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| 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
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
More: OpenAI, Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, and Engadget
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| Mother Jones: |
Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others — Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
More: Lighthouse Reports, Mother Jones on YouTube, Lighthouse Reports, and Le Monde
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Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @michaelmechanic, @dmehro, and @rondeibert. Mastodon: @evacide@hachyderm.io. Forums: Hacker News
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally — The ‘cleaner’ look is rolling out across mobile, web, and TV. … YouTube is updating the look of the video player to be … | New York Times: |
Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain — Netflix will show video versions of 16 podcasts on sports, culture, entertainment and true crime.
More: Netflix Tudum, Thurrott, PCMag, and The Verge
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business — Amazon is preparing to cut as much as 15% of its human resources staff, with additional layoffs likely in other divisions, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.
More: Benzinga, Business Standard, Financial Express, The Hans India, The Economic Times, Entrackr, Tech in Asia, Moneycontrol, Bloomberg Law, The Indian Express, and Watcher Guru
Forums: r/Layoffs and r/amazonemployees
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam as part an effort to lessen its dependence on China — Apple Inc. is preparing to expand its manufacturing operations in Vietnam as part of a push into the smart home market …
More: MacRumors, Tech in Asia, BGR, iClarified, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, and 9to5Mac
| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin held in wallets owned by a man who oversaw a “pig butchering” operation in Cambodia, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture — The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive “pig butchering” …
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LinkedIn: Brett Erickson, Liz Pendleton, and Jacob Sims
Forums: Hacker News, r/CryptoCurrency, r/Buttcoin, r/Bitcoin, and Slashdot
| Danny Park / The Block: |
Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money — - Coinbase said it is investing in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to scale its presence in India and the Middle East.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10, which runs on ~40% of Windows PCs, per Statcounter; users can enroll in an Extended Security Updates program — End users can get an extra year of security updates relatively easily. — Today is the official end-of-support date for Microsoft's Windows 10.
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Forums: r/technology, r/technews, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Samsung schedules a “Worlds Wide Open” Galaxy event on October 21 at 10pm ET, where it will provide more details on its “groundbreaking” Project Moohan headset — It's nearly time to learn a lot more about the Project Moohan headset.
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| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Intel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU designed for AI inference workloads, featuring Intel's Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory — Revealed this week at the 2025 OCP Global Summit, ‘Crescent Island’ marks the beginning of Intel's annual cadence of GPU releases …
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| Bloomberg: |
ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, v. €4.9B est., as the AI spending boom boosts demand for its EUV machines to produce the most sophisticated AI chips — ASML Holding NV shares rose after it said the artificial intelligence boom is fueling demand for its cutting-edge chip-making machines.
More: ASML, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Tech in Asia, and Dow Jones Newswires
| April Roach / CNBC: |
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| Verity Townsend / IGN: |
The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them “irreplaceable treasures” — “We are a country that has captivated the world with the creative power of anime, games, and music.”
More: Screen Rant. X: @ign. Bluesky: @adamchristopher.me. Forums: r/OpenAI, r/ArtistHate, r/singularity, r/DeFranco, r/japannews, and r/anime
| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; OpenAI currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumer ChatGPT use — New revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising targeted to cover enormous costs| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Nvidia's DGX Spark hands-on: trades performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem is valuable, flow-through design, and more — This relatively affordable AI workstation isn't about going fast; it's about doing everything well enough
More: Ars Technica, DigiTimes, Simon Willison's Weblog, Bojan's Newsletter, and Micro Center
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Bluesky: @invalid-handle.com and @tobiasmann
Forums: Hacker News and r/gadgets
| James Oliphant / Reuters: |
US AG Pam Bondi says Meta complied with the DOJ's request to take down a Facebook Page that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago — - Meta removed page upon Justice Department request — AG Bondi says page was being used to ‘dox and target’ ICE agents
More: Ars Technica, Engadget, CNBC, CBS News, SFist, and The Verge
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| Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg: |
Walmart partners with OpenAI to let consumers purchase Walmart's products via ChatGPT using Instant Checkout, starting later this fall; WMT closed up 5% — 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.
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LinkedIn: Diana Marshall, Jason Del Rey, Kelsey Davis, Seth Dallaire, Sanjay Radhakrishnan, and Chris Nicholas
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal — Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026, its first European launch; human-supervised cars will first collect data — It's good timing too. The UK is ready to start piloting fully driverless vehicles. … London's iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo.
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| Financial Times: |
The Dutch seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing it made a mistake allowing its sale and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war — The Dutch seizure of Nexperia shows how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war — The Dutch government's seizure …
More: Bloomberg
| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers — - Apple is increasingly focusing on India expansion — Apple often owns machines used by partners, but not in India
More: Reuters
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M per year by using AI tools in its customer service operations, and over 12,000 customers use Agentforce — Salesforce Inc. said it's saving about $100 million a year by using artificial intelligence tools in the software company's customer service operations.
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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
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