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October 10, 2025, 9:30 AM
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:
David Ellison announces that the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance “to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic”

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has asked CNN CEO Mark Thompson to stay on after the WBD acquisition closes; Thompson's current deal extends into 2027

Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Sources: Warner Bros. Pictures co-CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are expected to leave amid Paramount's acquisition; David Zaslav held himself a farewell party

More News

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
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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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