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October 13, 2025, 9:30 AM
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Financial Times:
The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia using its Goods Availability Act, a first, to safeguard chip supply for Europe  —  Move by The Hague escalates frictions between western countries and Beijing over access to high-end technology
Bloomberg:
Wingtech's Shanghai-listed stock plunged 10%, its daily limit, after the Dutch government seized control of Nexperia, which Wingtech acquired in 2018 for $3.6B
Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI agrees to acquire 10GW of chips from Broadcom and co-design custom GPUs with Broadcom to run its AI models; sources: the deal is worth multiple billions  —  The companies plan to deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips over the next four years  —  OpenAI and Broadcom are working together …
Calder McHugh / Politico:
Q&A with journalist Jacob Silverman on his new book Gilded Rage, the radical politics of certain tech elites, AI's impact on Silicon Valley politics, and more  —  How did Silicon Valley leaders go from heaping praise on Barack Obama to going all in on Donald Trump?
Bloomberg:
CoinGecko: crypto's combined market cap rises 6% to hit $4T, recovering from a brutal weekend selloff as President Trump tries to calm US-China trade war fears  —  Most major cryptocurrencies rebounded from steep losses suffered over a brutal weekend selloff, as President Donald Trump sought …
Cynthia B Brumfield / Metacurity:
Sources: the Trump administration cut 176 CISA jobs last week as part of laying off 4,000+ US federal workers, and is likely to make further mass CISA layoffs  —  Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team …
Paul Sandle / Reuters:
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K under the OSA for failing to provide information on the risk of illegal content; a UK minister says the government “fully backed” Ofcom  —  Britain said on Monday it had issued U.S. internet forum site 4chan with a 20,000 pound ($26,644) …
Alex Traub / New York Times:
John Searle, known for “the Chinese Room” thought experiment on AI consciousness, died on Sept. 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment  —  His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Semafor:
A profile of eBay CEO Jamie Iannone, who said the platform was “too complacent” in 2020 and now focuses on its power users, boosting its stock by ~50% in 2025  —  THE SIGNAL INTERVIEW  —  As the AI frenzy drives US stock markets higher, one tech company's shares have jumped almost 50% …

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Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media sells The Verge, SB Nation, Thrillist, The Dodo, and more to Penske; Vox's Ryan Pauley will join Penske as president of PMX, the new media brands unit

Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Netflix subscribers in France can now access TF1 broadcasts and TF1+ on-demand content within Netflix at no extra cost; TF1 handles ad sales and programming

Andrew Cohen / InvestmentNews:
Robinhood plans to shutter the Sherwood News site in favor of newsletters and the Robinhood app; at least three reporters were cut in company layoffs this week

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Eshe Nelson / New York Times:
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Washington Post:
Sora videos depicting dead celebrities spark backlash from families; OpenAI says reps of “recently deceased” public figures can request likenesses be blocked
Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
Taiwan says it expects no significant impact from China's new export controls on rare earth minerals, as it uses different rare earths in chip manufacturing
Jason Gale / Bloomberg:
Qantas says 5.7M customer records stolen in a July breach of a third-party platform have been released online, and it is assessing the extent of the exposure
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