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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 … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in Oracle's E-Business Suite have stolen data from “dozens” of organizations since at least July 10 — Security researchers at Google say hackers targeting corporate executives with extortion emails have stolen data from …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to move health and fitness teams under Eddy Cue's Services division; watchOS moves to Craig Federighi and Watch hardware under John Ternus — Apple Inc. is preparing to expand the roles of some top executives in response to the pending departure of longtime Chief Operating …
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| 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 …
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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 …
More: The Register, arXiv.org, Ars Technica, and Engadget
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| 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 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
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| 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 …
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| 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: |
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor — Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz says only a small subset of AI companies, such as portfolio companies Safe Superintelligence Inc …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China tightens customs checks on chip imports, starting with Nvidia's H20 and RTX Pro 6000D, after urging local tech companies to avoid Nvidia products — Stringent border checks come after Beijing orders tech companies to stop ordering US processors
More: Benzinga, ZeroHedge News, TipRanks Financial, and China Economic Review
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political bias by 30% from earlier models, and show greater robustness to charged prompts — OpenAI's GPT-5 model exhibits lower levels of political bias than any previous models, according to new research from the company shared with Axios.| New York Times: |
A profile of Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought $2B of Nvidia chips and is under US probe for possibly helping Chinese companies evade export controls — An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia's Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.
More: South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Axios, and The Straits Times. LinkedIn: Martijn Rasser
| 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.
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| Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US-based SMBs to convert up to 50% of daily sales into BTC now and accept BTC payments starting November 10 — Starting Wednesday, merchants using the Square Bitcoin network, will be able be able to convert money received into BTC with zero fees … | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI raised “difficulties” it faces “in competing with entrenched companies” in a September EU meeting; source: OpenAI targeted Google, Microsoft, and Apple — OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct … Sponsor Posts
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