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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin from Prince Holding's “pig butchering” operation in Cambodia, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture; the founder is at large  —  The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive …
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Nvidia says it will begin selling the DGX Spark mini PC, with DGX OS, for AI developers on October 15 on Nvidia.com and select third-party retailers for $3,999  —  (PCMag/Michael Kan) … It's not a consumer desktop, but Nvidia's foray into an AI developer-focused mini PC is finally ready to launch.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia says it is donating its Vera Rubin NVL144 server rack architecture to the Open Compute Project and working with 70+ partners on “gigawatt AI factories”  —  Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose today to talk about how it's collaborating …
Wired:
Researchers used $800 of off-the-shelf hardware to collect data sent by satellites unencrypted, like T-Mobile users' calls and texts and some US military comms  —  With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users' calls …
David Ingram / NBC News:
Instagram overhauls Teen Accounts to align with PG-13 movie rating standards, block them from seeing accounts that share sexualized content, and more  —  After outrage over teens' well-being on Instagram erupted, the company said it would adopt the film industry's approach to content and aim to give teens a PG-13 experience.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail “Pixnapping”, a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it  —  Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal 2FA codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds.
Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg:
Walmart partners with OpenAI to let shoppers browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, including apparel, entertainment, packaged food, and third-party goods  —  Walmart Inc. is teaming up with OpenAI to enable shoppers to browse and purchase its products on ChatGPT, the retailer's latest push to incorporate artificial intelligence.
Financial Times:
Court filings: the Dutch government seized Nexperia after the US said it would remain on its export control list if Chinese CEO Zhang Xuezheng stayed in charge  —  Takeover of Nexperia plunges Netherlands into US-China tech war  —  Andy Bounds in Horsens, Denmark, Ben Hall in London and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg:
Nexperia says China has banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing retaliates after the Dutch government took over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google plans to invest $15B in India through 2030 to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh; Google employs 14K in India  —  Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in India, even as the Indian government pushes …
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal:
Google says it will invest $9B in South Carolina through 2027 to scale up its Berkeley County data center campus and help build two sites in Dorchester County
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
OpenAI's massive deals show that Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product and using world-changing financial engineering to try to raise $1T+  —  Also crypto liquidations, inverse levered ETFs, stock buybacks and trade secrets.  —  OpenAI  —  The essence of finance is time travel.
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI is talking with Arm about using a CPU with the OpenAI-Broadcom AI chip; source: Arm wants OpenAI to use the CPU with Nvidia's and AMD's AI chips
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph:
Bhutan says it's migrating its national ID system for its nearly 800K residents from Polygon to Ethereum; the Ethereum Foundation says it will finish by Q1 2026  —  The Kingdom of Bhutan has tapped Ethereum to store the national identities of its roughly 800,000 citizens, leveraging the network's immutability and decentralization.
CNBC:
Oracle plans to deploy 50K AMD Instinct MI450 chips, announced in June, starting in H2 2026; the Instinct MI450 is AMD's first AI chip for rack-sized systems  —  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday announced that it will deploy 50,000 Advanced Micro Devices graphics processors starting in the second half of 2026.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an “approximately” $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December, and says it has sold 5.5M+ smart rings  —  Finnish health tech company Oura has raised $900 million in fresh funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image AI model developed in-house, and says it “excels” at photorealistic imagery, like lighting and landscapes  —  The model has already secured a spot in the top 10 of LMArena. … Microsoft AI just announced its first text-to-image generator …
Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a “personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o” and will add “erotica for verified adults”  —  We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have
Joe Tidy / BBC:
The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 “nationally significant” cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, with “highly significant” cyberattacks up 50% YoY  —  People should plan for potential cyber-attacks by going back to pen and paper, according to the latest advice.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Glue, a Slack competitor co-founded last year by David Sacks and designed around threads over channels, raised a $20M Series A and says it has refocused on MCP  —  Glue, an aspiring Slack killer co-founded last year by White House AI czar David Sacks, has raised $20 million in Series A funding.
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Handshake CEO Garrett Lord says the startup hit $100M in ARR in eight months after a “refounding” to focus on AI, and forecasts $300M in ARR by the end of 2025  —  Garrett Lord's refocus of his 11-year-old startup around its fast-growing ($100M in ARR) AI business includes a layoff affecting 15% of its employee base.
More: Handshake
Rhitu Chatterjee / NPR:
A study of 6,554 children aged 9 to 10: social media users score lower on reading, vocabulary, and memory tests two years later than those with little or no use  —  Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared …

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney will make a $1B investment in OpenAI and become a major OpenAI customer

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs

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Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies up to $1M if their algorithms promoted violent or extremist content
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Meta brings back job listings on Facebook after removing them in 2023, available on mobile in the US via a Jobs tab in Marketplace, and across Groups and Pages
Saeed Azhar / Reuters:
Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B in AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger sticky “Sponsored” label at the top and a hide button at the bottom
Hugh Son / CNBC:
JPMorgan Chase launches a decade-long plan to invest up to $10B in industries critical for US national security, including tech like AI and quantum computing
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