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Anthropic's Claude Skills, which are conceptually extremely simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation — Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models:
More: Anthropic, Anthropic, The Verge, TestingCatalog, WinBuzzer, MediaNama, The Rundown AI, Analytics India Magazine, The Register, and Digital Trends
Bluesky: @mmasnick, @prietschka, @markposts, @harsimony, and @jtlg. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeAI, and Lobsters
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
More: Anthropic, TestingCatalog, BGR, Neowin, KnowTechie, SiliconANGLE, Tom's Guide, and Implicator.ai
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
More: Apple, How-To Geek, Appleosophy, Los Angeles Times, Axios, Ars Technica, iThinkDifferent, The Hollywood Reporter, SportsPro, Financial Times, Thurrott, Engadget, The Verge, iClarified, Spyglass, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Guide, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Sports Business Journal, TechRadar, Daily Mail, Variety, Sports Media Watch, The Streamable, South China Morning Post, Barrett Media, Streaming Better, Six Colors, Cult of Mac, NBC News, and Motorsport.com
X: @sherman4949, @bzamayo, @joepompliano, @stephenrobles, @sherman4949, and @appletv
LinkedIn: Magnus Svensson, Kelly Mengel, William Rusack, and Dan Rayburn
Forums: r/tvPlus, r/NASCAR, r/apple, r/formula1, r/technology, r/appletv, and r/apple
| 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 …
More: Diff, Engadget, WinBuzzer, and Implicator.ai
Bluesky: @josephcox, @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk, @jasonkoebler, @jmelville.science, @tilmanbayer, and @emanuelmaiberg
Mastodon: @knoppix95@mastodon.social, @ethanwhite@hachyderm.io, @gedankenstuecke@scholar …, @00Aaron@social.coop, and @JensB@openbiblio.social
Forums: r/technology, r/antiai, r/wikipedia, and Slashdot
| 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: The Verge, Breitbart, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, CBS News, Entrepreneur, Tech Xplore, Forbes, CNBC, WUSA, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, New York Post, Deadline, Neowin, TMZ.com, The Wrap, The Information, New York Times, Music Ally, Business Insider, MediaNama, Telegraph, WinBuzzer, The Guardian, BBC, Engadget, Livemint, TheGrio, The Economic Times, Variety, Moneycontrol, The Hollywood Reporter, and Bloomberg Law
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @jeremylittau.com, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @caseynewton, @daniloc.xyz, and @socialmedialab.ca. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/Fauxmoi and r/technology
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil its trifold phone at APEC later in October; attendees won't be allowed to touch it as it's expected to be displayed under glass — Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather … | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram — A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
More: Mashable, Metacurity, New Republic, and Salem Reporter
Forums: r/politics, r/democrats, r/chaoticgood, r/goodnews, r/technology, r/50501, r/uspolitics, and r/behindthebastards
| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
Docs: Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to help the agency nearly triple its workforce by hiring 10K new officers, to 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: Washington Examiner, Business Insider, The A.V. Club, Techstrong.ai, San Francisco Chronicle, Implicator.ai, The Economic Times, KTVU-TV, Implicator.ai, and The Bulwark
Bluesky: @mclean, @kleinman, @riegerreport, @bcmerchant, and @dearsarah. Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/sanfrancisco, r/democrats, and r/politics
| Fortune: |
Sources: Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation — As fervor around stablecoins grows from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, one of the most high-profile new crypto projects has drummed …
More: The Block and Crypto Briefing
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo has asked its manufacturing partners to produce up to 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 …
More: Game Developer, GamingBolt, TechRaptor, Engadget, Kotaku, GameSpot, Nintendo Life, TheGamer, iPhone in Canada, Eurogamer.net, The Shortcut, and Media Play News
Forums: r/consoles, r/Handhelds, r/gaming, r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, and r/Switch
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp is testing limits on how many messages a user or business can send monthly to unknown people without a response; nearing the limit displays a warning — WhatsApp is attempting to solve its spam problem by putting a curb on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response.| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Meta plans to add new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026 that let parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and get “insights” from teens' chats — From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
More: Meta Newsroom, New York Times, CNN, CNBC, UPI, Quartz, The Hill, Neowin, Channel NewsAsia, iPhone in Canada, Engadget, RTÉ, TechCrunch, and Forbes Middle East
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more — Transcript 00:00:00 - AGI is still a decade away Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00 Today I'm speaking with Andrej Karpathy.| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A look at ByteDance's Doubao, which became China's most popular AI app in August, with 157M+ MAUs per QuestMobile, thanks in part to its deep Douyin integration — ByteDance's Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model.| Kosta Andreadis / TweakTown: |
Steam hit a record 41.6M+ concurrent users on October 12, up from 37M+ users in August 2024, after the releases of Battlefield 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong — 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.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users for “evidence collection and investigative work” — Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras …
More: The Ring Blog, The Verge, PCWorld, CNBC, 404 Media, and Portland startups …
LinkedIn: Maureen Mulvaney Gilbertson. Bluesky: @kendraserra, @simli, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @poison-sumac, @rayminehane, @vegandroid, @josephcox, and @josephcox
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/technology, r/loveland, r/Ring, and r/Eugene
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale — Revolut Ltd. and its backers are nearing the end of a $3 billion fundraising spree that values the London-based fintech behemoth at $75 billion.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on 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.
More: Business Standard, Lifewire, Computerworld, and SiliconANGLE
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: Windows Blog, PC Gamer, Futurism, SamMobile, KnowTechie, Guru3D, NDTV Profit, Windows on YouTube, PCWorld, The Register, Implicator.ai, Digit, ZDNET, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Wired, Digital Trends, Windows on YouTube, Reuters, Windows Central, Fast Company, and GeekWire
X: @windows, @zacbowden, @tomwarren, @stevesi, @ghost_motley, @willoremus, @antonhand, @ryanshrout, @windows, @windowsblog, @windowsdev, @obscuravpn, @ecommerceshares, @brandonleblanc, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @tomwarren, @zacbowden, @itspaulai, @testingcatalog, @satyanadella, @zacbowden, @pavandavuluri, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @lanceulanoff, and @mustafasuleyman
LinkedIn: Eric Wise, Dang Ibana, Frank Brassart, Yash Misra, and Jeff Strasser
Bluesky: @nptwrites, @sadknob, @willoremus.com, @joshuafoust.com, @darthbluesky, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @pemryjanes.com, @greybrewer, @stevekovach, @reckless, @peterwartman.com, @brokenwing, @grumble.social, @geekelite.geekerific.com, @fredericl, @pabastien, @turfster, @partnardy, @andrewt.net, @aura.dog, @weirdnoirmaster, @ntpnate, @niceandinnocent, @benharris1, @smpritchard, @projectazar.com, @shredgnarly, @edzitron.com, @mustafasuleymanai, and @tomwarren.co.uk
Mastodon: @Catelli@social.vivaldi.net, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Forums: r/privacy, r/enshittification, r/technology, r/microsoft, r/windows, and Slashdot
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