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October 22, 2025, 1:20 PM
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Meta is cutting roughly 600 jobs out of several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to create a more agile operation  —  Meta is cutting several hundred roles from its AI unit even as it continues to hire for its newer TBD Lab, Axios has learned.
Bloomberg:
Samsung unveils the Galaxy XR headset, with Android XR, 4K micro-OLED displays, a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, and an external battery pack, available for $1,800  —  The $1,800 headset is a precursor to smart glasses launching “pretty soon.”  —  A new mixed-reality headset developed …
Shahram Izadi / The Keyword:
Samsung's Galaxy XR is the first Android XR headset and features Gemini Live that understands a user's surroundings and lets them interact with apps hands-free  —  The Samsung Galaxy XR is powered by Android XR, an operating system that blends digital experiences with your physical surroundings.
The Shortcut:
Samsung Galaxy XR hands-on: micro-OLED displays are good, eye tracking works well, lighter than the Vision Pro, and Android XR looks a lot like Apple's visionOS
Financial Times:
Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani “an Islamist”  —  Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple cuts iPhone Air orders nearly to “end of production” levels after a lukewarm reception in China, but keeps iPhone 17 lineup forecasts at 85M-90M  —  TAIPEI — Apple is drastically cutting iPhone Air production orders but boosting those for other iPhone 17 models …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research  —  Michel H. Devoret was one of three physicists who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for a series of experiments they conducted more than four decades ago.
David Ingram / NBC News:
Prince Harry and 800+ public figures sign a Future of Life Institute statement urging a ban on AI superintelligence development until it can be deployed safely  —  The call, signed by Nobel laureates, ex-military leaders and public figures worldwide, seeks a ban on research that could create machines smarter than people.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is significantly increasing the price of its Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000, after hiking Series X prices by $150 in September  —  Microsoft is raising the price of Xbox dev kits, just a month after tariffs hit Xbox console pricing.
Financial Times:
Nonprofit Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates that the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost the UK economy at least £1.9B and affected over 5,000 UK organizations  —  Incident was likely ‘the most economically damaging cyber event’ for the country, according to cyber classification group
Brave:
Researchers detail systemic vulnerabilities in AI agentic browsers, including Perplexity's Comet and Fellou, related to indirect prompt injection attacks  —  Building on our previous disclosure of the Perplexity Comet vulnerability, we've continued our security research across the agentic browser landscape.
Bloomberg:
Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China  —  Apple Inc.'s new Vision Pro headset doesn't offer much in the way of fresh features, but the company made a notable change to its production.
Financial Times:
The UK CMA says it will label Apple and Google as having “strategic market status”, imposing stricter rules on how they run their platforms to boost competition  —  Competition regulator designates the Big Tech groups with special status under strict new digital laws
Olivia Le Poidevin / Reuters:
EBU/BBC study: 45% of responses from top AI assistants misrepresented news content with at least one significant issue and 31% showed serious sourcing problems  —  - Research finds AI assistants make errors reporting news  — Public trust could be eroded, EBU official says
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Crypto trading firm FalconX agrees to acquire 21shares, one of the main crypto ETF managers, for an undisclosed sum; 21shares had $11B+ in assets in September  —  FalconX considers IPO as cryptocurrency deals boom  —  FalconX, a crypto-trading firm, agreed to acquire 21shares …
Michael Wayland / CNBC:
GM plans to roll out Google Gemini in its vehicles starting in 2026 and plans an advanced driver-assistance system with eyes-off driving capabilities in 2028  —  NEW YORK — General Motors is targeting a suite of new software initiatives for its vehicles over the next three years …
Órla Ryan / The Irish Times:
Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race  —  Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:
The NHL reaches multiyear licensing agreements with prediction market startups Kalshi and Polymarket, the first major US league to allow use of its trademarks  —  Licensing agreement is first of its kind between a major U.S. pro sports league and prediction markets
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $11.51B, matching est., and an operating margin below est. due to Brazilian tax dispute expense; NFLX drops 10%+  —  Shares of Netflix plummeted as much as 7% after the company posted a third-quarter earnings miss after the closing bell Tuesday.
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch:
Sumble, which offers an AI sales intelligence service, emerges from stealth and raised a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners and $8.5M seed led by Coatue  —  Ask any salesperson how much information they'd like on a prospective customer and you'll never hear the end of it.
More: BonTech Labs
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Starbridge, which helps businesses monitor public sector opportunities by consolidating fragmented data, raised a $42M Series A led by David Sacks' Craft  —  Justin Wenig remembers his days at Y Combinator in 2019.  —  Back then, he was working with his first startup, Coursedog …
OpenAI:
OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas' opt-in browser memories feature can remember key details from users' web browsing to improve chat responses and offer suggestions  —  The browser with ChatGPT built in.  —  Today we're introducing ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sesame, which is developing an AI agent with a natural-sounding human voice and smart glasses, raised a $250M Series B and opens an early beta of its iOS app

Earlier Picks

Kelsey Piper / The Argument:
In an experiment, GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp expressed secular, Western liberal values regardless of the language of the questions
Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic is in discussions with Google about a deal that would provide Anthropic with computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Filing: Satya Nadella's total pay for fiscal 2025 rose nearly 22% YoY from $79.1M to $96.5M, including $84.2M in stock awards; MSFT is up ~23% so far in 2025
Reuters:
Meta forms a JV with Blue Owl to fund the $27B, 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, its largest ever private capital deal; Meta will retain a ~20% equity
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's foldable iPad with an 18" screen faces engineering challenges tied to weight, features, and display tech, pushing its debut to 2029 or later
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