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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: |
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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| New York Times: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Samsung schedules a “Worlds Wide Open” Galaxy event on October 21 at 10pm ET, where it will provide more information about its Project Moohan headset — It's nearly time to learn a lot more about the Project Moohan headset. … Samsung is finally about to reveal more details … | 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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| April Roach / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline “significantly” in 2026 — Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday looked to calm concerns over 2026 growth … | 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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| 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 …
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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
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Hands-on with Nvidia's DGX Spark: trades some performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, Nvidia's software ecosystem is valuable, and more — This relatively affordable AI workstation isn't about going fast; it's about doing everything well enough| 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.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; it currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT — New revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising targeted to cover enormous costs
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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.
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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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| Jack Clark / Import AI: |
Anthropic's Jack Clark argues that, while he is optimistic about AI's progress, the industry must do a better job of listening to people's concerns about it — What do we do if AI progress keeps happening? … Import A-Idea — An occasional longer form essay series
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation — If you've ever uploaded a picture of a receipt to an expense report or read a PDF of a book online, you've likely used optical …
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| Vince Dioquino / Decrypt: |
Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight — Bridge, Stripe's stablecoin arm, has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank, joining four others vying for federal approval. — In brief
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations — 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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| 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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Forums: r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate administrative tasks done by paralegals, raised a $20M Series A, source says at a $100M valuation — Plus: Tech leaders propound the dead internet theory. … Welcome back to The Prompt. — About a year ago, Viraj Bindra watched … | 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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