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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: F5 blames its breach on state-backed hackers from China who used the Brickstorm malware to infiltrate its network for 12+ months and steal source code — A potentially “catastrophic” breach of a major US-based cybersecurity provider has been blamed on state-backed hackers from China …
More: BleepingComputer, National Cyber Security Centre, Metacurity, Silicon Republic, CISA, CyberScoop, and PC Gamer
X: @mattjay, @uk_daniel_card, @uk_daniel_card, @ryanaraine, @vxunderground, and @mrbcyber. LinkedIn: Margi Murphy
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Ryan S. Gladwin / Decrypt: |
Paxos says it “mistakenly minted” $300T of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on October 15 on the Ethereum blockchain and then “burned” the tokens 20+ minutes later — Crypto industry observers were baffled Wednesday afternoon when an on-chain transaction showed that Paxos …
More: Web3 is Going Just Great, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, Protos, Bloomberg, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, CoinGeek, CoinDesk, BeInCrypto, The Daily Hodl, Cryptonews, Blockchain.News, The Crypto Basic, The Block, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, and Blockchain.News
X: @paxos, @omeragoldberg, @zerohedge, @sorenthek, @molly0xfff, @ruidiaox, @yannickcrypto, @pixonchain, @yueqi_yang, @_whitneywebb, @ryansadams, @suhailkakar, @cryptokaleo, @pierresamaties, @cobb_xrpl, @martypartymusic, @naruto11eth, @jeremyybtc, @yazanxbt, @presidenthodl, @arkham, @koeppelmann, @thecryptocpa, @evan_ss6, @zerohedge, @shotguncaio, @dubdublin, @whosknave, @silvermanjacob, @nassyweazy, and @knveth
Bluesky: @emilprotalinski, @folletto, @prietschka, and @molly.wiki
Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon … and @datum@zeroes.ca
Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Windows features to help weave AI into regular Windows 11 PCs, including rolling out a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word and Copilot Voice and Vision — Microsoft is rewriting Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to.
More: Windows Experience Blog, Engadget, Moneycontrol, Windows Central, Thurrott, BleepingComputer, PCMag, T3, GeekWire, Tom's Hardware, RTÉ, ZDNET, PCWorld, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Yahoo Finance, Tom's Guide, Bloomberg, Wired, WinBuzzer, Fast Company, TechRadar, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and Digital Trends
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointed just weeks ago as the head of the AKI team developing AI-driven web search for Siri, is leaving for Meta — The Apple Inc. executive leading an effort to develop AI-driven web search is stepping down, marking the latest in a string …
More: MacRumors, Spyglass, Implicator.ai, MacDailyNews, iClarified, Cult of Mac, Moneycontrol, Digit, NDTV Profit, Neowin, Silicon UK, Livemint, Sherwood News, Axios, Reuters, iPhone in Canada, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Reuters
X: @stephenrobles, @chatgpt21, @tbpn, @markgurman, @zerohedge, @kantrowitz, @tbpn, @zachweinberg, @parkerortolani, @patrickmoorhead, @jbulltard1, and @provisionalidea. Mastodon: @markgurman@mastodon.social
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| The Keyword: |
Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models — We're launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.
More: Decrypt, The Hindu, BGR, bioRxiv, Neowin, and WinBuzzer
X: @sundarpichai, @iterintellectus, @david_van_dijk, @google, @deredleritt3r, @osanseviero, @aiims1742, @googleaidevs, @david_van_dijk, @deryatr_, @googleresearch, @bryan_johnson, @kate_rouch, @kimmonismus, @bowang87, @sundarpichai, @azizishekoofeh, @dr_singularity, @ymatias, @clementdelangue, @patloeber, @andrewmayne, and @parikpatelcfa. LinkedIn: Michael Galkin
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @gusthema
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/LocalLLaMA, r/programare, r/OpenAI, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, above est., and raises its 2025 revenue growth projection to the mid-30% range, citing “very strong” AI demand — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. hiked its projection for 2025 revenue growth for the second time this year … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Honor teases the Robot Phone, featuring an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone's rear and can shoot photos and video in any direction — But we'll have to wait until next year to find out more. … Honor has announced what it's calling the “Robot Phone … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most of its new products, such as servers and Surface laptops, outside of China from 2026; AWS is adopting a similar strategy — TAIPEI — Microsoft aims to produce the majority of its new products outside of China as early as next year …
More: Tom's Hardware, The Information, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Tech in Asia, Sherwood News, and Moneycontrol
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Kraken acquires US-licensed futures exchange Small Exchange from IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent company's Payward stock, before an IPO — Kraken has acquired a US-licensed futures exchange from IG Group as the crypto heavyweight seeks to broaden the range of products it can offer directly to US customers.| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
Better Payment Network, a BNB Chain-based cross-border stablecoin payment company, raised a $50M seed led by YZi Labs, the VC formerly known as Binance Labs — - Better Payment Network, a stablecoin payment company, said it has secured a $50 million seed round led by YZi Labs, formerly known as Binance Labs.
More: bpn.finance, YZi Labs Blog, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptonews, and crypto.news
| Financial Times: |
Analysis: 10 loss-making AI startups, like OpenAI and Anthropic, gained almost $1T in valuation over the past year, fueling fears of a bubble in private markets — Unprecedented funding leads 10 groups including OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI to gain almost $1tn in value in past year
More: Implicator.ai, Fortune, Australian Financial Review, and Sherwood News
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on YouTube as the future of TV, paying out $100B+ to its creators, partnering with the NFL, scripted content, and more — In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth.
LinkedIn: Alex Weprin. Bluesky: @crackedlemonade. Forums: r/entertainment, r/television, and r/cordcutters
| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop “responsible” AI products and is building a generative AI research lab — In a significant step towards interfacing with AI and its impact on the music industry, Spotify has partnered … | Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, claiming it offers similar levels of coding performance to Sonnet 4 at “one-third the cost and more than twice the speed” — On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance …
More: VentureBeat, Anthropic, Silicon Republic, WinBuzzer, The GitHub Blog, Tom's Guide, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, The Verge, Every, BGR, Inc, Mashable, CNET, and CNBC
X: @_catwu, @kimmonismus, @jaredpalmer, @jaredpalmer, @mattpocockuk, @scaling01, @alexfinnx, @jackclarksf, @swyx, @scaling01, @adocomplete, @scaling01, @augmentcode, @giansegato, @claudeai, @claudeai, @bindureddy, @sammcallister, @github, @mikeyk, @danshipper, @alexalbert__, and @claudeai. Forums: r/claudexplorers
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More: Phandroid, Simon Willison's Weblog, TechRadar, Ars Technica, and The New Stack
X: @justinsunyt, @trycua, and @brada
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPTCoding, r/ClaudeAI, and r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is “probably more” — The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration's industry-friendly policies| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
How facial recognition software rejects people with facial differences, who number an estimated 100M+ worldwide, blocking them from accessing essential services — An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread … | Wall Street Journal: |
The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump — Dinner set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir
More: Benzinga, CBS News, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Washington Times
X: @dave_brown24, @xjonnyc, @themainewonk, @rwpusa, @geoffbrown82, @garyruskin, @seungminkim, @ewarren, @ces921, @dave_brown24, and @jason_kint. Bluesky: @chrisinparis
| Deena Mousa / MIT Technology Review: |
How AI-powered tools like PainChek, an app that scans a person's face for tiny muscle movements, are helping healthcare providers better assess patients' pain — For years at Orchard Care Homes, a 23‑facility dementia-care chain in northern England, Cheryl Baird watched nurses fill …
X: @deenamousa, @deenamousa, @deenamousa, @deenamousa, and @deenamousa
Bluesky: @folletto and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Martin Coulter / Sifted: |
London-based Jack & Jill, which develops conversational AI agents to streamline hiring, raised a $20M seed led by Creandum to expand into Europe and the US — The London-based AI agents startup was founded just six months ago — London-based AI startup Jack & Jill … | Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
The US FCC announces proceedings to potentially bar Hong Kong telecom HKT and its subsidiaries from accessing domestic US networks, citing its ties to China — Regulators in the U.S. have moved to block one of Hong Kong's largest telecommunications companies from accessing domestic networks, citing national security concerns.
More: Federal Communications Commission and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a ransomware attack is disrupting US state and local borrowers' ability to post debt documents on the $4.3T municipal bond market's MuniOS platform — A ransomware attack is disrupting state and local borrowers' ability to post debt documents on the $4.3 trillion municipal-bond market's main distribution platform.
LinkedIn: Erin Hudson
| Financial Times: |
HR software startup Deel raised $300M led by Ribbit Capital at a $17B valuation, up from $12.6B earlier in 2025, and says revenue crossed $100M in September — HR start-up raises $300mn from Ribbit, Coatue and Andreessen amid espionage allegations from rival Rippling
More: Finextra, Reuters, Bloomberg, Axios, Tech Funding News, and Business Wire
X: @a16z, @illscience, and @bouazizalex
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning using Medal.tv game clips, raised a $133.7M seed led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst — Medal, a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips, has spun out a new frontier AI research lab that's using its trove …
X: @techcrunch, @pimdewitte, and @gen_intuition
| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
David Sacks says Anthropic is running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”, responding to Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's post on AI policy — On Tuesday, White House AI “czar” and venture capitalist David Sacks intensified a frustration that has been building for months.
More: Gizmodo, Fortune, and Axios
X: @davidsacks, @jackclarksf, @jackclarksf, @jackclarksf, @thezvi, @jackclarksf, @basedbeffjezos, @dareasmunhoz, @davidsacks, @deryatr_, @rabois, @sriramk, @s_oheigeartaigh, @hamandcheese, @doodlestein, @plzbepatient, @humanharlan, @jason, @shaughnessy119, @shakeelhashim, @silvermanjacob, @deanwball, @tszzl, @daniel_mac8, @rabois, @dissenter_hi, @s_oheigeartaigh, @idrawcharts, @s_oheigeartaigh, @luke_metro, @robinhanson, @austinc3301, @bscholl, @jonst0kes, @shakeelhashim, @s_oheigeartaigh, @davidsacks, @buccocapital, @sundeep, @pmarca, @ericnewcomer, @scott_wiener, @chamath, and @rabois. LinkedIn: Dave Lee
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple doesn't include a charger in the box with the new M5 MacBook Pro in European countries, making users pay extra; the company cites local regulations — The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K., Ireland …
More: 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, Inc, Stuff, WinBuzzer, Digit, AppleInsider, Wccftech, Mashable, iClarified, and 9to5Mac
X: @markgurman, @krzyzanowskim, @melqtx, @appleinsider, @ilyamiskov, @evowizz, @_architected, @luftkopptim, @jacobkinge, @markgurman, @josesaezmerino, @film_girl, @fabionobile_, @snazzylabs, @film_girl, @solisvogel, @batuhan, @ilyamiskov, @luciascarlet, and @jeromedavies1. Bluesky: @seanhodgdon.com
Forums: r/applesucks, r/technology, r/macbookpro, r/mac, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI hires black hole physicist Alex Lupsasca, the first person to join the OpenAI for Science initiative led by Kevin Weil — Prize-winning black hole theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca has joined OpenAI's new science team, Axios has learned. … In addition to his post at OpenAI … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is “not the elected moral police of the world”, after receiving backlash for saying that ChatGPT will offer “erotica for verified adults” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that the company is “not the elected moral police of the world” …
More: Business Insider, Phandroid, Tom's Guide, Moneycontrol, USA Today, BMI, Tech in Asia, NDTV Profit, Benzinga, CNET, and Implicator.ai
X: @sama, @mathan_soma, @thurrott, @jasminewsun, @shiringhaffary, @thezvi, and @sama
Forums: r/slatestarcodex, r/NewsOfTheWeird, and r/NewsOfTheStupid
| CNBC: |
The EU's aim to triple AI data center capacity over the next five to seven years sparks water scarcity concerns, especially in water-stressed Southern Europe — Europe's ambitious artificial intelligence strategy is at risk of colliding with an often overlooked but critically important environmental issue: water scarcity.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation — Liberate, an AI startup automating insurance operations, has raised $50 million in a round led by Battery Ventures as it looks to scale … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to launch data labelling tasks in the US for some drivers to earn extra money, appearing under “digital tasks” in the driver app, later this fall — Uber Technologies Inc. is giving some drivers in the US the option to earn money by completing tasks related … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M+ paid subscribers — Kuku, an Indian storytelling platform backed by Google, has raised $85 million in fresh funding as it aims to scale its audio …
More: The Economic Times, Livemint, DealStreetAsia, VCCircle, Moneycontrol, Inc42 Media, Entrepreneur, Tech in Asia, and Entrackr
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