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Meta AI Research:
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window  —  Muse Spark Open is available today and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop for the first time on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now at Meta, helped bring Meta and Apple together: “we're excited for mommy and daddy to be playing nice again”  —  Apple and Meta, whose leaders have spent years trading barbs over privacy and the future of computing …
CNBC:
Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair two to four Studios to code or do agentic work  —  Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have clashed for years, but with John Ternus taking the reins at Apple, the rivals are finding common ground in artificial intelligence.
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic told investors that its Q3 revenue hit $16.8B, up from $11.5B in Q2, and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3, ahead of its IPO  —  Rapid growth is slower than some anticipated as fears about AI trade rattle markets  —  Anthropic told investors …
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic told investors that distillation accounts for 5% to 7% of its revenue; its rapid but slowing revenue growth could weigh on its IPO valuation
Andrew R. Chow / Time:
John Ternus discusses the iPhone Duo, memory shortages, AI, and more; he says “all options should be on the table” after reports that Apple tested Chinese chips  —  Andrew R. Chow/Cupertino, Calif. … Just below the broad smile he's been wearing all morning, John Ternus' hands are shaking.
Washington Post:
Docs: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top amount, to Trump's White House ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir each committed $10M, and Meta and Amazon $5M  —  The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.  —  Loading...  $2.5M
Austin Carr / Bloomberg:
Current and former a16z partners and others say Marc Andreessen is driven by grievances that don't quite match reality, as his White House influence grows  —  The prominent investor has said the Biden administration pushed him to the political right, but sources say his grievances don't always match reality.
Hugh Son / CNBC:
BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos  —  Bank of America has hired an army of external contractors to help it patch software vulnerabilities exposed by advanced artificial …
Bloomberg:
Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription  —  Amazon.com Inc. launched two new wearables that use artificial intelligence to record and analyze a person's day …
Wired:
Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices  —  Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9  —  The OpenAI employee who was arrested and charged with allegedly using a hidden recording device in one of the ChatGPT maker's …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q3 revenue up 50.9% YoY to $46.36B, net income up 68.7% to $23.7B, both above est., marking a sixth straight quarterly profit record on AI demand  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday reported a record third-quarter profit that beat estimates, powered by an unrelenting global appetite for AI chips.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flock CEO Garrett Langley defends the company's cameras, arguing that reducing crime means sacrificing privacy in return and that “we shouldn't pause progress”  —  Flock's founder and CEO Garrett Langley doesn't think the risks of introducing surveillance technology at scale outweigh the rewards.
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June  —  Ramp has surged to $2 billion in annualized revenue, the fintech company plans to announce Thursday — a milestone that's helped attract fresh investor capital.
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and others disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ entities in 2026  —  In less than 10 months, cybercriminals used the arsenal of customized, targeted phishing kits to send more than 1 billion malicious messages …
Cassandre Coyer / Bloomberg Law:
Eight US states sue OpenAI separately in a bipartisan effort, alleging it didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect kids and other vulnerable users  —  More than half a dozen states sued OpenAI Inc. Wednesday alleging the tech giant didn't implement sufficient safeguards to protect vulnerable users, including kids.
Maria Curi / Axios:
Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection  —  - The FTC sought documents from Anthropic and OpenAI with the scope of the probe focused on potential consumer protection violations, a person familiar told Axios.
CNBC:
Asian chipmakers extend Wall Street losses as US Fed rate hike fears and AI funding worries mount; SK Hynix falls 10%+ on the KRX, while Samsung drops ~10%  —  Stocks tied to the artificial intelligence trade sank on Thursday, continuing a global sell-off.  —  Collectively, 20 …
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune:
Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents  —  The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering  —  Atom is a data-only Android device designed to work alongside your smartphone. … Ledger has announced its latest crypto …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, targeting a ~$1B valuation in the private round, as it aims to expand its US business; WLF is not participating  —  Binance.US is looking to raise as much as $100 million as the crypto exchange seeks to beef up its US business amid intensifying competition for digital-asset customers.
More: CoinGape
Sam Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
Sources and docs: while Bo Hines helped craft the crypto-friendly Genius Act, he had a 33% stake in consulting firm Nxum, which received millions from Tether  —  Money from Tether flowed to Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation.
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:
A US appeals court lets Florida enforce a law banning social media accounts for under-14s, rejecting tech groups' claims that it violates free speech rights  —  A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed Florida to enforce a state law barring children under 14 from accessing social media platforms …

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