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October 10, 2025, 6:40 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 …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump says that the US will impose an extra 100% tariff on imports from China and “Export Controls on any and all critical software” from November 1  —  - CNBC Councils  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Supply Chain Values  — Ad Choices
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 …
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
Omer Kabir / CTech:
A group of US investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds agrees to acquire Israel-based spyware developer NSO Group for “tens of millions of dollars”  —  Hollywood producer Robert Simonds leads the deal, subject to Israeli and U.S. regulatory review.
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips  —  Beijing has banned semiconductor research firm TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities …
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
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated  —  Nathan Calvin, the 29-year-old general counsel of Encode—a small AI policy nonprofit with just three full-time employees …
Jacob Krol / TechRadar:
The LA Lakers will livestream select 2025-26 season games in the Apple Immersive format in the NBA app and the upcoming Spectrum SportsNet app on the Vision Pro  —  Select games will be streamed live in Apple Immersive  —  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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.
SemiAnalysis:
SemiAnalysis launches InferenceMAX, an open-source benchmark that automatically tracks LLM inference performance across AI models and frameworks every night  —  NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, AMD MI355X, Throughput Token per GPU, Latency Tok/s/user, Perf per Dollar, Cost per Million Tokens …
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 …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Prezent, which offers enterprises an AI-powered presentation builder, raised $30M at a $400M valuation to make acquisitions, taking its total funding to $74M+  —  Prezent, a startup that offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, said today that it has raised $30 million …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
The FBI seizes BreachForums domains used by ShinyHunters as a data leak extortion site for its Salesforce campaign, which the hacker group says is unaffected  —  The FBI has seized last night all domains for the BreachForums hacking forum operated by the ShinyHunters group mostly as a portal …
Oma Seddiq / Bloomberg:
The Senate passes a measure requiring Nvidia and AMD to prioritize US customers over China for advanced AI chip sales, as part of its annual defense policy bill  —  Advanced artificial intelligence chipmakers Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. would have to ensure US companies …

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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: in its next US TV deal, the NHL seeks a 50%-100% increase over its seven-year, $4.5B contract with ESPN and TNT; formal talks can begin on January 1

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
President Trump urges Congress to support a federal film and TV tax incentive and lists a bipartisan group of lawmakers that he's working with to pass the bill

Bloomberg:
A look at Disney's AI push; sources: it is testing AI-powered suggestions and could add chats with characters on Disney+, and execs saw AI demos at Amazon MGM

More News

Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to borrow $5B from global banks through a margin loan secured by Arm shares, to fund additional investment in OpenAI later in 2025
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
China opens an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks, a chipmaker specializing in connected vehicle tech, over potential antitrust violations

Earlier Picks

Ashley Gold / Axios:
OpenAI says that GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking reduce political bias by 30% compared to its prior models, and show “greater robustness to charged prompts”
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
Financial Times:
Microsoft and Anthropic appoint former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak as a senior adviser and pledge that his role will not include lobbying the UK government
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
YouTube launches a pilot program to give “terminated creators” a “second chance” by letting them apply to create a new channel “and bring their voice back”
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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