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October 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware  —  With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses …
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
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 …
Jason Koebler / Wired:
Memo: Meta VP of Metaverse Vishal Shah tells his team to use AI to “go 5X faster” and expects 80% of them to integrate AI into their daily work by 2025's end  —  Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company.
Financial Times:
The UK CMA designates Google with “strategic market status” in search and ads, but excludes Gemini; Google has warned such oversight could slow product launches  —  Big Tech company becomes the first to be designated with special status under strict new digital laws
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 …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
FBI seizes all domains for a BreachForums variant operated by ShinyHunters; the hacker group says their Salesforce extortion campaign is unaffected  —  The FBI has seized last night all domains for the BreachForums hacking forum operated by the ShinyHunters group mostly as a portal …
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 …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump threatens a “massive increase of Tariffs” on Chinese products, in response to export controls that China imposed on rare earth minerals  —  President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to slap a “massive increase of Tariffs” on Chinese products imported …
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
China opens an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks, a chipmaker specializing in vehicle communications, over potential antitrust violations  —  China's State Administration for Market Regulation has opened an antitrust investigation of Qualcomm Inc.'s acquisition of Autotalks, the regulator said on Friday.
David Morris / Bloomberg:
Quantum computing company IonQ raises $2B by selling 21.5M shares and pre-funded warrants to Heights Capital at $93 each, a 20% premium over October 9's close  —  Quantum computing operator IonQ Inc. raised $2 billion in a sale of shares and pre-funded warrants to an affiliate …
More: Benzinga and HPCwire
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  —  What's going wrong in the AI enterprise rollout, and what fundamentals are needed to make it work, according to the Google Cloud chief.
Bloomberg:
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month

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From Mediagazer

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free

John Koblin / New York Times:
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

More News

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
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

Earlier Picks

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
Bloomberg:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper video push, but isn't interested in licensing live sports or Hollywood 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
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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