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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
LinkedIn: Rick Lane and Margi Murphy
Forums: Hacker News 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 Blog, Computerworld, PCWorld, Engadget, Livemint, CRN, Moneycontrol, Windows Central, Thurrott, BleepingComputer, RTÉ, ZDNET, Tom's Hardware, GeekWire, PCMag, T3, TestingCatalog, GameSpot, Neowin, Windows Report, Liliputing, Aftermath, WinBuzzer, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, TechRadar, Wired, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, Petri IT Knowledgebase, and Digital Trends
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Forums: r/technology, r/microsoft, r/windows, 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, Unchained, Tom's Hardware, UPI, New York Post, CryptoSlate, Engadget, NullTX, NDTV Profit, Bloomberg, The Crypto Times, CoinGeek, Bitcoin Insider, BeInCrypto, The Daily Hodl, The Crypto Basic, Protos, CoinDesk, Blockchain.News, Cryptonews, The Block, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, and Blockchain.News
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Bluesky: @prietschka, @karlbode.com, @folletto, @emilprotalinski, @prietschka, and @molly.wiki
Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon … and @datum@zeroes.ca
Forums: r/Buttcoin and Slashdot
| 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: TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, AppleInsider, MediaPost, Spyglass, The Decoder, Implicator.ai, iClarified, Cult of Mac, NDTV Profit, Neowin, Silicon UK, Moneycontrol, Digit, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada, and Reuters
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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: eWeek, Decrypt, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, Neowin, The Hindu, BGR, and bioRxiv
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/programare, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
| 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, Australian Financial Review, and Fortune
LinkedIn: Emmanuel Pitsilis and Victoria Hair
Bluesky: @tonytassell and @justinhendrix
| 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 … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Commonwealth Fusion Systems partners with Google DeepMind to use Google's open-source plasma simulator, TORAX, for accelerating fusion energy development — Google DeepMind is partnering with a Boston-area energy startup to use AI to speed the development of fusion as a clean energy source.
More: Google DeepMind and GeekWire
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest adds new tools that let users limit how much AI-generated content they see in their feed in certain categories, including beauty, art, and home decor — Following backlash over an increase in “AI slop” taking over users' feeds and making it less useful, Pinterest on Thursday added … | Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI hires black hole theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca, the first person to join the OpenAI for Science initiative led by Kevin Weil, to shape its research — Prize-winning black hole theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca has joined OpenAI's new science team, Axios has learned.
Bluesky: @wesley83
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
DoorDash and Waymo announce a partnership to let DoorDash use Waymo's robotaxis for delivery, starting with deliveries from Phoenix's DashMart store — Customers will have to come down to the curb to retrieve their orders from the driverless car's trunk.
More: DoorDash, Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, The Information, Waymo, Benzinga, Business Insider, Axios, Dow Jones Newswires, electrive.com, and TechCrunch. Forums: r/waymo
| 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: The Verge, TechCrunch, The Information, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, Tech in Asia, and WinBuzzer. Bluesky: @knoebel
| 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.| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop “responsible” AI products and says it will build a generative AI research lab — In a significant step towards interfacing with AI and its impact on the music industry, Spotify has partnered … | Wall Street Journal: |
The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, and other corporate donors to a $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump — Dinner set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir
More: RedState, Forbes, Benzinga, CBS News, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal
X: @xjonnyc, @themainewonk, @rwpusa, @geoffbrown82, @garyruskin, @seungminkim, @ewarren, @ces921, @jason_kint, @dave_brown24, and @dave_brown24. Bluesky: @chrisinparis
| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
a16z Crypto invests $50M in Solana infrastructure provider Jito through a private token sale, likely one of a16z's largest crypto investments in recent years — - Andreessen Horowitz's crypto wing invested $50 million in key Solana infrastructure provider Jito in a strategic private token sale.
More: CoinDesk, Fortune, CoinJournal, crypto.news, and Crypto Briefing
| 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, Ventureburn, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptonews, and crypto.news
| 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 … | Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Ripple acquires GTreasury, a platform used by Fortune 500 companies for managing cash, foreign exchange, and risk, for $1B, set to close in the coming months — The deal, pending regulatory approvals, would give Ripple access to large enterprise clients as it is building out financial services around its digital asset business.
More: The Block, Axios, Finextra, CoinGape, BeInCrypto, and Crypto Briefing
| 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.| 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| 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 health care 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 … | 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 … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning using game clips from Medal, 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 … | 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: TechCrunch, The Information, Capital Brief, Bloomberg, Axios, Finextra, Reuters, Tech Funding News, and Business Wire
X: @a16z, @illscience, and @bouazizalex
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is proposing a “sign in with ChatGPT” feature for websites, letting startups charge OpenAI model usage costs to users' ChatGPT capacity limits — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast last week that he wanted ChatGPT to become “people's personal AI subscription.”| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Anthropic announces Skills for Claude, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve performance on some tasks — The announcement follows a similar new tool from OpenAI. … AI agents spent years as a concept and then as an experiment.
More: CNET and Tom's Guide
| 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 … | 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.
More: YouTube Official Blog. LinkedIn: Alex Weprin. Bluesky: @crackedlemonade. Forums: r/entertainment, r/television, and r/cordcutters
| Junhyup Kwon / Rest of World: |
South Korea rolls back its AI textbook program, meant to personalize learning, after just four months following complaints about inaccuracies and extra workload — South Korea's AI learning program was rolled back after just four months after a backlash from teachers, students, and parents … | Amelia Isaacs / Pathfounders: |
Stockholm-based Encube, which uses AI to automate manufacturability analysis during hardware design, emerges from stealth and raised $23M from Kinnevik and more — As Europe seeks to regain its industrial edge, the AI-powered platform is reimagining how products are tested and built before they even reach the factory floor
More: SiliconANGLE, Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, Silicon Canals, and ArcticStartup
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Kuku, which offers audio and vertical video stories, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a ~$500M valuation and says it has 10M+ subscribers — Kuku, an Indian storytelling platform backed by Google, has raised $85 million in fresh funding as it aims to scale its audio …
More: Inc42 Media, Entrepreneur, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, Livemint, Tech in Asia, DealStreetAsia, VCCircle, and Entrackr
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
The US FCC announces proceedings to potentially bar Hong Kong-based telco 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: Engadget and Federal Communications Commission
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