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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.
More: Intel, Forbes, Ars Technica, TechPowerUp, HotHardware, Chips and Cheese on YouTube, TechTechPotato on YouTube, iPhone in Canada, Gamers Nexus on YouTube, Thurrott, Windows Report, TipRanks Financial, Guru3D, Neowin, VideoCardz.com, PCMag, Expert Reviews, Digital Trends, ZDNET, XDA Developers, Windows Central, Engadget, Wccftech, VideoCardz.com, Wccftech, CRN, Techaeris, KitGuru, Intel Technology on YouTube, WinBuzzer, CGMagazine, Liliputing, PCWorld, Windows Central, and Wccftech
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| InsideHPC: |
More: SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Wccftech, Phoronix, The Register, and Fierce Electronics
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| 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.
More: 404 Media, BleepingComputer, BBC, ZDNET, Computerworld, The Register, Kotaku, The Record, GBHackers Security, Reclaim The Net, The Guardian, Dexerto, iPhone in Canada, Security Affairs, AIN, Silicon Republic, Tech Times, SecurityWeek, Mashable, PCMag, TechRadar, Hackread, Tom's Hardware, DataBreaches.Net, Screen Rant, The Cyber Express, The American Bazaar, CyberInsider, Livemint, Neowin, The Daily Hodl, Engadget, and Techdirt
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| 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
More: The Register, Wired, CTech, StorageReview.com, Windows Central, Nikkei Asia, ServeTheHome, and Arizona Republic
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| 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: |
| 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.
More: Engadget, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, The Verge, TechCrunch, and PetaPixel
| 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 …
More: Engadget. X: @jsrailton, @anthropicai, and @anthropicai. LinkedIn: Javier Rando
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| 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 … | Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
A teardown of the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display reveals a system of mirrors enabling its geometric reflective waveguide tech, setting it apart from other AR glasses — Meta Ray-Ban Display Teardown — If wearables are going to replace our phones, they need to age as gracefully as our favorite pair of glasses.
More: iFixit on YouTube, The Verge, Road to VR, Engadget, Android Authority, BGR, KnowTechie, and CNET. X: @benbajarin
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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 — Netflix Inc. wants you to play Boggle in between binges of Stranger Things. — The streaming service is making its video games available … | 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 — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt …
More: Governor of California, Tech Times, Engadget, and MediaPost
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Forums: Hacker News and r/California
| 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 … 
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
An analysis of nearly 50 Amazon purchases over six months in 2025: during the October 7-8 Prime Day sale, the average savings was 0.6% and some prices increased — Next time Amazon hypes its Prime Days savings, remember this: The prices during the sale aren't always better. I've got the receipts to prove it.| 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 — The team of 47 professionals from the blockchain industry will help research and develop privacy features for the Ethereum layer-1 network.
More: Unchained, Ethereum Foundation Blog, Decrypt, Cryptonews, DL News, Blockonomi, crypto.news, and The Crypto Times
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash partners with Serve Robotics to use its autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, starting in Los Angeles; Serve also partners with Uber; SERV jumps 20%+ — DoorDash Inc. is partnering with sidewalk-robot developer Serve Robotics Inc. for autonomous deliveries across the US … | Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August — SoftBank Group Corp.'s digital payment provider PayPay Corp. has taken a 40% stake in Binance's Japan unit, seeking to capitalize on the country's booming crypto market.| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Berlin-based n8n, which lets businesses automate repetitive computing tasks through AI agents, raised a $180M Series C led by Accel at a $2.5B valuation — N8n, a German startup that helps businesses deploy artificial intelligence agents, has raised $180 million to compete in a crowded market that includes OpenAI.
More: n8n Blog, Pulse 2.0, PYMNTS.com, Accel, Ventureburn, Analytics India Magazine, Sifted, and Tech.eu
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
The Browser Company says AI browser Dia is “now open to everyone on macOS” without an invite, Dia's first time being widely available since its June launch — The waitlist is over for Mac users, though there's still no word on when the AI browser will come to Windows.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Adobe launches AI agents tailored for B2B marketers within its Adobe Experience Platform, after launching AI agents aimed at consumer marketing in September — Adobe Inc. is building on the launch of its first set of artificial intelligence agents with a new set of agentic offerings aimed squarely … | Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning a major health care update to Copilot, after partnering with Harvard Medical School, as it seeks to reduce its reliance on OpenAI — Company is seeking to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot
More: Breitbart, Windows Report, and Techstrong.ai
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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