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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Ubisoft says it intentionally shut down Rainbow Six Siege and its in-game Marketplace to resolve an “incident”; reports say hackers breached internal systems  —  Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege (R6) suffered a breach that allowed hackers to abuse internal systems to ban and unban players …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: ~90% of Groq employees will join Nvidia and be paid cash for all vested shares; most shareholders will get per-share payouts tied to the $20B valuation  —  Shareholders in Groq, a hot AI chipmaking startup, will receive handsome payouts from the company's $20 billion deal with Nvidia …
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
Sam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, noting “the potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025”  —  CEO Sam Altman posted about the role on X, saying the models ‘are starting to present some real challenges.’
Patrick Oster / Bloomberg:
Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure  —  Louis Gerstner, who took over International Business Machines Corp. when it was on its deathbed and resuscitated it as a technology industry leader, died Saturday.
More: IBM, Reuters, The Guardian, and Business Insider
X: @lisasu and @robdthomas.  LinkedIn: Peter Nilsson.  Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com.  Forums: Hacker News
Washington Post:
ChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like “hanging” and “suicide” very often, say family's lawyers  —  Help Nitasha Tiku report on mental health and AI by contacting her securely on Signal at nitasha.10.
New York Times:
Sources: Peter Thiel and Larry Page may leave CA over a proposed ballot measure, opposed by Newsom, that levies a one-time 5% tax on those with $1B+ in assets  —  It's uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
Martha Muir / Financial Times:
US data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom  —  Supply chain shortages drive developers to use smaller and less efficient power sources to fuel AI power demand
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17%+ YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals  —  India's startup ecosystem raised nearly $11 billion in 2025, but investors wrote far fewer checks and grew more selective …
More: Inc42 Media
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion  —  Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group
Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker:
As inference splits into prefill and decode, Nvidia's Groq deal could enable a “Rubin SRAM” variant optimized for ultra-low latency agentic reasoning workloads  —  Nvidia is buying Groq for two reasons imo. 1) Inference is disaggregating into prefill and decode.
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including CEO Jonathan Ross, creator of the TPU, and keeps them from companies that may try to make their own chips

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From Mediagazer

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A new filing from Nexstar in the DirecTV lawsuit says the existing restraining order freezing the Nexstar-Tegna merger could jeopardize assets of both companies

Associated Press:
A US district court judge agrees to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing an executive order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

Minho Kim / New York Times:
A US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave

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Andre Revilla / Engadget:
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users
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