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| Associated Press: |
Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States …
More: Associated Press, Washington Post, Le Monde, The A.V. Club, UPI, Al Jazeera, Los Angeles Times, The White House, CNN, The Independent, Social Media Today, Washington Examiner, and The Information
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Bluesky: @jenni4iowa, @lcla, @kitchen5203, and @revealinglight
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Trump says Xi Jinping approved the TikTok deal, and JD Vance says the transaction values TikTok US at $14B; ByteDance hasn't acknowledged the deal — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposed deal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S.
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Forums: r/politics, r/centrist, r/TheBusinessMix, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35% — Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be main investors in TikTok's U.S. business, sources told CNBC's David Faber on Thursday.| Financial Times: |
Amazon reaches a $2.5B settlement with the FTC over deceptive Prime practices, with a $1B civil penalty and $1.5B in consumer redress, three days into the trial — Agreement includes largest penalty issued for violating consumer protection agency's rules — Amazon has reached a $2.5bn settlement …
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| The Guardian: |
Microsoft terminated Israel military's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank — Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit's access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a mobile feature for Pro users that delivers daily personalized updates based on their chats, feedback, and connected apps — ChatGPT's new Pulse feature does personalized research on your behalf overnight and serves you up a digest each morning.
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Forums: r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, r/OpenAI, r/accelerate, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser will retire on December 31 after more than a decade with the company; Nintendo exec Devon Pritchard will succeed him — Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser will retire Dec. 31 after more than a decade at the company.
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Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com. Forums: r/nintendo, r/gaming, r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, r/kindafunny, and r/nintendo
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases GDPval, a benchmark to test AI performance on “economically valuable, real-world tasks”, and says Claude Opus 4.1 was the best performing model — OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs.
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Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA issues an emergency directive ordering US federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws exploited in zero-day attacks — CISA has issued a new emergency directive ordering U.S. federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws that have been exploited in zero-day attacks.| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Meta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website — Meta Platforms (META.O) launched a new feed of AI videos, called Vibes, as the social media giant looks to fast-track work on artificial intelligence technology.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors — A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Xiaomi unveils 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, available September 27 in China; Pro phones feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a back screen — The company could lay off the Apple comparisons a bit though. … A critic might accuse Xiaomi of copying Apple a little too closely …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met with Tim Cook this year; INTC closes up 8.9% — Semiconductor maker has been winning support from other tech companies following the deal that gave the U.S. government 10% stake
More: The Register, HotHardware, Reuters, DigiTimes, Spyglass, and Fast Company
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Gemini 2.5 Flash with better response formatting and image understanding, and releases new 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite previews for developers — Google today updated the 2.5 Flash model available in the Gemini app across three areas. — All responses now benefit … | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5 models, enabling multi-step tasks for robots like sorting laundry, including by using web search — New technology advances reasoning capabilities in general-purpose machines in push to make them more useful
More: Google DeepMind, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, and Ars Technica
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| Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times: |
HSBC says it has tested an IBM quantum computing tool on European bond market data and saw a 34% improvement over traditional methods in predicting order fills — Europe's largest lender tested a tool developed by IBM on bond market data — HSBC claimed quantum computing tools …
More: HSBC, Forbes, Reuters, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CBS News, Investor's Business Daily, Fortune, and ZeroHedge News
LinkedIn: Julien Chaisse, Aditya Kumar Sinha, Ian Glasner, and Octavian Florescu
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Windows 10 users will receive free Extended Security Updates in the EEA without enabling Windows Backup, after pressure from the Euroconsumers group — You won't have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.
More: Windows Central, XDA Developers, BleepingComputer, OSnews, Windows Latest, Thurrott, PCMag, Windows Report, PCWorld, BornCity, and Help Net Security
Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/popculturechat, r/technology, r/technews, r/windows, r/Windows10, and Beehaw
| Blockworks: |
Cloudflare announces plans to launch NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed to support payments for the “agentic web” — The company introduced a dollar-backed stablecoin to power instant payments and microtransactions for AI-driven web platforms
More: Cloudflare, The Information, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Investor's Business Daily, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, The Block, and The Crypto Times
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Asus open preorders for the first Xbox handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally for $599 and the ROG Xbox Ally X for $999 in the US, shipping October 16 — Xbox Ally X and Xbox Ally go on sale with PC-like prices, with preorders starting today. … Today, Microsoft and Asus …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter — Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music …
More: Spotify, The Verge, Variety, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Engadget, The Guardian, and Billboard
Forums: r/technews and r/truespotify
| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI — Following a recent lawsuit against a former employee over allegedly stealing trade secrets, Musk's xAI is now suing the company that executive left to work for — OpenAI.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave expands its data center capacity agreements with OpenAI by $6.5B, bringing their total potential value to $22.4B, to support training of OpenAI models — CoreWeave Inc. expanded its agreements to supply data center capacity to OpenAI by as much as $6.5 billion to $22.4 billion …
More: CNBC, Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, Wall Street Journal, and Tom's Hardware. LinkedIn: Brody Ford
| Oma Seddiq / Bloomberg: |
xAI signed a deal with the GSA to offer Grok to US federal agencies for $0.42 per agency for 18 months, a discount to OpenAI's $1 per year for ChatGPT — - Follows recent deals with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google — xAI engineers to assist federal agencies with implementation| The Works in Progress Newsletter: |
Why AI isn't replacing radiologists: models underperform in hospital settings, AI use faces legal hurdles, and the job is much more than image recognition — Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
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Bluesky: @nanlinear and @alwayscorrect
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, and Slashdot
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: Meta considers using Google's Gemini and Gemma AI models to improve its ad targeting; Meta says it regularly evaluates 3rd-party tools for benchmarking — Meta Platforms staffers have had discussions with Google Cloud about the possibility of using Google's artificial intelligence models …
More: Benzinga, Reuters, and Investor's Business Daily
| TechCrunch: |
Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts — A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies …
More: CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, and ZDNET
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Bluesky: @katienotopoulos and @joetidy
| Apple: |
Apple says the DMA exposes users to new risks, reduces choice by making iOS resemble Android, and creates unfair competition by not applying to Samsung — At Apple, we've always focused on creating technology that empowers people and enriches their lives. We design our products to be intuitive …
More: Reuters, The Guardian, Thurrott, The Verge, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Notebookcheck, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, The Information, How EU Law Influences Tech, TidBITS, Michael Tsai, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, BGR, iDrop News, Cult of Mac, Six Colors, PYMNTS.com, Telegraph, MacRumors, iClarified, Silicon Republic, Thurrott, Inc, T3, Ghacks, Financial Express, and Mobile World Live
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| France 24: |
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X: @aaronp613. LinkedIn: Aaron McLoughlin. Bluesky: @nojohn, @andrewstroehlein, @carnage4life, @riley.social, @fbermingham, @margotdor, and @hidde.blog
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …, @ansuz@social.cryptography.dog, @slightlyoff@toot.cafe, @jzb@mastodon.social, @nileane@nileane.fr, @nileane@nileane.fr, @joesteel@duck.haus, @andrewstroehlein …, @BenRiceM@mastodon.social, @q@glauca.space, @rileytestut@mastodon.social, @kjhealy@mastodon.social, @Wen@mastodon.scot, and @jer@hachyderm.io
Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, r/technology, r/stupidpol, r/BuyFromEU, r/europe, r/eutech, and Slashdot
| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Canada's anti-money laundering agency fines crypto exchange KuCoin ~$14M for failing to report large and suspicious transactions; KuCoin appeals the decision — Canada's anti-money laundering agency has imposed its largest ever penalty of C$19.6 million ($14.09 million) on Peken Global Limited …
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