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Source: President Trump has picked Michael Selig, the chief counsel for the SEC's crypto task force, to chair the CFTC, amid a crypto push — President Donald Trump has picked Michael Selig to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, according to an administration official …
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Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others brokered a call between SF Mayor Daniel Lurie and Trump to stop National Guard deployment — Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff conferred with Mayor Daniel Lurie on how to persuade the president not to deploy the National Guard
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Lindo St. Angel, VP of hardware at Amazon's Lab126 R&D unit since 2010, plans to leave on October 31; he helped develop the Echo, Astro robot, and Fire tablet — A fifteen-year veteran of Amazon's devices division who had a hand in developing many of the most recognizable gadgets … | Junko Fujita / Reuters: |
Shares of Japanese optical fiber maker Fujikura are up ~171% YTD, outpacing the Nikkei's 22% and lifting its market cap to $33B+ amid the AI data center boom — - Shares in optical fibre maker up 160% since start of 2025 — Founded in 1885, Fujikura started out making silk and insulated wires| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PayPal to take over Carlyle's stake in Shopware, a German provider of e-commerce tools to merchants, with PayPal's stake increasing to ~41% from ~11% — PayPal Holdings Inc. is taking over a stake in German digital commerce company Shopware AG from a Carlyle Group Inc. fund, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October after less than a year in the role — John Nitti was considered a contender for CEO of the social media platform after Linda Yaccarino quit in July| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
Microsoft plans to bring its Halo franchise to the PlayStation for the first time with the launch of a 25th‑anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2026 — As part of a strategic shift away from exclusivity, Microsoft is bringing Halo to Sony's competing console for the first time.
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| Reuters: |
Grindr board members Ray Zage and James Lu, part of an investor group that owns more than 60%, offer to take Grindr private for ~$3.46B; GRND closes up 18.63% — Two Grindr (GRND.N) board members, part of an investor group that owns more than 60% of the company, have proposed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company expects to earn close to $15B in profit in 2025, up from around $13B in 2024 — Tether Holdings Ltd. expects close to $15 billion in profit this year, as the stablecoin issuer's rapid growth continues to attract investors keen to back the closely-held company.
More: CoinDesk, TheStreet, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, BeInCrypto, and Crypto Briefing
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches a “company knowledge” ChatGPT update to let Business, Enterprise, and Education users search for data in connected apps like Slack and GitHub — The ‘company knowledge’ update allows ChatGPT to be used as a search engine for workspace data.
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| Jessica DiNapoli / Reuters: |
Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M+ on an AI tool, developed with Publicis and Accenture, to cut costs for the production of marketing content by 30% to 50% — - AI tool cuts ad production costs by 30% to 50%, exec says — Mondelez has invested $40 million in AI tool, exec says| The Information: |
With an influx of Meta alums, some OpenAI staffers worry it is adopting Meta's tactics, like using social media dynamics with Sora and a softening stance on ads — This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. — Leading her first all-hands meeting …
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Crypto.com follows Circle, BitGo, and others in applying for a US bank charter, as it seeks to further its custody-service business for products such as ETFs — Crypto.com became the latest cryptocurrency firm to pursue a US bank charter as it seeks to further its custody-service business … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 23 current and ex-AWS employees and others about AWS' challenges, including intense competition, internal bureaucracy, and lackluster AI efforts — The company that basically invented the cloud business is widely perceived as trailing its rivals in artificial intelligence.
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