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Unit 42: “commercial grade” spyware called Landfall, likely zero-click, was used in a hacking campaign aimed at Samsung Galaxy phones in the Middle East — Security researchers on Friday revealed the discovery of “commercial grade” spyware used in a 9-month-long hacking campaign aimed …
More: Unit 42, The Register, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, CyberScoop, PCMag, CyberInsider, and The Hacker News
| Osmond Chia / BBC: |
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, saying it's a “breeding ground for predators” that is “flagrantly ignoring” safety laws and “deceiving parents” — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he has sued Roblox over “flagrantly ignoring” …
More: DocumentCloud, New York Post, The Verge, Bloomberg Law, Forbes, Reuters, Game Developer, Mashable, Engadget, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, GameSpot, IGN, Tech in Asia, Benzinga, Townhall, NewsMax.com, KHOU-TV, and The Post Millennial
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Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments — This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company's internal discussion forums …
X: @lulumeservey, @antoniogm, @packym, @shaunmmaguire, @sylviavarnham, @erinkwoo, and @amir. Bluesky: @rmac. Forums: r/singularity
| Alex Danco / a16z: |
Both Baumol effect and Jevons paradox may apply to the AI supercycle, as services with AI productivity gains get cheaper, while those without AI become costlier — The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related — If you live in the United States today, and you accidentally knock a hole in your wall … | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high — Less than one year into Donald Trump's second term and the post-election ebullience has evaporated from shares of his social media company …
More: Trump Media & …, Forbes, The Block, Decrypt, Reuters, and Media Play News. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google, will not publish diversity reports and data in 2025; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released new diversity data in 2025 — Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.| Adam Zsolt Wagner / @azwagner_: |
Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI coding agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to ~20 of them — Really happy to share our new paper on using AlphaEvolve for mathematical exploration at scale, written with Javier Gómez-Serrano, Terence Tao, and @GoogleDeepMind's Bogdan Georgiev. We tested it on 67 problems and documented all our successes and failures. 🧵 [image]
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Denmark's government has reached a political agreement to ban social media access for anyone under 15, with a possible parental consent exception from age 13 — The proposal would be one of the most sweeping steps yet by a European country to curb social media use among young people.
More: Associated Press, Engadget, The Economic Times, Newser, The Independent, Reuters, Advanced Television, The European Conservative, and Daily Sabah. Forums: r/europe
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Meta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and jobs by 2028; Zuckerberg told Trump at a September dinner that Meta will spend “at least $600B” — Meta Platforms (META.O) on Friday said it will invest $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs over the next three years … | Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
Study: Polymarket's trading volume has been inflated by wash trading, accounting for an average of 25% of all buying and selling over the past three years — The volume of activity on Polymarket, one of the most popular prediction markets, has been significantly inflated by so-called wash trading …
More: Decrypt, CoinDesk, SSRN, Cointelegraph, CoinJournal, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, and Cryptonews
X: @alexpallny, @nickpreszler, @nigeleccles, @allensirolly, @chefsteve, and @jeffjohnroberts. Forums: Slashdot
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sources: Roelof Botha was ousted by senior Sequoia partners amid concerns about his “imperial style” leadership, AI investment strategy, and internal clashes — Partners called vote to oust chief after controversial incidents rocked Silicon Valley venture capital firm| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death lawsuits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions — Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.
More: TechCrunch, CNN, Associated Press, BBC, PCMag, 404 Media, The Logic, New York Post, New York Daily News, Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, Futurism, The Decoder, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg Law, and Forbes
Bluesky: @lizzieohreally, @jvagle.me, @ryanlcooper.com, @paulwaldman, @judah-grunstein, @shannonvallor, @justinhendrix, @fabiochiusi, @gabyhinsliff, @kashhill, @justinhendrix, @segyges, @stephenjudkins, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Mastodon: @axx@mstdn.fr
Forums: r/aggies, r/therapists, and r/OpenAI
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized revenue, up from $500M by end of 2024, and has been GAAP profitable on net income and EBITDA for three years — Mercury's Immad Akhund. — MERCURY — The fintech roller coaster—after a few years of barrel rolls and corkscrews …
X: @judegomila, @haridigresses, @blader, @alexanderwill, @johnrushx, @rahulvohra, @immad, and @nikmilanovic
LinkedIn: Nic Corpora, Celeste Carswell, Sean Diep, and Carly Lippman
| Sayantani Ghosh / Reuters: |
Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla is “probably going to have to build a gigantic chip fab” for AI chips and “maybe, we'll do something with Intel” — - Musk says ‘worth having discussions’ with Intel to make chips — Massive fab needed to make the volume of chips needed| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-weight model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train — Chinese startup Moonshot on Thursday released its latest generative artificial intelligence model which claims to beat OpenAI's ChatGPT in …
More: VentureBeat, Interconnects, Rohan's Bytes, SiliconANGLE, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Decoder, Tom's Guide, Implicator.ai, The Rundown AI, Semafor, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @suchenzang, @kimi_moonshot, @bubblebabyboi, @awnihannun, @emollick, @pvncher, @eliebakouch, @industrlpolicy, @tim_dettmers, @ofirpress, @tphuang, @zephyr_z9, @artificialanlys, @teortaxestex, @clementdelangue, @simonw, @ai_for_success, @deedydas, @felixclc_, @philipkiely, @crystalsssup, @eliebakouch, @awnihannun, @thom_wolf, @eliebakouch, @andrew_n_carr, @natolambert, @emostaque, @emostaque, @gnotuy, @_mira___mira_, @rasbt, @casper_hansen_, @andrewcurran_, @skylermiao7, @yulun_du, @scaling01, @burkov, @kalomaze, and @emostaque
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Netherlands is prepared to drop the ministerial order that gave it control of Nexperia if China allows exports of its critical chips again — The Netherlands is prepared to suspend its powers over Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in a move that would de-escalate a fight …
More: Government.nl, Tom's Hardware, ZeroHedge News, Jalopnik, DutchNews.nl, and Reuters
X: @yara_sama, @rnaudbertrand, @leemakiyama, @kathleen_tyson_, @liqian_ren, @ministerez, and @teortaxestex
Bluesky: @sensehofstede.nl, @fbermingham, and @noahbarkin
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