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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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| 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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| Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg: |
Walmart partners with OpenAI to let consumers purchase Walmart's products via ChatGPT using Instant Checkout, starting later this fall; WMT closes 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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| James Oliphant / Reuters: |
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| 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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| 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.
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| 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
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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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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.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora — OpenAI on Tuesday announced a council of eight experts who will advise the company and provide insight into how artificial intelligence could affect users' mental health, emotions and motivation.
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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Salesforce expands its OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships to embed their LLMs into Agentforce 360, letting users access Agentforce 360 apps in ChatGPT, and more — Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US — Spotify is bringing its video podcasts to Netflix starting next year, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| 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 … | Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: |
Tether agrees to a $299.5M settlement with the Celsius Network bankruptcy estate, resolving claims related to Celsius's 2022 collapse — Tether's $299.5 million Celsius settlement could ignite a debate over stablecoin accountability and the legal risks facing issuers in future crypto bankruptcies.
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| 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 … | Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings — For Cybereason, the acquisition bookends a turbulent seven-year period that saw the company swing from near-IPO status … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
DirecTV plans to roll out custom shoppable TV screensavers that feature AI likenesses of users, available on DirecTV Gemini devices in 2026 — You can shop for the items that look similar to the ones in the AI-generated screensaver, like clothing or furniture.
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| 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 … | Michael Kan / PCMag: |
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Crypto investor Roger Ver, aka “Bitcoin Jesus”, reaches a deferred prosecution agreement with the US DOJ and pays ~$50M to resolve a tax evasion indictment — Another alleged crypto criminal is set to end a legal battle with the U.S. government.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Document: to avoid an EU fine, Google offered to tweak its search results to show vertical search engines in their own box on Search — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has offered to make further changes to its search results in its latest attempt to avoid a European Union antitrust fine, according to a document seen by Reuters.| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Flow Engineering, which provides a collaborative hardware development platform for companies like Rivian, raised a $23M Series A led by Sequoia — At 14, Pari Singh made just enough money to stir up an existential crisis. — 17 years later, Singh still can't talk about the details of that business (at least, not to a reporter).| 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.
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