300M+ Series D at a $5B valuation, expands to 140 countries, and is on track for $50B in annualized trading volume, up from $300M in 2024  —  The fund-raising round comes as online prediction marketplaces gain mainstream prominence.  —  Online prediction markets have jumped …
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

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From Mediagazer

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have agreed to part ways following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is “financially sound”

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed

More News

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
China opens an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks, a chipmaker specializing in vehicle communications, over potential antitrust violations
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A rounds led by Accel; YC and others also invested
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
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS launches Quick Suite, a $20/user/month chatbot and AI agents that can analyze sales data, produce reports, and summarize web content, to replace Q Business
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
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
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
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