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Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations — Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people's locations.
More: The Citizen Lab, Wired, The Record, Cyber Security News, TechRadar, CyberScoop, Reuters, and CyberInsider
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on Monday, accusing Altman of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit — A yearslong legal brawl between Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to court in Northern California … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operations — Intel's Strong AI-Fueled Forecast Tops Estimates — Intel Corp. shares hit a record high after the chipmaker delivered …
More: TheStreet, International Business Times, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Taipei Times, and CTech
| Bloomberg: |
The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~$36B, since an August 2025 announcement that the US will buy a stake worth $8.9B — The value of the US government stake in Intel Corp. has increased fourfold to hit a value of about $36 billion after the chipmaker's financial outlook showed a resurgence in sales.
More: The Next Web and Irish Independent
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages — As AI continues to eat up the market's RAM output, smartphones are in crisis as costs continue to skyrocket.
More: SammyGuru, TechSpot, Android Authority, SamMobile, Ars Technica, and GSMArena.com
| Russell Contreras / Axios: |
How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more — The Vatican is racing to build digital defenses for the artificial intelligence era — and quietly positioning itself as a global referee of what's real.
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Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees — At Anthropic, we're interested in how AI models could begin to affect commercial exchange. (You might recall Project Vend …
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| Theo Baker / The Atlantic: |
A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley venture capitalists are wining and dining 18-year-olds. — When i was a freshman at Stanford University … | Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Taiwan's stock market value has surpassed the UK's at ~$4.3T, with South Korea close behind, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix — The artificial intelligence boom has triggered a seismic reshuffling of global equity markets, with Taiwan and South Korea muscling past European nations one by one.
More: Tech in Asia and Dow Jones Newswires
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The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future — The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be funding it.
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| Bloomberg: |
A $16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling $14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for a giant Oracle Corp. data center in Michigan has wrapped after months of stop-and-start negotiations with investors.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 — Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing …
More: Implicator.ai
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Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants …
More: Adyen, FinTech Global, The Paypers, Finovate, and American Banker
| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding — Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launched a hedge fund that relies on an army of artificial intelligence agents, one of the few using … | The Economist: |
Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete — It wasn't long after blue jeans, Hollywood blockbusters and Big Macs crossed the Atlantic last century that some worrywarts started fretting …
More: Americans for Tax Reform and Cafe Hayek
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The US CFTC sues New York, accusing the state of invading its authority to regulate prediction markets by filing lawsuits against Coinbase and Gemini — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued New York on Friday, accusing the state of invading its authority to regulate prediction markets …
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