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Wall Street Journal:
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
Bloomberg Law:
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 …
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
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 …
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
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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From Mediagazer

Washington Post:
Independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released from custody after their arrests for coverage of a protest at a Minnesota church

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bob Iger has told associates that he plans to step down as Disney CEO before December 31; the board plans to vote on his replacement next week

Austin Fuller / Current:
The Public Media Bridge Fund, formed due to CPB cuts, raises $66.5M of its $110M goal and launches disaster recovery and restructuring programs for stations

More News

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix shuts down Boss Fight Entertainment, the game studio behind mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed, after acquiring it in March 2022
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
New York-based Valthos, which is developing AI tools to detect and prevent AI-enabled bioweapon attacks, raised $30M from OpenAI, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital
Jeannine Amodeo / Bloomberg:
Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt sale to fund Oracle data centers, including $23.25B for a Texas data center and $14.75B for a Wisconsin site
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
IBM says it was able to run a key algorithm for correcting qubit errors, which runs alongside quantum chips, on readily available AMD chips; AMD closes up 7.63%
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Sources: JPMorgan plans to allow institutional clients globally to use their holdings of bitcoin and ether as collateral for loans by end of year
Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
The EU accuses Meta and TikTok of violating their obligations to give researchers adequate access to public data on their platforms under the DSA

Earlier Picks

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple says it may turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe, citing “intense lobbying” in Germany and other countries over alleged anticompetitive conduct
Max Chafkin / Bloomberg:
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
EA and Stability AI announce a partnership to build game developer tools, including “smarter paintbrushes” to quickly generate high-quality 2D textures
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon blames a rare software bug and “faulty automation” for this week's massive AWS glitch, and says it has turned off the flawed automation worldwide
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils Mico, a new character for Copilot's voice mode that responds with real-time expressions and is enabled by default, available in the US
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