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October 27, 2025, 1:45 PM
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm unveils two AI inference chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, and says Humain is the first customer; QCOM jumps 12%+  —  Qualcomm announced Monday that it will release new artificial intelligence accelerator chips, marking new competition for Nvidia …
Sneha Kumar / Reuters:
Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options  —  - Microsoft 365 personal plan price increased by 45%  — Cheaper ‘classic’ plan only revealed during cancellation process
Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia:
In Vietnam, 65 countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite tech companies' and activists' privacy and security concerns  —  HO CHI MINH CITY — Under a new United Nations treaty, 65 countries have agreed to fight cybercrime, including by sharing data …
MiniMax:
China's MiniMax releases MiniMax M2, an open source model optimized for AI agents and coding and priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens  —  From Day 1 of our founding, we have been committed to the vision of “Intelligence with Everyone.”
Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg:
The US DOJ's rigged-poker-game indictment involved hacking DeckMate, a casino-standard, suitcase-sized, $10K+ card shuffling machine, to reveal players' hands  —  The rigged-poker-game indictment unveiled on Thursday reads like a Hollywood heist film, featuring NBA stars and famous Mafia crime families.
Will McCurdy / PCMag:
X prompts users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that are not updated by Nov. 10, allowing it to retire the Twitter.com domain  —  If you're using a hardware security key as your two-factor authentication (2FA) method on X, you'll need to re-enroll by Nov. 10 or your account will be locked.
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies  —  International Business Machines Corp. is launching a digital assets platform to allow financial institutions, governments and companies …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Employees are increasingly using AI to create ultra-realistic fake expense receipts; AppZen and others attribute the rise to advances in image generation models  —  Business software groups warn that top AI models are increasingly being used to create ultra-realistic fake receipts

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Financial Times:
The High Court in London rules against Prince Harry and six other claimants in the privacy lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers

Deborah Cole / The Guardian:
Hungarian public media outlets Kossuth and M1 suspend their broadcasts; M1's message reads, “Public media should not lie. We are sorry for doing it for so long”

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Early Nielsen numbers show 30M people watched the US-Belgium World Cup match through Fox, clearing the record for an English-language soccer telecast in the US

More News

Kai Wu / Sparkline Capital:
The AI buildout, surpassing railroads and the internet, moves Big Tech from being asset-light to asset-heavy, which has historically produced inferior returns
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B “other, net” expense line in the FY ended June 30
Timmy Shen / The Block:
Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years

Earlier Picks

Kat Tenbarge / Wired:
Real estate agents are using AI tools like AutoReel to replace videographers and stagers, cutting costs but generating distorted or misleading property images
New York Times:
A look at Cal State's plans to become an “AI-empowered” university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will “consummate” a TikTok deal on October 30 in South Korea, confirming a final US-China deal on the sale
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