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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Sources: Morgan Stanley told its financial advisors it will broaden access to crypto investments to all clients and allow such investments in any account type  —  Morgan Stanley on Friday told its financial advisors that the firm was broadening access to crypto investments to all clients …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
NPCI, which runs India's UPI, partners with OpenAI and digital payment company Razorpay on a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through ChatGPT  —  India has kicked off a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, with OpenAI's ChatGPT leading the rollout …
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 …
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.
Heather Knight / New York Times:
Marc Benioff says President Trump is “doing a great job” and believes National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco to help reduce crime in the city  —  Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services.
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.
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
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Govini, a Palantir competitor whose AI software Ark helps militaries manage product lifecycles, raised $150M from Bain Capital and says it hit $100M in ARR  —  Govini, a defense tech software startup taking on the likes of Palantir, has blown past $100 million in annual recurring revenue, the company announced Friday.

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From Mediagazer

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega was fired while working on a feature on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories

More News

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed across its services this summer, up from 980T monthly tokens announced in July
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
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

Earlier Picks

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
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
China opens an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Autotalks, a chipmaker specializing in connected vehicle tech, over potential antitrust violations
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”
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