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| Kosta Andreadis / TweakTown: |
Steam hit a new record with over 41.6M concurrent users on October 12, a surge largely sparked by the release of Battlefield 6 — 41,666,455 million PC gamers were online and on Steam on October 12, 2025, setting a new CCU (concurrent user) record for the platform. — VIEW GALLERY - 2| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds new AI features to Windows 11: Copilot Voice, with a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word, and Copilot Vision, which can scan the screen to help the user — Microsoft is rewriting Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft to bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete certain tasks on local files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs — On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies that work with Flock request footage from Ring doorbell users — Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement.
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| Jeremy Stern / Colossus: |
A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO in November 2023 — Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream — The road to Rick Rubin's house was long and winding for Joshua Kushner …
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials in a mass doxxing event — A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years … | Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump — Ron Conway stepped down from the board of Salesforce's philanthropic arm after the company's chief executive, Marc Benioff …
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| 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.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple readies a slimmer M6 MacBook Pro featuring an OLED touch display with a hole-punch design replacing the notch, for late 2026 or early 2027 — Apple Inc. is preparing to finally launch a touch-screen version of its Mac computer, reversing course on a stance that dates back to co-founder Steve Jobs.
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| Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: |
AI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet soaring electricity demand amid permitting and supply challenges — Bypassing the grid, at least temporarily, tech companies are creating an energy Wild West; ‘grab yourself a couple of turbines’
More: Financial Times, Reuters, NextDraft, and DatacenterDynamics
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline … | Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Internal documents: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to nearly triple the agency's staff by hiring 10K new officers, improve investigations, and more — The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff.
More: The Economic Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Implicator.ai
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with over 157M MAUs, thanks in part to its deep integration with Douyin — ByteDance's Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Three labor unions filed a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile — The lawsuit filed Thursday is the latest of several challenges to the Trump administration's screening of visa holders' social media activity.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta is set to seal an almost $30B financing package for its Louisiana data center; Meta will retain 20% ownership in the Hyperion data center site — Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms Inc. is set to seal an almost $30 billion financing package for its data center site in rural Louisiana … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom than on chips from Nvidia, which is notoriously backlogged on GPU orders — OpenAI's latest multibillion-dollar chips deal marks a new direction for the company. But first... Three things to know:| William Wan / Washington Post: |
How the FBI's hunt for the person who coerced a 13-year-old into livestreaming his suicide led to the arrest of a German member of the online predator group 764 — GIG HARBOR, Wash. — The early-morning fog had yet to rise when police found the 13-year-old boy in a parking lot behind a grocery store.| 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: Waymo, DoorDash, Bloomberg, The Information, CleanTechnica, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, and Tech Xplore
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Forums: r/technews, r/Futurology, r/waymo, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and car rentals — Travel search engine Kayak will now allow users to research trips ahead of booking using AI. The company this week launched an … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
More: Livemint, The Economic Times, The Information, Moneycontrol, Forbes, Futurism, Fast Company, and CNET
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo has asked manufacturers to produce as many as 25M Switch 2 units by the end of March 2026, surpassing analysts' estimates of 17.6M — Nintendo Co. has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026, setting the company … | Reuters: |
Sources: Micron plans to stop selling server chips to data centers in China after a 2023 ban, but will continue selling chips to auto and smartphone sectors — - China in 2023 banned use of Micron products in critical infrastructure — Micron to continue to sell chips to auto, mobile phone sectors, source says
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99 per month, a 30% discount over the individual subscriptions — In addition to getting both services at a discount of more than 30 percent, Apple TV will add select Peacock programming, while Peacock will get selected Apple TV shows.
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